Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming?
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2012
- Out to Pasture contrasts industrial-style confined animal production with farms that raise food animals outdoors in diversified operations, striving to be sustainable. The film profiles pasture-based farmers and shares their perspectives on how they got started in farming (three transitioned from confinement operations), what's important about their farming methods, how their conventional-farm neighbors view them, how to keep young people on the farm, the future of the food system. The film also features Robert Lawrence, founding director of the CLF; and John Ikerd, a leading thinker on sustainable agriculture issues.
The film is the result of a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Out to Pasture can be used for in conjunction with lessons from FoodSpan, a free curriculum about the food system: www.foodspan.org/lesson-plans... Find other videos in the series below:
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Food Frontiers
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I'm a small farmer and this is the best video I've watched in forever. You people give me hope. My guy said things were way wrong several years ago. I'm glad I'm doing it my way. Long live small farmers! Vote with your money.
The reason why small farmers went out of vogue is because of DEMAND. There is just not enough LAND and RESOURCES for everyone to eat pastured animals. Going back to pasture raised CANNOT BE THE ANSWER WHEN YOU HAVE NO FREAKING LAND AND factory farming was the only answer IF PEOPLE INSIST ON STUFFING THEIR faces with butchered bodies of innocent babies.
The very last piece of chicken flesh I bought was from a small farmer like you - who raised his own chicken and he actually killed his own chicken. The strange thing is, it wasn't until I paid the man who actually did the killing that I realized it was the demand I created by eating the meat that caused the killing of innocent beings whose flesh i certainly did not need to eat. That's when I finally went vegan. I was the cause of the cruelty and unwatchable violence in the end. Doing it "your way" or not, the animal exploitation way IS ALWAYS WRONG and there is NO RIGHT WAY TO DO THE WRONG THING.
@@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 Well, then, I think you should take this up with God or Mother Nature or whatever you think created this world because it's much worse in nature what happens to innocent animals than what happens on regenerative farms where the animals live beautiful lives on green pastures with fresh grass every day and whose lives are calmly and humanely ended pretty much painlessly after a couple of years of this idyllic existence. Have you seen what happens when a wolf kills an elk? Or a bear kills a salmon or other small animal? Ever seen a pack of lions kill an elephant on a nature show on TV? Orcas torture their sea lions for a long time before they finally kill them and eat them. In fact, every creature on this planet lives off the remains (living or dead) of other creatures.
You may think you're doing the world a favor by going vegan, but there's nothing balanced about a vegan diet. It doesn't take a lot of meat to keep someone healthy or satisfied, but eating some raised on a regenerative ranch does much good for the planet. Ruminants make the plants grow through stimulating (mowing), fertilizing (with their waste) and pushing organic matter into the soil with their hooves, which makes the soil rich in carbon and keeps its microbiome healthy. Plants and animals (and humans) evolved together. They need each other. And you're quite wrong about how much land it takes to raise enough cattle to feed everyone. So much grassland has been turned into desert because of faulty agricultural methods, there's a ton of it out there that could easily support millions of ruminants, certainly enough to feed everyone if they only had it a few times a week. Besides, four times the number of cows can thrive on a holistically managed pasture than one where they are just allowed to eat the plants down to the ground.
So when you get tired of being on your restricted diet, try a steak from a regenerative farm. It will be packed with nutrition of all kinds and will be wonderfully satisfying, and it will support farmers who are going against the tide and restoring carbon and water to the soil where it used to be instead of heating the planet and raising the oceans.
The woman at the end summed it all up for me. I must be the change I want to see.
Good to see animals treated with respect. Just because we are going to eat them doesn't mean that they don't deserve a good life. Huge respect to farmers who go down this path. I raise my own food and always give them the best I can.
It means since we are going to eat them we should treat them the best we possibly can. They should have clean air food and water. They are what will allow us to live for a certain amount of time. The thankfulness for them dedicating their life to allow us to carryon should be reciprocated. Anything less shows a lack of character.
