The Core Tenets of Regenerative Agriculture
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
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Richard Perkins is a globally recognised leader in the field of Regenerative Agriculture and is the owner of Europe’s foremost example, Ridgedale Farm, Sweden. He is the author of the widely acclaimed manual Regenerative Agriculture, regarded as one of the most comprehensive books in the literature, as well as Ridgedale Farm Builds.
His approach to no-dig market gardening and pastured poultry, as well as his integration of Holistic Management, Keyline Design and Farm-Scale Permaculture in profitable small-scale farming has influenced a whole new generation of farmers across the globe. Garnering more than 15 million views on his blog, and teaching thousands globally through his live training at the farm and online, Richard continues to inspire farmers all over the globe with his pragmatic no-nonsense approach to profitable system design. 
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Thanks for your efforts. We started watching you this past winter. We aren't farmers but we now have 3 meals a week from our garden, make our own compost. Are expanding our garden. Adding apple trees and potentially bees. Starting your course soon. Again we aren't farmers (yet) and admittedly have a naive perspective of larger issues but in our context it makes a difference. Thanks for everything you do:)
Changes starts small
I beg to differ. You are indeed farming. We learn by doing and no farmer should ever stop learning.
Plant some plums and nut trees too. ;) I’m trying to spread the word about no-turn worm compost. It’s a lot easier and produces a lot of worms. You need about 1 yard min. decently rotted compost to begin. Then start every month or two, burying food scraps or manure in the center of the pile, unless it’s Hot, then go just deep enough that it’s warm. Deep mulch and tarp in winter weather. Never turn it. Red worms will proliferate through the heap. Add only a gallon or two of food at first for best results. Once the pile is up and going, with lots of worms, I begin feeding scraps only on one side. So I can use material from the other side without having any food scraps in it. And I never use up the whole pile, it is treated like a sourdough starter.
@@przybyla420 This seem amazingly easy. Do you have videos? I ask because we make videos, proving you don't have to be photogenic, and they are great for your own documentation.
It IS easy! :) Basically the old-fashioned trench method of worm farming, but done in a heap. I like to sift it before putting on my veggie beds, sometimes it doesn’t need it. But if you limit the large additions and let it go long enough you probably won’t need to sift. I didn’t mention that I toss on other material too, all the time when I have it. I just always bury strong green materials like veggie scraps, manure, roadkill, etc. Helps with odors, scavengers and building up the worm population. And offgassing of nutrients I suppose. I keep it covered always too, so it cooks faster and doesn’t need as much water in summer (and some protection against rodents). Every summer there are lots of baby garter snakes living under the tarp, must be ideal egg laying microclimate. And no, I don’t have a channel haha. I hope Richard will start doing it and make a video.
Well said...I am in Australia and have worked in various parts of Agriculture. Have met farmers who are several million in debt and don't know how to get the overhead down. They just maintain the debt level. If they walk away they will have nothing. At least with debt they have a farm. The fear of having to start again, the shame of failure and the love of farming keeps them there.
Other farmers have spoken about their soil as being so poor that they must use fertilizer or there would be no crop.
The best crop I have come across was from a farmer in a very arid and marginal area north of Mullewa. His secret was no till. Leaving the soil structure intact. He had the heaviest seed by far for the entire customers that we serviced.
For myself I agree wholeheartedly about looking to nature for the answers. Love bees and so my philosophy is to farm around them with benificial plants with a secondary purpose. Allows for diversification in a way. Still planning and just starting trialling new crops. All perennial plants.
You are the smartest farmer in the world and that is why I watch all your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! It makes a huge difference to more people than you can imagine!
This appears to be a logical extension of Bill Mollison's early work on Permaculure, making commercial farming a sustainable industry. I wish you every success in your efforts to help farmers make the transition to healthy soil and healthy food.
wow! Richard I hope you read the book completely, (a huge task though) I would definitely buy it. it's like I understand more the concepts listening rather than reading, and it's kind of pleasurable ....
Thanks for the info . I am hoping to go larger next year . I just rent a small cottage with two organic beds which I created . I have been inspired to look for a parcel to expand my endeavors . I get the concept completely that you speak of . I have seen first hand what conventional farming does to the soil as I grew up on a tobacco farm . Keep up the good work . Inspired in N.C. USA
This is very useful, Richard - thank you.
I just bought your book a few days ago, your videos keep me more motivated to get through it :) And all this is very hope giving, what we all need right now in a rapidly degrading world
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Thanks Richard for share your knowledge with the World. 👍
Hey Richard.
Praying all is well with you guys.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
very good your work, congratulations
Hello from Tanzania. Always great content.
You rock Richard awesome
Thank you.
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good morning, preservation is essential
👍love it thank you.
Fantastic ans informative video! Thank you Richard for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! I would love to be able to watch the lecture you gave in the background of this video, where can I go to watch it?
The farms get subsidies for many reasons. One of those reasons is that poor people often can't afford the price of food that is produced intensively. Low-intensive, high capital-input systems produce economies of scale that can make feeding millions effective. There's a reason conventional agriculture dominates the way it does and why many countries switch away from traditional methods. If you are trying to always produce a massive surplus of people that you are feeding cheaply, then conventional methods will always have appeal.
