I'm in the U.S. and I use regenerative agriculture on my small home farm. We have a 5,000 square foot garden, some chickens and a few sheep. We don't till our garden, we cover it with straw, and we don't use any pesticides (I try to bring in beneficial insects and animals to combat bad ones). We also graze our sheep the way the video speaks about. We learned from Greg Judy. And our chickens are super happy on their roughly 1/3 part of our acre pecking away happily at all the bugs and soaking up sunshine. It makes my heart happy to see how beautiful it is when we live with nature rather than fight it. It is very rewarding.
Just started doing this on my farm. I only have one cow but i sectioned of one acre into 5 parts for my cow to graze each section for one week, which will give all the others one full month of rest in between grazing. Still need to work out some kinks but my grass is looking much better.
I am Curious the “others” would be the section of land that isn’t getting grazed by my cow. As I move the cow from one section to the other, the cow won’t be able to graze the last section he was on. Each section gets grazed for one week so the first section will get 4 weeks by the time the cows is done grazing the 5th section. But I do have chickens that follow the cow scratching up his poop.
Torchwood Pride Alas even when the evidence is staring them in the face some people will not even look at it let alone consider it. Example the current cretin in the White House.
Around 10:00 thank you so much for your supportive words regarding under 5 acre farms worked by women. Sometimes I feel really small, useless, or ridiculous, since rather than seeking a wage, I assist my family by growing as much food as possible on our tiny lot. The more I improve the fertility of our land, tho, the more I approach that 70% of our family food supply figure. Really helped me improve my self esteem, thanks.
Love Cat, you are amazing. That you would experience low self esteem regarding your focus of raising food for your family is astounding to me. You have a healthy focus, contrasted with so many who just keep chasing more dollars with more consumption and more debt in an endless loop. Keep doing what you're doing! You will be your family's savior. You may also stumble upon a way to leverage your passion for growing your family's food into a profitable venture as well, which would really blow your family's minds, wouldn't it? It's amazing what people like Urban Farmer Curtis Stone, Joel Salatin, On The Grow or What The Fungus have learned about turning passion for self-sustainability into profits. Good luck, and keep your head up! You're doing important work!
love cat you are wonderful. Many years ago in the 80's I did the same on a 3 acre farm. I had five small children and my husband worked in town. So many ppl thought I should go and get a job. But I kept saying my job is my farm. We managed to provide ourselves with all our milk through goats. We had chickens and a huge vege garden that grew just about anything due to the red soil. I miss it terribly. And now live on a quarter acre in town. I decided that I would have a farm anyway so have chickens quails and grow as much as we can.
This documentary is just lovely! My dad and I are working to turn our sheep farm into one run regeneratively to reverse all the damage done by our ancestors, and even in a small time we've seen the effect of it all, its just amazing
It does my heart food to see this awakening happening around the world! The scale at which I practice regenerative agriculture is tiny compared to these big cattle operations, but the philosophy is the same. Act like a honey bee, not a locust. Improve the conditions for all life while we gather our food, rather than strip mining every bit of value and leaving a trail of death. Great video. Thank you!
Andrew Ostrom Thank you. I’m trying my best to live up to the ideal. I’ve been documenting it on my blog, and now on TH-cam. It’s not just a better way to eat, but a better way to live, I’m finding.
Richard Watts. I think the farmers that have embraced this process, have done it in a way to preserve the the precious little water they have left. I’m sure they know without rainfall or water that this is useless. I am no expert but I can see merit from what they are doing.
Ben Costanzo see those hills in the background? That’s how you know this is close to the dividing range, and therefor the coast. There is no regenerative farming without reliable water resources. Farmers who do regenerative farming are doing it for marketing reasons, or they’re terrible farmers.
I wish this philosophy on regenerating soils would be soon applied all over the planet. Wise agricultors. Thank you for caring for al of us including the animals.
These are the people who are guiding the way for future regeneration. If we started shifting over to something more like this in more places, the impact would be phenomenal. People need to learn about this because I think this will have to be very prominent in the next few decades
I teach people to make and use biochar. My blog at theotherfishwrap.blogspot.com has six posts from about two years ago that detail the process. They are easy to find because they each have a one word title that begins with the letter "M".
Fabulous film with an extremely accessible explanation of regenerative agriculture practices and farming in ways that sustain water, soil, vegetation and, importantly, communities. Congratulations Amy Browne.
This is the most positive thing I've watched about how to use and heal the land at the same time. So wonderful to see it becoming more commonly used. Really wonderful.
I get really excited when watching programmes such as this, knowing we have people really passionate people showing how we can make our land better,thank you.
There are a lot of videos on TH-cam about the regeneration of sub fertile and even infertile land. This is the first one I’ve seen where it goes into detail about how it’s all being regenerated. And that is very refreshing to see.Keep producing more videos just like this, Fantastic!
I would like it for governments to spend money on regenerating soil fertility and making land available to let more people start small farms adopting a permaculture style.
@@wilkiew Hey there. If you go through the comment section and replies, you are will find a lot of reading suggestions and quite a few links to other information that is full of thoughtful facts and ideas on how to move forward with regeneration our planet for the better. Radical Gastronomy is a small TH-camr who has some information. I can write a list of all information pertaining to that which you seek. I hope that helps.
I believe it needs to and it shall. Workin on plans to implement it currently. It'll be a slow process but eventually all agriculture will be a Fractal of small farms all interconnected...wind powered de Sal plants pumping water for extra irrigation to maintain a healthy water table! One turbine can de Sal and pump a lot of water.