@Anti Zenith Activist I know Chinese eat cat n dogs. It's served at every Chinese buffet in America. I worked in pest control in college and sprayed many Chinese buffets and at night they set traps to catch strays. But what does that have to do with my comment.c
@Anti Zenith Activist according to your science and oxfords science eventually they will evolve to be intelligent. I think y'all call it evolution. You know Darwin's theory where nothing became something. Then something became bacteria. Bacteria became fish. Fish became monkeys. Monkeys became humans and then oxford. So you should believe that cows are on the same tract but slower. It's your science not mine. I believe God put creatures here for us to have dominion over.
@@westtexas806 that’s illegal 😢
@@arielthepom what's illegal
This almost brings tears to my eyes. Watching the care and love that many of these farmers show for their animals is beautiful and really highlights the difference between pastured animals and confinement animals.
its only 1%, the rest is force-fed with soja.......
Apart from the greatness of pasturing livestock, there is definitely a bond between animals and farmer that doesn't exist in industrial settings, and in small scale operations the farmer can truly enjoy his work because he has time to slow down and watch the animals, which in a field or barnyard are beautiful and sometimes funny or amusing.
It's healthy in all ways.
Great video. We raise our own sheep and chickens, and bought a pig to butcher in the fall, as well as hunt for our meat. I can hardly stomach the idea of buying commercially raised meat anymore. We butcher it ourselves, make our own sausage and I know exactly how it was processed. It is a lot of work, but my children know where their food comes from, and are learning valuable skills. I bought a store bought chicken the other day and my 3 yr old asked , 'Whose chicken was that? Who killed it?' I think this is the way it is supposed to be.
If you live anywhere near Amish folks, even if you ain't got no pasture, you can buy a steer or a couple pigs and pay them to pasture and butcher for you.
Fat are u vegitarien be should
Sustainable Farmers are the real rock stars and backbone of America. Great video
This was a very well done documentary on farming, showing the small farm of the future with some great farming pioneers taking that first big step to care for and raise animals safely and humanely
One of the major problems is people, consumers, tell us to raise our animals this way but do not want to pay when it comes to the added cost. When egg prices dropped I had several people ask why our egg prices weren't comparative to grocery stores. I explain how ours are raised in comparison and still the price won over our free-range, kid carried and named chickens.
Truly said😞😞
This right here is the perfect opportunity to explore with people exactly why better choices and investment in better environments, better quality of life for animals, healthier animals, and supporting the stewardship that is so badly needed...... time to engage in actually putting back what is taken while also enjoying better health, better food and and a resilient environment!
I agree, small farms but more of them is the future. but even the cities and towns need to transform everyone helping to grow or manage the animals. people must learn to be sustainable farmers again. good documentary
+Mottled Mutt good question, I do not know the answer,
but I will say that local and state government officials are more concern with mowing and appearances than allowing people to intelligently live. all you need to do is drive around and everything, yards, fields, along roads must be mowed and groomed or you get fined for not maintaining your yard. people run around with weed killer when weed (I hate that word) weeds are very important for a healthy environment. of course on a farm farmers want to get ride of weeds, but bees and other beneficial insect need these so called weeds for a healthy environment. we almost need to go back to before the industrial and chemical age to put people to work, start treating animals humanely. Technology has made life easier but are we happier!!!! we need to reshape our cities into a sort of green society, drastically reduce vehicals by changing the reasons we need to drive to work.
our whole way of life needs to change, if we are ever going to begin to save this planet for future generations. but unfortunately people can't see a different way of living because we have become to spoiled to this me me me society were everyone want to have wealth and power and no one wants to get his/her hands dirty. everyone wants to be the chief or slave owner. why do you think they brought blacks from Aferica as slaves, the wealthy owners needed cheep labor and someone to do the work. today we have replaced slaves with machines and industrial farms so developers can get rich building expensive homes that people have to mow the yard to maintain appearance's.
oh, they brought blacks as slaves because whites and native Americans would not do the work!!!!
if we are going to turn things around we must allow people the freedom to live on a small farm without it always being driven into the ground be the large guys with deep pockets. stop the bankers from driving you off your land when times are hard. we to start protecting the little independent farmer from large corporations and wealthy powerful investors who do nothing but make money and live off of everyone else.
