ReGenAg Chat

ReGen Ag Chat 16: Getting up and close to soil microbes with Ian Bell and Tanja Dekker

March 29, 2022 Liz Genever and Nic Renison
ReGenAg Chat
ReGen Ag Chat 16: Getting up and close to soil microbes with Ian Bell and Tanja Dekker
Show Notes

Nic Renison and Liz Genever - two of the founders of Carbon Calling - talked to Ian Bell, who is a Certified Soil Food Web Lab-Tech and working towards being a Soil Food Web consultant. He is the founder of Northern Soil Regen, which works with farmers to improve their soil biology through different compost techniques and inoculations. They are developing novel techniques for applications. He has also trained with the Holistic Management International and is interested in mixing farming systems.

He will be running a workshop at Carbon Calling and will welcome farmers to bring soil or compost samples to look at the life in them.

He was joined by his mentor, Tanja Dekker from the Netherlands, who is a soil food web consultant working with community projects and dairy farmers.