A handful of healthy soil has more individual life forms than there are people on the planet today. Healthy soil has at least 7 types of life, with over 10,000 species, some of which are harmful, but most of which are beneficial. What keeps them in balance? The complete ecosystem, sometimes referred to as the Soil Food Web. Beneficial nematodes are a key component, as they consume bacteria or fungal pathogens.
Originally described by Dr. Elaine Ingham, the complete soil microbe biome includes bacteria, fungi, archaea, beneficial nematodes, amoeba, flagellates and micro-arthropods. Often it has other types of life, including animals (earthworms) and other types of protozoa.
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Soil Food Web Overview can be found here.
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A California B-Corp, SymSoil is a leader in development of biological soil amendments for agriculture that restores the microbes that provide the right food to the plant roots, improving plant health, and making food more nutrient dense and flavorful, the way nature intended. SymSoil has products and services for growers using regenerative agriculture methodologies which improve profitability. Its flagship product, SymSoil® RC (Robust Compost) is a complex community of soil microbes, which includes in excess of 1,000 species, covering broad biodiversity of bacteria, fungi, amoebae, and other protozoa, beneficial nematodes and microarthropods. SymSoil was named one of 2019’s AgTech Companies to Watch.
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