Topsoil: Sheep Farm Builds Soil in Only 3 Years!
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2020
- Hopeful story of Fort Causeway farm and how they went from no growth to lush pastures in only 3 years after implementing regenerative farming practices.
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humans re-learning stuff is the history of humanity
Do not stereotype :D In EU protecting soil has been regulated by law for a very long time already.
Nobody is relearning anything. This is known knowledge. Seeking out the knowledge and applying it is the failing.
@@jakob5914 LOL - So since 1992 then....I think the point is more that we learned all this over thousands of years.
yes, it is why we invented books, it's the best way to share knowledge.
@Chad Suave people who think they know alot but really dont can also share their view on the internet. Books are way more reliable
Reminds me of the mistakes Farmers made that caused the dustbowl of the 1930s. Farmers were sold land out in the west and they went out there to make their living. Instead of understanding the land and the environment, they tried to force nature to comply with what they wanted. They scalped the plains, removing grassland to make room for growing crops. The soil no longer had the grass to hold in the moisture and the rich soil turned to dust over several years. It wasn't until dust storms reached Congress that they realized just how bad the situation was. Farmers learned ways to enrich the soil and help it retain water. Trees were built to help break up wind blowing across the surface. Basically learning much as this farm did.
Unfortunately, not enough farmers have adopted the solutions. There are still huge dust storms, amazing as it may seem. Prairie needs to go back to being prairie if we ever want to see them end. With rotational grazing, we can grow lots of food on that prairie and keep the prairie healthy.
This looks a lot like what Alan Savery from Zimbabwe has been talking about for ages. There seems to be a lot of detractors in the scientific community who refute the effectiveness due to increased live stock etc. I'm no scientist but it seems like using nature as apposed to chemicals etc. seems to make common sense/:
The only contention I have is the carbon rich gasses that livestock put into the atmosphere in one form or another. I can, however, see the long-term benefits of reclaiming lost farmland.
@@armouredjester1622 When soil has a living food web of microorganisms plants will send half of the sugars that they produce down and out the roots as exudates as food for microbes. In exchange the microbes access and transport nutrients that the plant needs. Those sugars have a ton of carbon from the atmosphere that is sequestered into the soil as the microbes eat them. Beneficial fungi especially sequester carbon because their outer layer is made of chitin which is almost 50% carbon. The microbiology in an acre of healthy soil weighs 2 tons; that's a lot more carbon than livestock will produce! Plus grasses typically produce 33% more mass than can be decomposed naturally; when livestock eat the extra third they turn it into a pile of fertilizer that's inoculated with mostly beneficial life that inoculates the field
More money in chemicals, you know that
Great Video! Have you considered starting a worm farm? They create the BEST organic fertilizer in the world! I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden and to teach others how to care for them :) Keep up the great work!
@@armouredjester1622 Yes, the livestock will give off CO2. That's quickly offset by the plants and healthy ecosystem.
People have figured out that you need to feed the soil and have cover crop since the dust bowl 100 years ago
In Russia, in my village in Kazan, it is a traditional practice to feed and nuture your soil if you want to have good crops to feed and nurture you. We, when I was a child, saw that my village plants mustard greens first and once they are nearing to maturity they are spade and turn over to provide free nitrogen and compost-humus into the soil. And my village plant rows of densely planted giant Russian sunflowers spaced apart equal to their matured height so that they can act as windbreaks and as snow breaks to gather snow and to keep the snow in place so as to provide water and moisture for our crops planted in the fall or autuum and produce a sizable crop harvests in the spring after winter.
Others plants radishes which you Americans call tillage radishes with a nitrogen-fixing living perennial mulch called kura clover (and others) and planting giant Russian sunflowers as windbreaks and as snow breaks. The radishes' roots drills right into the soil during the late summer alongside with the perennial kura clover, and as the radishes matures it has already raised the deep mineral nutrients from the deep subsoil layers and bolts or self-seeds it's entire roots which are the tap roots and lateral roots and root hairs ferments into humus and provides the soil with nutrients and humus while the perennial kura clover's roots keeps intact the open spaces left behind by the radishes' roots as it's roots ferments into humus and is consumed by the kura clover and by other soil microorganisms in the soil. Then we plant the winter crops deeply to a depth of 6 to 8 inches right through the nitrogen-fixing perennial living mulch of kura clover (and others) which will become our spring harvests.