I salute you all for what you’re doing, it’s about time to give something back to the land, so everything around it will prosper again..... Thank You ... Very, very much!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very well done in only 13 minutes! It covers animal management, vegetable production, hope to challenge droughts, shows obvious good results, empowers farmers by showing it is a rewarding job, and suggest non farming people what they can do: they can relate to their food providers more directly, and they can also start to produce some of their own.
My dad was born on a farm in 1908 in Carroll county Maryland and what they are calling regenerative farming is how my dad described life on the farm growing up.
So glad I found you! Saving destruction by working with nature's wisdom! You are Earth's angels! My heart rejoices! Thankyou for your good actions. I hope they go viral! 🙏🏽🌎
While a lot of people are screaming about climate change, this is the greatest challenge facing the human race. How to sustainably farm. Great video, thanks for uploading.
Truly brilliant! Well done keep spreading the word! Environment care and specifically soil care is the true essence of creating a sustainable future for us all. My garden isn’t the prettiest in the street by any means, however, our soil is now certainly the best. It has taken years of giving nature a gentle hand In regenerative practices and has well been worth the effort to have healthy root systems in soil teeming with life.
There is nothing to explain. It’s all lies and falsehoods. Completely not backed by science, as it is not replicable or repeatable. End all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. That’s the only way to then focus of the sequestration of carbon, and the cleaning up o the cesspools and reservoirs of filth and disease that emerge from the animal populations in the animal agriculture industry, as well.
These examples are very positive, and seem quite do-able. The mention of "leaky weirs" is also very important. This process of slowing the water without stopping it is exactly what beaver do, both in North America and Eurasia. It keeps the water table high, and allows vigorous growth from riparian vegetation.
@@johnmartinez6676 I suspect that Probably the 2 biggest hurdles to Regenerative farming/Ranching is the government and colleges. At least that's what it seems like here in the USA. On a side note, I'm a simple man,I don't have any fancy degree and I don't believe in evolution or other such stuff. However I believe we can learn alot by watching Gods creation more closely. Not that we need to become animals, but that we can learn how better to manage what God gave us. People Produced food for a long time before we had chemicals and some people like Greg Judy among others have learned to do it again.
I teach people how to make and use biochar. It is a technology older than written language and signals the beginning of the Anthropocene. It is only the last hundreds and fifty years or so that we have made terrible mistakes, the vast spread of human history, we did good for the environment, this is one way people are showing how to do it! Sequestering is easier than most people imagine and with modern retort technologies and machines that were unimaginable nine thousand years ago, we can make electricity and/or heat homes while making char, the first step along the process of creating biochar.
i like how they point out that they´re not just improving their soil, but also save a ton of money - that will convince other farmers, who might not care about diversity but sure as heck care about their pocket book!
Did anyone else noticed the people involved in Permaculture and Natural way of doing faring are rather humble and Calm ? You can feel a rhythm in their voices, and their way of talking is pretty polite. This must be something to do with inner peace and happiness.
I've seen this story somewhere else before and I'm so happy it's being put out there again- just so important!! Especially right now in the world and Australia it seems
No, ocean stores more. But Allan Savory suggests that if more carbon is stored in the ocean it's gonna be too acidic for the fauna. The Ground solution is still perfect enough.
To you farming in this fulls my heart with joy, and I am very excited to see this happening. If I could go back in time when I was farming and adopted your methods and other natural methods. I probably would be still farming today because deep in my heart I know this is were we should be. I wish you all the very best for your future.
Such a wonderful message, brought tears to my eyes. All my best wishes for Australia and the world from Sweden. (We always buy organic when not Swedish and otherwise preferably locally produced organic or transitioning, and fair trade laballed, naturally! It is more expensive, and sometimes there are scams, but we also have good journalists that expose scammers!) Amy Browne, thank you, and please keep documenting, it is so important!
Over here in Cape Town, South Africa I started my suburban veggie patch garden in August 2021, being a pensioner with very little money, I dug up the Kikuya grass and made cement slab barriers, covered the soil with cardboard and cut holes in the cardboard to put in my seeds. I have had a great harvest since then and earth worms are on the increase with very little compost. The veggie scraps I turn into the compost I use, as well as grass clippings. I also planted some trees, that are still small. Strong winds are a problem at the moment, but I will figure something out.
Just read a great book called 'Cows Save the Planet' by Judith D. Schwartz. I'd definitely recommend it, it covers and expands on a lot of similar ground to this film. UK farmers definitely need to pay attention to this stuff, since there's so much monoculture here and crops are getting worse.
Have you read "Wilding" by Isabella Tree? It's about saving a typical intensive farming estate from bankruptcy by allowing large parts of the estate to revert to nature and stocking native breeds which are left to cope by themselves. As in the video, naturally wet areas are allowed to flood annually, reducing flood damage elsewhere and replenishing the meadows. The yields are higher, there's no fertilizer costs, everything is organic ( meaning premium product) and there's hardly any veterinary input. Not only is the business now a success but the area has become an oasis for rare breed birds and insects. All this in West Sussex.
I'm glad we're making the effort now for times ahead but we need to look back in time and try to learn from the ancient aboriginals. We need to relearn the old aboriginal way of regenerative farming, The way the land was farmed for 1000's of years before we came. No they didn't have any farm animals like we see today but if we were able to call upon their knowledge of the land and try to mix it with our knowledge of agriculture we could of had a better way to farm and still give back to the soil.