Correct. Governments encourage a cheap food policy. To get producers to adopt a different production model would require them to gain something by switching, time or money generally. The regenerative model would have to work at scale to have even the slightest chance of succeeding. The industries that make money serving the present production model will fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo. Where I live in the mid-west USA, no-til has made in-roads, mainly because of the labor savings, the reduction in fuel costs, less equipment needed, and the reduced wear and tear on the equipment. However, it still has not been adopted universally. Some producers are convinced that their yields are greater with tillage use, other land, particularly poorly drained soils, don't seem to work well with no-til. Farmers want to do the right thing, but they also have to make a living.
Another great video Richard!
Richard, can you please recommend a brand of poultry electric solar fencing you use?
Best quote ever: “If everyone is winning, then everyone will keep playing.”
Amen!
A strange loop is appearing. As you're winding down and re-focusing your channel, I am getting in on a major project based on your work, plus some of the people you've featured, like J.M and others. I delivered a white paper (in South Africa) on establishing rural economies (based on small agriculture) in developing countries, and finally, I have the oppportunity to prove my theory in practice, and thankfully I bought your book, Regenerative Agriculture (PDF) some time ago. My whole project is built around your (and J.M's) methods and obviously, we will have to localize some aspects to suit our much longer (and warmer) growing seasons, etc. Thank you for all you have shared, and realize that your work will have a lasting impact on a small initial group of homestead-like farmers here in South Africa and ultimately in many other countries in Africa. Good luck to you in your endeavors and enjoy your family. Thanks again.
The Adam Smith of Regenerative Agriculture.
Hi Richard. Is your latest book "Farmbuilds" available as a hardcopy to ship? The website does not offer the option yet. Love your work! Thank you.
3 months frost free. Wow! Welcome to Canada haha last frost free date around early June (but 20 June has brought frost), first expected frost September 30 . The freeze is real !
Global warming for sure
geo engineering.. they..the government's are trying to controle weather.. Chem trails are real. they are spraying the skys. we realy need to wake up and stop them.
Grand solar minimum
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If you were to put a number on it, how many people does your farm feed yearly, and how many ppl does that translate to per hectare / acre and compared to 'commercial farms"
@@howmonster don't be shy, copy and paste.
Deplete the mind and you deplete the soil... That's just the way it goes...
Doesn't take a geni-us to work out that we are disconnected from source, all that is required of us is our urine and faeces and we can't even provide the natural cycles with that! 😅
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Well .. what I know is... regenerate is different than degenerate...
Hello! great video!
Where can I find references for the statement, "Each one of us eats 400-450kg of food a year and yet modern agriculture degrades around ten tons of soil to produce that meager portion."? looking for this data! thanks you. :)
I doubt that we actually eat that much. Let's say we eat 1 kg of food per day (365 kg per year). If we follow the macro nutrient recommendations of the Standard American Diet (50% carbs, 15% protein and 35% fat) and consider the calories from each macro nutrient (4 kcal per gram of carbs and protein, and 9 kcal per gram of fat), this gives us a distribution of approx. 620 g carbs, 186 g protein and 194 g fat per day. This means a calorie intake of about 4970 kcal per day... way more than reasonable.
I think, since so much food goes to waste, that we perhaps produce 400-450 kg of food per human per year. That seems much more reasonable to me.
@@magnuseriksson5547 thank you! Though I was more focused on the soil loss ratio, but still, hopefully there are confirmable and available stats on soil loss and then you just do some simple division. :)))
Appreciate your breakdown.
@@nextworldaction8828 Oh man! Did I just break down the math on something you weren't even interested in? Darn! :-D
Grain based enterprises like broilers, layers, and even market gardens that use manure based composts all require outsourcing soil destruction for growing annuals to run a smaller regenerative farm. We have to work towards making the production of annuals regenerative or else we'll fall short of a net positive outcome. Right?
Thank you for saying that. This is a big topic that requires much more attention. This is also my main critique on what is now labeled as 'regenerative agriculture. The need for external inputs such as not-certified organic feed, fertilizer but also hybrid industry-raised animals, in combination with the tendency to value customer certification above institutionalized certification, makes regenerative agriculture susceptible to becoming a marketing stunt rather than a genuine farming alternative.
By getting Organic or Demeter certified, it is compulsory to account for inputs, comply with certain standards on animal welfare etc. These standards are not perfect (yet), but they do require farmers to address these issues. Regenerative Agriculture prides itself on 'going beyond organic', but in several aspects, it does not even meet the criteria for certified organic (at least in Europe), let alone Demeter. Especially considering the limited knowledge of the average customer (oooh this place looks pretty and I see animals on pasture), can conceal many hidden practices that would not be allowed if a certified organization would inspect the farm. Setting verifiable standards could help to push the regenerative movement to gain more credibility and truly move beyond organic.
@@willybillyshow Thanks for backing me up on this - In the US, OMRI (certified organic input) certifies all animal manure as an organic certified fertilizer. So growing organic feed/produce here is typically done with fertilizers with manures from our industrial agriculture systems. Essentially, organic runs off the waste of industrial farming and even helps perpetuate it since industrial farms can now sell away their manure problem.
I'd be careful with tightening down on certifications, soon you'll get to the point where production is so cost prohibitive that producing a financially viable product would be extremely difficult. But maybe if someone does figure it out, That would be the true model to emulate.
Another excellent thoughtful talk from Mr. Perkins. Thank you.
It's not chemicals that give us food
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