NO TILL FARM Pioneers How To GROW Great Food Sustainably

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This organic farmer knows how to grow great food sustainably. Nick runs an incredible permaculture farm and this film is a short masterclass on how to grow healthy, amazing, great food sustainably. Nick has figured out a way of farming that is both intensive AND ecological at the same time using techniques that have been passed down over centuries all the while implementing cutting-edge scientific knowledge. His farm - Mochizuki Permaculture Farm in Nagano, Japan - is the future of farming.
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@williammcduff6531 2 года назад

Great video it's amazing how much we can grow just by cooperating with nature instead of fighting it.

@Th4thWiseman 2 года назад

Never fight nature,it always wins!

@Valchrist1313 2 года назад

@@Th4thWiseman Nice platititude. But airplanes are a thing. And generally, they win. If what you said made any sense at all, there wouldn't be ecological problem of the sort you'd be primed to rage about after watching another sort of video...

@Valchrist1313 2 года назад

@Zechariah Ahl If nature was winning so hard, there wouldn't be artificial ecological problems of the sort you'd be pontificating on if the video had played scary music and warned of impending doom.

@itzakpoelzig330 Год назад

Nature will still be here doing her thing millions of years after we are gone.

@bvegannow1936 Год назад

Growing what thrives in your area with little to no maintenance or watering. Look into what natives grew in your area and wild edibles. Auto watering/irrigation. Rain collection. Food forest. Dwarf food trees. Copy nature. Variety.

@bobdebouwer7835 Год назад

Some people talk total BS, some people mix some wisdom with some BS. But this man is talking true words like a nailgun

@ThrivingwithNature 2 года назад

Nick is an inspiration! My farm is on the way but long way to go! I'm sharing my journey, slowly slowly like nature, I will get there eventually! Thanks for sharing his farm and his story!

@123jeffries123 2 года назад

How cool i was volunteering in nagano at a farm for 3 months this is like a dream to me i wanna achieve one day

@Welonka7 Год назад

Did you volunteer in that farm?

@charlesmckinley29 Год назад

Start where you are and build up. He is a smart man.

@iancsb1 2 года назад

that valley is ideal, hard to miss in a situation like that. Beautiful spot

@MorgsBrew 2 года назад

Great set up. This guy is the market gardener you have never heard of.

@pierrrejette9023 Год назад

I remember the farmers rotating their crops in the early 1960’. Great video. Awesome farmer.

@surferdude-ll2qu 2 года назад

Great presentation! We need more of this gardening methods the natural way let nature do the work. Spread the message 👍🏻

@ioannissamaras1542 Год назад

The man is a legend...well done

@patriciaserdahl5577 Год назад

Fabulous video loved his gardens and natural way of growing 💙 😊

@TimSlee1 Год назад

Another major drawback of modern farming is that seed distributors create seeds which grow into plants that cannot create their own seeds so farmers have to keep going back to the distributors after each harvest cycle.

@mysterioanonymous3206 Год назад

Indeed. They also licence specific cultivars so even if you get one to germinate or get a cut to sprout you could be sued. One farmers neighbor used such a plant and it somehow got into this guy's field, unknowingly, and yes, he in fact did get sued by that agrocorp. Don't know what happened though but we already know everything we have to just from that fact...

@TimSlee1 Год назад

@@mysterioanonymous3206 That makes more sense.

@stevehatcher7700 Год назад

As a farmer I'm happy to pay seed breeders/growers to do all that work for me. For the most part. Some varieties, I keep seed, most of the higher production stuff though, I'll buy seed year after year.

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

I’ve grown only heirlooms for years and save my own seeds. I always have about a thousand times more seeds than I need and love sharing with locals who don’t have the money to buy seeds

@peterbrooks9984 Год назад

Very labour intensive.

@maryonborsetta112 2 года назад

That was an amazing documentary. Thanks for sharing the knowledge and your experiences.

@karimanoori4008 2 года назад

Hello from Australia I really like your video

@dragoninwinter Год назад

He's living my dream.

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

Me too. How do you deal with the ENVY?!?

@invadercem2 Год назад

I’m inspired. Thank you.

@jannisbille5161 2 года назад

Great video Jakob! Nick's farm is a great inspiration.

@GrowingSmall 2 года назад

Arigatou :)

@makermarx 2 года назад

Almost done securing the land. Going to implement as much as possible. Beautiful.

@18Bees 2 года назад

Wow I could have watched a full hour of farming like our forefathers.