Farmers are our lifeblood. We can all unite, all people, all professions, to take care of our planet, economy, family friends and society. We must do it together.
Congratulations! A veritable return to the Garden of Eden, not unlike the project on our channel. This could even be duplicated in the countries bordering on the Sahara. Excellent work!
Wonderful. Keep up the good work! Three lessons that I learnt here: Every bit of intensity requires a bit of rest./ We humans can actually allow Nature to improve Herself if we enable Her./ Evolution needs cooperation. Let animals compete, we humans will cooperate.
It must be good to know when you have done so much good - And benefited from it at the same time. That's the wonder of ecology. Life on earth is fine tuned to prosper cooperatively. An ecosystem IS cooperation between organisms. We ignore this at our own peril.
The whole problem is meat, people want to eat the meat. Once more people become vegan, farmers will not graze animals, grass lands will see more trees. More tress will make this planet more healthier.
There want to make sure plants grow on trees that really make it easier to get the green area to stay for global warming and air will flow too cold, which would be rain increase lots of every year and other gains will be made fertilizing land
@@mohit2010ify Huge parts of the planet are not ecologically appropriate for trees. This is the problem when people simply chant "plant more trees, Don't eat meat". Follow the science, not the propagandists.
@@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists I agree with you Savannah's and grasslands of Africa are one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet, with a lot of large mammal species. It's not necessary to do things like plant more trees and turning deserts into green cover, but to preserve the biodiversity of the place.
This is fantastic news, well done Aussie farmers. We have a little bit of talk of re-wilding in Britain, not exactly the same but is a way of restoring bio diversity. Other related topics are managing top soil, achieving full hydrology cycle, keeping rivers clean from pollution, avoiding drought or flood ie both are opposites but both cause huge disruption and loss. I've only got a small communal garden but I've made a real effort to plant flowers out to assist the bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
2:22 “ Now what the world needs for the future, what human beings and all life need humans to be doing, is to have an agricultural system, that the consequence of management is to increase diversity, not diminish it.” 2:55 “...and out of that came my book, Call of the Reed Warbler” (A New Agriculture - A New Earth, by: Charles Massy) 3:26 “What we see with regenerative grazing practices ... you graze the plants for a very short period of time, and you’ve got to have a fencing system that allows you to move the animals around, so that you have enough recovery time for your paddocks to recover. Whereas when you’ve got stock in every paddock, and you’ve got it grazed down really short, the plant roots are very small”.... those little amounts of rainfall ... do nothing in a conventional system because any growth is being grazed immediately, compared to the regenerative system... which allows the plants to grow big, allowing the roots and soil to hold water (my rephrasing). 9:41 Is that Lambs Quarters in the field??? That is one of my favorite greens to nurture for salads, sautéed greens, anything you do with spinach, this plant is better and sturdier! One year a friend let them grow in amongst his potatoes, when we harvested the potatoes, there were more potatoes under the five foot tall Lambs Quarter plants than where there were none! And the root systems they create are deep and sturdy.
Working paddock systems is something we’ve been doing in Ireland for years particularly in the dairy sector. Never knew it was a holistic way of farming
Phil, yes we used to do paddock grazing for our milk cows in the seventies. But no way is that holistic. Regenerative paddock grazing is different altogether. They use “mob grazing”. Watch Gabe Brown on TH-cam to see how it’s done
Miles Thom to my understanding mob grazing is where you put enough livestock into an area of ground to graze it within a day or so. That’s what we do most dairy farms work a 24 hour grazing system moving cows to fresh paddocks every 24 hours and a rotation of 21-28 days from when a paddock is grazed till it is grazed again. We try to run a 36 hour grazing on an average of a 26 day rotation on our own farm. If your interested head over to my channel and look for my video “a guide to our grassland management “
@@FARMERPHIL3690 As well as the rotational element, regenenerative grazing also involves growing the pasture taller, ensuring the animals only eat the top half of the pasture at any one time, using a much more diverse pasture, plus no superphosphate or urea (because they inhibit soil ecology).... I'm in NZ and all the dairy farmers practice rotational grazing, but it is not regenerative at all. But we're working to change that!
Kama Burwell depending how you define ‘taller pastures’, only grazing a plant to half high is potentially not the most effective use of the plant in terms of being benifical for the cow, being profitable and growing healthy pastures. Daughter tillers need sunlight and if you’re leaving behind too much residual, you’re shading those tillers from growing at their maximum potential.
Very well put together video. I would love if they would consult or lobby big farm/ranch operations with numbers that would actually represent that farm if they changed their ways. I think that is the only way to convince the big players to change, if they are made aware of the lack of feed costs, etc. Everyone needs to do their part, but changing just one of the big boy's minds would make such a huge impact. I'm doing a lot of gardening and becoming more conscious of where my food comes from and the waste. Composting and such as well. It helps just a little bit if everyone can do what they can.
I always thought that the frequent argument from farmers (if you know any as I do), is that they say - "So what. Green grass means nothing. Its the economy to my pocket that matters, or I just dont have the funds to last in the meantime while the earth regenerates". Its a sad story but its mindboggling how many farmers are stuck in the way they have been trained, grew up, saw their Grandfather do it and are comfortable with. Sad.