In Siberia we have to plant deeply to a depth of 6 to 8 inches to protect the germinating seeds from the frosts. In your America, the American Hopi Indian corn can be planted down to a depth of 6 to 18 inches. 2:51 hopi corn planted deeply down to 6 to 18 inches ruclips.net/video/28gAFESNGMU/видео.html .
In most Kazan farms, we now mix our seedgrains with a mixture of bio-activated composite rock dust powder mixture and bio-activated biochar powder to further increase their survivability and yields and nutritional quality and root penetration depth as deeply as possible.
@@darthvader5300 I just add char to my compost for the most part. It's honestly shocking to me that there have been books and traditions passed down about farming since it's come to be. Why people think we need chemicals to grow plants and stop pests/rodents
@@atex6175 When the population began to explode, I think people assumed there wouldn't be enough farmland to feed everyone. Then we had WWI with its development of nitrogen compounds for chemical weapons, after which they needed to turn those factories into something worthwhile so they came up with fertilizer. Once they started using nitrogen fertilizer, that got the ball rolling as it disturbed the balance and caused outbreaks of weeds and pests, all of which, naturally, needed a chemical fix. Like any drug addiction, it may take a while to get over it, but it can be done, and the rewards are pretty stunning: more money for the farmer, better tasting and more nutritious foods, employment for those who like working outside with their hands, far less pollution of our rivers and oceans, and a solution to global warming as both water and carbon get held in the soil like they used to be. It's the only thing that's given me much hope for the future. Everyone needs to eat, and demand is already giving us more and more from these farms like grass-fed meats and dairy products, pasture-raised pork, chicken, and eggs, etc.
People didn't learn much from tge dust bowl that humanity didn't already know. The dust bowl was a result of naive people being lied to and told that it would rain more if the ploughed the land, as an act of divine providence or sonething like that.
Thank you for sharing. Can not wait to join the movement. I have am a transitioning veteran entering Regenerative Agriculture. You sharing to others is key to increasing awareness in RegAG.
Glad you found value in the video. Good luck on your regenerative agriculture journey!
@@RegenerativeJourney Thank you Sir. My article just got published yesterday and you and others are the ones that inspired me. Enjoy you day Sir.
And the there is cover croping Anson family farms had quite a vidio
What a truly beautiful soul that farmer is. So happy they're finding a way out of their dilemma.
Yes, Keri and her family are amazing and resilient people. It was a privilege to meet them and share their story.
I did not farm myself, but I heard stories about farming every day. My grandparents have been farmers before communists took their land. They use to talk about crop rotation, about different plants helping each other, about allowing the land to rest and reganatare while animals grazed it. I forgot All about it until I started watching videos like yours on RUclips. Then I realized how much was lost due to the modern industrial agriculture and by the destruction of traditional farming.
Thanks for watching and for your comment! The good news is that the knowledge is not completely lost. We just need to work together to bring it back. Your grandparents farmed in a time where they had to care for the soil because there were no chemicals to depend on.
This is the reason the $cum€lite wants Us to Stop eat Meat...They know that this is the Only sustainable Way to Grow Healty Food...And They want to Destroy it...
@@eetunimee3883 no you daft conspiritard; it takes 10kg+ vegetation or grain to produce 1kg meat, so every bit of meat you eat raised on or from arable land increases the price of food for the poor and increases the amount of wild land needed to be converted to farmland to feed the increasing population. If you _reduce_ your meat intake and source it from marginal land not suited to agrarian farming you reduce the number of people going hungry and drive fewer species to extinction.
@@williamchamberlain2263 If you assume industrial farming you are right, but regenerative Ag is synergistic between animals, the soil and plants... that all work together.
@@rorywynhoff1549 doesn't affect the calorific output per square metre
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So wonderful to see Regenerative Agriculture in action!
I am doing my best on a suburban 1/10th of an acre. Adding rabbits to the mix has proved transformative! Blessings
Thanks for checking out the video! Cool to hear that rabbits are having such a positive impact. Animal integration at a small scale.
that's why crops rotation was used for hundreds of years
was gonna comment along the same line, crop rotation is a must. how can she comment about not knowing something as basic as that
Thousands of years. Even Hebrews practiced it.