the people currently running state and local communities are just as bad as they set the standards and make many of the rules and laws that place burdens on people to conform to stupid rules, like maintaining your fields and lawns just for appearance. I believe we all need to take a few steps back in time in order to change directions and help everyone back to work making this country a greener, healthier and happier world for people and animals again.
well, that's my opinion, and if I was running for president this would be one of my priorities towards accomplishing. but unfortunately there are going to be some serious climate issues that will impact us all because those in power only thought of wealth and power and ignored the reality of what we are doing to this world because of the path we are on that we need to get off and back to basics.
as for your question, what impact would that mean on this subject?
I believe they have something simular, though, I don't know the details. But I hear ya, I see it everyday people doing what they want to do without thinking much of the consequences. When I built a shed and walk way, in this yard on a hillside, I put a lot of thought into the water run off, this yard was in California, they don't get much rain but when they do there is always water run off To contend with.
In life we must always plan/prepare for the future by understanding that we are but stewards of this earth for but a short time. The earth is not here for us, but for us to take care of, and it will take care of us. We are but a tiny living organism living on this planet, not all together unlike some organism living on us, that will only live as long as we do.
I wish you well and hope you take advantage of that program you told me about. Good luck.
I'm vegan but I'm very glad to see improvements like these in animal agriculture, these farmers definitely deserve support.
No they don't they still kill and torture animals and destroying the environment
@Red October idiot animal agriculture are the biggest reason for global warming, spices extinction, ocean pollution, deforestation and the list goes on if we don't stop it in then next 10 years climate change will be irreversible and we will all die in the next 100-200 years same with these small farms they destroying the local environment killing predators and other animals that destroy their fences. And what are most of corn and soy produced for to feed to livestock you dumb fuck. And anyway all the small homesteads that slaughter animals will disappear fast after the bigg ones gone. So shut the fuck and start thinking about your future generations instead of only your self.
@@thejack9178 I encourage you to look into Joel Salatin of Polyface farms, he produces 1000s of healthy, happy animals for human consumption while at the same time IMPROVING the quality of the land the animals are grown on. His system of rotating grazing, composting, and property management generates ridiculous production potential with a positive environmental impact.
@@thejack9178Yeah, you have two major problems Jack. #1 You are highly propagandized. What you believe is simply not true and you are very crass and arrogant about what you believe which pretty much screams that you don't know what you are talking about. Anger is not a substitute for knowledge because if you really knew the truth, you wouldn't be angry.
#2 You are way behind the curve. Events are overtaking the corporate farming and ranching disasters every year. Rotational grass fed grazing, organic farming and a ground swell of new tech combined with the old ways are rising from the grassroots and crashing onto the farming and ranching scene. People are going back to the land in force. They are repairing the damage to the land and creating complex, healthy ecosystems wherever the new paradigm is being tried. Farming is becoming personal and local once again. It really is a revolution and it is very deep and very multi-dimensional in nature.
warrior70hhs mentioned Joel Salatin. He's one of the godfathers of the revolution. Joel has a number of books which are VERY inspiring and exciting. Greg Judy is another prophet of the new organic movement and you should read a book or two of his and go watch a few of his RUclipss. They are very enlightening. It is really very exciting and very beautiful what is happening. You should tap into it. If you knew the truth, your anger would fade into delight. Your hate too. Many beautiful things are on the move as indicated by many people in this video. You should have watched and listened more carefully. By the way, I hate to break it to ya but Global Warming is a scam and a hoax invented by despicable global elites who want to take away all your freedom and your money and plunge you into slavery.
@@warrior70hhs "1000's of healthy happy animals for human consumption"
Hearing farmers that work with the earth and animals for 34 minutes was well worth the
time to educate for that space of time. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Susan
Conventional agricultural practice placing strain on the ecology and biology of the land and it’s productivity. It’s a systemic flawed formula that depletes or in most cases destroys a vital element of the ecosystem creating a chain that impacts flora & fauna necessary in maintaining a healthy ecosystem. We can learn more by observing nature, if we let go of our need to control her and stop thinking we know best for her and be open to what she knows is best. The soil, the plant life, the insects, the microbes, the birds, the livestock, the seasons, the weather, the temperatures, the climate, the air, the sun, the moon cycles, these are the professors. We are but a part of all that is connected on the land. Our function as intelligent human beings is to be natures students, stewards, curators nurturing her harmony and balance. Thumbs up to these farmers who have turned their back’s on the industrialised farming system to find balance revitalising traditional farming practices.
