Biochar: Prepping it for Soil
Biochar’s high adsorption capacity makes it an ideal delivery system for minerals and their electric charges.
Bt: Toxic Soil & Nature’s Balance
Bt toxin is the protein synthesized by the bacteria in the plant which, when ingested, binds to the gut wall of the host. Here it reproduces and breaks down the gut wall allowing gut bacteria into the body cavity and the bloodstream. This is what happens to the pests it is intended to defeat, as well as any subsequent consumer of the toxin.
Compost & The Promise of Microbes
Johnson went on to demonstrate the remarkable power of his compost to dramatically boost crop growth and carbon sequestration in soil, which correlates with its high fungal to bacterial ratio. Currently, he is experimenting with this compost as a seed inoculant and working to expand the scope of this critical research through collaborations with other interested researchers.
The Secret Life of Compost by Malcolm Beck
There are many beneficial forms of life in the soil. Scientists now tell us there is more tonnage of life and numbers of species in the soil than growing above. All of this life gets its energy from the sun. But only the green leaf plants have the ability to collect the sun’s energy. All other life forms depend on the plant to pass energy to them. The plants above and soil life below depend on each other for their healthy existence and continued survival.
Ask the Plant
Those minerals that floated in on the air or migrated through the soil asked for their blessings from the microbes, either in the sap of the plant or by the soil’s billions of unpaid workers.
The Biological Nature of Soil
In the top several inches of soil, where there is sunlight, algae can be found in high numbers—as many as 100 million per gram—and can consequently generate quite a bit of organic matter to soils.