Regenerative Orchard: Frog Hollow Farm's Journey to Healthier Soils 

What a great advert for Regen Orchards. This is the way to go given that fruit farmers, livestock farmers and veg farmers are all suffering from drought and water restrictions. Think the Austrian farmer you couldn't recall is Sepp Holzer.

Wow this farm is 30 minutes from my house and had no idea they were using these practices, can’t wait to try them!!

I found the information about predators enlightening. I had been wondering why CA, all the way down to SoCal, has so many gophers that destroy young fruit trees and food crops. The comments from Farmer Al would lead me to believe that the cause is ecological imbalance. The predator population is insufficient to keep the rodents in check. Also, very interesting: Farmer Al grew up in Berkeley, became a teacher, moved to Hawaii to teach, fell in love with farming there, and came back to CA to pursue his dream and passion.

If there were more plants types, like vines and shrubs like raspberries and grapes growing amongst the trees, or nut trees intermixed with different fruit trees this would improve soil more than grasses and a monocropped orchard. Using livestock to manage culls, crop residues, fertility, weeds and pests while avoiding overgrazing, and allowing sufficient pasture recovery time, adds to soil biome health, economic efficiency and water resiliency. Planting more food- and feed-producing trees improves mycelium. Mycelium moves nutrition and moisture that is primarily grass-based, and annual-based agriculture destroys the mycelium compnnections

Fantastic. Well done 😊😊😊

Looks great, beautiful farm!

Machallah

The owl box its an incredible form of pest control.

Thanks for sharing!

Good news....THANK YOU.

I love the way farmers try their best to grow the best fruits for the customers and also help contribute to nature and the ecosystem to make it better for all living beings. 🍀🐝💯 I love your interviews and your editing style is much more interesting as well. Keep growing

ls this orchard in Walla Walla?

Any regenerative farms utilizing paramagnetic/ bioarchitecture like Phil Callahan wrote about? That seems cool!