Regenerative Verification with Soil Microscopy with Matt Powers

So wait, before we begin, last week we saw how microscopy sees the past.

and the present and the future.

In the week before, we saw how making small things bigger allowed us to have an understanding you can't have otherwise.

And that's why it's such a powerful tool used all over the world in laboratories.

And it's not that much bigger.

It's only a thousand times bigger, which is interesting that it's like a perfect thousand, right? But that is the actual limit.

It's fascinating, right? But we can also see if you're regenerative.

And I know that there's a lot of people bandy around definitions, but the way I've done it with regenerative soil, the five aspects of regenerative soil, you guys know this, right? Each of those aspects, there's specifics in how they improve or degenerate.

And so you can measure and test those things specifically.

And then you know.

So and the thing is, it's like people want a holistic like number or like a color or like a chart where like I'm I'm almost green, you know.

Right.

There's five aspects.

Right.

So so and then like even the biology aspect is like, well, you might have the right bacteria, you might not have the right fungi.

So it's nuanced.

And so we can dive into that with a microscope.

But before I do, what is regenerative? So regenerative means better and better over time and self-healing.

So things regenerate, but regenerative also as a practice compounds because original soil, natural soil, compounds.

It gets better and better.

It accrues.

It builds.

This is the only reason we have soil.

Historically speaking, this is the only reason we had soil, right? And yes, terra preta is man-made soil, and we can do it ourselves.

And there's more and more evidence that Native Americans, they've always done pit composts.

So wait, before we begin, last week we saw how microscopy sees the past.

and the present and the future.

In the week before, we saw how making small things bigger allowed us to have an understanding you can't have otherwise.

And that's why it's such a powerful tool used all over the world in laboratories.

And it's not that much bigger.

It's only a thousand times bigger, which is interesting that it's like a perfect thousand, right? But that is the actual limit.

It's fascinating, right? But we can also see if you're regenerative.

And I know that there's a lot of people bandy around definitions, but the way I've done it with regenerative soil, the five aspects of regenerative soil, you guys know this, right? Each of those aspects, there's specifics in how they improve or degenerate.

And so you can measure and test those things specifically.

And then you know.

So and the thing is, it's like people want a holistic like number or like a color or like a chart where like I'm I'm almost green, you know.

Right.

There's five aspects.

Right.

So so and then like even the biology aspect is like, well, you might have the right bacteria, you might not have the right fungi.

So it's nuanced.

And so we can dive into that with a microscope.

But before I do, what is regenerative? So regenerative means better and better over time and self-healing.

So things regenerate, but regenerative also as a practice compounds because original soil, natural soil, compounds.

It gets better and better.

It accrues.

It builds.

This is the only reason we have soil.

Historically speaking, this is the only reason we had soil, right? And yes, terra preta is man-made soil, and we can do it ourselves.

And there's more and more evidence that Native Americans, they've always done pit composts.