Thank you for sharing this VALUABLE INFORMATION ((Now, to APPLY this to my own Lil Farm and its problem weed and erosion areas)) Thank you from this New Worm Farmer #Vermicomposting #RegenerationFarming
The fact that Gabe Brown has neibours who are fortunate enought to have him as a neibour and Gabe is more then will to work side by side with them and yet they look the other way, and keep signing the front of the checks, that just shows that no matter the evidence people still refuse to believe there is another way to farm.
Decade later and all these fukpotatos are still trying to blame fossil fuels for the massive harm industrial agriculture has done to billions of hectare of what used to be healthy thriving Rhizosphere. No one is listening because Industrial Agriculture cannot be accused of its crimes. The corporations running the industry would starve billions before they admit wrongdoing of any kind.
Wish we had videos of Joel going over his exact organic methods for PLANTS. I don't try to make a buck off of dead animals, both for spiritual/religious reasons and for health/nutrition reasons.
What religion? Christians and Jews are given dominion over livestock to eat. Genesis 9:3. Animal based nutrition is the most bioavailable nutrition for humans. Humans aren’t designed by our creator to metabolize vegetables efficiently.
Love the content. My only complaint is instead of showing the man and the stage and a tiny bit of the slide on the screen beside these man, show the screen and maybe part of the man!
I hope Bill Gates knows this stuff. He now owns the most farm land of anyone in the country. Hope he’s willing to study, understand, and choose to grow healthy soils. It does bother me that 1 man (or 1 corporation for that matter) can have control of enough crop land that they can manipulate the amount of food available to the world.
Water which is too pure has no fish. While thinking about this subject one day I wondered how Rufus meant "Even the dirt is clean." on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. 🤣
There is a myth that all souls are fertile and grow anything in the absence of humanity. This is not true. What is true is that humans are interested in improving the productivity of the soils in their care so they can grow anything. This requires learning, it requires mistakes. When we start to view the journey of agriculture as a dynamic interaction of ourselves with nature, we can stop blaming others for their journey and instead focus on how we ourselves can do better.
So how come the standard agriculture got it so wrong? Lots of the standard techniques are not that new. Soil tillage has been going on for millennia. Were people that stupid for that long to practice it? Or is there more to the story?
I'd love to know if when you speak of multi-species cover crops and keeping the armor on the soil at all times. Do you need to seed those acres each time or do you let those cover crops reseed themselves?
Dead soil ? This sounds like " Greg Judy " and his use of Glyphosates killing the soils! As a Peace Corps volunteer to Liberia Africa.........Ive seen what I thought were " dead " soils. In Liberia the locals are planting crops in soils like we have here....... the county gravel road ! Those soils were and are not dead ! Fact is....with good rainfall.......and warm temps........the soils will eat themselves alive ! So much soil activity theres nothing remaining for the plants to grow on ! There is no such thing as " organic " or " regenerative " soils ! Its called.... controlling how people " use " the land ! Not abuse the lands !
Ag bill ? I have no issue with any Ag bill.........but is the local public ready to pay the price for food ? With anything....there is reality. Most people have no idea where their food comes from. Be careful in micro-managing something that few know anything about ! That is reality that people dont know much about .
No-till has a become a religion, with a growing collection of blindly reiterated mantras. Mycorrhizae grow from a plant's roots in a symbiotic relationship. Once the plant dies, the roots die, and the mycorrhizae fibers die too. The mycorrhizae are still present in the soil, but must develop new capillaries from the new roots of a new plant. A plant cannot 'grow into' capillaries left by a previous plant's roots. It's actually odd to see farmers claiming that soil is better off untilled. People broke their backs for millennia to till their (living) soil, because the advantages were (and remain) plainly obvious. Tilling particularly benefits the microbial life in the soil. In a commercial setup, you might handle thousands of very large pots, so you'd naturally prefer to avoid tilling that soil whenever you can, but a home-grower can casually till a few hundred liters of soil in twenty minutes. Living soil has many benefits, but tilling that soil only improves it further.
I've listened to not only Gabe Brown but also Elaine Ingram and others. I've implemented these practices to the extent I can and gave found them effective. You are defending tilling etc and its killing our planet. I am suspicious...
When you refer to " tillage " be careful .......the wind itself tills the soils. Water tills the soils. Modern man tills the soils when planting with a *say* corn planter. There are disc openers on that planter. That is tillage ! Basic fact is......there is no such thing as " no till " !
cooler your climate is the better this works.... dont think you can have much improvement on georgia sands without laying the urea to it, No way you can get 5% organic matter on soils that naturally have 2 without inputs. prove me wrong on that one and tell me how you did it.
Fantastic speaker, so glad I found this. I just watched another video the other day that spoke about less plants, wider apart to help with moisture and I kept thinking, this is so wrong. Looking forward to starting my fields off right.
I'm having a go at growing veg in my backyard that was formally something that would be a code violation in the U.S. I've dug the soil to remove bindweed and brambles and nettles making raised beds then reading the backs of all the seed packs following the long convoluted slowing, potting on, planting. And then I thought how would nature deal with this? So my plan from now on it cultivated wildness... I want to get to a place I'm not importing soil improvers other than seeds. My food waste is so low composting is done by digging a hole next to greedy plants. I was out watering the ground with tap water and thought this can't be good for soil health, I'm pouring chlorine over my soil. So watching things like this further add to my understanding. I'm a novice but very keen to transform my small patch of land to do my bit. I'm also hoping to use it as an example of how things can be even in an urban environment.
I was with the second dude up to the point of discussing food desserts and solving poverty by getting poor people to grow and sell food in vacant lots. The problem with this is that poor people 1.) don’t have the time it would take to grow and sell food due to capitalistic demands for wage labor to survive and 2.) due to private property, don’t have the rights to the lot.
