"the more I explained to people what we were doing there, the less I agreed with it" Man, it takes a lot of courage to admit that about a job that is your livelihood and to then just quit it and follow your true ideals. Much respect.
I loved this video so much! I had no idea about this farm existing not too far from where I live. It gives me so much joy and hope to see people really taking care of the land
Thank you! I'm going to make a lot more videos like this soon, but each will be of a different farm in a different part of Europe. However, it would be an amazing project to do next - follow a small number of farms all year long, and share the progress over the seasons and years.
Wow man! 😍 Howard is sooo inspiring! Thank you Rafael sooo much! I am following your podcast for some months now and I really love how you do it. You have such variety of coversation partners and you are trying really pasionately to get all the information and knowledge from them, and the questions are so well taught that we, listeners, can understand what they are talking about and learn from it. The joy that the most of your interviewees have when they are talking about regenerative agriculture make me so hopefull about future and as well make me believe that , one day, I will have my own regenerative farm which I am dreaming about. Your podcast is like a course of reg farming; I am learning so much things. Especialy from people like Howard; it is very important to hear stories from people that are living their dreams. Some podcasts I have listend two or three times. 🙃 I would like to find a farm (which I am searching already) in Europe and start working there and learn on the field how to do things. Hopefully, I will find a person like Howard from whom I can learn a lot and to whom I can help a lot. I have so much energy ( and some experience in gardening) and I want to spend it for regeneration, for growing the healthy soil that will provide nutritional food and biodiversity. If you have any information how to get more knowledge or how to get on a farm to work (which would be the best solution😍) I would be very greatfull? Thank you and just do what you do! Congratulations! 👋👋
Hi, thank you so much for your message and for these incredibly kind words! This year I'm going to focus a lot more on farmers and visiting farms. This was a first test but I will be going a lot deeper down this path. So hopefully people get to hear more inspiring stories and learn the innovative methods tried and tested by the top pioneers around Europe. I wish you the very best in your quest to become a regenerative farmer! It's a beautiful dream to have and we need more people with your passion and enthusiasm to do it 😍
Great, greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. I started a veggie patch in my back yard of my suburban home and a small food forest in my front yard. I dug a trench to catch the water from my roof and put it into the soil. I planted 6 trees, but only 2 survived so I have started 2 more in pots and when they get bigger 1 will go into the front food forest and 1 in my back yard. Small, but very regenerative.
The whole meat production has simply gotten out of hand. I once said at a post, which happens to be from a farm, that all the cows had diarrhea because of the food and medication they were given. They thought I was crazy because that wasn't true this and that... so I formulated the question to that farmer, what do you feed and how do you keep your animals healthy? The answer was the exact the opposite of what he had previously claimed to me. It was so easy to find out because we have a nature reserve in Zeeland where cattle roam around freely and they really do poop solid poop. Now the story of penned cattle. I remember that the time of the "battery hen" was severely prohibited in the early 90s. But what is still happening? Indeed, chickens are still kept in spaces that are too small, pigs don't go outside at all (they have even become albino because they no longer get sunlight), veal calves that have never been outside and so on. The Netherlands is purely and solely in it for the money. The farmers get a small compensation, the quality of the meat is pitiful and the suffering is such that we are actually talking about a product. Isn't that scandalous?!! Stop mass production then we will have more space to build, nature reserves and much more peace around us. Let those countries that often have enormous spaces themselves produce their meat. Enough is enough, people don't understand that we are all hit hard in the wallet by these kinds of scenes (and there are more constructions like this). Housing shortage and extremely high prices because there is no space. Bizarre when you look at it like that. Oh yes, no bad word to our farmers because they work very hard, but that they have to start farming in a different way or stop is a fact because I am so tired of living in a country where there is no space and everything is far too expensive.
to be fair to the farmers, dutch meat is very high quality. Just feeding grass to cows will not give the best meat etc. Is it ethical? Questionable at best Efficient? Definitely not
the olijfwilg he mentions (14m37) = in English: silverberry or oleaster = Latin: genus Elaeagnus. because of the Dutch climate, I assume they planted Elaeagnus angustifolia = Russian Olive, silver berry, oleaster, Persian olive, or wild olive. also a nitrogen-fixing species.
