Great interaction between Christine and Ray. Good to hear Christine speak without looking on her watch to see how much time she has to say wat she wants to share with us! Great information how to react to climate change. Also solves the problems we have with Nitrogen in Holland. A shame that not many people are smart enough to understand this. And to practice this! Kind regards from a Dutch dairyfarmer.
Perhaps. The. Host. Can. Um. Stop. Um. Pausing. After. Um. Every. Um. Word. And perhaps organize his thoughts when introducing the speakers, or get someone who can form a real question without all the ums. Dr. Christine Jones and Ray Archuleta are some of my favorite speakers. Its quite a treat to have both on the same webinar.
So grateful my path and background is permaculture versus going to school for soil. Ray just needed to come across permaculture to understand holistic design and patterns in nature.
Such a great conversation. So much information and encouragement here. Great explanation about role of legumes, and why we should not have a high percentage in a mix. My intuition has been not to have too many legumes, Ray and Christine explain why that is so simply. Thanks so much to all involved in bringing this to us. 👏 👏 One question- as legumes do not fix nitrogen in cold soils is it ok to have more in winter cover crop mixes that will be terminated for early crops before the soil warms up?
I'm so excited about all of this information! Thank you for having it available to the public. There was something said at the end about human's carbon emissions being compared as minuscule to a volcano 'burp'. That isn't really the case. Human Activities release much more CO2 into the atmosphere on a regular basic than any known, singular, volcanic eruption. While there is currently debate in the scientific community that powerful eruptions in the past may have caused mass extinction events, current volcanic activity doesn’t even come close to adding up to CO2 emissions in the atmosphere because of humans. Every 2.5 hours, humans release approx. 10 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. While it’s true that one large volcanic event could do the same amount of damage in a relatively short time (9 hrs. for Mount St. Helens in 1980), eruptions like this are rare, while human emissions are happening 24/7 and consistently on the rise. In 2010, projected anthropogenic emissions were at 35-gigatons. This projection is about 80-270 times the amount more than the annual minimum and maximum global volcanic CO2 emissions. Earth and it's systems have been in equilibrium for a good long time, and there is no doubt at all, that even though carbon contributions from our actions may look small, it has thrown the systems off balance in an alarming way. But it's absolutely more complex than just carbon by itself, as was stated in the video. Perhaps they were only referring to emissions related to agriculture, in that case I apologize for the irrelevant outpouring of information above :) But great work and I am SOO excited for spring to arrive so I can begin utilizing diversity in the little corner of land I get to tend to.
An "ORGANIC" Ag Production certification *must* include Soil Regeneration. Many Organic practices damage soil (primarily Tillage used for weed control and aeration).
