Get In My Garden

This is the second part of the interview with Judy Fitzpatrick of Microbiometer.

Today we deep dive into microbiology and the workings of the microbial marketplace.

We discuss the current state of research, the balance between competition and cooperation of soil microbes, and the environmental influences on these microbes.

Then we discuss what some of the cannabis growers are doing to foster microbial balance and why they love growing in soil.

Judy shares how the stress response affects flavor and texture of plants and finally what’s going on with carbon and the soil.

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Today we meet Judy Fitzpatrick, cofounder of Microbiometer. 

The first few minutes of this episode, Judy shares her back story, her history in medical diagnostics and then about cofounding soil microbial biomass measurement company, Microbiometer.

Judy shares about the distinctions of different available types of soil testing on the market, which is very enlightening.

She explains the process by which scientists breed and study bacteria in the lab setting to create strains with a specific purpose for the garden, or for medicine.

Then we dive more into microbiology, how bacteria breed, how their DNA gets shared around as they adapt to their environment, and so much more.

We learn how to understand the ratio of different fungi and bacteria, how to use this information to gain an ideal soil structure, and how it all works at the microbial level.

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Today we meet Hunter Buffington, Executive Director of the Hemp Feed Coalition. We talk hemp as an animal feed, why it isn’t legal for animal feed yet, some of the roadblocks in the US and Canada, and how the Hemp Feed Coalition is working to change this.

Then Hunter shares details about cannabis plant byproducts, many of these potentially being animal feed. We learn a few specific ways that the listeners can be involved with progressing the agenda of the Hemp Feed Coalition Directly.

Then we hear details about clinical feed trials that need to take place, and some of the current research about bioaccumulation in the cannabis plant. Hemp is sure to change the nutritional makeup of the food we eat and offers promise for carbon sequestration and regenerative farming.

At the end of the interview, Hunter mentions some of the amazing technology being created now using hemp byproducts, and then finally where she thinks the hemp market is headed in the next 10 to 20 years.