The Soil Microbe Myth: Why Microbes can’t Build Healthy Soil by Themselves

Everyone's talking about soil microbes. Focus only on microbes and your soil will suffer.

Dr Wendy Seabrook shows why bacteria and fungi starve, lock up nutrients and suffocate without macro-organisms — earthworms, millipedes, beetles, ants, nematodes — and how to get the full workforce back with diversity, dense planting and year-round roots.You will learn the 3 problems with microbe-only thinking and 3 actions: grow at least 5 species together, plant densely with layers, and chop-and-drop to keep biomass flowing.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Why focusing only on microbes hurts your soil
00:32 Who keeps soil habitable?
01:15 Problem 1 - microbes can't shred leaves
01:55 Problem 2 - nutrients locked inside microbes
02:25 Problem 3 - soil collapses without tunnellers
02:55 What to do instead - diversity, density, year-round
03:40 Chop and drop to keep the workforce fed