@@LitoGeorge - So true. I acquired s small piece of land surrounded by "old" farmers. Who have been on the "business" since kids. Although they've got a really good experience. They lack, at the same level or worse, the different perspective of a broader view. Everything is done on the sense of "the next crop", meaning just a few months away. Good example, when one of them saw me piling up raw material. Making my compost pile. He asked me what was that!!! After explaining what is compost and the usage of waste organic material... He still looked at me with an "alien" expression. Thinking the "kid" is nuts. BTW I'm over 50!! LOL 😂
@@crpth1 I hear you. I cut swales into my land to slow down the water runoff (severe) and I was told I had ruined the land. Used them to fill up 4 ponds I built. Was told I was really inexperienced and "clueless". Its a few years on now, drought hits the area in summer, and guess which farm is the only one with accessible water in the hot months? Right.
@@LitoGeorge - 100% on that. I made, what I call, my "mini,micro nano" dams!. 4x of them to be precise. Honestly it's ridiculously small, but already made quite a difference. Yeah! You guessed those looks from the old boys... Kind of funny after awhile. LOL 😂 Wanted to "test" a certain part of the land. Sow seeds (no till), etc. Warn my neighbor which I allow to bring his sheep over. To not "touch" that particular part and explain why! Few seconds after, he tells me, with a naughty smile. "That's the worst soil on the property..." My answer: I know, that's why I'm testing there. There's no need to test on the good part where I know it grows! ;-) His reply: Now you got me! LOL 😂
@@crpth1 nice one! Highly commend you for that. I'll add one for you of my own: my Mennonite neighbour had his cows and bees on my land (I implemented mob grazing, swales, pond building etc) instead of haying the fields etc which obviously causes a bunch of issues - Greg Judy was/is one of my heroes in that regard) and I decided to try something new and plant barley, oats and fall rye on the berms of the swales to help with initial mob grazing intensely fertilising the fields and changing the whole structure of the ground. THe fall rye would start to reduce the dependency of hay if you see where I am going with this. Anyway, I decided to rototill the ground as it had been severely compacted by three decades of cattle standing in certain places (it was near cement like in structure), and whilst doing that, I decided to rototill the swamp grass which had taken over the always wet areas. Sowed it by hand, with the seeds mentioned. Wouldnt you know it - swampgrass gone, fall rye took off like a rocket, and even in the "cement" areas, new green growth for the first time in a long time. Neighbour was gobsmacked. I remember his wife kept saying that I was idealistic while her hubby (Mennonite man) was experienced. I guess there's room for idealism after all.
Thank you for sharing this video! I feel inspired to become a farmer myself and will start in an organic farmers school in Denmark next autumn if everything goes after plan. I have studied environmental issues and solutions for many years, first at university, and then travelling the last years to visit ecovillages. It was all interesting, but also confusing, because I didn't know what I wanted to do as a profession. Now I know that I wish to connect with the land, with nature, with plants and animals, and with other people, and attempt to make an holistic practice out of it all, find the balance, and learn also how I can pass that on to the generation coming after me
I get so frustrated when my vegan daughter says that she doesn't want to harm animals. But is happy to eat products grown on mono culture fields that are intensively farmed by huge corporations, who have no connection to the land and no care for our shared planet. Thanks for the film. I also liked 10,000 beating hearts.
I'm in the U.S. and I use regenerative agriculture on my small home farm. We have a 5,000 square foot garden, some chickens and a few sheep. We don't till our garden, we cover it with straw, and we don't use any pesticides (I try to bring in beneficial insects and animals to combat bad ones). We also graze our sheep the way the video speaks about. We learned from Greg Judy. And our chickens are super happy on their roughly 1/3 part of our acre pecking away happily at all the bugs and soaking up sunshine. It makes my heart happy to see how beautiful it is when we live with nature rather than fight it. It is very rewarding.
Lets get regenerative agriculture as a subject is schools - its that impactful! Good work on this!
Just started doing this on my farm. I only have one cow but i sectioned of one acre into 5 parts for my cow to graze each section for one week, which will give all the others one full month of rest in between grazing. Still need to work out some kinks but my grass is looking much better.
ABADDON 247 good shit
Are the others chickens or goats?
I am Curious the “others” would be the section of land that isn’t getting grazed by my cow. As I move the cow from one section to the other, the cow won’t be able to graze the last section he was on. Each section gets grazed for one week so the first section will get 4 weeks by the time the cows is done grazing the 5th section. But I do have chickens that follow the cow scratching up his poop.
@@abaddon2479 oh, thanks. I'm looking to try something like this myself. Probably on a larger scale tho with chickens and goats as well
@@DemonLord_D wish you good luck with your farm. Happy farming
This should be mandatory viewing all around the globe!
Amen.
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I agree
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Alas even when the evidence is staring them in the face some people will not even look at it let alone consider it. Example the current cretin in the White House.
Yes!!
Around 10:00 thank you so much for your supportive words regarding under 5 acre farms worked by women. Sometimes I feel really small, useless, or ridiculous, since rather than seeking a wage, I assist my family by growing as much food as possible on our tiny lot. The more I improve the fertility of our land, tho, the more I approach that 70% of our family food supply figure. Really helped me improve my self esteem, thanks.
