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Mycorrhizae - Your Landscape and Building

Your SoilBy Michael Martin Melendrez

There are two basic problems seen in landscapes across the globe that need to be consideredand corrected if we expect to ever see optimum health of society or achieve the concept of sustainability.

Humus: One problem is the decline of carbon from our soils sending the carbon back into theatmosphere in the form of CO 2. This problem is exemplified by the decline of top soils, or theloss of Humus on agricultural lands worldwide along with the desertification problem in the more

arid regions of earth. Humus is a conglomeration of biomolecules called Humic acids that areproducts of soil chemistry essential for healthy and productive soils. These chemicals offer along term bank of carbon in the soil in addition to making soil a livable terrestrial biosphere forlife. The vast volume of bulk organic biomass needed to make just a tiny fraction of Humus is adaunting task and one only needs to study the life and death cycle of leaves in pristine SugarMaple and Oak Cove forest to fully understand and appreciate this process. In recent years ithas become clearer to us that much of the biomass or calorie effort that goes into the making of humus is actually coming from the mutualistic association plants have with a beneficial fungicalled the Mycorrhizae. When this association is complete the plant is said to be mycorrhizal. Itis during this relationship that some species of mycorrhizae will produce and shed a proteinmaterial into the soil called Glomalin. Many of the worlds top scientists now believe that

Glomalin is the single largest potentialbank of long term carbon that we know of.If this is true, the potential to sequestercarbon into our soils reducingatmospheric CO 2 is a reality.

Mycorrhizae: This is our second basicproblem because almost withoutexception constructed landscapesworldwide including farms, yards, officeparks, sports fields, city parks and even

long standing organic certified farms haveeither a complete lack of the mycorrhizaeor there is not enough for plants to be atoptimum health! With this deficiency wealso will have a low production of the fungiproduced Glomalin protein. Mycorrhizae vesicles in a carrot root


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Mycorrhizae are the Root-Tip-Colonizing fungi that help plants find and harvest water andmineral nutrients from the soil. Mycorrhizae and the associated helper bacteria are the only soilmicrobes that legal claims of health benefits to a plant can be made as there is ample researchpublished in over 60,000 papers found in journals of science describing and validating theseclaims!

Published Claims of Benefits include: Improved drought tolerance, soil building properties,improved mineral nutrient uptake, improved plant nutrient content including vitamins andminerals, improved tolerance of soil diseases, improved tolerance of parasitic nematodes,improved crop yields, improved tolerance of environmental stresses.

So the problems of our soils are real and common but the solution to the problem is within thegrasp of our known technology. There are three (3) excellent commercial growers of mycorrhizae inoculants in North America that can provide a wide diversity of viable material for

jump starting your soils. Soil Secrets LLC of Los Lunas New Mexico is one of those three andoften collaborates with the other two growers when needed.

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Even in the arid high desert alkaline soils of Northern Arizona, Soil Secrets can work, as seenhere at Ashokala Gardens a Community Supported Agriculture - Organic Farm. Photos byKim and J oseph Costion Distributors of Soil Secrets in Snowflake Arizona


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Producing humus on site is a more difficult task asit requires huge quantities of gross organic matterto decay down into a tiny fraction of material wecall the Humic acids. But with patience andpersistence we can slowly add small amounts of viable humus to a soil and see a dramatic changein the chemical, physical and structural behavior of soils. At Soil Secrets we choose to use a form of humus that we produce in New Mexico as not onlya supplement to the soil, but we also use it as acarrier for the Root-Tip-Colonizing-Mutualisticmicrobes including the mycorrhizae and theassociated helper bacteria. This form of humus iscalled TerraPro and exclusive and uniqueproduct of Soil Secrets.

On the next page you can see what this dry and sterile Arizona desert was turned into by usingthe protocol and materials of Soil Secrets. A small but rich Organic Home Farm that is feedingabout 15 families with nutritious produce. All the pictures taken on the next page are of plantsgrown with Soil Secrets products.

TerraPro humus

An amazing transformation in an arid Arizona desert,where soil goes from being so poor not a blade of grasscan be found and most of the soil surface is bare, towhere we have a rich dark A-horizon of humus rich

top soil forming.


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The picture on the upper left is Kims Organic Home Garden in the desert of Northern Arizona. Thecarrots on the upper right were grown on one of our Distributors clay soil in Taos New Mexico. Thelower left image is Zia and her garlic, grown on Kims farm and the giant tomato plant is in Albuquerque

New Mexico grown during a year of serious Tomato virus problems where none of the neighbors could grow tomatoes.

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