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Helpful Websites, Podcasts & Webinars Plus Beneficial Books

Updated: Oct 19

The following links will provide lots of helpful information and will expand on many of the matters covered in the main blog.



Helpful Websites




Boots in the Dirt - great information of lots of aspects related to soil and plant health


An Insight into the Real Causes of Compaction (Correcting the Cause)


Unlocking the Secrets of Soil pH: A Key to Thriving Crops (Soil Works LLC)


Overcoming Soil Compaction


How to Perform an In-field Soil Health Test (Soil Works LLC)


Allan Savory - TED Talk - understand foundations for rotational grazing


Benefits of Sea Minerals


Sea Minerals as Fertiliser


Liquid Sea Minerals / MycorrPlus


The Power of Sea Minerals and Microbes to Restore Soils


Sea-Crop 90 - another source of liquid sea minerals (US) - Info - 'How to Use'


Key to Soil Health - Full Spectrum Nutrition through All Minerals


Unlocking Your Soil's Potential - Successful farms grow the greatest soil on earth


Periodic Table - Minerals, Metals etc - (See Feature Demo Link at Bottom of Screen)


Periodic Table - With Commentary on Some Aspects of Mineral Impacts


Minerals are the Foundation to Health


Soil Food Web concept - Elaine Ingham.


Introduction to the Soil Food Web - Urban Worm Company (great photos)


TheNature's Soil Food Web - Urth Agriculture


The Importance of Well Structured Soil - Elaine Ingham / Soil Food Web


Ten Steps to Biological Farming (NutriSoil)


Greater Production by Building Soil Biology (NutriSoil)


How Soil Microbes Influence Nutrient Availability


To Restore Soil - Feed the Microbes


Beneficial Soil Microbes Won't Work for You Unless You do these Things First (SoilWorks)


Soil Temperature Impact on Microbes


Understanding Soil Biology


Understanding and Managing Soil Microbes


Electrical Conductivity (EC) - also impacted by biological activity including microbes https://www.urthagriculture.com/ec-measurement


Using a Refractometer (Brix meter) and Understanding Importance of Brix


Silicon Needs of Soils and Crops


Silica - The Hidden Cost of Chemicals - Graeme Sait


Understanding your Soil Report - Graeme Sait


Humus - Graeme Sait (NutriTech Solutions) TED Talk


Humus - Wikipedia


Humus - What is It and How is It Formed?


Garden Mulch


Minerals, Microbes and Mycorrhizal Fungi Working Together - Acres USA


The Best Way to Neutralise Soil pH (NOT AgLime)


Effects of Soil Acidity on Nutrient Availability (Agriculture Victoria)


Gabe Brown 2020 Presentation


Regeneration of Our Lands - Gabe Brown TED Talk


Gabe Brown with Dr David Johnson - Regenerating the Diversity of Life in the Soil


Gabe Brown on Cover Crops and Use of Electric Fences


Making Fungal Compost Extract


Ten Steps to Biological Farming


Dung Beetles


Dung Beetles Improve Soil Health


Earthworms


Earthworms


The Earthworm Edge


Types of Earthworms and Benefits


Compost Worms


The Science of Vermiculture - Nakala Maddock (NutriSoil)


Regenerative Grazing Principles (especially Principles 2 - 6)

Soil, Water & Grazing (includes video on testing water penetration)


How to Read a Pasture


Pasture & Grazing (incl. short video of moving an electric fence fitted with a tumblewheel)


Daily Pasture Rotation Strategy and Rules


Visual Indicators of Soil Condition


Soil air: breathing in and out - Soils Portal


Soil Biology (Soil Food Web)


Microbial Plant Partnerships - Nicole Masters


From the Ground Up - Regenerative Agriculture (Charles Massy)

The Role of Soil Fungus


The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Regenerating Healthy Soils & Agricultural Productivity


Mycorrhizal Fungi


Mycorrhizal Fungi - Powerhouse of the Soil


What is Mycorrhizae and How Will It Help My Plants?