Just checked in with my partner and the 2 species we planted are Eleagnus Umbellata and Eleagnus Ebbingei. They are also adapted to a colder climate and we selected them for berry size and season diversity (when the berries are ripe)
Good evening, Howard, I am flashed by your positive energy in your complex thoughts and plans! Great and lively explanations included. Thank you! Wishing you to grow together with your plants and friends❤ I have a lot to explore and think about from your talk- re-thinking my own new gardening challenge in the Uckermark (100 km northwest of Berlin). Wishing sun and wind and water..-Katja
Can I just say ,if you harvest in March on the honey left over after the winter the bees have just gone through, you may find that ivy ,Borage ,heather and maybe many other are difficult to extract from the comb as they have a more solid hold in the comb ,also some of these honey which nature as provided for the bees are sour to the human pallet taste. You may get honey left over from early spring the norm but now its 1 year old as honey could be more infested with other insects creatures - I would love you to tell us how this works for you !, as a beekeeper but not a farmer . You also said you’ve only 8 hives as you don’t want to saturate the area ,but a RUclips farmer went onto a barren farm and he saturated the land with bees and took 4 years before the dormant seed came to life and were pollinated and on top of what he planted and left areas to nature is now something all year round for bees and pollinators .
I personally do not live in the Netherlands, but I think it has a lot to offer! Of course the weather (especially in December here in the video) can be a bit unwelcoming, but amazing people and culture and a lot of creativity and innovation :) Never been to SA but I'm sure it's lovely!
@ ach, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. 😏 I just dig SA, love the country and like the people. Less rules and more space than NL, which is driving me bonkers. You should visit once have the chance, cheap as well.
Nice question! Basically because as a farmer a lot of what you do is defined by external factors such as the weather and the market. Assuming that one can plan ahead for 9 years, which is what one does with 9 crops in a rotation plan, means that you assume that you will always be able to sow, harvest and sell exactly the crops that you have planned. Specially as an organic farmer practicing minimum tillage on a (wet) clay soil, this will most likely not be the case and we will continuously be adapting our rotation to weather and market conditions.
@howardkoster6247 Thank you for your explanation, it makes sense now:) I loved the video btw, I have send it to all my close friends and family. I'll be graduating from my master in robotics soon and in my free time I manage a no-dig vegetable garden. Do you envision any robotization inside your farm for crop management and/or harvest in the future or for any other part of the business in the future? (As Lely has already robotized dairy farming, I thought maybe you realize that robots can give you an edge, efficiency wise, since you need to fill the financial gab with mono crop farmers) Kind regards, Henk
I find the way how you talk about animal agriculture is very reductionist minded. Everything you say is true, but blaming the animals for being inefficient is not very regenerative nor sustainable. We absolutely need animals, and Lots of them in regenerative systems. What IS inefficient is industrial factory farming of animals ( so is monoculture arable farming for that matter). But we cannot blame the animals for being kept in the wrong system. When you explain it how he does it in this video, what people with no knowledge about (regen) farming hear is “Animals are inefficient, plants are better”. But explaining it like that ignores the vital part that animals play in turning this mess that we are in around. Through providing ecosystem services via rotational grazing on pastures for example, but also as providing us with meat, dairy, leather, wool, plus as the suppliers of blood-, bone- or fishmeal AND organic manure which is all highly useful and needed in arable agriculture. The vast majority of the worlds arable systems use synthetic fertilizer which is made from fossil fuels that are damaging for the planet and are a finite source. So how will we put fertility back in the soil after harvesting annuals ( which is most of what we eat from plants, fruit aside)? We spread animal manure, preferably rough stable manure from deep-bedding systems back on it. So please, PLEASE, don’t villify livestock but recognise their crucial role and large numbers of them, in the right system, to help us fix the planet.
Thank you for your feedback! In general I agree with your comments, however this video is not a general video, it is an interview specifically about our farm and it's context. The context in this case is a river clay soil in a temperate climate in the Netherlands. A lot of environmental challenges in the Netherlands are directly related to livestock farming and even the Dutch government admits we should enter a protein transition. To be efficient in th Netherlands we should only keep cows on land only suitable for grass (river floodplains and sandy soils in the east) and feed chicken and pigs only with waste streams of human food production. As we are on soil perfectly suitable for human food production, we will therefore aim to do this. Currently we get our deep litter manure from an extensive organic pig farmer in the region and we provide him with straw from our fields As stated in the interview, there where there is a niche for animals (also e.g. for manure production) we will start integrating them in the coming years. I honestly feel that nowhere in the interview do I blaim animals as that would be quite strange. I do however express my critical view toward our current, unsustainable food system that builds heavily on intensive livestock farming.