This is my favorite video on compare and contrast between organic farming and industrial farming!
Beautiful movie
@Hello Philippe How are you doing
That,s the good way, going back to pasture fed animals!!!! You have better food ,better for the environment, might be a little more expensive but you don,t need to eat meat everyday!! thanks for this video, hope people get awake in time!!
You mean you don't need to eat meat everyday.
@@woodspirit98 ??
There is no question open pasture farming produces better quality meat. When the animal gets to live normally and engage in its natural instinctive behaviors, you get a better product.
I truly believe livestock who were raised happy in a traditional farm set up taste better than the livestock who were raised in factory farms. I'm from a small town in Oklahoma we have cows everywhere and a couple smaller pig farms so I'm kinda familiar with the industry and I think the meat compared to what you get in the store is much better.
I recall hearing animals who are stressed out before slaughter produce lactic acid in the meat and that causes the meat to be of leaser quality.
I don't know if that's the truth but i can taste the difference.
Kyle Bullard animals are tortured all their lives in unnatural factory farms :_(
Kyle Bullard
Imagine you talking about dogs and cat meat industry - "I truly believe cats and dogs who were raised happy in a traditional farm set up taste better than those raised in factory farms" - how psychotic you would sound. It's quite interesting that two years ago when I first started doing research into animal agriculture I really thought the problem was ONLY factory farming and not the practice of exploiting animals itself. Of course fatory farming is abhorrent but I've also learned that the practice of forcing moms to have babies so we can fatten up the babies to chop them up and eat them - IS UNTO ITSELF INHERENTLY WRONG. Then I learned just how smart and loving all "food animals" are, if given half the chance to be who they are. They are no different from cats and dogs. Not only are they no different from cats and dogs, but we have zero need to consume their bodies and their secretions to be healthy and happy ourselves. We are just holding onto "tradition" and "habit" and "social norm" when we insist on continuing to eat animals. The last two years of my life i have consumed zero animal flesh, zero animal secretions like milk and eggs, and my health is better than ever, I eat better than ever (vegan cuisine is the best and the healthiest) and I am even helping the environment since animal agriculture - particularly these farms with "pastured" animal victims, are lethal to the environment ruclips.net/video/QCC2ws9hJ9s/видео.html
AnimalsAre BeautifulPeople nobody cares meats 🍖 tasty 😋
@@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 Um, no, pasture-raised animals are not lethal to the environment, quite the opposite. Animals and plants evolved together. If you eliminate the animals because you want to be nice to them, you'll end up with plants with very little nutritional value. Your health is no proof that your diet is superior. You could have had great health even if you hadn't changed your diet. Some people eat bad diets and still seem to be healthy. Some people eat good diets and become sick.
Comparing pets to farm animals raised for the products they provide is just using our emotions against us. In some countries, as awful as it may seem, people do eat dogs. Go figure, I wouldn't, but there's no accounting for taste. I happen to like "animal secretions," especially when they are produced humanely in healthy environments for the animals and plants they eat. I had my weekly ration of 2 strips of bacon and 2 eggs today. Yum!
I once considered becoming a vegan before I realized the benefits of regenerative agriculture, but when I found out they can't even have honey, I realized this is was a rather extreme way to eat that would pretty much make me a pain in the ass to any friends that happened to invite me over for dinner. We don't need to eat a lot of meat. Occasionally is better than three times a day, and that's what I do. So far, I'm fine. No COVID, no other diseases, and I'm 74. To each his own, but I happen to think caring for our soil and the global climate is more important than satisfying my own superior sense of morality.
This might be one of my favorite documentaries. These people had a lot of good, revealing things to say.
