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1. Natural sequence farming: How Peter Andrews rejuvenates drought-struck land | Australian Story | ABC News (video, 20 min)
2. Water and climate change : let’s adapt ! | Sauvons l’eau (video, 4 min)
3. The Rain-Making Bacteria | Jay Hardy (article, 4 min)
4. The Biotic Pump: How Forests Create Rain | Jimi Sol (video, 3 min)
5. Partnering With Beaver: Nature’s Hydrologists and Ecosystem Engineers | Utah State University (video, 5 min)
6. How does soil health affect water availability? | Kiss the Ground (video, 2 min)
7. Natural sequence farming: How Peter Andrews rejuvenates drought-struck land | Australian Story | ABC News (video, 29 min)
8. GFE 2017 – Abe Collins ‘Tools for Deep Topsoil Watersheds’ | Grassfed Exchange (video, 25 min)
9. Water Gandhi | Maulik Sisodia (video 13 min)
10. Climate Change: the New Water Paradigm | Jimi Sol (video, 3 min)
11. Leaky weirs and landscape rehydration | Grow Love Project (video, 4 min)
12. How Things Work : How Do Water Springs Work? | eHow (video, 5 min)
13. Rehydrating the Earth: A New Paradigm For Water Management | Richard Widows (article, 10 min)

1. THE POWER of the PLATE | Rodale Institute (white paper, 40 min)
2. Environmental Working Group Safety Guides:
   1. Dirty Dozen™ EWG’s 2020 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™  (website)
   2. Clean Fifteen™ EWG’s 2020 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ (website)
3. Why Is Glyphosate Sprayed on Crops Right Before Harvest? | EcoWatch (article, 7 min)
4. Glyphosate and Roundup proven to disrupt gut microbiome by inhibiting shikimate pathway | GMWATCH (article, 20 min)
5. Nutrient Cycling | Soil Food Web School | Dr. Elaine Ingham (video, 3 min)
6. Dan Kittredge – Regenerating Soils to Improve Nutrient Density of Foods | Regeneration Canada (video, 19 min)
7. Microbes Matter! From Healthy Soil to Your Healthy Gut | Yvonne Stapp (video, 57 min)
8. GMOs, Glyphosate & Gut Health | Rich Roll (video, 110 min)
9. The Best Monologue EVER: Zach Bush, MD | Rich Roll Podcast (video, 10 min)
10. Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? | Scientific American (article, 15 min) 
11. Plant root-microbe communication in shaping root microbiomes | Andrew Lareen, Frances Burton, Patrick Schäfercorresponding (article, 45 min)
12. Glyphosate Now the Most-Used Agricultural Chemical Ever | Newsweek (article, 5 min)
13. Dirt has a microbiome, and it may double as an antidepressant | QUARTZ (article, 10 min)
14. Good Food on a Budget | EWG (online resource)

1. Slake and Infiltration Test | Ray Archuleta (video, 7 min)
2. How regenerative agriculture can help farmlands thrive and improve ecosystems | WWF International (video, 5 min)
3. A Regenerative Secret | Kiss the Ground (video, 8 min)
4. Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say | The Guardian (article, 3 min)
5. Building Structure | Soil Food Web School | Dr. Elaine Ingham (video, 6 min)
6. Healing Effects of Holistic High-Intensity Grazing | Greg Judy (video, 1 hour)
7. How trees talk to each other | Suzanne Simard (video, 19 min)
8. ‘They’re Trying to Wipe Us Off the Map.’ Small American Farmers Are Nearing Extinction | Time Magazine (article, 8 min)
9. Financial
   1. How to save money on fertilizers // Learning from Nature | Gabe Brown (video, 16 min)
   2. Why Commodity Farming Is a Tough Row to Hoe | Mother Jones (article, 10 min)
   3. Making the investment case for regenerative agriculture | AG Funder News (article, 10 min)
   4. A Skeptical Farmer’s Monster Message on Profitability | AG Web (article 10 min)
10. Fertile Soil, Washed Away | Science Friday (podcast, 10 min)
11. On dangerous ground: land degradation is turning soils into desert | The Conversation (article, 15 min)
12. Carbon Sequestration:
    1. Managing Soils for Soil Carbon Sequestration: Dr David Johnson on Engineering Microbiology | Organic Consumers Association (video, 30 min)
    2. CATTLE ARE PART OF THE CLIMATE SOLUTION | Rodale Institute (article, 7 min)
13. Climate smart or regenerative agriculture? Defining climate policies based on soil health | Tufts University (article, 20 min)
14. On certifications related to regenerative agriculture:
    1. Regenerative Organic Certification | Patagonia (video, 4 min)
    2. Biodynamic Agriculture: Farming in Service of Life | Kiss the Ground (video, 5 min)
15. Can Dirt Save the Earth? | NYTimes (article, 10 min)
16. Sacred Cow Infographics (resource website)

1. Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years | W. C. Lowdermilk (paper, 1 hour)
2. Excerpt from “Hope in a Changing Climate” | John D. Liu (video, 15 min)
3. How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory (video 18 min)
4. 75% of Earth’s Land Areas Are Degraded | National Geographic (report, 10 min)
5. Why Communities Should Invest in Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Sponge. | Didi Pershouse (document, 10 min)
6. How Wolves Change Rivers | Sustainable Human (video, 15 min)
7. Regenerative Culture | Finian Makepeace | TEDxSantaCruz (video, 14 min)
8. Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture across Asset Classes | Christi Electris, Joshua Humphreys, Kristin Lang, David LaZaks, and Jaime Silverstein (report, 1 hour)
9. Microbial activity in dry soils: Fungi awake bacteria from their slumber | AHABC (article, 2 min)
10. Emergence of the Mechanical Mind and Its Dire Implications | Chelsea Green Publishing (excerpt, 4 min)
11. Culture Burning | KCET (video, 18 min)

Link to a Great Organic Lawn Care Guide – click here.

The below list of Organic products can be purchased at most lawn and garden stores.

1. Microlife Humates Plus 0-0-4
2. MicroLife Ultimate 8-4-6
3. Micro Life 6-2-4
4. Nitro Phos Sweet Green 11-0-4
5. Southwest Fertilizer Earth Essentials 5-1-3
6. Nature’s Guide Premium Turf 6-1-4
7. Medina Growin’ Green 4-2-3
8. Lady Bug Natural Lawn & Garden 8-2-4
9. Soil Mender Turf Mate 4-2-3

FEBRUARY – Corn gluten meal (pre-emergent herbicide)

MARCH – Organic fertilizer from above list of products

APRIL – Quality Compost or MicroLife Humates Plus as top dressing

MAY – Organic fertilizer as listed above

SEPTEMBER – Organic fertilizer as listed above/or simply compost top dressing

                         Agricultural Corn Meal as preventative fungicide

OCTOBER – Organic fertilizer from above list of products, as winterizer treatment

NOVEMBER – Corn gluten meal (pre-emergent herbicide)

Here are a combination of tactics to manage the plant that include:

1. Hand removal. (Small patches can be hand-pulled, but care must be taken to remove all the above-ground stems and below-ground roots. This plant can re-establish from small plant parts that remain in the lawn. If you see this weed start to flower, remove it as fast as possible.)
2. Keeping your lawn tall and lush to help crowd out seeds.
3. Being careful not to overwater (Virginia Buttonweed likes moist, wet conditions).
4. Make sure you are treating your soil with good organic fertilizers and compost to ensure it stays healthy.

1. Glomalin: Hiding Place for a Third of the World’s Stored Soil Carbon | United States Department of Agriculture, AgResearch Magazine (article, 10 min)
2. SOS: Save our Soils | Dr. Christine Jones Interviewed by Tracy Frisch (document, 20 min)
3. Humus – the essential ingredient | Graeme Sait at TEDxNoosa (video, 15 min) 
4. The Rhizosphere: an interaction between plant roots and soil biology | 59degrees (video, 4 min)
5. Out of thin Air | Stuart McMillen (cartoon, 5 min)
6. Soil as Carbon Storehouse: New Weapon in Climate Fight? | Judith D. Schwartz (article, 10 min)
7. FUNGI HELPED PLANTS MOVE TO LAND | Astrobiology Magazine (article, 3 min)
8. Soil-Climate Connection Fact Sheet (open-source resource, 20 min)
9. What We Do | AgriBo Systems (video, 12 min)
10. Humus | Wikipedia (definition, 2 min)
11. Capturing Carbon – Supporting The Soil That Will Save Us | Graeme Sait (article, 10 min)
12. Soils are Alive Part 3: How do soil organisms affect plants? | SWCCNRM (video, 4 min)
13. What is Glomalin | USDA (article, 5 min)
14. What is the Soil Food Web? | Dr. Elaine Ingham (video, 6 min)
15. Liquid carbon pathway | Christine Jones, PhD (document, 10 min)
16. Photosynthesis Education Journal of Environmental & Agricultural Sciences JEAS | Regenetarianism (video, 7 min)
17. How regenerative farming can help heal the planet and human health | Charles Massy | TEDxCanberra (video, 17 min)
18. Soil Carbon Restoration: Can Biology do the Job? | Jack Kittredge (white paper, 30 min)

I live in the Houston, TX area and have St. Augustine and Bermudagrass in my front and backyard. Below is the list of products that I personally have used and seen good results. I apply these early in the morning before the sun comes out for best results.

1. Medina Horticulture Molasses – provides a natural food source for the indigenous microbial populations in the soil. It is recommended for all types of plants, crops and turf.
2. Medina Plus – loaded with micronutrients and growth hormones from seaweed extract.
3. Medina Soil Activator – fortified with essential micronutrients. It stimulates, strengthens and multiplies the soil’s indigenous microbes and bacteria
4. MicroLife Fertilizers – recently used their granular products and seeing great results.