@@howardkoster6247 What may not have become clear is that the Netherlands has by far the highest livestock density in Europe, with 4 x more cattle per hectare of agricultural land than the European average, 6 x more poultry and 6 x more pigs! Taken together, current livestock farming poses risks and harms the health and welfare of people and animals, reduces the resilience of agricultural ecosystems, and thus harms the general interest. We can speak of an ‘unhealthy landscape’. Perhaps this clarifies what you meant!?
It seems you're a bit biased. Animals aren't a requirement for various forms of regenerative agriculture. It's just an option. With the current supply and demand we've reached in both numbers and amount per capita, there's no way to reach those same levels. All of the things you mentioned animals can provide can be exchanged with plant alternatives which are in fact more efficient. Alot of those synthetic fertilizers are also necessary for crops produced for .... Animal feed. Adding fertility back can be human food waste and agricultural waste. They don't HAVE to pass through an animal. When they can be composted and added back into the field.
We don't live in a Business Web, nor a Money Web, we live in a Food Web. It is not based on efficient, but big machinery imposes that reductionism. Regenerative is different than his newbie views & is based on feeding systems for 10-20 tons of soil biota. He has good intentions, but not yet ready for RUclips. So sad.
We are seriously going down a rabbit hole , I eat meat but my consumption is down in 20years ago, but without animals you wouldn’t be able to grow vegetables,because we need their manure ,chicken manure ,cow manure ,horse manure ,pig manure this is why it’s better to follow the animals in rotation to grow crops . Or designate an growing bed to one x 100 area for 5 years and apply the compost rotted down of your own manure ,greens and browns - that’s sustainable
Hi James! Thanks for the contribution :) Indeed in a well designed and well balanced system, where animals are included in the crop rotation, they can play a crucial role. Unfortunately that's very rare nowadays, we've completely separated agriculture and animal production and we to come back around on that. The big question is: how many animals and how much animal products would you be able to continue producing in a country like the Netherlands if 100% of it was produced agroecologically without depending on external inputs? It's obvious we need to do both: reduce drastically the total amount of animal production, while transitioning as much as we can to regenerative.
"my background is not in farming at all" ... yeah, there you have it. This isn't farming. He never harvested anything. The organisation (Landvanons) is some marketeers and former government employees, who found a way to buy land with other peoples money. Their businessmodel is to sell the land again in a few years to the government. Probably after Howard find out how difficult and expensive farming really is, and quits.
The optimal food for our species is meat. Growing plants for human consumption is not only bad for our health, but bad for the environment. Here in The Netherlands we need more cows grazing on grass. Herd No longer Heard by Frans Kuiper Buffalo stampede sound of hooves on ground, Heading for the cliffs to fall in a mound, Carnivore hunters gather from around, Another feast so offspring may abound. Farmers brought in pushing hunters from land, Domesticated life soon to expand, Seeds of modernisation waning health, Taxes to be paid by slaves robbed of wealth. Buffalo wings fast food delivery, Diabetes growing health misery, Official food guidelines more trickery, Follow money trail learn true history. Virtual reality gazing at screens, Distracted by media and drag queens, Addicted to sugar low on proteins, Have you had all the mandated vaccines? Imagine life where buffalo can fly, Errants here everywhere going awry, No mass formation few who will comply, No need to return for another try. Eroded dry soil blown away lost gone, Without agriculture life must move on, Psychopaths underground bunkers withdrawn, Why fear the phoenix or a black swan?
That's a shame. What part bothered you exactly? He simply suggests that in a capitalist system everything translates into money, and if we do that but we take into account the external costs of food (healthcare, environmental restoration, carbon emissions,...) extractive intensive farming is actually a lot more expensive than regenerative. Do you disagree with this? And if so, why?
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” ;-)
Better title: 35 organic hectares young inexperienced coop farmer. You have wrong title. ..not Regenerative. He speaks untruth. I have been Regenerative leader for decades, not 3 years. But his intentions are good.