I was especially impressed by Dave Whitman the pig farmer. I am a big fan of ethical ranches, and I think he is a true maestro on the topic. His approach to ranching should be the textbook for ethical ranching. It is so, so, SO much more natural than these CAFO places that are often a horror. I am not saying that every ranch has to be a paradise. I just mean that many good people would be ashamed if they saw how some places are run to make their food.
I pine for the times when the animals that sustained our life, rather ranched or hunted, were celebrated and revered. We have lost that through our distribution, and I think it wounds our character as a species to be so distanced from how our food is made. We can do it without suffering and would be better for it.
HGvt
Agreed
Fudd Duddly Amen to what you said. Animals deserve our respect. While there's no need to shun meat products from our diets as there's all types of needs and preferences, neither should ethics be excluded in our food production. It takes little to consider how we can treat the animals that feed our bodies with gratitude and respect when we slaughter them as well as when we consume them so that the sacrifice of their lives is not wasted by our indifference. All lives cling to dear life and experience fear when that life is under threat. Let's not forget that.
If you think this video is good you should look up Joel Salatin on RUclips.
You don’t need to feed the world, but provide your community with real food is the great achievement
Feed our communities first. Then our counties, then our states, then our country, and ONLY THEN once all Americans are not hungry feed our national neighbors.
I really liked this video, one thing they failed to mention though is suburban sprawl. To much farm land is being paved over. I really think if we spent our taxes in a more logical way, we could revitalize the cities and get more people into farming especially the young. I also believe when we do this we can bring back the butcher shops. This would also have the added bonus of bridging the communication gap between rural and urban populations. Just my thoughts on this would like to know what you fine people think.
This short documentary made me so happy! When I learn about things I love for school it really makes me a happy camper :)
God bless these farmers. Buy from them and use your dollars to send a message.
At 12:40 "Grass roots people voting with their food dollars every day". Mr. Kim Seeley is also a political prophet as well as a farmer. He describes the most powerful tool of the American people to set this country right. Let's do it !
Very good film showing both sides! See you can bring both sides without hate and being a jerk. Excellent job!
Just an amazing wonderful video! It's so supportive for us people who want to be that back to the Earth Farmer. Thank you for this video! )))
Excellent film. Thanks.
Yes, quite agree.
ruclips.net/video/QCC2ws9hJ9s/видео.html check this out for a more complete view of what this all means.
This is the way it is supposed to be... I wish the world would see this.
Thank you ALL ...I enjoyed and learned from this effort.
I been a farmer most of my life and always been natural grass feed cattle. Now , almost 60 I'm going into pigs and all open land producing. It is the natural way to farm
I hope this movement becomes a reality quickly - before all the small farms become sprawling McMansion subdivisions.
Small farms give animals a better life. What folks who didn't grow up farming don't understand is ours in your blood. You do everything for those amimals, and the land. Farming is your soul. I hope it gets better for small farmers, we have struggled enough financially.
Thanks to all those brave farmers!
thank you for this awesome video. i want to start a farm and this was very inspirational.
During industrialization humans shifted to industrialized agriculture, now we are heading back to the path we left. some good farming methods to practice can be conservation agriculture, permaculture, and natural farming.
I think EVERYONE should watch this, IF YOU EAT YOU SHOULD ESPECIALLY WATCH IT!!!
I thought it was a very informative video. I am a vegetarian but for anyone who wants to make a conscious healthy choice in what they eat and how their food choices will impact the earth, then this is a short video that wont lose you along the way......
Great to see things changing for the better 🙏
I take my hat of for those farmers who go back and grow pigs the old way ,like it was in the 1950 ,s My grandmother allways had 3 piggies and they where fed with leftovers, vegetables and rye porridge! Man that meat was good and tasty!! I hope people get smart and choose natural meat!!
I enjoyed watching this and it is definitely a step in the right direction
what a great documentary this is just awesome give power to the small farms that are doing it right. good stuff
I'm glad I found this video it was very informative.
Wonderfully heartwarming!
I'm vegetarian atm, but it's good to see support for better practices, even if they lead to the same eventual end.
