Regenerative Farm in the High Desert growing trees and cows 

Bonjour. Comment s'appelle le fruit rouge au début de la vidéo à partir de la minute 0:26 ? merci

My grandmother was milking the cow at 5 am.

Thanks, that's good to know. Not anytime soon lol, but that will come in handy

That's very true. All the animals are the same.. a set routine, chooks come to the feed spot every time as long as it's the same time, as well a set sound or call. Great example, is the Japanese or Chinese chooks farmer, using a boom box to 'round up' or announce feed time (look it up XD ) there is also cow farmer found they would do the same.

Milking cows early probably had more to do with getting the milk out for the morning delivery. I remember my dad used to get up at like 2 or 3:00 when he worked in a dairy farm

​@danielthompson3205 for sure. just hearing the truck driving up the mesa, was their alarm. We always had a warm welcome waiting for us up top. 😅

What really prevents brush fires is grazing and browsing.

California has something to learn about managing the water from you

Seems like he damed the creek and just stole water from everyone down stream

God has always made the natural do what man mimics.

Yep.

Yeah, he did an it shows us what is possible l.

@@StefanoCreatini It shows that a lot more is possible when you have more knowledge and when you are able to apply the right strategy for the local conditions that you have. The biology of nature, the mechanism that makes things grow, is basically the same across the globe. The external factors decide if things will establish and go in succession or not. And when you apply the wrong external factors, or not enough or too much for your local conditions, things won't grow and flourish.

He must be completely happy, content and satisfied with himself

@@koka17It is always nice to see a good result after all the hard work. 👍

So lovely about the lover girl cow 😅

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Why all the disdain for people in government? They do jobs that are necessary to the common good as well.

@@clayoreilly4553 Sadly, there are many good civil servants, There is some good done, by some. But, If you pay school taxes or city taxes or state taxes and can't see the 10000-1 bad vs good deeds; you're not paying attention.

@@godbluffvdgg I suspect your ratio is the reverse of what it actually is. I do pay taxes and I really do enjoy driving my vehicles on paved roads. Our public schools were some of the best in the world - until politicians (mostly "conservatives") started messing with them and telling teachers how to teach. They'd not teach religious doctrine in the schools when I was growing up. If you would like to improve the quality of our public servants, it is incumbent on all of us to elect politicians (public servants, supposedly) who want to make things better, rather than to just tear everything down.

@@clayoreilly4553 You're understanding of reality is dubious at best...Public schools in this nation have been being destroyed for decades; I imagine you haven't read Charlotte Iserbyt's book; "The deliberate dumbing down of America"...But, she was only deputy secretary of education during the Reagan administration... You obviously don't understand the purposes CRT, and hundreds of other nefarious programs.. If you still believe voting has merit; you're deliberately delusional...Smarten up ...I bet you believe in global warming too! tsk tsk tsk...Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, 1991: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill (this is absolute proof that man made global warming is a fabrication)…. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”

Tired of self-government? Yield your power to an authoritarian. Otherwise, focus your power to maintain & improve our bold experiment. Maybe rebalance energy expended to maintain biases to positivism?

That's how it's supposed to be. Happy cows, rich milk.

Sweetest little cows, aren't they?. When I was a child, my cousins milked a small herd of Jerseys, and they were basically like a pack of sweet smelling big doggos. You would walk into the paddock when they were full of grass, and they would come up and surround you, wanting pats and scritiches.

I read that people who are dairy intolerant can often drink milk from Jersey cows.

@@Eurydice870A2 milk in the grocery stores now. The protein in the milk is easier to break down for some people’s digestion.

We had one in Fiji way back decades ago. She was so gentle and smart. We loved her and she loved on us. We were very sad to sell her when we migrated.

Stay safe Pastor Loki!🙏

Zelensky stole the election and made himself President didn't he?

I heard that some people grow kiwi fruit or cucumbers overhead - might be able to use those for some of your shade

I live in texas, by chance do yall try to do any of these practices? Would love it if yall do I'm so tired of seeing fires blazing every single year here 😭 bout a hour and a half away from dallas

@@shawnwelch7371 We're located between Houston & Dallas, and there's another ranch by Bay City. My parents still run these, and pastures could be upgraded to more native prairyland. Our cattle lead good grass feed lives BUT the calves are sold every year & sadly go to feed lots. The mommas bellow for ~3-4 days looking for them. This is so awful, you can hear the concern/longing.

