About this Event
The hidden life in our soil - Microbes and Composting
Date: Sat Dec 14, 2024
Time: 09:45 AM GMT
Location: Askrigg Village Hall
Come and join us to discover more about the fungi, bacteria, nematodes, protozoa, and arthropods that inhabit our soil and plants, making up the hidden world beneath our feet.
We will discuss the key role these tiny organisms play in keeping our soil healthy and in turn plants and animals that eat them healthy. How microbes:-
- cycle nutrients,
- provide plant nutrition,
- provide plant growth hormones,
- provide plant disease protection,
- allow plants to communicate,
- create soil structure,
- are crucial in water cycles and carbon sequestration and making farms (and gardens) resilient to climate change.
How this in turn can reduce the need for artificial fertilisers and chemicals, reducing costs of growing grass and other crops.
We will go through nutrient cycling in the Soil Food Web and talk about Rhizophagy - how plants "eat bacteria" to harvest nutrients.
Following that we will move onto composting and how we can create our own inoculum of microbes to spray or spread. Touching on thermal composting, Johnson Su static piles, worm composting and using Bokashi / Effective microbes with FYM, slurry and food waste.
We will have a microscope hooked up to a big screen to show you first-hand what is and is not in our soils and compost.
Open to all and whilst aimed at farmers there is relevance to all involved in growing plants of any sort.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Askrigg Temperance Village Hall, Main Street, Leyburn, United Kingdom
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