Episode #18, Permaculture Concepts, Microbes and Natural Methods of Land Restoration

This is episode 18 of the Get in My Garden Podcast. Today we meet Bradley Babb, permaculture expert, consultant to natural farmers and to New Mexican medicinal cannabis growers through his business called Earthtone Permaculture. He consults with businesses and individuals about water catchment, soil building and erosion management but is focussing more and more with medical cannabis customers and is anticipating focussing on fully cannabis growing and eduction once legalization happens. He has a vast knowledge of the soil food web, of natural land restoration methods, and of alternative growing methods such a aquaponics and hydro. He teaches people how to maintain balance in their gardens and shares his knowledge and ideas openly with everyone. In this episode, we discuss low tech ways to renew degraded land and ways to transform unfarmable land into an oasis by working with nature. We discus how mycelium, bacteria and enzymes are likely to fix most of our ecological problems and we talk about low cost methods of creating compost teas and inoculants that have been used for thousands of years.