Learn about making compost, compost tea and extracts to increase biology in your agriculture production, home gardens, greenhouses, horticulture landscaping, and hydroponics.
Become a Certified Soil Life Consultant after completing the online classes (Phase I), Phase II and Phase III of the Certification Program with a Mentor assigned to you.
Send your soil, compost, compost tea or worm castings in for biological testing to find out levels of beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa, or nematodes in your sample.
Set up an appointment for a consultation with a Certified Soil Life Consultant or with Dr. Elaine Ingham if you have questions about your growing practices,
Read about growers applying biological regenerative practices in all kinds of growing systems, stopping chemical inorganic fertilizer and pesticide applications.
Learn about:
– Understanding soil health,
– Why fungal to bacterial ratios are important
– Why compaction is so bad
– Why roots of plants are prevented from growing deep?
Learn about:
– What starting materials are needed and why?
– The difference between good compost and reduced waste
– How to Make Biologically Rich Compost
Learn about:
– Replenishing beneficial soil organisms
– Balancing the soil organisms for desired plants, not weeds
– Ending the use of toxic pesticides and inorganic fertilizers
– Maximizing biological diversity
Learn:
– Shadowing Light Microscope Techniques
– Identification of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, etc.
– The soil universe unfolding before your eyes
– How to use a spreadsheet to convert visual results
Written by Dr. Elaine Ingham and Dr. Carole Ann Rollins
This 100-page full color book provides practical guidelines and steps to follow to be successful in a Gardening with Nature Program. Through a question and answer format the authors describe how to switch to growing with biology with using sustainable practices.
Written by Dr. Carole Ann Rollins and Dr. Elaine Ingham
This 107-page book provides simple explanations about how to add biology to any plant growing systems. Guideline for conventional and organic applications whether growing indoors in soilless media or outdoors in open fields. Basic biology and chemistry of nutrient cycling is presented.
Written by Dr. Elaine Ingham and Dr. Carole Ann Rollins
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