Love Cat, you are amazing. That you would experience low self esteem regarding your focus of raising food for your family is astounding to me. You have a healthy focus, contrasted with so many who just keep chasing more dollars with more consumption and more debt in an endless loop. Keep doing what you're doing! You will be your family's savior. You may also stumble upon a way to leverage your passion for growing your family's food into a profitable venture as well, which would really blow your family's minds, wouldn't it? It's amazing what people like Urban Farmer Curtis Stone, Joel Salatin, On The Grow or What The Fungus have learned about turning passion for self-sustainability into profits. Good luck, and keep your head up! You're doing important work!
love cat you are wonderful. Many years ago in the 80's I did the same on a 3 acre farm. I had five small children and my husband worked in town. So many ppl thought I should go and get a job. But I kept saying my job is my farm. We managed to provide ourselves with all our milk through goats. We had chickens and a huge vege garden that grew just about anything due to the red soil. I miss it terribly. And now live on a quarter acre in town. I decided that I would have a farm anyway so have chickens quails and grow as much as we can.
You are an inspiration! Thank you for doing what you are doing.
Wow thanks so much for all of these kind words!!!
love cat great good on you ,keep it up. Good luck
This documentary is just lovely! My dad and I are working to turn our sheep farm into one run regeneratively to reverse all the damage done by our ancestors, and even in a small time we've seen the effect of it all, its just amazing
That’s amazing Rey! I would love to learn how you did it :) can I give you an email or something ?
Wonderful to hear that you are turning your place around! These practises need to spread and you are doing your part.
Thank you to all who have stepped out of line and help start this process of change.
It does my heart food to see this awakening happening around the world! The scale at which I practice regenerative agriculture is tiny compared to these big cattle operations, but the philosophy is the same. Act like a honey bee, not a locust. Improve the conditions for all life while we gather our food, rather than strip mining every bit of value and leaving a trail of death. Great video. Thank you!
Radical Gastronomy “act like a honey bee, not a locust”. Love it. And good on you. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Andrew Ostrom Thank you. I’m trying my best to live up to the ideal. I’ve been documenting it on my blog, and now on TH-cam. It’s not just a better way to eat, but a better way to live, I’m finding.
Every little bit counts Radical!!
The Ripe Tomato Farms that’s right. Little dots of repair will spread.
Good words to hear! Thanks
I love the final sentiment. That nature doesn't compete, nature cooperates.
Cooperation is a competitive advantage
Sweet summer child
@@michaelharder9737 Guess that's true bit sounds a bit harsh this way ... it's still cooperation.
It's true but only some of the time. When a lion eats an antelope it's not cooperation. Many plants compete for soil nitrogen as well.
need so many more farmers like this in australia. the droughts wouldnt be so bad.
droughts are mother natures way of telling useless and stupid farmers to piss off
@@flodjod lol not if the government throws 1b at the farmers.
The level of ignorance needed to think this way is mind-boggling. Without water there is no regenerative farming. Not the other way around. Omfg
Richard Watts. I think the farmers that have embraced this process, have done it in a way to preserve the the precious little water they have left. I’m sure they know without rainfall or water that this is useless. I am no expert but I can see merit from what they are doing.
Ben Costanzo see those hills in the background? That’s how you know this is close to the dividing range, and therefor the coast. There is no regenerative farming without reliable water resources. Farmers who do regenerative farming are doing it for marketing reasons, or they’re terrible farmers.
I wish this philosophy on regenerating soils would be soon applied all over the planet. Wise agricultors. Thank you for caring for al of us including the animals.
I’m so happy to see regenerative farmers in Australia. We can buy food that’s alive. This gives me hope. Thank you. 😍😍.
This is the kind of films we need more of! Thank you!
Beautiful, logical, wise. These are the people truly saving our planet.
These are the people who are guiding the way for future regeneration. If we started shifting over to something more like this in more places, the impact would be phenomenal. People need to learn about this because I think this will have to be very prominent in the next few decades
Few years, we don't have decades
I teach people to make and use biochar. My blog at theotherfishwrap.blogspot.com has six posts from about two years ago that detail the process. They are easy to find because they each have a one word title that begins with the letter "M".
I'm beyond thrilled to hear this change is coming .... a fundamental change is what will save nature and as a byproduct us .
Thank you to those who are reasoning and making the changes back to what is natural. May blessings be returned to you 100 times over.
Fabulous film with an extremely accessible explanation of regenerative agriculture practices and farming in ways that sustain water, soil, vegetation and, importantly, communities. Congratulations Amy Browne.
This is the most positive thing I've watched about how to use and heal the land at the same time. So wonderful to see it becoming more commonly used. Really wonderful.
I get really excited when watching programmes such as this, knowing we have people really passionate people showing how we can make our land better,thank you.
That's the hardest part, changing the mindset of farmers.
And the financial incentives and realities. Farmers are at the mercy of buyers.
This gives me hope for our struggling farmers. Let’s get this out there for them to see.
Wonderful to see regeneration of the land and sharing with the world 🌿💚
I’m happy to see farmers adopt these practices, especially seeing this practice is not new all the way from ancient Israel
There are a lot of videos on TH-cam about the regeneration of sub fertile and even infertile land. This is the first one I’ve seen where it goes into detail about how it’s all being regenerated. And that is very refreshing to see.Keep producing more videos just like this, Fantastic!
Check out how David Bamberger regenerated 5,000 acres using grasses.
I would like it for governments to spend money on regenerating soil fertility and making land available to let more people start small farms adopting a permaculture style.
Incredible, thank you. I've been reading and researching so much about regenerative agriculture and love seeing the farmers talk first hand.