I am also vegetarian but I don't see death as a tragedy - in humans or animals. It is the quality of life and humane death that is important. If those things could be guaranteed I would have a lot fewer qualms.
There is animal sacrifice in eating plants too. The number of animals that die growing food crops far exceed the number of animals killed for meat. Besides poisoning by herbicides, insecticides etc, monoculture crops deprive a huge array of animals their habitat as well as killing the soil life that provides nutrients to plants. It takes less than one bovine to feed myself for an entire year. I support your choice of whatever diet you deem fit for your body, but know that choice results in the death of more life. Plants, vegetables, fruit and grains are also waste substantially more than meat from spoilage during transport, retail and in our homes. How often have you binned fruit and vegetables that have started to decay? Being a vegetarian is not an ethical choice, it is just a choice.
I totally agree that we need to change our farming practices to mimic wild herbivores in order to keep our soil healthy, as it is the soil microbes that provide the nutrients to plants. I consider many of the current, industrialized practices vile.
This wisdom feeds my soul
JEREMIAH JONES, YOUR A BAD ASS. STARTING AT 21 YEARS OLD, HAT'S OFF TO YOU.....
Thank you for your superb presentation ☺️
Sustainable Agriculture is the future of farming!!!
The funny thing is that they are saying the industrial farming is a problem but the laws and local regulations restricts the small guys. The reason I say this is I have been fighting my local manisipality on the ability to do things on the farm. I have been turned down on a small bioreactor to recycle fish waste from the fishery near me. Or the mushroom operation that I run that was not supported do to the fact that it was unproven in my area. Or the lack of protection from trespassing. Not saying this as a pore me but jest the uphill battle farmers have. People in power would rather outsource our food than to grow it next door.
Since taking over the farm I have a politicians hat, public relations hat, security hat, soil biology hat, a botany hat, veterinarian hat, mycoligy hat, macanic hat, accountant hat. So the farm is the pinical of society only the best of us can be a farmer in these days. The military says be all that you can be. But without the farmer everyone would be nothing. So if you think you are tuff enough to hold up the rest of the world be a farmer. It is frustrating and heartbreaking but also the most fun and soul filling joy that you can experience.
How wonderful to see animals outside breathing in the fresh air. Pure happiness to watch. I recall the days when I was younger and saw this for myself. I am going to quote the Bible now. Bible: Proverbs 12:10:
A righteous man has regard for the life of his beasts. But the compassion of the wicked man is cruel. In other words, even when a wicked man thinks he is compassionate - he is still in the level of cruelty. We should look after our animals in a respectful way.
This is such an informative video about sustainable food resources. A lot to think about.
God bless these organic/natural family farmers.
Chekner family farm, I lift my hat off to you.
Beautiful information thanks a lot
A lot of people might say to this, "So what?" But some years back I left L.A. to some acreage in Oregon and was raising sheep and chickens. The seep were on pasture and the chickens (for our own use so not that many) we had in the hay lost with lots of room to run around and scratch When I first cooked their eggs the difference in color was striking. The yolk was almost orange making the commercial egg look pale and sickly. And the meat had twice the flavor, rich and good. We weren't raising the sheep for sale not meat but occasionally i would have an older one slaughtered. It is said that older sheep's meat smells and is tough, not so goo. But ours were tasty, not tough at all. Best they had a fairly long and pretty good life. I'm not a farmer, but I have to believe, if a farmer can raise pasture fed animals he and she can sell them direct to people at a fair and profitable price if they know how to do it. And that's not all that hard physically. But understanding pastures, healthy soil, healthy environments and something about the animals and willing to do work, you'll probably do just fine.
Thank you! This is how farming should be!
I have enjoyed watching it! Thank you!!
- 27:00..well said...for all these animals sacrifice for us, we should respect their welfare & living qualities in their short life...especially touched on what he says 27:35...wish all our farmers has the heart of this gentleman...
very nice info on natural pasture-based farming bravo kudos to all of you
Animals make us human. Its all about our conection to the earth its all created to fit together. Nice video.
When we were children, we went herding cows. Our childhood was very interesting
Thank you for making this video!!!!
