Soil Matters -- Presented by the Berry Good Food Foundation and Kiss the Ground
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2016
- (Visit: www.uctv.tv) Soil really does matter! Join our distinguished panelists and learn about climate change's hottest topic - Soil! Find out how soil’s ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere may hold the key to solving the massive environmental problems caused by climate change. Panelists include: Ryland Engelhart and Calla Rose Ostrander of Kiss the Ground; Scott Murray, organic farmer and resource conservationist; Pablo Rojas, rancher,El Mogor Ranch, Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California; Keith Pezzoli, Director of Urban Studies and Planning, UC San Diego; David Bronner, CEO, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps; Justine Owen, soil scientist, UC Berkeley; and Michelle Lerach, Founder of the Berry Good Food Foundation. Series: "UC Climate Solutions Channel " [3/2016] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30529]
what happens if we lose the soil AND the farmers! support the farmers ! and scientists as well.!. Thank you for the informative and insightful discussion. God bless, guide and protect you all. Looking forward to more!
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Theres a study where it shows our planets surface during the time of tilling becomes red or hot and during the time of growth earths surface becomes blue or cool, just shows how important the soil is, so if everyone used cover crops with no till and cover our soil with leaves or hay, we can cool or planet.
The guy that describes the growth and death of grass roots (at 41 min) is wrong - it's a common myth but has been disproved by actual observation (Dr Elaine Ingham RUclips video, don't have the link off hand). If a grass has 5 foot long roots, and you graze it, the roots don't die just because it is grazed but they help the grass recover quickly. They do flush a surge of carbohydrates to tell the soil food web to provide it with a flush of nutrients to help it regrow. Now, if you keep scalping it long enough and cause the grass to starve, it will trim roots because it doesn't have enough food to support the biomass, but that doesn't happen each time it is grazed and then recovers.
Yep, Over grazing has caused lots of deserts. There is definitely a benefit from keeping it in balance.
Sufficient photosynthetic tissue must remain on plants for production of carbohydrates to meet growth and respiration demands of the plant, not to mention the 30% of carbohydrates produced for exudation from their roots. Roots represent a significant living part of perennial grasses' biomass, and it's growth and continued respiration is totally reliant on the carbohydrates produced by the green parts above ground.
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when you top a plant it splits into two...grazing also makes the grass have multiple growths out of the same root....nobody mentioned earthworms or cover crop growing alongside crops
Gratitude
We need to replenish our dirt and plant organically we are what we eat. Trees, foods and composting organic farming as we are water and carbon ourselves.
We need to engage real estate and developers who otherwise would negate earth friendly efforts.
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I got to say I’m very happy this video came across my feed so much information so much to learn so much for all of us to do compost compost baby
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how does decomposing organic matter capture carbon from the atmosphere?
if you just lay a half inch of compost on the grass, how will this take carbon from the atmosphere?
Mulch on the ground stimulates micro life in the soil that converts soil nutrients to the form that plants use to grow and survive better, which capture CO2 from the air. The plants exudate parts of this carbon to the soil which becomes soil carbon. A major form of soil carbon is GLOMALIN which is the "glue" that holds soil together and enables it to hold water and not create chocolate rivers, like today. Add NPK instead and the opposite takes place! Good question! With 5% soil carbon each acre can absorb 4" of rainwater that it keeps for plants to grow through the drier seasons. That is a vital 2ndary CO2 sink as growth and CO2 sequestration can then often double! Less runoff, less pollution and more food without sacrificing deep emptying deepwater well. And finally less flash flooding!
@@BurtWhitten its wierd but it works,if you do it right it doesnt even smell or gather flies
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Its not the one layer of compost, that's just the start. Because with the compost added, now the plants grow a lot better, binding more co2, decomposing leaves and branches add to the soil, making them grow even better, binding more co2, decomposing even more and the cycle goes on and on. That's how humus is generated and all that humus is bound co2. That's essentially how it worked for millions of years. At one point the plants reached such enormous growth that oil and coal could develop, just think about how insane that must have been.
We are basically just giving the poor soil a headstart with the compost.
I was in hospital this past summer and told I was suffering malnutrition. Surprise to me because I am overweight and thought I ate enough veggies.
If they are not organic from a regenerative farm, you might be eating not enough nutrients
Water harvesting is good but also not applicable for all such as folks in Colorado.
Jadam KNF
Korean natural farming
He says we have to stop releasing carbon, then asks where do we store this excess carbon. it makes no sense. carbon sequestration is a band aid and not a real solution. That just threw me off. I love the idea of restoring the soil of the earth. Several ideas in this video are in the movie "Dirt the movie."
I believehe was talking about the difference between 350 ppm of CO2 and the current 403 ppm. So we need to stop emissions but also remove and store some of that excess. This argues that the soil itself can do that job.
Good point Thomas, I realized that after I heard the others after the first speaker.
We need to replenish our dirt and plant organically we are what we eat. Trees, foods and composting organic farming as we are water and carbon ourselves.
If only regenerative agriculture could be used in the Sahara, Gobi and other deserts world wide. Then we've have a better allocation of resources and population too.
What about carbon footprint of use of computers now. It's more than cows
Look if anyone wants to debate with us I will give you the permanant solution.. we just need to add all kinds of microbes and microorganisms in the land which will will provide food to our crop or our tress.. And the desi indian cow dung contains approximately 30000 thousand variety of that microorganisms and microbes.. we need to ferment that dunga to increase the quantity of those microbes and microorganisms.and spread it on land through water..
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You better back farmer's or we don't eat
Tell that capitalism. Profits always come first in the world of vulture capitalists. All the good ideas in the world would have solved all the pressing issues of the world 100 times over, if it wouldn't be for the profit fetish.
+Hannes Radke It's not money but the love of money that is the root of all evil, so goes the quote. Take away profit, in such a general sense, and what do have communism? How about a balanced economy, to go with a balanced ecosystem.
Albert Tremblay Yeah, that would be awesome. I'll do my best to make it happen. Let's hope it spreads.
In fact, most of that is not in America, or under control of America. We need to use these techniques to green the world's deserts. That's what will pull down the carbon. I'm not defending capitalism, we shouldn't pollute either, but most of the problem isn't where we can fix it. Also, farmers are doing these things to make profit. If you watch around on this topic, you'll hear people calling soil a "resource". Totally profit oriented thinking originating from the Dust Bowl crisis
africa have alot of herbivorous animals but the continent is like a desert?
Watch Allan Savory's TED talk. He was a rancher in Zimbabwe. Allan is the person who developed the holistic methods that the rancher on the panel uses. Allan's land and the tribal lands around him are amazing. He shows before holistic manage (which are like you described) and after pictures. The results were again amazing.
Yes. balance.... Human over population!!!...the major contributing mass human overpopulation is coming from the poverty section.. these populations are desperate..and a great number come from tribal hunter heritage... (not "agrarian" communities)..
When you have a community that welcomes foreign entity within.. there is a risk that genetic disposition can be lost, and possibly an agrarian community can be at the mercy of tribal hunter mental disposition... Research on this phenomena has been done for hundreds of years.. yet it's swept under the carpet...$$$$.. All share an environment earth, there is financial $$$ manipulation and until humans comprehend the $$$ powers that be. The impact of instant gratification will continually erode balance and health of all living things.