But not if I've gotta eat 26oz instead of 32oz of beef everyday!
@@Nlcup They bought the place and couldn't grow anything. They weren't professional farmers... they called the co-op, did what they said.. they weren't soil experts. How'd you miss that?
@@CraigArndt because im not a farmer either but even i know something as simple as that
I learnt the hard way I my garden. Not much would grow, I fertilised with chicken manure and I could stop things growing. I use the fertiliser every year now. I also get horse manure in a pile and let the worms break it down and use it on my garden the following year.
People thought that grazing animal is making the greenhouse effect worse. But it actually helps to trap the carbon in the soil.
Grazing animals, especially cows, produce a lot of methane which is is what makes the greenhouse effect worse.
@@kaygee301 Altough what you said is partially right, there is more to it. Growing cattle inside does increase the greenhouse effect, but grazing for an extended period of time allows different soil microbes (methanotrophs) to emerge and live off that mehtane. Resulting in no impact on the greenhouse effect.
It is so sad to see that farmers all over the world are having a tough life (financially speaking).
This is even sadder as they are the workers that provide Food to the World...
We should be growing our own food.... Not relying on mass production.
Its very sad. They give everything and get nothing, then you look at wall street and they give nothing and get everything.🤷♂️
Bill Gates is growing our food now...
No, they are not. Most farmers are depleting their soils to feed animals in agriculture, not humans.
@@EyeSmiteThee That is actually a good discussion point. On a level I agree that less milages on transporitng food to plate and back to field is the ideal solution. What I would be afraid as a country is having security that your people are fed. It takes a lot of knowledge to grow produce and one mistake or pest can be devastating :( I belive a symbolic % of total food consumed should come from the consumers themselves, but to ensure food safety it is more efficient to have local semi-mass productions rather than global corporations.
Wonderful story - thanks for sharing this.
Amazing - incredible results. If we're friendly to the land it responds clearly. Well done. Mark (UK)
How can a farmer say:" soil biology is a new thing" ? Even the Mayas have known how to get the best crops by managing the soil.
But yes soil biology is 90% of farming. Cemicals and mechanic practises can only do the last 10%.
Glad I'm not the first one to rain on their parade. Viktor Shauberger and the Shauberger Institute have been preaching all this for almost a century. They have plows that don't disturb the soil biology, copper tools that "don't put steel in the ground" and engineering principals that improve irrigation and discourage erosion. It's just in "the past few decades" that industrial farming has depleted the soil so badly, we've been forced to actually listen to the hippies for once.
@ Miky and Rabid. Thanks for watching and for your comments. Yes, these are old farming practices that society at large has ignored or forgotten about. My goal in sharing these stories is to increase visibility of farmers trying to shift back to regenerative methods of farming in hopes of encouraging more wide spread adoption. Spread the word. :)
@@EnkiMMXII Actually there has been a great leap forward in biological and geological understanding of soils that began about 20 years ago. "No" it isn't information that has been 'ignored". (biologist)
Dust bowl should’ve taught’em
@@EnkiMMXII the actual metal of the tool doesnt matter; it's what the tools are and how they are used
It's good to hear. I think planting hedges and trees are helpful as well for regeneration and stabilisation of the land and bringing back life into sterile land.
Great job getting the message out there!
I'm glad you are so open minded. You are setting a great example for other people. One suggestion (and I have a black thumb that kills plants) could you leave a little trim around your fields, for the flowers and other plants that grow naturally for the bees and insects. I think healthy farms need insects. Maybe a few bird boxes and bat nesting boxes too. Bird and bat manure is great for soil, and for them to eat pesky insects.
I live in (USA), the state of New Jersey.
@Dr. Christopher Johnson New Jersey is fine, a little high I think on the pollen count. The winter had very little snow, which is and isn't unusual. When I was a child in the 60's we always got lots of snow, now some winters barely any snow and some winters lots of snow, so you never can tell. Lately it is been very cool and rainy, which is kind of unusual. All the trees and flowers are in bloom so it looks very beautiful. Thanks for asking.