Hi there! I have to respectfully disagree with you here because everything about Howard's vision and plan is regenerative. Regenerative for the soil, for biodiversity, for people and community. He might be very early in his journey, and still have a lot of room to grow and improve, it doesn't mean what is doing isn't regenerative. I planted a walnut tree in my garden 3 years ago and it's still very young and small, but it's a walnut tree nonetheless. Finally, I feel like your criticism could be more constructive. Maybe you could help this community grow by offering valuable insight to everyone about what you believe he is doing wrong here, and how you would change that, and why? Thank you :)
@DeepSeedPodcast Ok. The measurement for Regenerative is based on how many tons per acre of soil biota, the feeding systems feed daily. But still his peeing in his drinking water, which some say is ok (but when not on RUclips). Reductionist, etc. Nature is not a machine to fit in a corporate budget.
Finaly someone who understands the principle!! The new minster of agricluture in the Netherlands.
"the more I explained to people what we were doing there, the less I agreed with it" Man, it takes a lot of courage to admit that about a job that is your livelihood and to then just quit it and follow your true ideals. Much respect.
Really inspiring! And I hope it can inspire more people to do the same :)
Howard!! What an inspiring guy 😍
indeed 🥰
I loved this video so much! I had no idea about this farm existing not too far from where I live. It gives me so much joy and hope to see people really taking care of the land
Thank you! Don't hesitate to visit them, maybe buy some of their products :)
Ik was al lid van Land van ons, maar nu ben ik super extra lid. Wat een inspiratiebron! ❤
Such a good video! Howard is a great and inspiring guy!
Thank you! Indeed, Howard made my job very easy 😇
Brilliant
The way forward is paved by visionary's like these Folk
Thank you.
Thanks for watching and for the kind words
One of the best vídeos about organization of a regenerative farm.. please make more 3-4 times a year, showing the progression of the project!
Thank you! I'm going to make a lot more videos like this soon, but each will be of a different farm in a different part of Europe. However, it would be an amazing project to do next - follow a small number of farms all year long, and share the progress over the seasons and years.
Wow man! 😍 Howard is sooo inspiring!
Thank you Rafael sooo much! I am following your podcast for some months now and I really love how you do it. You have such variety of coversation partners and you are trying really pasionately to get all the information and knowledge from them, and the questions are so well taught that we, listeners, can understand what they are talking about and learn from it. The joy that the most of your interviewees have when they are talking about regenerative agriculture make me so hopefull about future and as well make me believe that , one day, I will have my own regenerative farm which I am dreaming about. Your podcast is like a course of reg farming; I am learning so much things. Especialy from people like Howard; it is very important to hear stories from people that are living their dreams. Some podcasts I have listend two or three times. 🙃
I would like to find a farm (which I am searching already) in Europe and start working there and learn on the field how to do things. Hopefully, I will find a person like Howard from whom I can learn a lot and to whom I can help a lot. I have so much energy ( and some experience in gardening) and I want to spend it for regeneration, for growing the healthy soil that will provide nutritional food and biodiversity.
If you have any information how to get more knowledge or how to get on a farm to work (which would be the best solution😍) I would be very greatfull?
Thank you and just do what you do! Congratulations! 👋👋
Hi, thank you so much for your message and for these incredibly kind words! This year I'm going to focus a lot more on farmers and visiting farms. This was a first test but I will be going a lot deeper down this path. So hopefully people get to hear more inspiring stories and learn the innovative methods tried and tested by the top pioneers around Europe. I wish you the very best in your quest to become a regenerative farmer! It's a beautiful dream to have and we need more people with your passion and enthusiasm to do it 😍
Great, greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. I started a veggie patch in my back yard of my suburban home and a small food forest in my front yard. I dug a trench to catch the water from my roof and put it into the soil. I planted 6 trees, but only 2 survived so I have started 2 more in pots and when they get bigger 1 will go into the front food forest and 1 in my back yard. Small, but very regenerative.