Could you please recommend some good practical literature? I would like to start applying these kind of techniques in the next few years.
@@wilkiew Hey there. If you go through the comment section and replies, you are will find a lot of reading suggestions and quite a few links to other information that is full of thoughtful facts and ideas on how to move forward with regeneration our planet for the better.
Radical Gastronomy is a small TH-camr who has some information.
I can write a list of all information pertaining to that which you seek.
I hope that helps.
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Wow it does make so much sense to pay attention to how these vast herds in nature function.
Just beautiful. Really hoping this will completely replace industrial farming.
I believe it needs to and it shall. Workin on plans to implement it currently. It'll be a slow process but eventually all agriculture will be a Fractal of small farms all interconnected...wind powered de Sal plants pumping water for extra irrigation to maintain a healthy water table! One turbine can de Sal and pump a lot of water.
I salute you all for what you’re doing, it’s about time to give something back to the land, so everything around it will prosper again..... Thank You ... Very, very much!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Charles Massey's book was the most hopeful book I read this year. I really wanted to see the farms and the farmers he spoke about. This is great!
Thank God people are find solutions to earth problems. We a creative beings our maker have given us that ability.
I was mesmerized by the positive message - by the prospects. The effects can be felt from here and I'm in England. Mark
Very well done in only 13 minutes! It covers animal management, vegetable production, hope to challenge droughts, shows obvious good results, empowers farmers by showing it is a rewarding job, and suggest non farming people what they can do: they can relate to their food providers more directly, and they can also start to produce some of their own.
Thanks for the advice. I have spend the last year using these principles in my Arizona garden to regenerate my backyard. They really work!
My dad was born on a farm in 1908 in Carroll county Maryland and what they are calling regenerative farming is how my dad described life on the farm growing up.
Thanks to all my fellow farmers and stewards of the land out there 🤘
So glad I found you! Saving destruction by working with nature's wisdom! You are Earth's angels! My heart rejoices! Thankyou for your good actions. I hope they go viral! 🙏🏽🌎
While a lot of people are screaming about climate change, this is the greatest challenge facing the human race. How to sustainably farm. Great video, thanks for uploading.
Truly brilliant! Well done keep spreading the word! Environment care and specifically soil care is the true essence of creating a sustainable future for us all. My garden isn’t the prettiest in the street by any means, however, our soil is now certainly the best. It has taken years of giving nature a gentle hand In regenerative practices and has well been worth the effort to have healthy root systems in soil teeming with life.
This is a great high-quality video that does a very good job explaining Regenerative Agriculture. Thanks to all involved!
There is nothing to explain. It’s all lies and falsehoods. Completely not backed by science, as it is not replicable or repeatable. End all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. That’s the only way to then focus of the sequestration of carbon, and the cleaning up o the cesspools and reservoirs of filth and disease that emerge from the animal populations in the animal agriculture industry, as well.
These examples are very positive, and seem quite do-able. The mention of "leaky weirs" is also very important. This process of slowing the water without stopping it is exactly what beaver do, both in North America and Eurasia. It keeps the water table high, and allows vigorous growth from riparian vegetation.
Seems like a great idea if you live in an area where people aren’t trying to sue you because fish can’t get through
@@johnmartinez6676 I suspect that Probably the 2 biggest hurdles to Regenerative farming/Ranching is the government and colleges. At least that's what it seems like here in the USA. On a side note, I'm a simple man,I don't have any fancy degree and I don't believe in evolution or other such stuff. However I believe we can learn alot by watching Gods creation more closely. Not that we need to become animals, but that we can learn how better to manage what God gave us. People Produced food for a long time before we had chemicals and some people like Greg Judy among others have learned to do it again.
Fantastic video. That platypus looked extremely happy splashing around. Loved it.
Just don't try to touch the male!---they sting!
How wonderful. It's news like this and changes in agriculture that will help me die in peace. I am worried sick for my grandchildren
I am still young.
I teach people how to make and use biochar. It is a technology older than written language and signals the beginning of the Anthropocene. It is only the last hundreds and fifty years or so that we have made terrible mistakes, the vast spread of human history, we did good for the environment, this is one way people are showing how to do it! Sequestering is easier than most people imagine and with modern retort technologies and machines that were unimaginable nine thousand years ago, we can make electricity and/or heat homes while making char, the first step along the process of creating biochar.
i like how they point out that they´re not just improving their soil, but also save a ton of money - that will convince other farmers, who might not care about diversity but sure as heck care about their pocket book!
Did anyone else noticed the people involved in Permaculture and Natural way of doing faring are rather humble and Calm ?
You can feel a rhythm in their voices, and their way of talking is pretty polite. This must be something to do with inner peace and happiness.
These are the folks that we need to save civilization from itself.
This is genius. Thanks for recording it. It will surely help future generations get on the right track.
May this sweep the world.
These farmers are providing the answers - great showcase - glad we could play a small part. Keep on growing the love.
So powerful and beautiful. Thank you for the film and to these amazing farmers.
Yes, Take care of the land, and the land will take care of you!
I've seen this story somewhere else before and I'm so happy it's being put out there again- just so important!! Especially right now in the world and Australia it seems
The ground is also able to absorb the excess carbon as well. Healthy ground sucks up as much CO2 as the ocean.
No, ocean stores more. But Allan Savory suggests that if more carbon is stored in the ocean it's gonna be too acidic for the fauna. The Ground solution is still perfect enough.