Yes!! your farming soil! your on the ryt side of history
Awesome channel! Keep up the regenerative storytelling!! Subbed*
Thanks for the complement and for subscribing!
Such a great message, wow what a transformation in the soil!
Thanks! Their story is pretty inspirational. And they'll be the first to tell you there's more work to be done to continue improving the soil on their farm.
Really glad RUclips is pushing this in suggestions
Glad to hear you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching. This is important stuff to be talking about. :)
This is the first video of yours that I've discovered. Your channel is really entertaining, thank you for your content!
You're welcome Karim! There are so many stories to share of people out there doing important work. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for sharing guys!!! Love it! And good luck 😎
Awesome!! Keep up the great work!
Great storytelling!
Thanks! And thanks for watching.
This is why you want compulsory, separate, science classes in early secondary education; we'd covered basic soil biology in biology class, and basic soil hydrology and erosion in geography class, both fully supported by the text books, by age 14.
Are you from Europe? I find that food tastes exponentially better in Europe than in America. I assume most of that is due to soil health. Farming in America is horrendous.
@@SuWoopSparrow also processing, allowed additives, allowed minimum proportions. Have a look at the definition of 'chocolate' and 'milk chocolate' in the US, EU, and UK
Yes, I think this needs to be a part of our education system, but taught in a way that we can relate to. So much of what we're taught in school seems detached from our day-to-day lives. I think this knowledge is more likely to resonate with students if they understand that the way their food is grown directly impacts their health, their community, the economy, and the environment. Thanks for your comment and for watching! :)
Very interesting! It is so good to see other people's experiences. Thank you for sharing.
There's so much we can learn from each other. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Love this Good people make our World better place
the really encouraging thing is you can turn around very poor soil in a relatively short time frame. it doesnt take decades to reverse the process.
Under normal conditions it takes a century to form an inch of topsoil.
@@martinphilip8998 that is a badly abused quote. It takes 100+years to **form topsoil from rock**. This has nothing to do with the rehabilitation of existing soil.
@@yt.damian I’ll accept that correction. I live in central Illinois. My father-in-law built this house and didn’t strip away the topsoil. I have added much humus in the 30 years I’ve lived here. I have two tillers and don’t use them.
@@martinphilip8998 keep up the great work.
Yes, we purchased a similar property, that had been farmed 'old school', everything was depleted & completely bare.
We also started with regenerative /holistic & the difference is amazing, & productive. Always good to know that we are growing in numbers, working hand in hand with nature, less work & enjoying it. Greetings from Australia 🌺🇦🇺
Hi VK. You can reach out directly to the farmers profiled in this video through their website or Facebook: www.fortcauseway.com/. They likely won't see this comment. I think they'd appreciate hearing from you. :) Keep up the great work in Australia.
I just made an experiment on top soil in the backyard, using only the power of "dozens of ducks", not chickens or pigs because ducks can't scavenge the soil, and they seem like compost makers, the result is that every weed and kitchen waste directly becomes compost in the field, no need to pile up garbage in compost box, the weeds died when they stepped on them, their droppings became the worm's favorite food in the backyard, and then once a week I plow the land, the result is that the protein from the worms is very abundant in the soil, ducks lay a lot of eggs, and once every three months I rotate and plant very big organic vegetables.
Nice!
What breed(s) of ducks?
Nice 👍
Amazing , duck eeg is much better than chicken eeg
Hi! Do you have some water around for the ducks or are they exclusively on land? Do you have to fees them or with the worms is enough for the ducks you have? Not a farmer, living in an apartment. I'd love to have a backyard and run some experiments like yours.
Wonderful wonderful! Keep going. Teach others more!!
That was a very interesting video, and definitely food for thought, with no pun intended, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very inspiring video, thank you!
Lovell Wyoming, annual rainfall 6.3 inches. Finally figured out that I can look it up
these stories of regeneration bring tears to my eyes
Great work... 😊
I really wish more people would subscribe to your channel, you make such great videos. Maybe consider interviewing some of the mainstream regenerative farmers Like Gabe Brown, Dr. Allen Williams, Dr. David Johnson. Their names and stories are trending and could bring in more views for you.
