What an exceptional story, and an incredible Australian Jeff is - wonderfully told and produced you two. As an aerospace engineer I usually couldn't imagine anything worse than being subject to a show like landline or other agriculture content in any other platform :P , I've stayed with you guys since sailing and this may be the single best episode you've released (for me at least) - something very special listening to an individual that is so intelligent, experienced and has the kind of values and ethics of Jeff in a field you're total unfamilar with - very humbling, as learning often is. Thanks again :)
Thanks for this wonderful piece featuring the tireless work of Michelle and Jeff and the Southampton Homestead and Farm family! Sláinte! Darren J. Doherty CPAg AIA, Regrarians Ltd.
Amazing to see how interconnected your passions could be... When the people you follow, allthough from different fields, suddenly cross paths. Awesome to see Darren Doherty commenting on your videos and see the likes of @regenerativeagriculture going the other way round. Having worked in agriculture he is feeling kind of burned out and shifted his interests more onto family and outdoor activities like fishing, boating etc... I really love the passion you have for nature and ecosystems and how you are able to spread it through your videos... I imagine it was a big step to jump from sailing to land based "free range living", but I could already see from the way you fished and gathered food from the ocean and some of your own comments, that you would be great land stewards and of course would continue to put out interesting content!! That are the "youtubers" I want so see. Top stuff!!
Wow, that was so interesting. It all made so much sense. I'd love to try one of his chooks against a standard shop bought chicken. Keep up the good work guys👍 SV Kiwi Lady Opua Bay of islands New Zealand 👍🏿
I'll be honest I drifted away after the sailing stopped, I'm a sailor at heart not a farmer - but in the last month have really dived back deep into your new life and have loved it. You guys are inspiring and have lit up my mind as to what other ways of doing things are out there. I struggle to grow a basil plant but you guys might have got me hooked. And this holistic approach to farming is something I didn't know I actually craved to see - till I saw it. Well done.
Welcome back! Our episode featuring the construction of our no-dig bed will have you up to your ears in basil if you decide to follow that old method we cover.
Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this content. So important to be aware of our food production, best practices as well as nutrition for the animals and ourselves. Done well its the perfect cycle. As always, I admire your research! Be well.
I remember when a chicken was a special dish that you had only occasionally, like say, a roast on a Sunday. Now you can have it anytime during the week by going to a drive thru. There’s a price to pay for that, it’s just not reflected in our wallets…
Thankyou so much for such an informative and inspiring look at what is starting to happen 'in our own backyard' regarding regenerative farming... something we desperately need. I watch all of your videos, as I did back when you were sailing, just don't get to comment very often. Your sailing videos in particular provided me with something you may not have imagined. Life and my circumstances had crushed me. Complications from the disabilities I experience, broke me - physically, mentally, 'spiritually', socially, financially. I was barely clinging to life - I'm not being hyperbolic - and to survive, I watched your videos as a way to 'give me time out' from how bad things were, when I had little or no strength to do anything but very small bite size chunks of 'fixing things' for myself. This continued as you moved to the farm and for a while things started to get a bit better for me, little by little. You inspired me to first attempt to grow some garlic on my small balcony of my inner city flat and then chillies and now some spinach. And unexpectedly, things got a whole lot worse again. I HAVE A GENUINE QUESTION for you, that this video inspired. So... we know we quite literally are what we eat and we now know really starkly that what became of our agricultural and food industries has made a lot of people very sick... not just physically, but mentally too. I became one of those people and now with the help of the NDIS I'm trying to fix my health from what I eat, 'upwards'. People like yourselves and the remarkable people in this video have the agency, opportunity and abilities to fix your own food supply and maybe that of some people close to you. This isn't possible for many people, particularly those really struggling 'at the bottom'. I know this because of my circumstances and because of what I've come to know is the case for many people like myself. There just is not an extra $5 in the budget to buy that really good quality, healthily produced food. And that is with squeezing every possible cent, not buy unnecessary crap etc. YES, A LONG WINDED WAY TO GET TO ASK THE QUESTION... I KNOW 😆... I do everything I can to read and watch the best information available, what real science tells us about what we consume and how that impacts us and slowly slowly have adapted my diet as much as I can so far, but to be able to afford the kind of quality of food, particularly the protein, is mostly out of reach. So the question is... Are you, can you, as a collective of the new generation of inspiring farmers, bringing health back to the way we live, set aside, even a small amount of what you produce, collectively, and donate, give it to people, families, particularly those with complex health issues, to help them on their journeys to also getting healthy? Maybe you do this already, I don't know. I'm not asking for this for myself, it's about sewing a seed, towards ensuring as people more and more turn to regenerating the 'whole', all of us, we don't forget about those on the lowest rungs. The small changes I've been able to make to my diet so far, within my means, is helping. I no longer eat any hyper-processed junk (I refuse to call it food anymore, it just isn't). For me, eliminating things like sugar and even flour, those nasty seed oils, is making a difference to my mental health. My 85yo Mum, also... has been able to completely stall her macular degeneration FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS... completely stop it in its tracks, by the simple changes she made to her diet, herself on a very limited income. I hope/trust this comes across as I intended - to inspire those who can, in this space, to consider what each can do to support, with healthy food, those who can't. I thought about it a lot last night, wasn't sure if I should/could, but here I am. You are good people. I love your channel. Thankyou.
