This week's guest is
Dr. Elaine Ingham, a world-renowned soil microbiologist.
Dr. Ingham pioneered many of the currently used biological soil-amendment techniques and also pioneered the testing of soil biology as an indicator of soil and plant health. She founded the Sustainable Studies Institute as an educational institution and the company Soil Foodweb Inc. which currently has soil testing labs in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and Mexico, helping farmers all over the world to grow more resilient crops by understanding and improving their soil life. Dr. Ingham is the key author of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Soil Biology Primer and has been the mentor of numerous soil scientists and practitioners of ecologically balanced landscape design, gardening, and farming all over the world.
Possible
topics: soil food web, soil preparing, soil amending, soil testing, soil microorganisms, composting, compost tea, plant disease prevention, ect.
The topic will be open from
2 to 8 December .
Please read the
rules:
www.permaforum.hu/permaforum/index.php/f...nivalok-es-szabalyok
If you're looking for basic information on the subject, read this:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/soils/health/biology/
Please welcome Dr. Ingham to Permaforum!