QV #59: What If Soil Microbes Mattered? | Leo Horrigan 2 - Regenerative Agriculture & Living Soil

Описание: 🔗 Guest Links
Leo Horrigan – What If Soil Microbes Matter?Audiobook:    • What if soil microbes mattered? -- audiobook  
PDF Book: https://clf.jhsph.edu/sites/default/f...

In this episode, Leo Horrigan joins Jacob Shields to explore the living intelligence of soil — the unseen network of microbes that sustain life on Earth. Drawing from his book *What If Soil Microbes Matter?*, Leo explains how agriculture, biology, and climate intersect beneath our feet.

This conversation connects microbiology, ecology, and philosophy — exploring what it means to “get out of the way” and let natural systems do what they’ve done for hundreds of millions of years.

🎙️ Hosted by Jacob Shields
📘 Guest: Leo Horrigan, author of What If Soil Microbes Matter?

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⏱️ Chapters
00:00 – Preview
01:32 – Introduction
02:37 – How Leo’s new book came to life
04:43 – The unseen world: microbes and soil symbiosis
06:50 – Fertilizer dependency and the energy loops in agriculture
08:14 – Nitrogen fixation and bacterial “superpowers”
09:05 – Soil as a carbon factory
10:34 – Microbial diversity and resilience
12:52 – Synthetic nitrogen and livestock health
15:42 – Regenerative farming vs. industrial agriculture
18:01 – Glyphosate and metal binding in soils
20:40 – The rhizophagy cycle with Dr. James White
26:37 – Where do microbes end and “life” begin?
29:37 – Parallels between fascia and the soil microbiome
36:37 – Diversity as the engine of ecological efficiency
39:37 – Obstacles to scaling regenerative agriculture
43:32 – AI, data tracking, and soil metrics of the future
44:43 – Tillage, carbon release, and climate impact
53:13 – Human microbiome and soil microbiome parallels
56:33 – Next projects and closing reflections
60:18 – Outro and links

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🔗Guest Links -- Leo Horrigan – What If Soil Microbes Matter?Audiobook:    • What if soil microbes mattered? -- audiobook  
PDF Book: https://clf.jhsph.edu/sites/default/f...

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