I don't understand how I keep missing these live. I'm a part of the NM HSWG and signed up for the newsletter. But do not get any emails to attend live.
I would love to meet James Skeet. I started my Life's Work on Soil Health in 1968 when I won the State of New Mexico 4-H Soil Judging contest, and started my soil health molecular biology company in 1981 as a division of Corpra-Fit, a human wellness company.
People like Gabe Brown, and Greg Judy come to mind. But regardless of the who, the goal is the same, and provably more efficient when applying these practices of applying 'fungal dominant' compost to the soil. What's a blueprint for fixing the most damage done by modern agricultural practice? What's the blueprint for sequestering the most carbon and having the greatest impact possible? It's fairly simple. - Apply the fungal dominant compost. - Utilize high density native cover crops. - Bring it all home by implementing high density mob grazing via ruminant animal species - Near zero fertilizers needed - Near zero pesticides needed - No dewormers, no antibiotics, NO BIG AG NEEDED When done properly, this is a guaranteed method to quickly restore topsoil with previously unknown rapidity and efficiency, create incredible water retention levels for said topsoil, sequester huge amounts of carbon, and most importantly, break the reliance on the species suicide methods of agriculture that we currently rely on.
If only the EPA, DoEd, FDA, and a myriad of other reckless gov agencies weren't so nefarious and incompetent. Perhaps then, a synergistic and properly funded approach to applying these methods would have the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural impacts, at scale, that they really should. There's still hope. Thanks for the work you do!
10:25 - An important and critical variable to note that was left out is that Johnson-Su composting is a vermiculture dependent composting system that will not work otherwise. Johnson-Su Composting: - Requires vermiculture - Must never be exposed to freezing temps - Must never dry out - Is static - Is aerobic - Creates superior fungal dominant compost - Though brown leaves are best, a number of different substrates can be used, and are still being experimented on.
Thank you for doing the research (showing the proof) for Regenerative Farming Thanks again from this new Worm Farmer.... literally Saving The Soil is Saving The World. So excited about applying all im learning with Worm Vermicompost to change ("feed") a Desert field (erosion, compaction, weed infested) to beautiful lush "valley" meadow with a Winter Cover Crop, homemade BioChar, Worm Vermicompost ... so excited!!! Where's my boots, its time for Magic to happen Much support to ALL. Giving Farmers HOPE and the knowing that CHANGE is A GOOD THANG
It would be interesting if they could take it a step further and involve Middle Years or Senior Year schools by sending them samples from each bioreactor and asking students to analyze the material under a microscope say in a chemistry class and to provide a report of fungal quantities. Let's say at the 6-month mark and then again after 1 year point.
I am involved in an almost identical program involving 35 Denver Public Schools that have sustainable farming classes and garden beds. Could you send me contact information so that I can avoid problems with the Johnson Su Bioreactors that I plan to inject into the system? We also have a nonprofit We Don't Waste that picks up food from schools, restaurants, hotels, etc., and redistributes it in refrigerated trucks to the needy.
Your local Natural Resource Conservation Service rep will be able to advice. Find their contact info here www.nrcs.usda.gov/contact/find-a-service-center?state=35&county=029
Question, Where is the Las Cruces composting address. I'm a new elected supervisor DCSWCD Daniel Nelson. I would like to check out the facility. Thank you, Dan
It is easier to control a steady small stream of water from a hose with a regulator than to dump in milk during the grinding process. In addition, capturing the milk would be another level of transportation challenge that we aren't ready to tackle.
The City of Albuquerque's approved NMED registration application will be uploaded, when available, to this Google folder: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A283Ib8j9HHZrY8M9OlOUT2bsfcoGLNK?usp=sharing
ILSR course (great tool, and soon available in ESP): ilsr.org/community-composting-101-certificate-course/ They have scholarships available, and discounts for groups. Utilize ILSR’s resources: ilsr.org/composting/ ilsr.org/neighborhood-soil-rebuilders/ Also in ESP: ilsr.org/recursos-de-compostaje/ Google Folder with additional education examples/BMPs: drive.google.com/drive/folders/15gv7meTz316AW4yI95UOz3E0B9Y52-SQ?usp=sharing
Federal funding options that Sandra mentions www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/programs/hunger-food-security-programs/community-food-projects-competitive-grant-program-cfpcgp#opportunity and www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/programs/food-agriculture-service-learning-program
Goodness me! I have all of 1.25 acres up in El Cerro Mission. The previous owner scraped the land bare annually to kill goatheads. It didn’t work but it killed the soil. I have good geology but not soil. I want to build soil and I can’t get help. I’m old, disabled and want to make my property live again. I’m wanting to build soil! Can you help?
