Wow! Seven years after 2015 and I (in my twilight years) am hoping and praying that these common sense and profound pearls of wisdom have spread sufficiently across the Planet. Guaranteeing peace, prosperity and abundance to all future generations. Amen.
Holistic Planned Grazing, a part of Holistic Management works, beautifully! For additional clarity: 37:20 According to the research done by Dr. Elaine Ingham, soil microbiologist, the roots of grasses do not die back when the plant is grazed or grown, if the grasses and forbs (broadleafed forage plants) are growing in living soil - if the millions of microbes that should be present in every teaspoon of soil are alive and well. Grasses are far better, she says, at feeding this soil food web than trees (though trees and shrubs are important, too). Grasses pump large amounts of carbon into the soil via root exudates that feed the soil food web - which in turn make minerals from the soil available to the plants. These microbes also structure the soil, allowing air and water to penetrate, which in turn supports healthy root growth. Plants, animals, soil microbes... they all need each other to thrive.
I see your posts on many Holistic Management and related videos. I'm on a small farm beginning managed grazing with a small cow and sheep herd. Would you be available for answering questions? I can privately message you if that would work better.
Thank you all for this beautiful and planet saving work. I manage land on the big island of Hawaii and this holistic management plan looks like the answer I've been looking for. I will be sharing this with others and contacting the resources listed to see how to apply this program to our land as soon as possible. If there are any additional holistic, tropical resources that you could share with me I would be so grateful. Aloha
Precisely. But there is no money in it. That's why they ignore it. Like the keto diet and intermittent fasting. The easiest and most effective way to get healthy and best of all it actually lowers the food bill. But there is no money in it so it's ignored by mainstream media.
Very enjoyable to watch. I understand what carbon sequestration means now. Thanks. I really appreciated the the graphics with the explanations. The various scenery was nice as well as the diversity of farmers and land managers.
Many good ideas contained in this film. I'm slightly puzzled though, by the apparent conflict (not in this film, but from some of it's participants) between holistic management and permaculture. The claims are that on the one hand some land is only suitable for grazing and cannot sustain food crops, whereas permaculture techniques have been applied to deserts and yielded food forests. And some permaculture proponents level the accusation that holistic management is just an excuse to eat more beef. Personally, I think both techniques have beneficial properties and should not be mutually exclusive - they both add more carbon to the soil and increase biodiversity.
+finlarg I agree they are perfectly compatible no need to separate both, in fact they can benefit each other as we seen at Jeff Leuton's Zeitunia farm in Asutralia, he uses planed grazing for his permaculture design.
You know, maybe Australia will be the first country to wake up and repair the damage done to this world. We have cattle that are free on the land, we have sheep that run free and just maybe, we can stop shooting the camels that could help repair the red centre.
Actually cattle are being blamed, that's the whole problem. Industry are doing the blaming and the majority of the people believe what they're told. They think the cattle and sheep don't belong on the land anymore.
Looking for a single reason or factor is part of the reductive fallacy created by the "scientific method". Water vapor is the greenhouse gas holding the most heat. Carbon dioxide is the key to moving water vapor from the air and into the soil. Planting diverse plantings and learning to dance with them what brought you is key.
If AU raise carbon lvl by 1%, they can remove all co2 the world produce in one 1 year or what? Then they need to raise it with 1% every year, that is not possible
It's good that you brought that up! Actually, that same amount of carbon can be sequestered in soils year after year. In the USA, herds of around 35 million bison, (plus pronghorn antelope, deer, elk...) were a key factor in creating the once rich, deep soils of the 'bread basket' of America. Carbon rich soils were so deep, that even after a couple hundred years of essentially mining those soils via tilling for row crops, along with wind and rain erosion (US agriculture 'produces' more soil runoff into to Gulf of Mexico each year than it produces in tons of soy, corn, and other grains) - and yet it is not all gone yet!If the bison and herds of other herbivores had continued to roam, the soil would have been continuously built. OR we can restore the natural relationship between herds of herbivores and the land by raising our livestock in a manner that mimics the movement of these herds across the land.That is the goal of Holistic Planned Grazing.