Yeah, my goal is to spread the stories of these farmers and others working in regenerative agriculture to as many people as possible. People are slowly but surely finding the channel. I think profiling a more mainstream farmer might get the channel more attention but I want to make sure that I'm sharing the stories of not so well none farmers as well. Spread the word! Share my channel if you think it will inform and inspire folks. Thanks for tuning in!
Great story thanks
I love the tiller mindset. There are people that are no plowing but she has a good solid reason to till. To get water deeper to the roots.
Ever had French chocolate mousse? It’s divine. The duck eggs, cream and chocolate, so exquisite and delicate, it’s gently folded to combine.
That’s an allegory for tilling the soil, not too much like a brut, just enough to achieve your goal but with minimal negative impacts. The key line plow is good for heavy compact clay that I see there, it’s the same soil type I farm in central Texas.
You usually can't quit tillage and chemical usage cold turkey. Eventually you can eliminate it all, but it takes time.
great video
Sheep are a bit of a forgotten story in the Regen Ag movement but they are a lot cheaper to get started with and are ideal for smaller acreages. Nice little film, though I admit, I'd have preferred it to be much longer and with much more detail but maybe next time. Thanks.
Thanks for watching Shadiya! I'm still trying to figure out the best format and level of detail for these videos. I'm trying to convey the value of farming regeneratively while attempting to hold the attention of the audience. I'd love to hear any further thoughts you have on how to make future videos more valuable. Thanks!
Also, if you are a farmer and have more specific questions about how this ranch operates, feel free to contact the farmers. They are happy to field questions. Email them at fortcauseway@gmail.com.
i love a good makeover. landscape design, home interiors, personal style, and regenerative agriculture!!!!
If she does plant an orchard, she'll probably see even more benefit for the soil and productivity of her crops.
It´s possible! You see...!!! Just do it! Let´s #SaveSoil Let´s make ist happen!
Cool...looking good...imagine how beautiful the land will be in ten years. I've been playing the long game for 14 years! And have slowly seen some soil improvement...gotta get some animals!
Sounds like you're doing some good work. Keep it up!
great content
Thanks Chen! Thanks for watching.
They say that the pasture farming of the Middle East and North Africa destroyed the land and turned it to desert. It would be interesting to see how this could be done over there for a 20-50 years and see if they can combat desertifcation.
Also goats, and wood-fuelled cooking/heating fires, and no land management organisation/govt; goats eat everything including trees.
@I need more constructive outlets the fact that China has done so well after European control and intervention in its government and the nations of Africa has not progressed shows that is not the European involvement. Is the nature and culture of the people.
I recall another video, from an expert who acknowledged that the advice given at the time to countries in Africa was wrong; the reduction of ruminants, to increase the grassland, in now what is desert. Clearly the use of ruminants to put back what has been lost is a win win, all you need is some water.
@I need more constructive outlets Rhodesian average IQ 100. Zimbabwean average IQ 65. Its just genetics given the population bottlenecks that occurred in Northern Europe (selecting for high IQ) that didn't occur in Africa.
It's been proven that cattle eating and trampling grasses can help savannas grow - there are a few good videos on it specifically in Africa where desertification has taken hold.
If Dr Elaine shared this video on her Facebook then it’s worth watching
That's so amazing that she shared this. I'm very grateful. I hope to meet her someday and maybe share her story as well. Thanks for watching and for your comment. 🙂
Beautiful
Thank you for check out the video!
Amazing
Wow, great!
Our American farm land is in such a Crisis, techniques like this MUST/SHOULD be requirements for all farmers! Your water RIGHTS should be based on how well you take care of your land! That way your neighbors would be more than willing to help you!
So if we do that then any person who has dead grass or a trashed yard in the city should have their water turned off or if their car is rusty or squeaking should have to park their car right?
I think a suitable punishment for not taking care of your soil should be, I don't know, some of your fields don't grow crops well. Wait a minute...
@@cornfed123567 not to mention what they do to you if you have ugly kids..
great story and so many of these success stories! soil health works on all land around the world. you will get some people that will argue that biology farming is old and it is but its been put aside since the 40s when chemical farming came into mainstream ag. take the subsidies out of farming and i bet a lot more farmers figure out how to grow food and you wouldnt see so much 5 bushel gain products.
