The most essential question for farmers and gardeners to ask about their soil is, “Is it alive?” We will explore the diverse microorganism communities present in soil and why it is so important to keep them thriving and in balance. Meredith Leigh will explain the importance of a dynamic soil food web. View multiple different local participant samples and apply that information on your own farm or garden to build your own soil enriching strategies. In part 4, participants put their own soil samples under the scope and share what they see.
VIDEO: Assessing Soil Health Using a Microscope with Meredith Leigh Part 4
The most essential question for farmers and gardeners to ask about their soil is, “Is it alive?” We will explore the diverse microorganism communities present in soil and why it is so important to keep them thriving and in balance. Meredith Leigh will explain the importance of a dynamic soil food web. View multiple different local participant samples and apply that information on your own farm or garden to build your own soil enriching strategies. In part 4, participants put their own soil samples under the scope and share what they see.
What an amazing workshop! Thank you for the video recording and sharing.
Acre in Spring – Acker im Frühling * A Walk with a Microscope – Ein Spaziergang mit dem Mikroskop
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQYxWbn5uj2TnHAvX64w_-YYTne07aUgjp1b8bgP90Jfo39FqTnZC8M7xPqHo2LqK0BDDe5C5J64s9v/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000
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Humus Research
https://sites.google.com/site/humusresearch/home/soil
The workshop is absolutely great, very useful info!
And the presenter… well, she really does make the class more enjoyable 😉
ok so all your students who brought soil with them had poor fungi activity going. what would you recommend they do to remedy this? buy some mycorrhiza to inoculate their soils with or something else? cheers
I’ll have to check out more of your series, the soil biology came at a fantastic time for me as I’m trying to save my crop! I have a 40 X dissecting microscope which is not quite powerful enough to identify soil microbes. But I do feel more comfortable knowing that I could have a variety of nematodes flagellates slits protozoa, fungi, etc. I probably just need more predatory mites! And I must be doing something right, lots of color for colorful clumps and crystals and lots of movement. Half of my substrate os soil-less, The other half is sterilized compost. I’ve added fungal spores, beneficial bacteria, molasses, kelp et Cetera. So it’s kind of a hybrid of organic-hydroponic with a Living soil. Still don’t know what’s killing my plants, probably a combination of things hey but I’m a first timer. Thanks, Kate
It was a riveting video. Loves watching the people watch scopes and talk about it. Honestly great stuff
Friendly reminder: Take off your glasses b4 looking through the scope!
thank you for the respectful content and the scientific generosity 😀
use ror solution and lens cloth
What a great teaching Meredith. I saw all 5 videos. I found the below video explaining microorganisms identification as a helpful tool for viewers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4gwrNwBiws
is there an affordable microscope that you would recommend ???
what is Dr Elaine new website ???
You are a very good speaker. Well done.
Would love to know what model of microscopes you are using.