She says that 1% carbon in AU soils can take up all the worlds co2, so what about in 50 years, the carbon will have to be 50% in the soils then and in 100 years, it haves to be 100% carbon.
While driving around the entire State of Wyoming, just last September, I saw NO Wild Bison roaming around. There has been a nearly complete destruction of all of the wild range animals, and the predators which act to keep these herds healthy, and on the move, and, then, their sporadic substitution with modern "domesticated" variants, (cattle, sheep). Unnecessary fencing has limited the movement of any herds, as well. The ecology of the land is severely degraded because of stupid, selfish, greedy human decisions, (often politically biased, and motivated). Too many trigger-happy idiots think that by being a "hunter" that it somehow makes them a "vital" part of the ecological process, when it is merely STUPID for humans to interfere with the healthy members of wild species. At most hunters should only be allowed to "take/harvest" the sick, and lame/road killed animals! Poachers should be shot on sight.
Wow! Seven years after 2015 and I (in my twilight years) am hoping and praying that these common sense and profound pearls of wisdom have spread sufficiently across the Planet. Guaranteeing peace, prosperity and abundance to all future generations. Amen.
Listen to these farmers, they're the wisest people on the planet. They know what they're talking about.
Why, after all these years haven't millions of people seen this program?
Man, I am so proud to know that there are people out there who feel this way. I promise to do my share- and as much more as I can manage.
Holistic Planned Grazing, a part of Holistic Management works, beautifully! For additional clarity: 37:20 According to the research done by Dr. Elaine Ingham, soil microbiologist, the roots of grasses do not die back when the plant is grazed or grown, if the grasses and forbs (broadleafed forage plants) are growing in living soil - if the millions of microbes that should be present in every teaspoon of soil are alive and well.
Grasses are far better, she says, at feeding this soil food web than trees (though trees and shrubs are important, too). Grasses pump large amounts of carbon into the soil via root exudates that feed the soil food web - which in turn make minerals from the soil available to the plants.
These microbes also structure the soil, allowing air and water to penetrate, which in turn supports healthy root growth. Plants, animals, soil microbes... they all need each other to thrive.
I see your posts on many Holistic Management and related videos. I'm on a small farm beginning managed grazing with a small cow and sheep herd. Would you be available for answering questions? I can privately message you if that would work better.
Thank you all for this beautiful and planet saving work. I manage land on the big island of Hawaii and this holistic management plan looks like the answer I've been looking for. I will be sharing this with others and contacting the resources listed to see how to apply this program to our land as soon as possible. If there are any additional holistic, tropical resources that you could share with me I would be so grateful. Aloha
Why is this not more widely known?! This could easily take care of this "global warming" hoopla being spread about.
Precisely. But there is no money in it. That's why they ignore it. Like the keto diet and intermittent fasting. The easiest and most effective way to get healthy and best of all it actually lowers the food bill. But there is no money in it so it's ignored by mainstream media.
Very enjoyable to watch. I understand what carbon sequestration means now. Thanks. I really appreciated the the graphics with the explanations. The various scenery was nice as well as the diversity of farmers and land managers.
Many good ideas contained in this film. I'm slightly puzzled though, by the apparent conflict (not in this film, but from some of it's participants) between holistic management and permaculture. The claims are that on the one hand some land is only suitable for grazing and cannot sustain food crops, whereas permaculture techniques have been applied to deserts and yielded food forests. And some permaculture proponents level the accusation that holistic management is just an excuse to eat more beef. Personally, I think both techniques have beneficial properties and should not be mutually exclusive - they both add more carbon to the soil and increase biodiversity.