@@shawnwelch7371 when TX was a country, you could ride a horse all day and not see a tree, but the grass and flowers grew up to the horses' heads. If all the mesquite were removed, the river flow in TX would increase 5x. Fencing for cattle destroyed the fragile topsoil.

“Letting them”! Farmers of farmed animals are pure evil!!! Period!

@crystalbluebutterfly yeah you need to to stop being ignorant

@catherinejones6481 I would almost wager they want the degradation

@catherinejones6481 The vegans would be mad if you tell them you are regenerating the fallow land using cattles.

the answer as everything in biology is: It depends. Goats and pigs, as you saw, leave the ground dry and compacted. Goats specially eat the roots of things, the bark, everything, so they erode the soil. In the same line, ANY group of animals left without rotating them will compact the soil to unusable levels. Not every cattle is suited for every environment. Not every cattle is handled so they fill in a roll. ITs different to have 30 cows to 200. There are so many variants to take into consideration.

@@barbarar2216 hateful vegan spotted.

The anti cattle people are just ignorant. They see a couple of videos of industrial farming and think every cow must be treated the same way everywhere. They don't realize that most farmers take very good care of their animals.

Mark Shepard created STUN. Jake and him work together on projects around the world. Jake grows seedlings for Marks company.

Please if you ever do I'd love to try and live around that and promote that on my own future land! I'm bout a hour and a half from Dallas and I'm so tired of all the fires every. Single. Year.

God placed the responsibility of mankind to steward nature. Not nature itself.

Bit of Context Please = What is the annual precipitation ??? without this info the entire view you present is almost meaningless // incomprehensible. ACCORDING to GOOGLE RESEARCH Annual Rainfall is 533 mm = which by most definitions is NOT DESERT ??? add the advantage of high altitude and cooler climate now we can start to understand the climate = Why do you call it desert if this is the actual rainfall

would water holding landscape features help ? I mean especially in places with lower rainfall, the only viable way for surface water would be that right? Would those help in the more challenging landscapes you work with ?

The whole reason Paul Gautchi started the Back to Eden Method was because he wanted an orchard and had so little rainfall and could barely pump anything out of his well.

@@lauralee6628 I don't know exactly where he's at, but looking at the vegetation surrounding his farm, he's not in a high rainfall area. It looks a lot like Northern AZ/Southern UT and the water you see is primarily intermittent snow melt - extremely variable. It's definitely desert.

@@RichardChappell1 you can find his farm on google in a 500 mm plus rainfall zone - it aint desert

Its a special place, The geese are so happy. Jakes dogs keep the coyotes away so birds can thrive in this oasis

Those pigs couldn't be happier! 🐖😀

As one of the regenerative agriculture speakers I've listened to said. "They have a great life and one bad day."

That's why food forrests are key.

This is the exact opposite of what Native Americans have done.

Yes indeed… Work with nature and nature will provide.

@@derekneil6238 How? Obviously Native Americans didn't have plastic greenhouses and hoses, but it looks closer to the traditional principles of self-management than it does to the European colonial principle of monoculture and intensive extraction.

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Martin, I was pondering about it. I believe mosquito larvae can’t live in moving water, so a pump with a water jet going into the air and creating ripples could be the solution. I am assuming that’s why every where in the world fountains have streams pouring in the water. Good luck and if you try it please let me know.

@@carlost9454I imagine that in desert conditions, you’d not want to have the pond water go into the air with fountains… too much loss then.

Did you send them this video? Also introduce them to Geoff Lawton and permaculture, as well as regenerative farming shown here. All of it works well together and they can decide how best to proceed with their particular area.

Do you have a link to video? Id love to see that

Don't know how to add a link but Greg Judy does regenerative agriculture with mixed stock and has some techniques you might like.

@@StefanoCreatini Gold Shaw Farm is a youtube channel, you can find it. And the rest of the channel is enjoyable too.

Back when I was a farm kid, we had a can of DDT powder in the barn, and we kids would sprinkle some on the cows’ backs, then spread it out barehanded, to keep the flies from bothering the cows. Times have changed.