Thank you and I'm glad we are able to make things a little sunnier in your corner of the world. With regards the small producers in the regen space, a lot of them are very tight financially and try to aid their communities by offering employment where there was none before and giving free training to volunteers. There isn't much wiggle room at their strata to give away much of their production because the margins are so tight already and their working days usually exceed 12 hours, 6-7 days a week. They are at the bleeding edge of trying to open the market and battle with large entrenched interests. Many burn out and fall by the wayside. In the middle, the distribution sector, is where there is more profit being made and the infrastructure to deliver goods is already in place. I think that is where your idea is better aimed, because it is there, and at the point of sale, that there is the most margin, but also the most food wasted that could be used.
Heard a disturbing story recently. A friend’s neighbour rang a well known insurance company to enquire about farm insurance, as soon as she mentioned the regen word the insurers said they couldn’t insure her and cut the call off. Has anyone else had an experience like this?
Great Video. (I was initially confused when I read the title and was thinking "why the hell have Troy and Pascal done a film about Joseph Stalin's footsteps ?" - bloody dyslexia) ... The only thing that was not clear was the bit about the rules that apply to farmers.. like do we need to have rule changes in Australia to make the place be able to sustain itself for longer? I assume that it would be politically difficult to require major food producers to show how and where the food they are selling spent its life (like Jeff is able to do) as that would be costly... and no one wants to pay more for their food - therefore = less votes.. (as a side thought to that, I have sometimes wondered why here it seems that Environmental political parties seem to get more votes in the Cities than in the Rural areas.) What would be great Troy would be if you could throw the drone up in the air in a years (or whatever) time from now to show what that pasture that the chicken tractors were on looks like then (cos.. she seemed pretty dry and dusty right after the Chickens went over it) I live in a city (Sydney) and, like most, don't think twice about where my food comes from, or the effect on the natural environment (or the farmer her/himself) the production of that food may have .. your excellent video has at least made me think a little bit this morning. Cheers. Pots.
Stalin style chicken! Summer is very hard here, but I think you can see in the video how it went from fallen pine and bramble to a productive small farm. Jeff took us for a walk and we did see that a few tiny springs are reappearing there, which indicates the soil is starting to hold moisture again. With regards political involvement, I think a little less might be the answer. Roll back some of the more onerous regulations and allow small distributed markets to develop locally. That way, pollies don't have to carry the can for it, though bureaucrats are always loath to have less bureaucracy!
@@FreeRangeLiving aye.. tend to agree that less rules are often better .. I had never even heard the term "Broiler Farm" before I worked in Local Government, and there seemed to be chicken shedloads of rules about those.
What do they do with all the feathers, internals, feet, heads, etc? Where's all the required water for processing & cleaning come from? The cattle get processed? Old horses don't look like riders, other than manure (which comes from edible cattle) what's their purpose?
Process waste is combined with the wood waste from a local pallet manufacturer and composted, before being used in tree rows. The water is from an on farm spring fed dam. Some cows go to farm food, some are exchanged and some are sold to other small holdings. The horses are manure and as a back-up farm machinery. There are horse drawn implements there should they be required. (Let's hope not)
