Jeff Lowenfels: How Plants Eat - A Cosmic Confluence of Cell Biology, Chemistry & Botany

This inspired author of the definitive book on the soil foodweb, Teaming with Microbes, and a new work on plant nutrition, Teaming with Nutrients, delves deep into the subject of crop nutrition to the very heart of the cell. Learn how plants eat, gaining a glimpse of how plant cell function correlates to a convergence of truths about your farm, nature and the universe.

Jeff Lowenfels is a weekly columnist for the Anchorage Daily News. He is the founder of Plant a Row for the Hungry, a program that has created over 14 million meals to feed the hungry. A popular national garden writer and leading proponent of gardening using the concepts of the soil food web, Jeff is the former president of the Garden Writers of America and was made a GWA Fellow in 1999. In 2005, he was inducted into the Garden Writers of America Hall of Fame. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska. He is author of Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition and co-author of Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web.

Recorded at the 2014 Acres U.S.A. Conference, Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, December 6, 2014.