Someone on a video was taking care of the flies in a very natural way… I think they had a chicken tractor which was set in the pastures just grazed and the chickens at all the critters from the cow manure… the eggs of the flies in the manure then couldn’t get out of hand.

Mine too! They can't wait to be put up in their stalls. They have ten acres..but no they want to lay around in the straw bedding 🤣

Wish I could buy fresh goat milk from you, ♥️♥️♥️ goat milk & goat cheese ♥️from DC🇺🇸🦅🇲🇺🦤

What breed of goats?

@@MrDamon888 Kiko/Savanah

Bit of Context Please = What is the annual precipitation ??? without this info the entire view you present is almost meaningless // incomprehensible. ACCORDING to GOOGLE RESEARCH Annual Rainfall is 533 mm = which by most definitions is NOT DESERT ??? add the advantage of high altitude and cooler climate now we can start to understand the climate = Why do you call it desert if this is the actual rainfall

@@lauralee6628 Deserts get rain too, just not very much. That's why they are deserts. Desert is dry, dusty land that doesn't get much rain.

@@fuzzytigercat this desert gets over 500 mm of rain so it aint a desert

Have any of you seen Geoff Lawton’s greening the desert in Jordan or Zeytuna farms in Australia? When one slows the water from rains, it can soak into the ground replenishing and after seven years, filling the water table so that springs show up where there was only dry desert before. It’s fascinating and wonderful to see the changes from permaculture thinking.

@@louisegogel7973 have you actually seen this ?

Got more coming out this summer. Any particular topics?

@@StefanoCreatini Yes! More on Jake's farm would be so awesome, especially since they're doing such amazing and important work on the farm! Some more on the folks who inspire Jake and any friend's farms would be great too! I'm more than happy to aid in building community around good people like this! Just let me know how I can play my part!

@@brigittemadrid3739 You got it! If you can share videos, comment, and like, it would help us grow. Thanks

russian olive trees are consider invasive in most of the rockies.

Bio char is great in acidic soil. It doesn’t do much in alkaline soil. The high desert usually is very alkaline. People use junipers for Firewood.

Bit of Context Please = What is the annual precipitation ??? without this info the entire view you present is almost meaningless // incomprehensible. ACCORDING to GOOGLE RESEARCH Annual Rainfall is 533 mm = which by most definitions is NOT DESERT ??? add the advantage of high altitude and cooler climate now we can start to understand the climate = Why do you call it desert if this is the actual rainfall

it's great stuff, but it takes lots of skill and even more patience. the thing i would worry most about this level of long term work is the government showing up and ruining everything, especially when he mentioned an endangered animal showing up on the property.

It also takes millions of dollars for land and equipment to even get started. Money and less stress is amazing for the soul.

I agree. This is my goal and the reason I make these videos. All of society can benefit the more farmers like Jake that we have.

LOL this isn't an "american" concept. This is basically what every permaculture or small farmer does around the world. Regenerative farming has been around for millenia. And just to be clear, I'm not taking away the importance of what this guy is doing by stating that he's not the only one doing it in the world.

Yes, please. And, as a follow-up question, I hear that Colorado is strict about water catchment/harvesting. Is the state not as strict about how water is managed, blocked, and redirected when it is on the land?

Water rights are tricky here. He has some rights to the spring, buts its limited, so the same amount of water entering his property needs to be leaving it, what ever happens between is fair game. You can lease water rights as well from neighbors. He uses the swales as irrigation channels, no other irrigation as I understand it.

@@StefanoCreatini How does he measure the water flow to ensure that the same amount of water is coming in as going out. You can't make the argument that whatever happens in between is fair game unless it is measured. We have to do this in our locale (Utah) to prove to the state that we are taking only what we own. If this video gets popular and is noticed by his state he's going to get hit with a cease and desist at minimum, otherwise a lawsuit. I could do this same thing with my land, but I don't own anywhere near enough water to do this. He's using an immense amount of water. The ground water level where I am is over 200' down, so I really doubt that his is close enough to the surface to have come up as he claims. Perhaps he's right, but it is way more likely that he's just using a ton of water that he doesn't own. Simple as that.

Thanks, Im getting back on it!