Planting the orchard will get you good soil. Its the biggest tool you have. Dont wait till the job is done to break out the best tool (but takes the longest). Very first thing should be the trees.
10/10 great clip cheers👍
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
goodfarm👍 from malaysia😀
Offering this land to agrovoltaic investors would also retain moisture...as well as generate a lease income for the graizers...all while healing the soul. Plus eliminate the Francher's electric bills...bring in electric tractors and ATVs and work gets easier. So many side benefits to this idea to lease the land and still be able to continue the regenerative animal business underneath the arrays. Brilliant.
Oregon State University has a pilot program going right now.
Thanks Michael. I looked it up. That's an interesting concept. As long as enough sun was getting through to the underlying plants, then I think that'd be a good addition. Thanks for sharing!
@@RegenerativeJourney plants and grasses dont need all the sunlight sent down. And as the shadows move the grasses get all they need. Same concept as silvo pasture or agriforestry.
I love the video and the idea, but the sentence "We had no idea that your soil is what helps things grow" made me shed a grateful tear for having received European education. Good luck guys, great job!
very cool
Very good
Go read about it. Google has it.
Hi there. Any barren / waste land can be converted to fertile soil.
Add / dump as much organic matter as you can.
Organic matter example : Dung / Poo of any living things including humans, food waste, agriculture waste and so on.
Its the most efficient and economical way of bringing life to waste / barren land.
The toxicity will also decrease significantly if any found in the land
Amazing, hopefully my two sheep are making some impact on my soul microbiology...this is our first year!
Michael Sparks you only keep 2 sheep? Do you house them with other grazing animals?
@@moregardening5014 no, I had 3, one died... Now have two. This was my first year and didn't want to go overboard.
Michael Sparks totally gets it, it’s my first year with sheep too. I’d definitely recommend getting at least 2-3 more. They’re a lot more comfortable in a herd and if you lose another one the last will be really unhappy.
Thanks for checking out the video. I'm sure the sheep will have a positive impact if managed properly. If you have any sheep related questions feel free to contact the folks profiled in this video. They told me they were happy to field questions. Email them at fortcauseway@gmail.com. Good luck!
I built mine in that time with free wodchips and chickens. Went from sugar sand to permaculture.
My ancestors used to bury fish to re seed the earth. Modern science is a great tool to have, but not the only tool.
I saw a TedTalk where they used sheep to rebuild landscapes. It was pretty cool.
Feed the soil and it will feed you!
100 years ago what we now consider agricultural did not exist.
Regenerative Ag is a return to what has fed the world up until the corporate takeover of farming.
I love these stories!
Thanks Rory! Agriculture around the world certainly needs to shift back to more regenerative practices. Let's keep the conversation going so that others become aware. :)
I really like the concept of the content you are offering. Rough and destroyed soil is a description that is far too common. I can't afford good land and there's plenty of bad to choose from.
Thanks SLFYSH! Land isn't cheap, and yes, land is degraded, but I'm encouraged by farmers and companies now working to regenerate it. We just need to increase the scale of regeneration. Your interest and support are part of the solution.
As a farmer, this makes me question how did you end up as a farmer in the first place :D
That's a good question and not something I went into in the video, i.e. their limited history as farmers. I will say, though, that I think we will be seeing a lot of new farmers in the future because someone will have to replace the farmers that are retiring or dying of old age. I think the average age of a farmer in the US is around 60 years old. So all of the new people coming into farming are going to have to start from scratch in terms of their knowledge about farming. That's good and bad. Good because they hopefully won't adopt practices that are destructive and bad because there's a whole lot to learn about farming successfully. Thanks for watching and for your comment. :)
@@RegenerativeJourney Good answer! Thanks :)
In Russia, in my village in Kazan, it is a traditional practice to feed and nuture your soil if you want to have good crops to feed and nurture you. We, when I was a child, saw that my village plants mustard greens first and once they are nearing to maturity they are spade and turn over to provide free nitrogen and compost-humus into the soil. And my village plant rows of densely planted giant Russian sunflowers spaced apart equal to their matured height so that they can act as windbreaks and as snow breaks to gather snow and to keep the snow in place so as to provide water and moisture for our crops planted in the fall or autuum and produce a sizable crop harvests in the spring after winter.
