While the academic, lab and research road down this path is known, few orgs have been successful at applying this at scale.
One of the lesser known state supported entities out of India - https://apcnf.in/ is arguably one of the largest natural farming operations in the world. They have been studying not just how these interactions work, but also the critical points at which one can do high leverage, yet low cost inputs.
Below is an upcoming webinar if you'd like to learn how to get off industrial fertilizers, pesticides and even tractor spends in farming operations. As the natural systems are degrading.. i feel these pathways become fundamental technical innovations to keep the farming servers running the OS called planet Earth.
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Thrilled to see keen interest nature based computing at HN, therefore taking the liberty to share.
Full disclosure is that these methods aren't innovated by them as much as assimilated and fine tuned. Most of the knowledge is threads weaved from superhero permaculturists and scientists from USA, Europe and around the world.
Their edge of course has been observing the quiet ways of indigenous communities who quietly - apply knowledge (vs publishing). Working at almost a country scale has also given them experience on the social, economic and technical APIs of society which are necessary to take innovations from pilots to mainstream scale.
NCNF (National Coalition for Natural Farming) and RySS (Rythu Sadhikara Samstha) invite you to a webinar on Science of Natural Farming
Date/Time - 30th April (Tuesday), 3 pm
Speaker - Shri T Vijay Kumar
Panelists -
- Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar
- Ms Sabarmatee
- Shri Soumik Banerjee
Thank you for sharing. I’m a big fan of the microbiome of plants and would love to see genetic advances in that field.
Unfortunately it’s very difficult to sell bacteria and fungi repeatedly for profit because theoretically you would need to buy them only once.
It is incredible and fascinating how physics, chemistry and Biology come together in plant roots.
I have been trained as a computers person and hated Biology in school so i have zero background in these waters but learning all this has been humbling.
I heard that fungi, bacteria and plant roots work for each other towards the "survival of the friendliest" paradigm. Some of the smartest people admit that we do not understand what viruses do.
Here is another video you might like. Key point being that if a plant is healthy, "pests"(garbage collectors) can't eat it and this applies to us as much as plants - https://youtu.be/D1wJefaFrVI?si=tSGAPq99lgroah7J
IIRC, I have read somewhere that many plants do this. It is part of their symbiosis with bacteria and fungi in the soil, and the fungal networks extend far beyond the plants' locations.
In fact we humans also do it, willy-nilly. We have billions of gut and other bacteria in us, many times more than the number of cells in our own bodies.
Jeff Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fantastic introduction to the soil food web and its implications for organic no-till farming. Highly Recommend.
While the academic, lab and research road down this path is known, few orgs have been successful at applying this at scale.
One of the lesser known state supported entities out of India - https://apcnf.in/ is arguably one of the largest natural farming operations in the world. They have been studying not just how these interactions work, but also the critical points at which one can do high leverage, yet low cost inputs.
Below is an upcoming webinar if you'd like to learn how to get off industrial fertilizers, pesticides and even tractor spends in farming operations. As the natural systems are degrading.. i feel these pathways become fundamental technical innovations to keep the farming servers running the OS called planet Earth.
---
Thrilled to see keen interest nature based computing at HN, therefore taking the liberty to share.
Full disclosure is that these methods aren't innovated by them as much as assimilated and fine tuned. Most of the knowledge is threads weaved from superhero permaculturists and scientists from USA, Europe and around the world.
Their edge of course has been observing the quiet ways of indigenous communities who quietly - apply knowledge (vs publishing). Working at almost a country scale has also given them experience on the social, economic and technical APIs of society which are necessary to take innovations from pilots to mainstream scale.
NCNF (National Coalition for Natural Farming) and RySS (Rythu Sadhikara Samstha) invite you to a webinar on Science of Natural Farming
Date/Time - 30th April (Tuesday), 3 pm
Speaker - Shri T Vijay Kumar
Panelists - - Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar - Ms Sabarmatee - Shri Soumik Banerjee
Registration - Please register through the link here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oU80YM7oTti439W0...
This webinar will be conducted in English and Hindi.
Thank you for sharing. I’m a big fan of the microbiome of plants and would love to see genetic advances in that field. Unfortunately it’s very difficult to sell bacteria and fungi repeatedly for profit because theoretically you would need to buy them only once.
It is incredible and fascinating how physics, chemistry and Biology come together in plant roots.
I have been trained as a computers person and hated Biology in school so i have zero background in these waters but learning all this has been humbling.
I heard that fungi, bacteria and plant roots work for each other towards the "survival of the friendliest" paradigm. Some of the smartest people admit that we do not understand what viruses do.
Here is another video you might like. Key point being that if a plant is healthy, "pests"(garbage collectors) can't eat it and this applies to us as much as plants - https://youtu.be/D1wJefaFrVI?si=tSGAPq99lgroah7J
IIRC, I have read somewhere that many plants do this. It is part of their symbiosis with bacteria and fungi in the soil, and the fungal networks extend far beyond the plants' locations.
In fact we humans also do it, willy-nilly. We have billions of gut and other bacteria in us, many times more than the number of cells in our own bodies.
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Jeff Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fantastic introduction to the soil food web and its implications for organic no-till farming. Highly Recommend.
https://www.amazon.ca/Teaming-Microbes-Organic-Gardeners-Rev...
I thought this was true for a lot of plants…
We have so much to learn from biology.