"Lab tests showed that the Murchison meteorite is surprisingly rich in organic matter and contains several dozen amino acids, all of which are the building blocks for terrestrial organisms."
"Organic materials are basically anything that allows light to pass through it."
"It's party time for the worms because they've got so much organic matter to incorporate to make soil."
"There's certainly fair room for uncertainty here, but even within the range of uncertainty, there looks like there was a huge amount of organic matter on the early Earth."
"...if this is a treasure hunt for potential signs of life on another planet, organic matter is a clue."
"The real solution is to increase the level of organic matter."
"You can get almost all the benefits of biochar by using organic matter, particularly compost."
"Lomi is a revolutionary new appliance that converts my family's food waste into rich organic matter."
"And those microorganisms need a little bit of help. You've got to get organic matter back into the soil at least 3%. If you don't have at least 3% organic matter in your soil, the microorganisms can't work for you year round."
"Compost, compost, compost. Lots of organic matter, that is so important."
"Definitive evidence of organic matter on the surface of Mars."
"If you're in Canada or North Dakota, you're gonna have a lot more organic matter."
"If you think about a prairie soil in its natural state you would have some organic matter breaking down in there."
"Farmers are increasing organic matter, potentially reducing CO2 levels significantly."
"It can be a great way to not only establish organic matter for your garden but also to maintain it over time and suppress weeds."
"Redwood or cedar sawdust takes forever to break down, so I would stay away from it in your compost."
"So we combine that with huma char which is carbon and humic acid and this is all i'm putting on my lawn for organic matter it's so nice you just put it out it's a great distribution."
"You're just changing the organic matter and the nutrients that are in the soil that can be used by those plants."
"A one percent increase in organic matter... you'll get to hold 27,000 gallons more water."
"Sorghum... great organic matter Builder."
"Leaves are an amazing source of organic matter to work into your soil when you're starting a new garden."
"Once you get into soil, you increase through the course of succession the percentage volume or weight of your soil becomes more and more biology, more organic matter."
"...the long-term benefits associated with using our carbon-based fertilizers are that the soil organic matter increases overall."
"Mulch suppresses weeds, provides a blanketing effect, an insulating effect, keeps the soil up to about 10 degrees cooler, and as it breaks down, it puts organic matter, carbon into the soil."
"One of the best things you can incorporate into your soil would be shredded leaves mixed with manure or leaf mold."
"Marine snow is all the organic waste of the decaying plankton, the fish, anything that dies settles down to the bottom of the ocean."
"Inside of what that was called plants, those are called organic debris, but inside of that, it's the same atoms that we make up fossil fuels."
"Once you get over four percent organic matter, the soil begins to behave differently, it changes, it becomes softer and easier to work, it becomes very forgiving."
"The quantity of organic matter that is built from a cover crop or from crop residue has nothing to do with the amount of crop residue or cover crop that is there, it has everything to do with the fat content of those plants."
"If you're constantly growing this permanent perennial understory set of plants, they're putting back into the soil all of those organic matter that your plants are going to need."
"Organic matter could have been brought to Earth by comets since it has been found on several of them."
"Organic matter is a clue, and we're getting stronger and stronger clues as we're moving through our delta campaign."
"That's how you start to expand your soil, is by adding roots and you start to add that organic matter."
"That's what makes good soil is the organic matter."
"Most of our organic matter comes from the roots."
"It's possible to add more and more organic matter there and it is possible to manipulate the system to do that."
"Soil that has, let's say, five, six percent organic matter can produce 200, 300 bushel corn."
"What really makes soil, uh what it is, is that other you know four to five percent... organic matter."
"Life on Mars? A new study published in the journal Science shows definitive evidence of organic matter on the surface of Mars."
"Combustion is where organic matter burns in the presence of oxygen and releases carbon dioxide."
"The fundamental importance of organic matter content of soils for both natural ecosystem functions and for agricultural system functions is paramount."
"The fates of these two seemingly very different environments are closely bound by a thousand-year-old cycle of organic matter."
"Adding organic matter to clay soils can help with drainage issues, compaction issues, and soil crusting issues."
"Soil organic matter is an important source of nutrient reserves."
"Adding compost, whether it's leaves or other types of compost, really makes a difference in your garden."