Great video thanks
16:55 And that is real treasure. Spending time with family and people you love. Many people people don't understand it any more it is not all about money.
It's amazing how the idea has changed in just a few years
Has it changed or you just saw a video and you think it has changed?
Those pigs look so healthy and happy.....
FYI...This film briefly shows Cleckner Farms (Duane and Sheila Cleckner) sold in Whole Foods Markets in the DC area..
Interested in more, look up Joel Salatin.
Greg Judy and Alan Savory as well.
well That was awesome! I live in WNC and know now why they dirt belt here has failed. It would be great if investors used the natural farming as the standard and leased land to those that want that life style. The whole industry would go back to the 1940s style farms. Young people could exchange Ideas and the whole farming life would go into an extreme reversal from what ruined the dirt belt.
The only bugs we will be forced to eat will be the natural farming bug. This should go viral and I think it will. Thanks to all the farmers that stick to their guns, no pun intended.
nice video .The hogs look well treated and happy
Gente maravilhosa que tem há mente aberta, para colocar em prática algo enovador, O Deus como eu queria poder fazer algo desse jeito, sendo aqui no Brasil, pois tenho tanta terra produtiva mais não tenho dinheiro pra seguir em frente. Que Deus abençoe sempre vocês aí gostei muito de ver ❤❤❤❤
Hey Jan! Fine video.
@Hello Paul how are you doing
Makes me proud to be a Hopkins Alumnus!
Good on you guys. Worldwide this is the only way to farm. I'd love to do with goats here in Australia
I'm a young person who wants to farm! Working 8-5 M-F trying to save up enough $.
im glad to see another person like me, although i'm fortunate enough to be in school for agriculture right now, in a few more years ill be working my ass off to get some land. good luck friend
We worked very hard to buy 7 acres, and are able to do a lot to provide our own food. It is just too hard to get any amount of land here (Alberta) without being in debt up to your eyeballs. Good luck.
If Tyson chicken and all their suppliers went out of business in the next 5 years, it would not be a bad thing. I hate to buy any chicken at any store these days. I have to go to an Asian market to get a regular chicken these days. I'm starting my own farm / ranch. I've had it with big agro and gov subsidized garbage. I'll be doing it the right damn way with chickens, beef, pork, and turkey. I'll even be raising bugs for feed. The big part of it will be aquaponic for both the fish and vegetables.
Yeah, and it will only cost more for those city boys who put their BMW's above the health of their families and don't care about their environment. I'm not an 'environmentalist;, I'm a land steward. Keeping people off the land and letting it take care of itself is as ludicrous as allowing the corporations do what they want to the land when it affects the health of the land and the people.
I hope you are rich, I’ve been trying this and it’s not easy. Best way to make
A million farming is to start with 2 million.
I live in suburbia and have chickens for my egg supply. No so fussed on their meat as it is low in fat.
When there are comments like "farming should be a way of life, not a way of making a living" and "we should go back to the way it was in the '40s and '50s" you know they are fighting a losing battle.
I wish to do sustainable farm in US and not sure where to start... I am here in Birmingham AL and I want to start with a backyard farm and grow from there...
Try to find and engage with an older farmer and exchange labor for knowledge, look for property farmland you can possibly lease or rent on crop shares be prepared to expend a lot of labor...look and research the historical/Heritage breeds of livestcock.. whether hogs chickens or sheep and Cows.. I prefer Tamworth hogs on Semi-confinemen/Pasture
The internet is a great source of information. Joel Salatin would be a good place to start your research. He gives all the practical, fundamental advice you could wish for.
Very good farming...back to everything natural, not just for profit.
Thank you! We need to end factory farming. If we consume animals, we must treat them humanely. My grandfather was a mixed farmer. He would have been horrified by a pig barn and cattle feed lots.
There are industrial-sized biogas digestors available to farmers. These digestors cook methane out of the sewage, and the methane is sold for heating fuel -- including electricity generation. When the last methane has been processed out of a batch, the leftover solid "digestate" makes high-nutrient fertilizer.
Great point.
One of the problems with raising smaller outdoor farming operations in the disappearance of smaller meat processing operations.