Others plants radishes which you Americans call tillage radishes with a nitrogen-fixing living perennial mulch called kura clover (and others) and planting giant Russian sunflowers as windbreaks and as snow breaks. The radishes' roots drills right into the soil during the late summer alongside with the perennial kura clover, and as the radishes matures it has already raised the deep mineral nutrients from the deep subsoil layers and bolts or self-seeds it's entire roots which are the tap roots and lateral roots and root hairs ferments into humus and provides the soil with nutrients and humus while the perennial kura clover's roots keeps intact the open spaces left behind by the radishes' roots as it's roots ferments into humus and is consumed by the kura clover and by other soil microorganisms in the soil. Then we plant the winter crops deeply to a depth of 6 to 8 inches right through the nitrogen-fixing perennial living mulch of kura clover (and others) which will become our spring harvests.
In Siberia we have to plant deeply to a depth of 6 to 8 inches to protect the germinating seeds from the frosts. In your America, the American Hopi Indian corn can be planted down to a depth of 6 to 18 inches. 2:51 hopi corn planted deeply down to 6 to 18 inches ruclips.net/video/28gAFESNGMU/видео.html .
In most Kazan farms, we now mix our seedgrains with a mixture of bio-activated composite rock dust powder mixture and bio-activated biochar powder to further increase their survivability and yields and nutritional quality and root penetration depth as deeply as possible.
@@darthvader5300 That is super interesting to read, I am not that far from your geological region (Estonia). What are the crops that you harvest for food/feed eventually?
In Germany, you learn exactly these connections in the dual training to become a farmer.
Knowledge is the basis for success. Only copying, because it has always been done this way, does not lead to a solution in the event of problems.
It's great to hear Germany offers training to help farmers understand some of these principles. We need more of that type of education around the world.
@@RegenerativeJourney I'm not even a farmer and know this. Things like crop rotation and letting the soil rest is basic knowledge you get taught in every entry level biology course. (At least in Germany/Europe)
@@m93sek if you rotate crops but don't being in a lot of biological material you have to utilize basically all of your vertical light (💯 edge) and have a huge diversity of plants, and support an ecosystem of animals.
Nutrients cycle faster in a more robust network of life and if you rotate regularly only, you're resetting that life regularly
@@RegenerativeJourney In UK it is virtually compulsory to go to Agricultural college to learn about soil, crop rotation and maintaining hedges which are protected by law in UK. To try and be a commercial farmer without attending college would be folly.
@@m93sek Yea, crop rotation and soil rest is common knowledge from schools, but not the biology in the soil and that it is able to CREATE soil pretty fast. Check out what Elaine Ingham is teaching (about the soil food web). We didn't learn that in schools or even universities!
how can you not know the soil is important when buying a farm or field to grow stuff?
That was my first thought now I think these new farmers will spread the word and eventually provide a way for others.
Sad that this is just scratching the surface. I'd watch a hour about what exactly you have to do when... And I'm living in a city apartment. ;)
Any experience with terra preta? Similar approach?
Like all of the soil that they built in Iceland, not to mention the bog and lokin in the highlands.
nice dog
nice dirt guys
people have been saying for years that we should get rid of cows and sheep, but this example shows us that having livestock revitalizes the land and contributes greatly to a practice largely forgotten by most of agriculture, that ancient practice being Crop Rotations. those Barley Farmers that froze their harvest cycles to only Barley is not only losing them money but more importantly slowly destroying their soil. agri-contracts should be stopped since they will destroy the agricultural industry as a whole.
Also; looks very small soil grains; if you have access to local clean sand or gypsum that would have helped open it up for infiltration in the early days.
sand can open space to air and help drainage, though if I have to add anything I would try to make that air grow as a result of a highly living soil and try to get a soil that drains easily because lignocelulosic humus, organic matter and living forms lightens and opens it rather than rigidize it. But is just my opinion. Of course sand would be needed for some crops, so I would consider it on the basis of the crop rather than use it as a general solution.
Had sheep on my land for 6 years,,,,,ground, soil not changed at all....Now I think its time to leave it empty, alone & leave it empty, let nature take course..
