Q & A #1, Back to Eden Organic Gardening Method 101 with Wood Chips for Building Healthy Soil

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1. I've been watching your videos and find them both interesting and informative on building soil.
   
   It makes me wonder if a mixture of leaves and wood chips would be better than using wood chips or leaves by themselves. To me this would make perfect sense because of how forest floors are littered with both.
   
   Kind of a best of both. Get the moisture holding capabilities of the wood chips and the ability to continually grow roots in the ground through the leaves.
2. Can you show us a sample of both fungi (Mycorrhizal and Saprophytic) together via the microscope? Inquiring minds need to know.
3. Another great video. Thank you Mark. You just motivated me to break out my microscope as well. :). You might also be interested in the work of Paul Stamets. He's spent a lifetime studying mycelium and fungi. One of his more popular videos is 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. Lot of good info in there on how it all works. He also has many other more detailed videos. Good for winter viewing. :).
4. Great Stuff. I here that King Stropharia are Choice mushrooms that break down the wood chips fastest. Might as well get a saprotroph you can eat when it fruits...I'm gonna try and establish these in my yard... any thoughts? Much gratitude for all your vids.
5. How do you encorage the growth of mycorrhizal fungi? I have plot of land I am getting ready to put cardboard /woodchip and leaves down and wasn't to know if there is anything else I should dip before starting
6. Hi Mark, thanks for this as my whole BtE garden is covered with this Fungi and very little of the seeds I plant seem to come up, I have to get them started in the greenhouse first and then transplant. I really appreciate your videos. Reghardt, Cape Town, South Africa
7. Ha ! Thank You for this....I am correcting folks in our garden clubs all the time !
8. thank you for answering this question. I too have seen this in my woodchips and was mistaken as to what it is. thanks again for the clarification. your channel is awesome and very informative.
9. Thanks for sharing. So which cover do you prefer to use-- wood chips or Fall leaves?
10. As always Mark another fantastically informative post... a very accessible and simple to understand version of the Soil Food Web teachings of Elaine.. this compliments her lectures wonderfully.. I'm still floored over your last video and the B2E soil breakdown in water.. look forward to your next video! BTW are you getting much in the way of wild violets or crab grass in your rows? Doesn't look like you are from the previous videos.. curious whether you would leave them in ground this time of year if you did
11. Thank you Mark...very informative.
12. THE TRUE NAME IS: SAPROPHYTIC FUNGI...
13. Nice information...our yard with triple ground up mulch has this type of fungus growing all over...when it's in very small pieces the fungus seems no longer present...
14. Mycelium
15. Love you and your channel! I have watched many of Elaine's seminars on line and all of them have been excellent. I recently started a BTE food forest in my yard and your videos have been a huge help and inspiration. I have an enormous amount to learn, but have never had more fun!! Thank you, and best wishes to you and yours from Central Alberta!!