@tomt637 2 года назад

This is such a fantastic farm and ecosystem however purslane is no survival crop it's one of the best tasting and textured weeds you can have in a salad and so productive haha

@tomt637 2 года назад

@Zechariah Ahl the definition of a survival crop is it's always there for you when other things won't be because usually there is far better options. What I'm saying is it's not the worse option it tastes great, has an amazing texture and grows well, therefore it's a maincrop salad to me. B vitamins however good they are nothing to do with whether or not it's a survival crop

@jackmccann1291 2 года назад

@@tomt637 "Survival crop" be interpreted as something you could survive on

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

Half of my freezer this winter was filled with purslane. Dang, I love that stuff!

@tomt637 Год назад

@@luvluvluvluvcats how does it fare frozen, I had not tried due to how succulent the leaves are. And does that mean your cooking it on the way out the freezer?

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

@@tomt637 it is like frozen okra. I knew it would be that way so I froze it only to use in soups. Specifically for making them thicken.

@davebeech236 2 года назад

Fascinating! I'm just curious how a Scot ended up as an organic farmer in Japan! Looks idyllic.

@magesalmanac6424 Год назад

From what I understand a lot of farms in Japan can be bought for cheap, as many have moved to urban centers for work and don’t want to inherit the family farm.

@ruhied957 Год назад

Italy Spain are also paying to repopulate their country side...😮

@tyrabjurman3584 Год назад

@@magesalmanac6424 Even if the farm can be bought cheap. Immigration to Japan can only be done in certain very specific ways. How he obtained residence is what interests me.

@cristianbutcovich8057 8 месяцев назад

That is partially correct. In Italy, properties have gone through the roof. What you are referring to is abandoned villages and hamlets that have been abandoned, but you will be living in a town, not in the countryside. Keep in mind that remodeling rules and regulations in Italy are very difficult to navigate and quite restrictive so it is not that simple.@@ruhied957

@noneedtoknow2870 2 года назад

All else aside, what a fantastic beautiful place to spend your time!

@brianlawl 2 года назад

Most big farms in the US where bought out and told what to grow. I agree we need more smaller farms all over.

@jhessyemoore-thomas4082 2 года назад

Great film. Thanks for sharing Nick's story.

@daichimax Год назад

So Great to see another "がいじん" farmer!!! 👍👍👍👍👍 & Subscribed!!!

@z3pHyRx3 2 года назад

Very interesting. A well managed farm, good to see and to learn from.

@bvegannow1936 Год назад

Auto watering/irrigation. Rain collection. Food forest. Dwarf food trees. U can look into what natives grew in your area, wild edibles, and what will grow well in your area with little maintenance, such as food trees

@tanarehbein7768 2 года назад

Thanks! Love seeing people around the world improve our world.

@GrowingSmall 2 года назад

Thank you so much, Tana, really appreciate your support!!!

@joyridesham Год назад

That drone shot looks like paradise, the trees, then the decked land

@68greg19 Год назад

this is NOT permaculture at all or in any way, this IS ecological farming....very nice too !

@calebfuller4713 Год назад

How is it not permaculture?

@nategalvan3907 Год назад

@Caleb Fuller maybe because it's crop rotation? I'm just guessing

@iansingsiansings2101 2 года назад

Growing Small, thank you for what you do...

@GrowingSmall 2 года назад

Thank you for your supportive comment, really appreciate it :)

@van_demonium Год назад

Reminds me of my grandparents. Everything plays multiple rolls in a natural system.

@kelliott7864 2 года назад

Yep, he's the real deal.

@manuelrojas4483 2 года назад

Saludos desde Tenerife !! Gran Canal 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻🐞👏👏🥕🌿🌸🐝🥬🥦

@GrowingSmall 2 года назад

Gracias Manuel, me hace feliz leer tus palabras y emojis tan positivos.

@wesh388 2 года назад

Wow, great video! Absolutely packed with info

@hOurworld11 2 года назад

Thankyou for the video, it is reassuring to know we are perfectly capable.

@sprshedina Год назад

I am new subscriber and I subscribed because I was sold once he used the word "irregardless"! :) love it! Love this channel!

@GrowingSmall Год назад

Thanks for subbing! Great to hear you're digging the videos!

@lonew2657 2 года назад

Thanks for showing me something that works .... in Japan.

@musamusashi 2 года назад

Very inspiring, great farm!

@reidbrown8392 2 года назад

Great video! Thanks for sharing this with us

@erincarr9411 2 года назад

He is the real deal

@JB-yg3ew Год назад

That's amazing. Please do a 3hr special version

@eylonemuskson4177 2 года назад

Got some land in Ibaraki prefecture that I'm not making use of, so this is fantastic to see!! It's inspiring me to drive up there this weekend!

@theamazingmg6947 2 года назад

Wow, wow,,great job doing farming my dear friend ❤

@imornie Год назад

I remembered my grandpa growing different kinds of fruits like pineapple and bananas in a slope land like this with flowing water. We basically have fresh fruits and vegies all year round and never saw him purchase any fertilizer and used stuff in nature like bat dung from caves instead. Hopefully I can save enough money in the future to live in a place like this too. What a great video.

