Episode 98 - The Compost Supershow with Leighton Morrison

Compost is not one thing. We use compost to describe a whole range of soil amendments. And some of them don’t live up to what we want compost to do. On this week’s episode of Shaping Fire, host Shango Los welcomes back soil biologist Leighton Morrison to talk about the varieties of compost and the benefits and challenges of each, the structure and micro-biology of inoculant organic matter, how to make a microbe-rich cold compost without pathogen risk, and a whole lot of insight into the grading, use and storage of compost.

The scientific paper we refer to can be found here: Will fungi solve the carbon dilemma?

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More epsiodes with soil biologist Leighton Morrison!

Epsiode 54: Geology and Biomimicry in Living Soil

Episode 59: Water and Watering

Episode 82: Deploying Aerobic and Anaerobic Soil Amendments

Episode 87: Shango’s Indoor Raised Bed with Horizon Soil Technique First Cycle Assessment.

You can listen to this episode on the Shaping Fire website by clicking the player below or you can enjoy it wherever you download podcasts, Spotify and YouTube, as well as your home speaker.

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