Shooting the Soil

I caught an Arthropod eating a Protozoa! This is dark field microscopy @ 100x captured on a Swift 380T microscope with a Sony A7c camera.

Join us as we learn how to assess soil health with a microscope!

Plants looking great still! Check out Sample 1 here: https://youtu.be/MpF_zykbb98 Added some EM before sample 2: https://youtu.be/1sZz55fk3VI Just added some Endo / Ecto Mycorrhizal from "Build a Soil" buildasoil.com Lets see if we find more fungal hyphae! 15 gal Grass Roots living soil pots 45% Fox Farm Ocean / 45% local top soil / 10% Crescive Soil Compost Added rice hulls, pumice, buildasoil big six micro nutrients. Horizonal Soil Build: Layer 1 (R): Lava Rock and gathered local Pebbles Layer 2 (C): Clay and Sand from the property Layer 3 (A): Soil Mix I listed above Layer 4 (O): Bamboo, Organic Straw, Leaf Mulch Top Dressings: Worm Castings, ground Sprouted Seeds, ground Oyster Shell, and Kelp I harvested from the beach. ONLY other additives: Compost Extracts, EM from Tera Ganix, and Mycorrhizal from Buildasoil.

Looking at some soil from an indoor controlled environment. Sample 2 just over two weeks later with EM added! Plants starting to look really healthy! Sample 1 video here: https://youtu.be/MpF_zykbb98

Looking at some soil from an indoor controlled environment. Testing before I start my 2nd season of growing in 15 gallon living soil fabric pots. 1st pod cast! on Agger Grand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLFEX3rM9aw&t=1s

With a BIG ANOUNCEMNET! My garden and three raised beds compared under the microscope! All three beds made from the same soil, you will be socked at the difference we can see!

Found another Nematode in my soil, this one was pretty big! Leave a comment if you think you can identify what type of feeder this one is.

Soil or foliar plant probiotics fermented from grass fed cows! Whole lot of bacillus shaped bacteria! Product info: https://buildasoil.com/products/thrive-probiotics-yah-whey

Checking out some Compost Tea I brewed under the Microscope! Tossed all sorts of stuff in this one and brewed for 36 hours. 15 gallons of water, 1 9x6 bag of my compost, 1 bag Oly Mountain Fish Compost, 6oz worm castings, 1oz Fish Brew Bold, 2oz crushed oyster shell, 1oz crushed dried kelp, 1oz WCA, 2oz slow juiced bamboo and prickly lettuce, 1oz kombucha and 3oz crushed dried seed sprouts. Lets dive in and see what kind of biology we find!

Checking out a aquatic microorganism fish fertilizer under the microscope! Check out https://fishbrew.com This is there Fish Brew Bold FLO.

Water from a cedar bog under the microscope. Arthropods and Ciliates glowing under the microscope with darkfield lighting. Video Loops well to just toss on for great background! Music by A.Mielbye, check him out on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/amielbye/tracks Shot at 100x magnification with a darkfield filter on a swift 380T Microscope. Sony A7C camera attached with a full frame camera microscope adapter/lens to the photo port of the microscope.

This is my aerobic compost pile. Giving some compost tips, I go over how I built it and what I put in it... then show you what it looks like under the Microscope!!!

Going to check out soil from between the ocean and the land to see if we can find some interesting diversity! Then we will look at soil from my Dads garden. We just just got darkfield capabilities on our scope too! Sorry for the music over my voice the whole time... I noobed it up again! Swear I never unmuted it on my microscope scene in OBS... well live and learn!

Home Garden Tour July 3rd 2022. 1st year switching to Living Soil!

Treated my dads raised bed with a bio complete compost after amending it with some worm castings, micro nutrients, crush oyster shell, pumice, and rice hulls. Lets se what it looks a month later under the scope!

Looking at some reamended potting soil and a raised bed just made this year for cherry tomato's.

See how my soil is looking under the microscope and join me for a garden tour! Mid June, growing zone 6.5 (Massachusetts). Using a microscope and natures biology to grow!

Here is my introduction to the Shooting the Soil channel! Join me as we learn about the vast benefits the microbes in our soil can provide for our plants and us!

Took the camera off the microscope for this guy that gave me a scare on my way down the stairs in the morning!

Two nematodes, more aggregates and fungi in my raised bed after compost extract! Also checking out some soil from a local bamboo patch!

Recorded Live Stream of me looking at Bio Complete Compost. Which is compost tested to have ALL the micro elements of the soil food web!

100x magnification. Found in some forest run off water.

Recorded Live Stream! May 7th 2022. Looking at soil under microscope from a indoor pot and outdoor bed for improvements in soil life! Switching from organic amendments to living soil / regenerative agriculture / natural farming! Sorry for poor audio, did what I could to cut out the pops, new mic next stream.

See whole video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aE4nfC5cYE

100x magnification under microscope. Got great shading on this one and you can see its cilia spinning really well! Shot in 4k on a Sony A7C through a Swift SW380T