That's wonderful! Imagine if everyone did this in their gardens 😍
Love the way you came upon nature infused farming
Inspiring video. Thank you.
thank you for watching! Have a nice day 🥰
Great interview and overview. Would love to see an update in a couple years :)
I would love to do that! And during the summer months, it will be visually more interesting than december ^^ To be continued
Just awesome, great work guys
Awesome video thanks 😎
Thank you for watching! All the best =)
awesome thoughtful practices!
Glad Howard inspired you too
I love this! Biodynamic, organic, I live in Oregon, one of the stops on the PCT. Thank you for your passion in farming!
thanks a lot! Happy you found this video interesting. All the best 🌿
Amazing! I have so many warm memories of hiking through Oregon and the Cascades. Never seen such blue water as Crater Lake!! ❤️
The whole meat production has simply gotten out of hand. I once said at a post, which happens to be from a farm, that all the cows had diarrhea because of the food and medication they were given. They thought I was crazy because that wasn't true this and that... so I formulated the question to that farmer, what do you feed and how do you keep your animals healthy? The answer was the exact the opposite of what he had previously claimed to me.
It was so easy to find out because we have a nature reserve in Zeeland where cattle roam around freely and they really do poop solid poop. Now the story of penned cattle. I remember that the time of the "battery hen" was severely prohibited in the early 90s. But what is still happening? Indeed, chickens are still kept in spaces that are too small, pigs don't go outside at all (they have even become albino because they no longer get sunlight), veal calves that have never been outside and so on.
The Netherlands is purely and solely in it for the money. The farmers get a small compensation, the quality of the meat is pitiful and the suffering is such that we are actually talking about a product. Isn't that scandalous?!! Stop mass production then we will have more space to build, nature reserves and much more peace around us. Let those countries that often have enormous spaces themselves produce their meat.
Enough is enough, people don't understand that we are all hit hard in the wallet by these kinds of scenes (and there are more constructions like this). Housing shortage and extremely high prices because there is no space. Bizarre when you look at it like that.
Oh yes, no bad word to our farmers because they work very hard, but that they have to start farming in a different way or stop is a fact because I am so tired of living in a country where there is no space and everything is far too expensive.
to be fair to the farmers, dutch meat is very high quality. Just feeding grass to cows will not give the best meat etc. Is it ethical? Questionable at best Efficient? Definitely not
the olijfwilg he mentions (14m37) = in English: silverberry or oleaster = Latin: genus Elaeagnus.
because of the Dutch climate, I assume they planted Elaeagnus angustifolia = Russian Olive, silver berry, oleaster, Persian olive, or wild olive.
also a nitrogen-fixing species.
thank you very much for these precisions!
Just checked in with my partner and the 2 species we planted are Eleagnus Umbellata and Eleagnus Ebbingei. They are also adapted to a colder climate and we selected them for berry size and season diversity (when the berries are ripe)
Very nice !!
Thank you for watching! Hope you learned something interesting here :) Have a great day!
Good evening, Howard, I am flashed by your positive energy in your complex thoughts and plans! Great and lively explanations included. Thank you! Wishing you to grow together with your plants and friends❤ I have a lot to explore and think about from your talk- re-thinking my own new gardening challenge in the Uckermark (100 km northwest of Berlin).
Wishing sun and wind and water..-Katja
Thanks for your kind words Katja!! Wishing you a healthy and fertile 2025!
Can I just say ,if you harvest in March on the honey left over after the winter the bees have just gone through, you may find that ivy ,Borage ,heather and maybe many other are difficult to extract from the comb as they have a more solid hold in the comb ,also some of these honey which nature as provided for the bees are sour to the human pallet taste. You may get honey left over from early spring the norm but now its 1 year old as honey could be more infested with other insects creatures - I would love you to tell us how this works for you !, as a beekeeper but not a farmer . You also said you’ve only 8 hives as you don’t want to saturate the area ,but a RUclips farmer went onto a barren farm and he saturated the land with bees and took 4 years before the dormant seed came to life and were pollinated and on top of what he planted and left areas to nature is now something all year round for bees and pollinators .
Lekker Howard!
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😊
🌿❤️
What about animals participating in the regeneration of the soil?
Hahaha, I feel The Netherlands is not a very nice place to stay, so now I have started a regenerative farm in SA.
I personally do not live in the Netherlands, but I think it has a lot to offer! Of course the weather (especially in December here in the video) can be a bit unwelcoming, but amazing people and culture and a lot of creativity and innovation :) Never been to SA but I'm sure it's lovely!
