Hi everybody Joe Lample here, you're in for treat today as I'm halfway through my

much-needed sabbatical I've picked a fascinating episode from the

archives for you. It's a Geek Alert to be sure combining a deep dive into soil science

specifically related to all the good things that good bacteria is doing to help our plants grow.

I think you're really going to like this one.

I hope you enjoy it and I'll see you back here next week.

Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the

Joe Gardner show. Over the years I've heard from many of you who say

your favorite episodes are the ones

where I start off by calling them Geek Alerts.

I love those too.

But after this conversation you're about to hear for today's episode, I found myself

thinking that it may be time to rate the level of geekiness whenever I give

that alert. I guess it's kind of like how they rate hurricanes from category 1 to 5.

And although in the case of podcast Geek Alert warnings, any level is good.

So on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 peeking the Geek Alert level,

today may be the first of what I think qualifies

is a Category 5 Geek Alert.

And if you are familiar with any of Jeff Lowenfell's books, you won't be surprised

why today's episode qualifies, because he's our guest today.

He's the author of several deep dive books into soil science and while he may not be the person

behind the discoveries of many of the breakthrough information that he writes about, he is the best

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