Welcome to Part 2 of a recent interview host Jennie Love had with guest Bryant Mason of Soil Doctor Consulting.

If you haven’t already listened to Episdoe 37 or Episode 29, stop this one now and go back to listen to those first. In this segment, Bryant helps listeners understand what plant tissue testing is and why it is so valuable for farmers to do. Bryant walks us through a tissue test for stock grown at Jennie's farm, explaining how to read the various nutrient values and make decisions for future fertilization.

If you'd like to see the tissue test result sheet Bryant and Jennie discuss in this episode, along with other test results from Jennie's crops, join the Regenerative Flower Farmers Network (RFFN) to have a look at those.

Two labs that Jennie has used for tissue testing flower crops are:

At the end of this conversation, we also get a nice list of resources listeners can use to increase their knowledge of organic and regenerative growing. Here are links to most of those:

The Nature and Properties of Soils textbook
The Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants textbook
Nigel Palmer's book The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments
Nigel Palmer's interview on this podcast
Bryan O' Hara's book No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture
Shaping Fire podcast
Regenerative Agriculture podcast
ATTRA Voices from the Field podcast
Priming for Production podcast
Tractor Time podcast
Field Lab Earth podcast
Cannibas Cultivation and Science podcast
Decode 6 podcast
No-Till Growers podcast

This conversation with Bryant was broken into two episodes since it was full of so much information. So be sure to go back and listen to the first half in Episode 37.

Follow Bryant on Instagram @soil_doctor.

Bryant has developed an easy online tool to help you directly to interpret your soil tests and choose natural amendments accordingly. Click here to learn more.

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