Rotational Grazing - Small Scale


When to Start Grazing a Pasture


Varied Approach to Rotational Grazing - Recycling More Through Cattle


Developing Pasture without Planting Seed


Cover crops building soil health


Restoring Soil Health


Fungal Dominant Compost - Johnson-Su Bioreactor


Static Pile Fungal Compost Presentation (Dr David Johnson)


A Slightly Different Way to Make a Johnson-Su Bioreactor


Dr David Johnson Inoculating Seed with His Fungal Dominant Compost Extract


Inoculating Small Quantities of Seed


Inoculating Seed


Ian & Di Haggerty - seed inoculation - farming sandy soil in very low rainfall


An Overview of Regenerative Agriculture Principles


Why Healthy Soil Has an Earthy Smell


Building Soil Carbon - Nature’s Way


Building Soil Carbon with Year-long Green Farming


Increasing Soil Organic Matter (Carbon)


Capturing Residue to Build Soil Organic Matter - John Kempf (Advancing Eco Agriculture)


Organic Matter Breakdown


Carbon Friendly Beef Enterprise


The Link Between Carbon and Healthy Soil


Soil Restoration - 5 Core Principles (Dr Christine Jones)


Phosphorus Basics: Understanding Phosphorus Forms and Their Cycling in the Soil


The Phosphorus Paradox (Dr Christine Jones)


Secrets of the Soil Sociobiome (Dr Christine Jones)


Quorum Sensing (Dr Christine Jones)


Liquid Carbon Pathway


Restoring Farmland Soils (Dr Christine Jones)


Building New Topsoil through the Liquid Carbon Pathway (Dr Christine Jones)


Light Farming - the Power of Photosynthesis (Dr Christine Jones)


Look, Learn, Listen - Recognise, Relate, Innovate (Dr Christine Jones)


Building Healthy Soil from Mob Grazing (Greg Judy)


Water in Rotational Grazing


Mobile Cattle Watering System - How to Build


Electric Fencing - Common Mistakes


Soils for Life - short documentary


The Living Soil - Arthropods


Soil Fertility Management


Improving Soil Carbon - Soilkee Renovator


Soil Carbon - Soilkee Renovator and Pasture


Soils for Life - Case Studies


Cows, Carbon & Climate - Joel Salatin


Benefits of Activating the Carbon Sequestration Switch


Beneficial Insects


Pasture Pests & Beneficial Insects


Molasses Based Liquid Supplement - Source of Minerals


Microbes & Molasses


Understanding and Managing Soil Microbes - PennState Extension


How to Make on Farm Bioferments, Biostimulants and Biofertilisers


Weeds - How they can Benefit and What they Tell You


Soil and Seed (including where to source fungal material)


Kiss the Ground Movie (the importance of the Regenerative Agriculture Journey)


Making Soils Healthier - Lactobionate


Biochar and Dung Beetles - Doug Pow


Disc coulter sowing through lots of Organic Matter


Raw Milk for Agriculture & the Garden


Regenerative Farming - a Natural Way to Counteract Drought (Australian Story)


Leaky Weirs and Landscape Rehydration


Leaky Weirs - turning a dry gully into a semi-permanent watercourse


Gully Erosion


Controlling Pests


Diatomaceous Earth - Feed Supplement, Insecticide / Pesticide


Diatomaceous Earth - for Cattle (uses and benefits)


Rehydrating the Soil


NOTE: Graeme Sait of NutriTech Solutions is not only a farmer and entrepreneur but also one of the foremost educators in the world in regenerative agriculture. He has an extensive blog on his website with not just links to his very popular Podcast series but also many other resources for learning.



Podcasts & Webinars


Cover Crops - Grant Sims from Down Under Covers


Multi Species Forage / Cover Crops - Grant Sims & Simon Mattsson / NutriSoil


Soil Health Matters by Nicole Masters (link part way down this site)


The Rhizosphere - What it Is and Why it is is So Amazing (and important)


Inoculating Seed


Building Resiliency - Epigenetics (Gabe Brown & Dr Allen Williams)


The Nitrogen Solution - Dr Christine Jones


The Benefits of Seaweed in Agriculture - John Kempf


How to Design Foliar Sprays (and the importance of CLEAN water) - AEA / John Kempf


NOTE: Graeme Sait of NutriTech Solutions is not only a farmer and entrepreneur but also one of the foremost educators in the world in regenerative agriculture. He has an extensive blog on his website with not just links to his very popular Podcast series but also many other resources for learning.


Beneficial Books


‘Call of the Reed Warbler’ - Charles Massy. - University of Queensland Press


'An EcoFarmer's Discovery - How the soil really works' - Ewan Campbell - EcoFarm Aotearoa



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