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)
Overcoming Soil Compaction
Allan Savory - TED Talk - understand foundations for rotational grazing
Benefits of Sea Minerals
Sea Minerals as Fertiliser
Liquid Sea Minerals / MycorrPlus
Key to Soil Health - Full Spectrum Nutrition through All Minerals
Periodic Table - Minerals, Metals etc - (See Feature Demo Link at Bottom of Screen)
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
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
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 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
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)
Carbon Friendly Beef Enterprise
The Link Between Carbon and Healthy Soil
Soil Restoration - 5 Core Principles (Dr Christine Jones)
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
https://nutrisoil.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Soil-Fertility-Management_Dr-Maarten-Stapper.pdf
Improving Soil Carbon - Soilkee Renovator
Soil Carbon - Soilkee Renovator and Pasture
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
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
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