Soil & Diverse Cover Crops Final Parts UNCUT 

I am 68 wish I was 40 years younger..the methods are fascinating....I have no acreage but I still watch it..

Its amazing to me that people think this way of farming is new. This is how my dad taught me since 1980. I love hearing more people are teaching and spreading the information!

I'm just a home gardener but much of this is fascinating.

Every single farmer in the world needs to see this! Thanks :)

Great content! I teach high school science and am teaching regenerative thinking to my students.

WOW THANKS SO VERY MUCH I HAVE ETO LISTEN TO THIS OVER AND OVER SO MUCH GREAT THOUGHT AND KNOWLEDGE AND PHILOSOPHY GREAT TEACHER HERE THANKS SO MUCH THIS IS AMAZING

Brilliant, guys! This type of knowledge will be a big part in saving the world... Honestly! Thanks so much for this resource.

please, push the translate-button! my english is not good enough to understand your interesting performance! Since a long time I am a big fan of your channel, if i can unterstod ;-) We have a little permacultural garden for our Self-sufficiency since 5 years and i learned so many things from your proffesionell excurses. please excuse my mistakes ;-) Thank you so much! Good wishes and thank you for your work! Silke from Bavaria/Germany

I am coming back to growing stuff. Been 40 yrs. Yeh I messed around with Geese for a year. What a wonderful Alarm System. Any Burglar walked on our property - and 6 geese were braying like the Scots of OLD - Bagpipes. They were the best! David Brant. Thank you for starting your journey! I follow! Within a year I will be following closer. Thank YOU Sir!

Borage, "borago officinalis", borraja in Spain. a very nice plant, pollinators love the blue flowers. In Spain we sow it in spring cut the lower leaves for greens all year. They are good for soups and salads, howewer, one must remove the small hairs on the leaves (stalks too). They can also be sautéd, or with scrambled egg. The flowers can be collected later but on a dry morning. It is self seeding and usually cut in Autum.

FREE books.... nice... even if the video is from 2016 I downloaded some of them. Very nice source for knowledge about this topics.

Wow, that is intense crop management! 2019 doing my 1st cover crop, no till. The farmer next to me is spending hundreds of dollars per acre on fungicide and fertilizer. Interesting test to see the difference.

This is an incredible video thank you so much!

That's going to stay stuck in my head for years: "Nature is not a nudist it wants to be covered". 😂

So much wealth here! Thank you :)

thanks for all the Ideas what a great Subscription

I love this. Thank you for the knowledge.

this is the best video ive seen so far!

Thank you for posting this gold

Great video and lots to learn. Question though. I am not farming but want a cover crop rotation for my hunting and wildlife purposes moving forward. Converting portions of old crop fields to repair the soil. Will probably cover crop 10 of 24 acres. Any differences for someone like me?

You had David with you should have allowed him to share that would have given us immensely useful to the viewers and even to the students who came there

Great Perspectives, Mahalo!

Again, thank-you. The take home is the value of diversity: that monocrops be they of single flora or fauna are lazy approaches. Diverse farming ie mixed farming is attention-intensive and, at best *not* effort intensive.

nice,,,,, this is art thanks people for this nice and educative video, very good!

I started no till /cover crops. @ 84.. Regeneration.The environment profits. I'll let you know how I do

At 1:21:00, so powerful. Us young folk gonna do it.

The small scale farms might consider a "jab" type planter for large seeds, or a Hatfield planter for transplants. Both are available from Johnny's Seeds.

thank you

AS USUAL - Helpful and Great Info for us all

Thank you for the information

Can’t find the soil web app.. Great discussions btw..

I remember my grandparents farm (50) year's ago, if not planted it was plowed clean that was exception of day.

What month of the year was this filmed?

And it's fantastic speaking to 10-15 people but 6300 watching here.

Is this spreadsheet available somewhere? (Cover Crop Mix)

I would like a mentor. I live in Schoharie county NY. Also looking for a nearby edible & medicinal wild plant expert.

Very interested in this type of farming.I have small acreage in Ontario Canada. Unfortunately every video and all info I read about is from the States. Wondering if you have any names of someone that could help me here. Thanks

Thanks for this Great video lots of great information ,I'm so confused tho 🐒

You mention that each legume uses a specific inoculate. So how is this done in a mix since eveything is in one bag with different legumes and inoculates mixing all together?

shame you couldn't come to the uk and give these seminars, I shall try and use your methods on my allotment carry on the good work. Mark

Thanks in advance

I can see in afew decades where there will be state laws in areas for applying this method.

What could on plant on a grazing pasture that has been infested with Thistle. Thanks Scott

How about for orchards ? What mix ? Im planning on rolling.