Yes, that needs to be remedied. It is shocking how many large processing plants have gone up in flames recently.
Small farms are the future, true cost of meat should be imposed and reductions must be made in human consumption of meat and farms must transition to Sustainable Farming Practices.
We have not become healthier since we increased our consumption of carbohydrates. It takes less than one bovine to feed me for a year. I grow fruit and vegetables, which I feed to my chickens for an egg supply. I live in suburbia. To reduce meat consumption is to harm human health. Chronic disease is now at the highest rate in recorded human history, so I disagree with your declaration of what we must do as you have failed to take in consideration all the confounders. Meat is the proper human diet.
dumb question - how do you feed pasture cows through the winter? Do you hay part of the acreage?
@Hello Chilcote how are you doing
If you look at an old recipe book(cook Book)
You'll see where they'll call for a whole fryer 3and 1/2 to 4 lbs. Most you can find are in the 5 lb. Average and that was my Mom and Grandma would have started to call a Broiler or Stewwer
@Hello Robert how are you doing
We all have to understand one simple matter. Without confinement operations, where will the needed foods come from? Yes I was born and raised on a family farm where the bottom line goal was to feed the family and have enough to pay the bills. We worked our tails off and didn't have a lot to show for it. Each to their own and let's all work to keeping and leaving our land in better shape than when we started
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Great video. As a person who does not have a multi-generation small farm to take over but dreams of a life commitment like this; what resources are out there to get started? I am close to middle aged, have a family, am a few years into my 2nd career and live in a mostly urban environment. With my little piece of ground I grow a garden and compost my vegetable waste either in backyard composters or with my basement vermicompost set-up. I would gladly trade this for a situation like any of these farms. I know I could do it if I had a successful plan to get started and it isn't some crazy idea that would hurt my family.
If there are those resources that anyone knows of please pass it along.
Again, great video.
Check out Joel Salatin; Learn some skills, lease land a practice.
Thanks for treating those hogs with respect big guy
So I live in Utah and am very interested in getting back to my farming heritage. Any advice or resources that I can leverage here in the west?
Chard TV Livestock Farming.. Watching here in Philippines
Thank you ! Saying hrllo from Germany, used to live in Bodton for 8 years.
Till years I eat meat! Because of the totured animals I was heart broken, when I became aware of it,. Than I est just t meat of happy animals I ended up becoming a vegetarien!
What if we used wood chips to absorb the hog waste? Then use the woodchips as mulch to grow your own hybrid poplars to make more wood chips to turn into more mulch and so on and so forth? The problem is you are getting the pig poop wet. Don't do that! We want to dry it out. Then we want to spread it out. But like he said I don't want them to stop raising hogs. Its just we are going to have to find ways of doing things that are more synergistic and kill more then one bird with each stone.
Cane Creek Farm
Eliza Maclean
She is awesome. I completely agree with her.
At 29 minutes into the video, you can see her farm.
“Thing will cost a bit more, but we will eat less of them, be healthier, and we will savor more and enjoy life more.”
We can all do our part to get this clean up of our Earth, by buying organic, local, and growing what we can the safe and sensible way. If we don't buy the poisons, they won't sell it.
True freedom is in the ownership of the land. We all need to structure government policy to incentivize the population to live on the land and not in a crowded centralized city which requires complex, expensive infrastructure with a constant need for maintenance and tax revenue. Industrialized agriculture is essentially destroying farming and this needs to change course so that more people can have an opportunity to own land. Subsidies are now based on volume of production but should be based on true need, start-ups and sustainability. Ideally subsidies should not be needed when sustainability is achieved.
Do a Google and RUclips search for " Polyface Farms , Joel Salatin " runs a permaculture style farm rotating pigs, cows, chickens and a few other things on sections of pasture the organic way! It helps the animals, soil and plant life and the people eating it. RUclips search Justin Rhodes also. He learned a lot from Joel Salatin.
He was just on Joe Rogan's podcast. Search it - it's quite interesting.
gorgeous
23:50 I lost it. Is that an old school bus? Lol
Out door is the best.