@ ach, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. 😏 I just dig SA, love the country and like the people. Less rules and more space than NL, which is driving me bonkers. You should visit once have the chance, cheap as well.
Where do you live then?
👍🏼
😊🌿
what did you do???
Could you specify your question? ^^
Why does the conventional farmer suggest that a 9year crop rotation is never going to last?
Nice question! Basically because as a farmer a lot of what you do is defined by external factors such as the weather and the market. Assuming that one can plan ahead for 9 years, which is what one does with 9 crops in a rotation plan, means that you assume that you will always be able to sow, harvest and sell exactly the crops that you have planned. Specially as an organic farmer practicing minimum tillage on a (wet) clay soil, this will most likely not be the case and we will continuously be adapting our rotation to weather and market conditions.
@howardkoster6247 Thank you for your explanation, it makes sense now:) I loved the video btw, I have send it to all my close friends and family. I'll be graduating from my master in robotics soon and in my free time I manage a no-dig vegetable garden. Do you envision any robotization inside your farm for crop management and/or harvest in the future or for any other part of the business in the future? (As Lely has already robotized dairy farming, I thought maybe you realize that robots can give you an edge, efficiency wise, since you need to fill the financial gab with mono crop farmers)
Kind regards,
Henk
Why did you photoshop mountains in the thumbnail of this video :')
I find the way how you talk about animal agriculture is very reductionist minded. Everything you say is true, but blaming the animals for being inefficient is not very regenerative nor sustainable. We absolutely need animals, and Lots of them in regenerative systems. What IS inefficient is industrial factory farming of animals ( so is monoculture arable farming for that matter). But we cannot blame the animals for being kept in the wrong system. When you explain it how he does it in this video, what people with no knowledge about (regen) farming hear is “Animals are inefficient, plants are better”. But explaining it like that ignores the vital part that animals play in turning this mess that we are in around. Through providing ecosystem services via rotational grazing on pastures for example, but also as providing us with meat, dairy, leather, wool, plus as the suppliers of blood-, bone- or fishmeal AND organic manure which is all highly useful and needed in arable agriculture. The vast majority of the worlds arable systems use synthetic fertilizer which is made from fossil fuels that are damaging for the planet and are a finite source. So how will we put fertility back in the soil after harvesting annuals ( which is most of what we eat from plants, fruit aside)? We spread animal manure, preferably rough stable manure from deep-bedding systems back on it. So please, PLEASE, don’t villify livestock but recognise their crucial role and large numbers of them, in the right system, to help us fix the planet.
Thank you for your feedback! In general I agree with your comments, however this video is not a general video, it is an interview specifically about our farm and it's context. The context in this case is a river clay soil in a temperate climate in the Netherlands. A lot of environmental challenges in the Netherlands are directly related to livestock farming and even the Dutch government admits we should enter a protein transition. To be efficient in th Netherlands we should only keep cows on land only suitable for grass (river floodplains and sandy soils in the east) and feed chicken and pigs only with waste streams of human food production. As we are on soil perfectly suitable for human food production, we will therefore aim to do this. Currently we get our deep litter manure from an extensive organic pig farmer in the region and we provide him with straw from our fields As stated in the interview, there where there is a niche for animals (also e.g. for manure production) we will start integrating them in the coming years. I honestly feel that nowhere in the interview do I blaim animals as that would be quite strange. I do however express my critical view toward our current, unsustainable food system that builds heavily on intensive livestock farming.
@@howardkoster6247 What may not have become clear is that the Netherlands has by far the highest livestock density in Europe, with 4 x more cattle per hectare of agricultural land than the European average, 6 x more poultry and 6 x more pigs!
Taken together, current livestock farming poses risks and harms the health and welfare of people and animals, reduces the resilience of agricultural ecosystems, and thus harms the general interest. We can speak of an ‘unhealthy landscape’. Perhaps this clarifies what you meant!?
Thanks!
It seems you're a bit biased. Animals aren't a requirement for various forms of regenerative agriculture. It's just an option. With the current supply and demand we've reached in both numbers and amount per capita, there's no way to reach those same levels.
All of the things you mentioned animals can provide can be exchanged with plant alternatives which are in fact more efficient.