I'm not english native so that so difficult to understand exactly what him say when without caption. Add caption please! Make them useful to framer of the world

What were those apps again?

Who sells​ the roller behind the BCF?

We do not have such machines. Can I just cut cover crop and leave it there?

What cover crop mix would you suggest for growing hemp?

I am starting to incorporate cover crops on my organic farm in South America. I am concerned about the cover crops termination because the terrain is not flat. How to address the cover crops termination in a mountainous terrain?

Camera needs different position. Speaker in front of display screen often.

Does anyone have the website address for that SARE site? I cannot find it

You ask if I know what corn is. ? Can you give me a hint? Is that something which is Dead or Alive

perhaps a short growing perennial mix like that wouldnt suppress the weeds

What message for business men and bankers?

I am in central florida and I can see they have destroyed the soil here with conventional farming. lots of cleared land that is now just used for grazing. No winter here where the soil can recover a little. How would someone begin to recover soil here?

How about grazing goats to work on the mugwart?

Whats the name of all the free links.

I saw a guy on TV about ten years ago who said he farmed by adding earthworm eggs only. Every year. I don't know if he was willing or not

So maybe you all could reconsider how you think about mugwort. Make it a harvest. Mugwort has many uses. Figure out how to use it instead of how to kill it.

One of the questions that keeps mulling around for me is around the grouping of certain plants into 'good guys' v's bad, in relation to how these various plants contribute to the general diversity of native fauna. So for example, Milkweed that grows as a weed throughout the US, is the sole food plant of the enigmatic Monarch butterfly.....So is there a place for Milkweed in agro-ecology/ soil health centred farming generally? Many moths, butterfly's e.t.c are in steep and widespread decline and depend upon weeds as larval food plants and nectar sources, and are themselves food for bats, birds e.t.c, which all go enrich and enhance bio-diversity. So how can true native flora find a space in this new way of farming so that it can sustain the multitude of organisms that depend on it?

Wonder what their throwing away at the granary with the weed seeds. Diversity?

Can somebody explain what he is saying at 46:40. I understand it is something about salmonella which I'm very interested in.

at 3:42, it is difficult to understand the name of the free ebook on the sare.org website. Can anyone understand what they are saying?

Can barley be used as a cover crop instead of rye?

When you roll the cover crops don't you kill many if not all of the insect life? I feel that trampling it down with cattle will be the better apporach, won't it?

David is the guy from the it ain't much but its honest work meme

One month later and not a drop of rain. A sledgehammer wouldn't dent this red clay. Failure, no I'm dragging a 200 ft. water hose around. Lets grow some soil!

The air is mostly nitrogen. Why not use a cover crop along that pulls and store it from the air.?

hi guys! have you ever experimented with using all perennial cover crops? for example a mix of all short plants like alfalfa, comfrey, sage, with self-seeding annuals like buckwheat and umbelliferae? wouldnt it be more cost effective to have a perennial cover, that you only have to seed once? at planting time you could chop and drop the mature perennial cover crop plants, leaving enough stubble to regrow, and transplant big tomato plants in 1 gallon pots, for example? the perennials might push the soil balance even closer to that "forest-edge ecosystem" than annual cover crops could. they might even flower before being shaded out by the annual crop, and set seeds in the shadows ready to spring forth when you remove the annual crop with no additional expenditure or effort. that way there would literally not be a second the soil did not have a matrix of living roots in it

one must understand if it wouldn't be for photosynthesis Ray would not have such a nice tan. 😀

Mark in the video I noticed you as a striking looking twin to my son Aaron Russell, check him out on face book you guys are so much alike, really dark hair long slender nose :A true twin.

“Best way to save soil temperatures and water is . . . “ What did he say?! The other guy said the word off mic. What is the word?

A lot of good info, unfortunately, Ray, and others, seem to think of compost tea/extract as fertilizer. It is not. The nuturients in compost tea/extract is minimal at best, and the application rates are minimal as well. Compost tea/extract are all about adding missing micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi, etc.).

Why not use nature and just let the weeds grow before flattening them?

guy with red shirt, chill out.

Use to be able get the usda soils book from ascs offices when I was a young farmer, I like the book, don’t care much for the on line stuff

Those bars need an edge to cut, if that rye is volunteer that machine will not kill it, if we hay wheat rye too soon it will sucker and seed back anyway, the rye we fight looks like bran and grows, really well, adapted from combining dirty wheat and the combine blowing 2/3 of the rye out the back, u would swear that the dang stuff has a 100% germination

U leave rye to get to a dough stage it will grow next, that’s why the wheat belt has trouble with volunteer rye that we have to fight