Ep. 29 - Bioactive Live Q&A - Compost and IMO Under the Microscope - Understanding Soil Organisms

We have an amazing episode this week with Organic Alexa (http://www.organicalexa.com and @organic.alexa on Instagram) who works at Hypha Grown, a small batch, no-till organic commercial grow out of Northern Michigan. Alexa helps her team by understanding what the soil in their beds is doing on a microscopic level, which enables her to steer what she adds to the compost, teas and other inputs that they produce in-house.

Tonight we discussed:

1. Introduction to soil organisms such as bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, fungi, actinomycetes, amoebae, ciliates, flagellates, rotifers, tardigrades

2. Microbial necro-mass (dead microbes) and how a new study shows it makes up 50% of healthy soil mass

3. The differences i ...