“Nature is not more complicated than you think, it’s more complicated than you CAN think”
-Frank Egler
How do soil ecologists define Life? How about “a bunch of systems working to take in energy in order to keep each other from reaching a state of equilibrium?”
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Looking at the surface of the earth anyone can acknowledge the innumerable variety and array of living organisms. Immediately beneath the ground view, the earth may appear dark and lifeless hiding away only a few of God’s most shunned creatures. Yet what may feel like a dank substrate of dark nothingness, just so happens to be an ideal habitat for a the most innumerable and complex lifeform on the planet; the microbe. Just one tablespoon of soil has more organisms than all the worlds human population. We can not see these invisible legions of microbes yet, Ironically, without them we could not survive.
Understanding soil ecology is not required to successfully grow vegetables with the faith based gardening method but it is necessary to keep from doing things that mess that cycle up. More often than not, mans presence in the garden is a detriment to this life force. The Scyon method is called Faith Based because it is important to follow simple practices that might not make sense. Understanding soil ecology may be useful in helping conventional gardeners find a motive to lay aside old practices and begin their own no till gardens. Studying soil is an exciting topic, one that could fill a lifetime.
Soils lacking in nitrogen, phosphate and potassium can not grow crops but these are manufactured in soil by microbes. The power of soil organisms, efficiently manufactures every nutrient a growing plant needs right on site. The bio fertilizer production systems is the soil far exceed mans chemical producing plants in power, sophistication and complexity. They harvest these minerals from plain old rock and dirt using carbonic acid. The word of the year is “carbonic acid” (H2 CO3).
Liquid carbon is converted to sugars through photosynthesis in the leaf and fed to the soil through plant roots. These exudates feeds soil bacteria and also forms carbonic acid (H2 CO3). This acid not only works as an antiseptic preventing soil infection, but dissolves SOLID ROCK allowing the bacteria and fungus to extract Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Boron, Manganese, Zinc, Molybdenum, Copper, and 80+ other minerals in their correct balances for the demands of growing plants and they extract it from nothing more than plain old dirt. Man made factories boast an ability to produce 3,300metric tons of fertilizer per day. how many billions of metric tons do you suppose the soil microbes around the globe produce each day?