Nutrition Farming Podcast Harnessing Humus
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May 8, 2020 Explore fascinating strategies to enhance soil health through organic matter. Discover the role of humus in climate mitigation and water retention. Graeme shares the benefits of cover cropping and alternative methods to herbicide use. Learn about the advantages of underplanting legumes and the power of diverse cocktail cover crops. Uncover the importance of soil organisms like earthworms and how composting can rejuvenate soil biology. Finally, delve into glyphosate concerns and the natural pathways to reduce its impact.
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Plant Five-Family Cover Blends
- Use cocktail cover crops with five families: grasses, cereals, brassicas, legumes and chenopods.
- Small percentages of each family, including 1% kinopods and ~5% brassicas, spark soil biology and humus formation.
Humates Accelerate Humus And Uptake
- Humates (humic and fulvic acids) stimulate soil biology and improve nutrient uptake by about a third.
- Humic acid especially feeds fungi and accelerates stable humus formation.
Use Compost To Reclaim Soil Biology
- Embrace quality compost to reintroduce diverse microbes and amplify soil carbon beyond the carbon added.
- Compost often stimulates multiple-fold humus formation and reclaims humus-building capacity.