I have a small garden, during winter i bury organic waste like fishguts foodwaste in the soil. I have worms in the soil that are huge.
I think you are a long way from being able to farm anything that requires tillage because the gains you have made would be destroyed as soon as you till. In a situation like yours I think you could grow a tilled crop on a tenth of your land every year and rotate that crop land so that the plowed portion doesn’t get tilled up for another ten years. You could consider raising chickens or other birds to follow two days behind the sheep. This would give you another crop to sell while still improving your soil. As you soil gets better you could add in cows to graze after the sheep and before the birds. Systems like this look at livestock as a number of pounds per animal. So for instance a cow weighs ten times more than a sheep and a chicken weighs maybe 6-7 times less than a sheep. So if you are grazing 100 sheep you could follow them with 10 cows and follow them with 600 birds. The chickens will be eating grain which is imported on to the farm so their manure is no loss in terms of the grass eaten.They also eat the maggots in the manure. You should be carful about the chicken manure and consider if their manure would be a detriment in terms of adding salts to your soil which is in dry region and could make the soil too alkaline.
idk what this about. is this new to them?
Firstdone in africa. Successfully.
Great Video! Have you considered starting a worm farm? They create the BEST organic fertilizer in the world! I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden and to teach others how to care for them :) Keep up the great work!
Where are yall located?
I am hosting a Regenerative agriculture conference February 18-19 2022 in Texarkana to TRY to gather like minded folks.
Were looking for more people...
Hi John. My family and I live on the road full-time and am not sure where we'll be during those dates but likely somewhere in the southwest US escaping the cold. Let me know the best way to contact you directly and we can at least explore the idea further. Thanks for your interest!
Comforting to see farmers really understand the biology of their profession.
Thanks for watching Finn. Yes, I think this is becoming more and more common, especially for farmers that can use that knowledge to help improve their soil and their farm's bottom line.
@@RegenerativeJourney You have the most important profession in the world. Keeping the soil fertile is key to the survival of all of us. Keep up the good work!
@@finnjacobsen684 This is the reason the $cum€lite wants Us to Stop eat Meat...They know that this is the Only sustainable Way to Grow Healty Food...And They want to Destroy that...
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I see bald /treeless hills behind your property they also need some of the same treatment , from you dirt DOCTORS / farmers / wizards , good job it starts under the grass carpet and spreads across the valley through the forest, sadly world wide our ancestors cut all trees and over grazes more and more, not knowing the damage that was to come , good job good luck your kids will thank you :)
Hi is there any way that I can get in contact with the sheep farmer in the interview? I run sheep in Alabama as well and would like to expand my genetics if possible!
You can contact them through their website or Facebook. They're really great people and would probably love to talk to you. www.fortcauseway.com/
Try Greg Judy in Missouri. He’s doing St. Croix. All pasture based systems.
How helpful would you say the Keylime plowing was in improving your soil?
Hi Tricia! Thanks for watching! I only created the video and am not the farmer but can answer your question. The farmers explained to me that regenerating their soil was not really possible without the key line plow. The compaction was so bad that the sheep alone may not have been able to break up the compaction. The key line plow really sped up the regeneration process. Feel free to reach out to the farm directly using the links in the video description.
I would like to do so
When we bought small holding it was mostly sand.. and weeds.. but I want to build soil.. I like trees, and I like nature.. so after mulching the invasive trees we needed to move to next step.. make soil.. so we got sheep.
Farmers who didn’t know the importance of soil - what did they do earlier - I have an allotment this is basic stuff - god help us
This kind of thing is totally normal in any field. You get tunnel vision when you delve in deep and can miss the most obvious things. Your self-righteousness is not helping here.
In these interviews pls mention what the rainfall is and what region it's in?
Good feedback. Thanks! And thanks for watching.
Have you considered using Biochar?
Yes it's soil that grow plant ....
*Those that lived in medieval times understood this. That is why through the 13th century to the 19th they had crop rotation and allow the fields to become fallow. Allowing only grazing by sheep and cattle. Then with the beginning of chemical federalization in the 19th century much of this knowledge was lost.*
hi brother its good work.. do u heard about Nammazhvaar in india... he was change the waste land to agri land just in less than a year...
Just looked him up. Thanks for sharing.
will this work with goats as well?