Alot of those synthetic fertilizers are also necessary for crops produced for .... Animal feed.
Adding fertility back can be human food waste and agricultural waste. They don't HAVE to pass through an animal. When they can be composted and added back into the field.
We don't live in a Business Web, nor a Money Web, we live in a Food Web. It is not based on efficient, but big machinery imposes that reductionism. Regenerative is different than his newbie views & is based on feeding systems for 10-20 tons of soil biota. He has good intentions, but not yet ready for RUclips. So sad.
We are seriously going down a rabbit hole , I eat meat but my consumption is down in 20years ago, but without animals you wouldn’t be able to grow vegetables,because we need their manure ,chicken manure ,cow manure ,horse manure ,pig manure this is why it’s better to follow the animals in rotation to grow crops . Or designate an growing bed to one x 100 area for 5 years and apply the compost rotted down of your own manure ,greens and browns - that’s sustainable
Hi James! Thanks for the contribution :) Indeed in a well designed and well balanced system, where animals are included in the crop rotation, they can play a crucial role. Unfortunately that's very rare nowadays, we've completely separated agriculture and animal production and we to come back around on that. The big question is: how many animals and how much animal products would you be able to continue producing in a country like the Netherlands if 100% of it was produced agroecologically without depending on external inputs? It's obvious we need to do both: reduce drastically the total amount of animal production, while transitioning as much as we can to regenerative.
"my background is not in farming at all" ... yeah, there you have it. This isn't farming. He never harvested anything.
The organisation (Landvanons) is some marketeers and former government employees, who found a way to buy land with other peoples money. Their businessmodel is to sell the land again in a few years to the government. Probably after Howard find out how difficult and expensive farming really is, and quits.
The optimal food for our species is meat. Growing plants for human consumption is not only bad for our health, but bad for the environment.
Here in The Netherlands we need more cows grazing on grass.
Herd No longer Heard
by Frans Kuiper
Buffalo stampede sound of hooves on ground,
Heading for the cliffs to fall in a mound,
Carnivore hunters gather from around,
Another feast so offspring may abound.
Farmers brought in pushing hunters from land,
Domesticated life soon to expand,
Seeds of modernisation waning health,
Taxes to be paid by slaves robbed of wealth.
Buffalo wings fast food delivery,
Diabetes growing health misery,
Official food guidelines more trickery,
Follow money trail learn true history.
Virtual reality gazing at screens,
Distracted by media and drag queens,
Addicted to sugar low on proteins,
Have you had all the mandated vaccines?
Imagine life where buffalo can fly,
Errants here everywhere going awry,
No mass formation few who will comply,
No need to return for another try.
Eroded dry soil blown away lost gone,
Without agriculture life must move on,
Psychopaths underground bunkers withdrawn,
Why fear the phoenix or a black swan?
Started bout kapitalism i tuned out bye...
That's a shame. What part bothered you exactly? He simply suggests that in a capitalist system everything translates into money, and if we do that but we take into account the external costs of food (healthcare, environmental restoration, carbon emissions,...) extractive intensive farming is actually a lot more expensive than regenerative. Do you disagree with this? And if so, why?
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” ;-)
@@DeepSeedPodcastIn coutrys without kapitalism there is only hunger......
Better title: 35 organic hectares young inexperienced coop farmer. You have wrong title. ..not Regenerative. He speaks untruth.
I have been Regenerative leader for decades, not 3 years. But his intentions are good.
Hi there! I have to respectfully disagree with you here because everything about Howard's vision and plan is regenerative. Regenerative for the soil, for biodiversity, for people and community. He might be very early in his journey, and still have a lot of room to grow and improve, it doesn't mean what is doing isn't regenerative. I planted a walnut tree in my garden 3 years ago and it's still very young and small, but it's a walnut tree nonetheless. Finally, I feel like your criticism could be more constructive. Maybe you could help this community grow by offering valuable insight to everyone about what you believe he is doing wrong here, and how you would change that, and why? Thank you :)
@DeepSeedPodcast Ok. The measurement for Regenerative is based on how many tons per acre of soil biota, the feeding systems feed daily. But still his peeing in his drinking water, which some say is ok (but when not on RUclips). Reductionist, etc. Nature is not a machine to fit in a corporate budget.