Thank you. May we heal ourselves, our land, each other.
Magnifique ! Merci pour cet démonstration du "Tout est Possible" !
Stop being stock managers and becoming land managers...
Stop becoming land managers?
not as great as it sounds.....they usually just want money
@@joshuabradshaw6355 It was a quote from Massy in the beginning. Massy is saying that his main focus is soil health.
@@moihawk666 huh?
Tthank you for taking care of all of us
To you farming in this fulls my heart with joy, and I am very excited to see this happening.
If I could go back in time when I was farming and adopted your methods and other natural methods. I probably would be still farming today because deep in my heart I know this is were we should be.
I wish you all the very best for your future.
This is almost mimicking nature, I love it
It is an attempt to exactly mimick nature.
Spiritual this is the word everyone is looking for
what a fantastic film which does this marvellous book justice. i recommend anyone to also read Call of the Reed Warbler!
Go Mr. Allen Savory and the Savory institute!
Such a wonderful message, brought tears to my eyes. All my best wishes for Australia and the world from Sweden. (We always buy organic when not Swedish and otherwise preferably locally produced organic or transitioning, and fair trade laballed, naturally! It is more expensive, and sometimes there are scams, but we also have good journalists that expose scammers!) Amy Browne, thank you, and please keep documenting, it is so important!
Hats off to all the true custodians of the land all over the world.
Over here in Cape Town, South Africa I started my suburban veggie patch garden in August 2021, being a pensioner with very little money, I dug up the Kikuya grass and made cement slab barriers, covered the soil with cardboard and cut holes in the cardboard to put in my seeds. I have had a great harvest since then and earth worms are on the increase with very little compost. The veggie scraps I turn into the compost I use, as well as grass clippings. I also planted some trees, that are still small. Strong winds are a problem at the moment, but I will figure something out.
Love this guys. Fantastic work! The stories need to be told.
Just read a great book called 'Cows Save the Planet' by Judith D. Schwartz. I'd definitely recommend it, it covers and expands on a lot of similar ground to this film. UK farmers definitely need to pay attention to this stuff, since there's so much monoculture here and crops are getting worse.
Have you read "Wilding" by Isabella Tree? It's about saving a typical intensive farming estate from bankruptcy by allowing large parts of the estate to revert to nature and stocking native breeds which are left to cope by themselves. As in the video, naturally wet areas are allowed to flood annually, reducing flood damage elsewhere and replenishing the meadows.
The yields are higher, there's no fertilizer costs, everything is organic ( meaning premium product) and there's hardly any veterinary input. Not only is the business now a success but the area has become an oasis for rare breed birds and insects.
All this in West Sussex.
I'm glad we're making the effort now for times ahead but we need to look back in time and try to learn from the ancient aboriginals. We need to relearn the old aboriginal way of regenerative farming, The way the land was farmed for 1000's of years before we came. No they didn't have any farm animals like we see today but if we were able to call upon their knowledge of the land and try to mix it with our knowledge of agriculture we could of had a better way to farm and still give back to the soil.
Farmers are our lifeblood. We can all unite, all people, all professions, to take care of our planet, economy, family friends and society. We must do it together.
I still have faith in humanity.
Congratulations! A veritable return to the Garden of Eden, not unlike the project on our channel. This could even be duplicated in the countries bordering on the Sahara. Excellent work!
Isn't it funny that the term 'grassroots' is giving hope in both the realms of natural and cultural regeneration?
God bless and protect all true farmers and ranchers everywhere on Earth.❤🌞
Wonderful. Keep up the good work! Three lessons that I learnt here: Every bit of intensity requires a bit of rest./ We humans can actually allow Nature to improve Herself if we enable Her./ Evolution needs cooperation.
Let animals compete, we humans will cooperate.
It must be good to know when you have done so much good - And benefited from it at the same time.
That's the wonder of ecology. Life on earth is fine tuned to prosper cooperatively. An ecosystem IS cooperation between organisms. We ignore this at our own peril.
Great to see this happening in Australia
If there were trees on the land, apart from the other benefits the falling leaves would fertilize the land.
Tree take time. I doubt they'll overlook trees.
The whole problem is meat, people want to eat the meat. Once more people become vegan, farmers will not graze animals, grass lands will see more trees. More tress will make this planet more healthier.
There want to make sure plants grow on trees that really make it easier to get the green area to stay for global warming and air will flow too cold, which would be rain increase lots of every year and other gains will be made fertilizing land
@@mohit2010ify Huge parts of the planet are not ecologically appropriate for trees. This is the problem when people simply chant "plant more trees, Don't eat meat". Follow the science, not the propagandists.
@@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists I agree with you Savannah's and grasslands of Africa are one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet, with a lot of large mammal species. It's not necessary to do things like plant more trees and turning deserts into green cover, but to preserve the biodiversity of the place.
Wow. The differences between holistically managed land and the modern farm land are starkly obvious. Why would someone NOT want this?
Charles Massey! Loving his book, great work guys.
I am thankful that they have caption. Took me a while to realise that.
But these guys are doing what's needed. Keep up the great work. 👍🏽
Keep showing others what you are doing. Excellent work.
God bless you folks
What a wise film - warms my heart...
PURE LOVE FOR GOOD HUMANS STEWARDING EARTH.