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

I hauled bucketloads of guano from a barn attic a few years ago and wow, I’ve never had such a productive garden!!

@askaboutRudyV 2 года назад

This is AMAZIN'.

@asanoen1777 2 года назад

Great ecosystem that you have created in this video...

@internet_internet 2 года назад

Love it.

@cinzafenix08 2 года назад

Cheers from portugal

@fredsnyder3063 Год назад

🌞 thank you for being a Teacher

@Kevin-Cruz 2 года назад

Beautiful video as always man! Keep up the good work!

@GrowingSmall 2 года назад

Thanks a ton! And special shout out to my Patreon squad :)

@ThatBritishHomestead Год назад

i have started my gardening life with no till years ago and over the years and years you really see the difference. and the improvement to the soil structure and water retention, ect

@kevinmartin6679 Год назад

That was a great video!!

@KyleHolzhueter 2 года назад

Another great film❣

@Mr10damers 2 года назад

Thanks.... Great video

@calebsytsma9222 2 года назад

I'm curious about the effects of the black plastic on the soil- I was taught to do that as a method of killing everything (microbes and bugs included), since it subjects the bed to very high heat under sunlight. Is it just cool enough in Japan to not have that effect, or does he depend on the surrounding ecosystem restoring those small plots each time he takes the plastic off?

@whatifitnt 2 года назад

I'm wondering if growing grasses to make mats to cover, knock down cover crops that need to be processed...? It could be a business for locals, also...?

@cannabinerd9665 2 года назад

He stated that he does it when it's cold out in Feb-March. If it's cool enough for mice and snakes to inhabit, as he states in the video, it's cool enough not to kill your soil biology, while still being warm enough to get your weed seed to germinate and die.

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

I’m curious about plastic in general. Is he not allowing the stuff to slowly degrade (can’t stop that…) and soil will be full of micro plastic?

@nickp5093 Год назад

A terrific explanation of how it all works. Good on you. Agriculture using intelligence, observation, natural processes. There's still a future, and its more interesting than the past.

@arasolisfolkcelta8929 2 года назад

Portulaca can be eaten, especially in salads

@scox7748 Год назад

Id never considered being a farmer until this. More of an ecologist or a landscaper but this is all of it in a productive piece of land

@paraxuas Год назад

Thank you!!!!

@jeremy6752 2 года назад

Your videos are soooo interesting!!! Farming with no oil si definitely the future :)

@MrBottlecapBill 2 года назад

Nope. Not unless you replace the oil with something just as powerful. Too many people on earth, too many mouths to feed.

@jeremy6752 2 года назад

@@MrBottlecapBill Yeah, totally agree that people will die. Only those who can provide for themselves (or small communities) will make it because no more oil will not be a choice.

@alex.velasco Год назад

@@MrBottlecapBill How about fusion power… from the sun? There is more than we will ever need. Problem solved.

@alex.velasco Год назад

@@jeremy6752 You sound like one of those Yank survivalists, who spend their lives wishing for armageddon, and hoping to save their own shiny white asses.

@MrBottlecapBill Год назад

@@alex.velasco sadly the about of that power you can capture compared to the recourses deemed to capture it is a reality you have to contend with. Solar power is very low yield. A fusion reactor,.....that's not the same thing.

@DonJulioize 2 года назад

thank you for this video

@SuerteDelMolinoFarm Год назад

Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain

@TheCompleteGuitarist 2 года назад

I love the idea and I do organic in my small experimental garden, but much gets eaten by birds, ants, possums, locusts, snail and other stuff before I get my share. I haven't had a pear or peach in five years despite and abundance.

@backyardfarmingsupply 2 года назад

That's a lot of great info! 🌱

@shephusted2714 2 года назад

solid content

@gergosnoo 2 года назад

How can you become a farmer in Japan?

@michaelrosner8868 Год назад

What a great inspiration and motivation. Local production is best!

@turamagmz5118 Год назад

Great content, this is what sustainability means in agriculture.

@aryanoffmind7408 Год назад

Main source of energy for every living being.❤

@assissi22 2 года назад

I love this!

@here2offend Год назад

Wow!! I want one

@leonstenutz6003 2 года назад

Wunderschön, lovely... ¡gracias!

@idabergmann5270 Год назад

wow, i love it! thanks for sharing. 💚💚💚

@internal1000 Год назад

Awesome man

@user-px2sn8pr5t 2 года назад

woven ground cover allows water not light to pass. if the land is wet the mice cant burrow.

@gilshelley9183 2 года назад

My forefathers had trouble finding tarps.

