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Eddie Bailey

Eddie Bailey

Chartered geologist and founder of RhizoPhyllia; soil food web specialist teaching regenerative gardening and soil health.

Jul 10, 2026

3:53
is that good for a meadow or particular growing?
3:57
Well, I often get asked the question, what is a poor soil? And there isn't a poor soil.
4:01
You know, the weeds that we talk about grow on poor soil.
4:04
No, they grow on soil exactly where they want to grow, where nature has intended them to grow.
4:09
If I can give you a little bit of background, I met Paul three years ago at Hampton Court.
4:13
I just stood in front of all of these beautiful seed packages for every habitat possible.
4:20
And I thought, those are the guys that feed my microorganisms.
5:48
definitely.
JamieHOST
25:02
Tell us a bit more about what that is then.
25:04
Yeah, well, I find that really, really interesting and really encouraging because, you know, it's the first thing that I talk about on my workshops when I'm talking about the microbes.
25:14
You know, people have heard of mycorrhizae.
25:15
They see the packets in the shops, the mycorrhizae.
25:19
And mycorrhizae, they associate with perhaps 90% of all land plants.
25:25
which is telling you that there's something very important going on.
25:28
And mycorrhizae were there at the beginning of land plant evolution.

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