John KempfRegenerative Agriculture Entrepreneur

Podcast Episode 150: Grazing Beyond the Mainstream (Snippet)

10 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Short transcript snippet from a podcast (John Kempf) discussing practices to 'produce happy plants' using crop rotation/stockpiling, avoiding soil chemicals, and introducing mycorrhiza—noting prior glyphosate use in a tree nursery. The exchange emphasizes natural soil recovery over multiple cycles and minimal chemical inputs.

I know the answer, but for our listeners, I think it bears repeating again. How do you produce happy plants?
Okay. By stockpiling a section of the farm that is alternated every year. Once you have two or three cycles in good rainfall environment, you get happy plants if you do not use any chemicals in the soil. I did use some fodder fertilizer at.
First and.
Mycorrhiza at first, because the sandy soil had no mycorrhiza from. Yeah, that.
Trigger from.
Years of excess glyphosate applied. Because it was a tree nursery, they applied glyphosate twice a month for 20 some years.
Wow.
So it was white sand with no soil life. And I saw that the walls, when they did their burrows, the grass grew five times larger there. So I researched, and that was from mycorrhiza. So I started overseeding with mycorrhizal inoculated seed and that changed everything. I could see the green spreading through.