@therickat 2 года назад

Excellent content!

@bomenhof 2 года назад

Really like the farm you have set up! Very resilient and healthy! One question: were did you get the hoop houses or who is the supplier, the look stunning and old fashioned in a positive way!

@jeromeclaessen3921 2 года назад

This was disappointing. Talking about the short duration and not the quality, that was great! 😁

@bvegannow1936 Год назад

Auto watering/irrigation. Rain collection. Food forest. Dwarf food trees.

@低炭素暮らし 2 года назад

Thank you for this nice interesting and crucial share.

@teagoldleaf4137 Год назад

I learned a lot from this gentleman. Organic farming is cheaper than conventional farming, but organic farming does not get the welfare cheques that the chemical corporations. And "conventional "/chemical farming degrades and depletes the soil. I wish governments would also give organic farmers subsidies as well. Subscribed 🌷

@dmillan30 Год назад

awesome ... great video

@danielaterrile4753 Год назад

Dear nick, y are a héros 😮

@timoloef 2 года назад

impressive

@FunkyKiwi7 Год назад

Lovely. Definitely inspirational.

@rashakor 2 года назад

Very nice video with a good message. Just one complaint; whoever thought it is a good idea to label this “hacking” nature has very little understanding of permaculture or modern agriculture for that matter.

@carsonrush3352 2 года назад

Here's the question that digs at me about organic gardening. If I'm trying to a run a "closed-loop system", like mentioned in the video, then how do I account for the nutrients that leave the farm when I sell crops or give away food? That's the part the prevents it from being a "closed-loop" system. Farming, by its nature, can't be closed-loop. How do you replenish the soil then? Or am I just using the plants to perpetually dig further down into the ground to access more sulfur and phosphorus? How do I replenish the atoms of micronutrients?

@giancolabird 2 года назад

He mentioned putting his green fertilizer and chicken coop bedding on his gardens. His way of farming encourages worms to bring nutrients and castings into the soil. That is what I understood him to say. He also companion plants.

@johnowens5342 2 года назад

Nutrients wash down from mountains and hills. If you control water flow and slow it enough then then water brings nutrients instead of taking top soil. Mycelium and bacteria brake down rocks and dead organics releasing nutrients but this is a slow process.

@madeirafonseca6383 2 года назад

No one has to add nutrients to the forest; that's the system he's trying to mimic. There's an excellent video called "Back to Eden" that's about farming like a forest techniques of Paul Gautschi, and it seems to work amazingly.

@calebfuller4713 Год назад

It's actually better to take advantage of the waste products of other places that would otherwise become pollutants. My local recycling centre gives away free woodchips. Dairy farms will probably be happy if you take away their manure. Even things as simple as pressing seeds for oil produces fine-crushed seed dust as waste, which is actually an excellent fertilizer. Rather than making on farm or property a closed loop, we really should be focused on making the society as a whole a closed loop so there is a minimum of waste and pollution.

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

Free wood chips brought some really nasty diseases to my gardens. I don’t use them any longer. And the farm animals these days are so loaded with meds that I don’t want it in my garden via manure. I’ve had hypodermic needles show up in the truckload of manure

@kronk2990 Год назад

This is the way.

@nanwuamitofo 2 года назад

The ending was a bit sudden. But great video, informative and inspiring!

@stephenrobb8759 Год назад

To do the job of the black plastic tarps without plastic? Wood panels . As sheets such as plywood or built like doors. Or use metal roofing/siding.

@furrycircuitry2378 Год назад

Cardboard also does the same

@SanPendro Год назад

I love it!

@PolishBehemoth 2 года назад

"The moan-tins supply organic water"... hehe i love that thick limey accent

@joshschannel5654 2 года назад

Great video

@koza7676 Год назад

Pretty cool. Very interested. Just wondering how much food does that farm produce?

@remoconan8720 Год назад

You should really look at marketing that purslane it is unequivocally the tastiest weed I have so far found out on my garden; it has a lemon tanginess that goes great with anything, think banchan and gochujang with sesame oil then mix the steamed/ fried purslane with some sweated onions or eschallots - aufregend lecker!

@luvluvluvluvcats Год назад

It is so labor intensive though. From harvest to plucking all those tiny leaves off the stem. Probably not feasible for bulk sales.

@cristianbutcovich8057 Год назад

Very nice video and Nick really talks properly about what he is ding so it is understandable and easy to follow. I hope one day soon to be able to acquire a piece of land and start a regenerative agriculture project based on permaculture principles and systems. I am saying I hope to get the land because it is not easy to buy and also invest more money into the project if you are alone and the gov systems (banks etc) have so many rules and regulation that makes it really hard to get going. Thank you for sharing those stories and also thank you Nick for also sharing your journey and beautiful property.