Poor cow forced to breed every year. Such a selfish act of humans. Rangelands are now being used as cows breeding ground to fulfill beef requirement. This is not natural way of ecosystem. No amount of management is going to stop range land degradation.
This lady is doing some fantastic work, it gives me joy and hope for the futur. I've long been convinced that humanity hasn't evolved but in fact devolved over these last 10-12k years. Technology alone is not an indicator of evolved civilisation, but conscious is. And higher conscious bring civilisation to adopt the just level of technology. Nations that see themselves as curators of the land and its full spectrum of life forms definitely have high conscious level in my opinion. I'm an European that is 300% convinced that humanity's futur is dependant on adopting Native wisdom (Turtle Island or other) and only retaining the technology that fits harmoniously into it's application.
indigenous people came over in waves... the earliest i believe is speculative but the movement seems to have begun around 32 thousand years ago by people wandering around Siberia... the Asian hunter gather is the culture that left Asia.... and they brought with them... that culture too... a belief... in a father... the ancestral hunter gatherer... was bout 64 thousand years ago... the European Hunter gatherer went West... the Asian Hunter gatherer went to the East... east and west hunter gatherers... _According to their analysis, Neanderthals contributed roughly 2% of their DNA to modern people outside Africa and half a percent to Denisovans, who contributed 0.2% of their DNA to Asian and Native American people._ i think the indigenous peoples of northern Europe and those of the Americas probably express our ancient hunter gatherer ways...
Great question. We've gotten smarter about that and now tie some string to the top of the tube to make it easier to wriggle them out. You can see photos on our instagram page.
Great video. Keep educating about increasing infiltration in the southwest. We tend to want to divert the runoff instead of considering how we might get it to stay put instead. We are grazing sheep on a small piece of land in the mountains outside Prescott, AZ and can’t learn enough about improving soil health.
Very Disappointing... no discussion of soil rehabilitation, our most pressing problem. There was also No "Soil Story" that was promised...just unproductive leftist self flagellation. We killed our soils with the Green Revolution...but we didn't know we were killing it. Now we do know it, and that's gotta get fixed. The landscapes are substantially drier (and therefore hotter) today *because* we have killed our soils (that's not in question)...not because atmospheric CO2 has risen (btw, that CO2 rise was supposed to increase humidity resulting in more warming from H2O greenhouse heat capture - it has NOT gotten more humid - instead, low clouds have steadily declined (CERES Satallites) enough to explain all the gradual warming that we are seeing (primarily from direct solar irradiation of the oceans from decreased albedo). More CO2 was released into the atmosphere the last 150 years from killing soil life than from all of our CO2 emissions the last 75 years. But now We MUST return 500-800 Gigatons of Carbon to Our Soils... bringing life back to our Soils...while more than offsetting all the CO2 Emissions that are so feared by Climate Alarmists. (See Dr. David Johnson @ NM State). Our soils cannot retain much of the water it does capture and it only captures an average 1/2" per hour instead of a more normal 10+" per hour possible when soil is healthy. THAT desiccation has changed the copland micro-climates dramatically...all over the world. "Normal" dead soil cropland is 10-20° F hotter than nearby cropland with healthy soil. CO2 CANNOT and DOES NOT do anything like that. Actual uncovered "dead soil" surface temperature reaches a microorganism-killing 150°... Compared to covered healthy soil that reaches only 75-90° in direct sun. Soil degradation is a far greater problem than CO2 emissions. We'll waste $20 Trillion to $50 Trillion (US Alone) to "fix" CO2 emissions... without fixing anything. CO2 emissions will still continue to rise..unless we fix our soils. Please look at the amount of soil retention of Carbon that is possible (Dr. JOHNSON)....then do the 4th grade math that shows SOIL CO2 SEQUESTRATION can outstrip CO2 Emissions - AS WE RESTORE Our Soils. WIN - WIN.