+finlarg I agree they are perfectly compatible no need to separate both, in fact they can benefit each other as we seen at Jeff Leuton's Zeitunia farm in Asutralia, he uses planed grazing for his permaculture design.
To me so called Holistic grazing is just one of many permaculture design elements
ikooch1 yup if u are going to grow permaculture food.... HM can stand alone if its being used to heal grassland/arid land pastures...
Or, as Allan Savory would say, Holistic Planned Grazing. :)But yes, it's silly for the proponents of peremaculture and Holistic Management to fight.
to paraphrase Paul Wheaton, there's many school's of thought under the permaculture umbrella, and a lot of arseholes.
You know, maybe Australia will be the first country to wake up and repair the damage done to this world. We have cattle that are free on the land, we have sheep that run free and just maybe, we can stop shooting the camels that could help repair the red centre.
Actually cattle are being blamed, that's the whole problem. Industry are doing the blaming and the majority of the people believe what they're told. They think the cattle and sheep don't belong on the land anymore.
Why can't we all get along?
Looking for a single reason or factor is part of the reductive fallacy created by the "scientific method".
Water vapor is the greenhouse gas holding the most heat.
Carbon dioxide is the key to moving water vapor from the air and into the soil.
Planting diverse plantings and learning to dance with them what brought you is key.
A very informative, well rounded documentary.
Thank you.
Shame about the terrible, unnecessary music throughout it though.
VG video
Why is "Chemical Warfare" outlawed, in times of "War", yet, if you say it's for agriculture, it's "JUST FINE"/REQUIRED/OK"!!!??!!!!
Good video
We still need to worry about the deforestation of the Amazon.
Both are a problem.
I hit pause instantly just to say, could this be presented in shorter bits, like under 5 min?
amen sister
Why? You gotta go have a crap?
@@modsa8901 you got all day to sit frozen in front of a screen?
Absolutely...and there are several other versions much shorter. thanks for the good thoughts...we'll look at getting those out.
Also see James DeMeo from the USA about it and "desert greening "and Wilhelm Reich and Orgon and Viktor Schauberger.
If AU raise carbon lvl by 1%, they can remove all co2 the world produce in one 1 year or what? Then they need to raise it with 1% every year, that is not possible
It's good that you brought that up! Actually, that same amount of carbon can be sequestered in soils year after year. In the USA, herds of around 35 million bison, (plus pronghorn antelope, deer, elk...) were a key factor in creating the once rich, deep soils of the 'bread basket' of America. Carbon rich soils were so deep, that even after a couple hundred years of essentially mining those soils via tilling for row crops, along with wind and rain erosion (US agriculture 'produces' more soil runoff into to Gulf of Mexico each year than it produces in tons of soy, corn, and other grains) - and yet it is not all gone yet!If the bison and herds of other herbivores had continued to roam, the soil would have been continuously built. OR we can restore the natural relationship between herds of herbivores and the land by raising our livestock in a manner that mimics the movement of these herds across the land.That is the goal of Holistic Planned Grazing.
She says that 1% carbon in AU soils can take up all the worlds co2, so what about in 50 years, the carbon will have to be 50% in the soils then and in 100 years, it haves to be 100% carbon.
While driving around the entire State of Wyoming, just last September, I saw NO Wild Bison roaming around. There has been a nearly complete destruction of all of the wild range animals, and the predators which act to keep these herds healthy, and on the move, and, then, their sporadic substitution with modern "domesticated" variants, (cattle, sheep). Unnecessary fencing has limited the movement of any herds, as well. The ecology of the land is severely degraded because of stupid, selfish, greedy human decisions, (often politically biased, and motivated). Too many trigger-happy idiots think that by being a "hunter" that it somehow makes them a "vital" part of the ecological process, when it is merely STUPID for humans to interfere with the healthy members of wild species. At most hunters should only be allowed to "take/harvest" the sick, and lame/road killed animals! Poachers should be shot on sight.