Very interesting stuff about photosynthesis.
It bugs me that he says plants eat only light, water, and air (hasn’t he ever heard that plants need fertilizer, and micronutrients in the soil?), but the video is quite excellent about explaining how photosynthesis works — and it’s really quite intriguing to ponder whether a more efficient photosynthesis could be possible. (Would it make plants more drought tolerant? 
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Last presentation is with the dreamteam James White and Walter Goldstein, led by Walter for most part. So to say : a great breeder with crazy corn lines, able to fix nitrogen consequently, notably, and the best expert on endophytes, epiphytes, etc… Amazing !
Mind boggling interview of John Kempf, dating back to 6 years ago:
Best part to me being post 40min50sec.
At 24’20” he makes that strong statement that we already know ENOUGH to deploy all the agroecological principal on scale, and reverse all trends globally.
Could be useful to most farmers as a first understanding step to make a farm more profitable, mostly all about getting the correct nutrition of the plant, then managing everything in ways that favor microbiology, first step being getting healthy plants that through exsudates trigger an enormous amount of microbe-plants interactions, then carbon sequestration comes in, the building of soil organic matter, and all the rest including yield and nutrient dense food.
It’s a RADICAL mindshift.
Having listened to some of John’s videos I must say that he gets the interest of landracing which is 100% in line with the necessities of agroecology: robust plants bred for microbial interactions, and also more robust due to their in-field differentiation.
Still many interesting discussion to be had… notably regarding a necessary adaptation or complementary interview regarding market gardening, because scales and practises are so different to a thousand acres commodity crop farm… but AEA is also advising small scale market gardeners so that’s just a matter of reaching out or listening to other contents.
In comments of the vid one guy put a real good shortlist of videos to watch related to subjects underlined in the discussion. Here are those vids:
Some more serious stuff on seed adaptation in there
I have a lot of older seed in my collection and if necessary I could apply these methods to germinate them in future projects.
Really good and quite fun short video about what we do :
Not a video, but interesting nonetheless:
Horticultural Myths - Linda Chalker-Scott | Washington State University
So all you have to do when you’re in a dry climate is get, close to a stream, catch some beavers and you’re good to go!
Mostly for people in Quebec and maybe other francophones who manage to view it, but the latest episode of “La Semaine Verte” is about growing food without fertilizer, and features Dr. James White.
That’s fantastic Patate! I’ve been longing for so long to get a content in French regarding James White researches and discoveries… 
Growing healthy greens in the heat of some of the hottest cities and creative starts from store bought produce.
Las Vegas, NV
South Florida
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I had never heard of Vavilovian mimicry before! This is so cool.
The idea that some weeds domesticate themselves, and basically make themselves into new food crops, because that helps them stay alive in human-cultivated areas, makes such perfect sense . . . and is so very cool.
Rye and oats, go you! 
Baker Creek is so cool! I might want to prioritize getting neat seeds from them specifically.
Harvesting corn in the Himalayas
