Episode 2: Jeff Lowenfels explains Mycorrhizal Fungi, Compost Teas, and the Soil Food Web

Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast

Tad Hussey.

Cannabis, Gardening, Natural Sciences, Cultivation, Leisure, Science, Home & Garden, Marijuana, Weed, Growing, Organics, Grow

4.7 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk to Jeff Lowenfels about the Soil Food Web, mycorrhizal fungi, no-till, and how plants uptake nutrients. Jeff is the co-author of Teaming with Microbes The Organic Gardeners Guide to the Soil Food Web published by Timber Press in August 2006 to great acclaim and revised in 2011; it is touted as the most important gardening book published in the past twenty five years and won the prestigious garden Writers of America Gold Award for gardening books. It’s been translated into Korean, French and soon Slovenian. Jeff is also the author of Teaming with Nutrients, the Organic Gardeners Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition published by Timber Press in May 2013, and the shorthand title is How Plants Eat and What To Feed Them. It is sure to make you appreciate the beauty of how plants operate as well as make you a better gardener and steward of the earth. His latest book Teaming with Fungi was just released at the end of 2016 and is all about mycorrhizal fungus. Jeff is an extremely respected and popular national garden writer; he is the former president of the garden Writers of America, was made at G.W.A fellow in 1999 and inducted into the G.W.A Hall of Fame, the highest honor a garden writer can achieve in 2005. Most important, Jeff is the founder of a now national program that started this Plant a Row for Beans the soup kitchen getting an Anchorage and is now Plant a Row for the Hungry; the program is active in forty eight states and result in over a million pounds of produce being donated to feed the hungry every year. Jeff has been a good friend now for over a decade and is a wonderful advocate for organic gardening compost tea and the microbes in our soil. https://www.kisorganics.com/pages/cannabis-cultivation-and-science-podcast-episode-2

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cannabis cultivation and science podcast.
0:17.4	I'm your host, Tad Hussie of KIS Organics.
0:20.2	This is the podcast where we discuss the
0:22.0	cutting edge of organic growing from a science-based perspective and draw on top experts from around
0:26.8	the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge. Our guest today is Jeff Lohenfels. Jeff is the
0:32.5	co-author of Teeming with Microbes, the Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web,
0:36.9	published by timber
0:37.6	pressed in August 2006 to great acclaim and revised in 2011. It is touted as the most important
0:43.8	gardening book published in the past 25 years and won the prestigious Garden Writers of America
0:48.5	Gold Award for gardening books. It has been translated into Korean and French and soon Slovenian.
0:58.9	Jeff is also the author of Teaming with Nutrients, the Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition, published by Timber Press in May 2013.
1:03.0	The shorthand title is How Plants Eat and What to Feed Them.
1:06.0	It is sure to make you appreciate the beauty of how plants operate as well as make you a better
1:09.9	gardener and steward of the earth. His latest book, Teaming with Fungi, was just released at the end of 2016
1:16.6	and is all about mycorrhizal fungus. Jeff is an extremely respected and popular national
1:22.0	garden writer. He is the former president of the Garden Writers of America, was made a GWA fellow
1:27.3	in 1999 and inducted
1:29.1	into the GWA Hall of Fame the highest honor a garden writer can achieve in 2005.
1:35.2	Most important, Jeff is the founder of a now national program that started as plant a row for
1:39.7	beans, the soup kit can in Anchorage, and is now plant a row for the hungry.
1:50.8	The program is active in 48 states and resulted in over a million pounds of produce being donated to feed the hungry every year.
1:58.6	Jeff has been a good friend now for over a decade and is a wonderful advocate for organic gardening, compost tea, and the microbes in our soil.
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