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I had an experience with mycelium that changed my way of looking at the world: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15059654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

I had an experience with mycelium that changed my way of looking at the world: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15059654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15059654 I am coming around to the POV that soil should be thought of as a kind of organism. Check out e.g.: "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A He talks about fungus starting around 1:20 (80 minutes in) https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A?t=4848 https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A?t=4848 Fungal to bacterial ratios...

sebmellen 6y ago
If you're already on to this, I highly recommend watching "Symphony of the Soil". It's a fantastic movie all about this, I really think it should be required watching in primary education. See: Symphony Of The Soil Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU
- carapace 6y ago
  That was great! A little preachy in places but overall very good. Cheers!
vram22 6y ago
I had mentioned Gabe Brown's work here ~3 months ago: "Gabe Brown has been doing regenerative agriculture for over two decades on Brown's Ranch, over 2000 acres, in Bismarck, North Dakota successfully. Food crops plus cover crops plus livestock, all integrated. Lot of good results compared to neighboring farmers doing the traditional synthetic fertilizer / pesticide / tilling / monoculture approach. There are others like him too. ..." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799715 Others have been mentioning his work here too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%20gabe%20brown&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... There are a few false positives (wrong term?) in the search results; could try putting his name in quotes in the above Algolia search or use some other option. I will try that myself.
walleeee 6y ago
> I am coming around to the POV that soil should be thought of as a kind of organism. More people need to realize this! Healthy soils are enormously rich ecosystems. They're also fundamental to the water and carbon cycles. Soils are cumulatively a much larger carbon sink than the atmosphere, for instance.

sebmellen 6y ago

If you're already on to this, I highly recommend watching "Symphony of the Soil". It's a fantastic movie all about this, I really think it should be required watching in primary education. See: Symphony Of The Soil Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU

carapace 6y ago
That was great! A little preachy in places but overall very good. Cheers!

vram22 6y ago

I had mentioned Gabe Brown's work here ~3 months ago: "Gabe Brown has been doing regenerative agriculture for over two decades on Brown's Ranch, over 2000 acres, in Bismarck, North Dakota successfully. Food crops plus cover crops plus livestock, all integrated. Lot of good results compared to neighboring farmers doing the traditional synthetic fertilizer / pesticide / tilling / monoculture approach. There are others like him too. ..." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799715 Others have been mentioning his work here too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%20gabe%20brown&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... There are a few false positives (wrong term?) in the search results; could try putting his name in quotes in the above Algolia search or use some other option. I will try that myself.

walleeee 6y ago

> I am coming around to the POV that soil should be thought of as a kind of organism. More people need to realize this! Healthy soils are enormously rich ecosystems. They're also fundamental to the water and carbon cycles. Soils are cumulatively a much larger carbon sink than the atmosphere, for instance.