This is fantastic news, well done Aussie farmers. We have a little bit of talk of re-wilding in Britain, not exactly the same but is a way of restoring bio diversity. Other related topics are managing top soil, achieving full hydrology cycle, keeping rivers clean from pollution, avoiding drought or flood ie both are opposites but both cause huge disruption and loss. I've only got a small communal garden but I've made a real effort to plant flowers out to assist the bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
What an awesome story, totally agree, we are going the same way but not there yet. Thankyou
Thank you. This is what I want. I’m taking Allan Savory’s course. I want to be livestock farming for a very long time.
Wonderful video. I am hoping that more people do this and that governments encourage this.
2:22 “ Now what the world needs for the future, what human beings and all life need humans to be doing, is to have an agricultural system, that the consequence of management is to increase diversity, not diminish it.”
2:55 “...and out of that came my book, Call of the Reed Warbler” (A New Agriculture - A New Earth, by: Charles Massy)
3:26 “What we see with regenerative grazing practices ... you graze the plants for a very short period of time, and you’ve got to have a fencing system that allows you to move the animals around, so that you have enough recovery time for your paddocks to recover. Whereas when you’ve got stock in every paddock, and you’ve got it grazed down really short, the plant roots are very small”.... those little amounts of rainfall ... do nothing in a conventional system because any growth is being grazed immediately, compared to the regenerative system... which allows the plants to grow big, allowing the roots and soil to hold water (my rephrasing).
9:41 Is that Lambs Quarters in the field??? That is one of my favorite greens to nurture for salads, sautéed greens, anything you do with spinach, this plant is better and sturdier! One year a friend let them grow in amongst his potatoes, when we harvested the potatoes, there were more potatoes under the five foot tall Lambs Quarter plants than where there were none! And the root systems they create are deep and sturdy.
Valuable regenerative agriculture lessons for humankind; on this challenging earthly journey through life, etc. Commendable.
A fantastic and much needed effort to fix our problems.
Working paddock systems is something we’ve been doing in Ireland for years particularly in the dairy sector. Never knew it was a holistic way of farming
A lot (if not all) dairy farms in Australia regularly practice rotational grazing. It's far more profitable and better for the land.
Phil, yes we used to do paddock grazing for our milk cows in the seventies. But no way is that holistic. Regenerative paddock grazing is different altogether. They use “mob grazing”. Watch Gabe Brown on TH-cam to see how it’s done
Miles Thom to my understanding mob grazing is where you put enough livestock into an area of ground to graze it within a day or so. That’s what we do most dairy farms work a 24 hour grazing system moving cows to fresh paddocks every 24 hours and a rotation of 21-28 days from when a paddock is grazed till it is grazed again. We try to run a 36 hour grazing on an average of a 26 day rotation on our own farm. If your interested head over to my channel and look for my video “a guide to our grassland management “
@@FARMERPHIL3690 As well as the rotational element, regenenerative grazing also involves growing the pasture taller, ensuring the animals only eat the top half of the pasture at any one time, using a much more diverse pasture, plus no superphosphate or urea (because they inhibit soil ecology).... I'm in NZ and all the dairy farmers practice rotational grazing, but it is not regenerative at all. But we're working to change that!
Kama Burwell depending how you define ‘taller pastures’, only grazing a plant to half high is potentially not the most effective use of the plant in terms of being benifical for the cow, being profitable and growing healthy pastures.
Daughter tillers need sunlight and if you’re leaving behind too much residual, you’re shading those tillers from growing at their maximum potential.
Very well put together video. I would love if they would consult or lobby big farm/ranch operations with numbers that would actually represent that farm if they changed their ways. I think that is the only way to convince the big players to change, if they are made aware of the lack of feed costs, etc.
Everyone needs to do their part, but changing just one of the big boy's minds would make such a huge impact. I'm doing a lot of gardening and becoming more conscious of where my food comes from and the waste. Composting and such as well. It helps just a little bit if everyone can do what they can.
This should be replicated wherever possible
The simple ideas are often the best. Thanks for sharing.
Literally the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why is the neighbor not following lead?
I always thought that the frequent argument from farmers (if you know any as I do), is that they say - "So what. Green grass means nothing. Its the economy to my pocket that matters, or I just dont have the funds to last in the meantime while the earth regenerates". Its a sad story but its mindboggling how many farmers are stuck in the way they have been trained, grew up, saw their Grandfather do it and are comfortable with. Sad.
@@LitoGeorge - So true. I acquired s small piece of land surrounded by "old" farmers. Who have been on the "business" since kids. Although they've got a really good experience. They lack, at the same level or worse, the different perspective of a broader view. Everything is done on the sense of "the next crop", meaning just a few months away.
Good example, when one of them saw me piling up raw material. Making my compost pile. He asked me what was that!!! After explaining what is compost and the usage of waste organic material... He still looked at me with an "alien" expression. Thinking the "kid" is nuts. BTW I'm over 50!! LOL 😂
@@crpth1 I hear you. I cut swales into my land to slow down the water runoff (severe) and I was told I had ruined the land. Used them to fill up 4 ponds I built. Was told I was really inexperienced and "clueless". Its a few years on now, drought hits the area in summer, and guess which farm is the only one with accessible water in the hot months? Right.
@@LitoGeorge - 100% on that. I made, what I call, my "mini,micro nano" dams!. 4x of them to be precise. Honestly it's ridiculously small, but already made quite a difference. Yeah! You guessed those looks from the old boys... Kind of funny after awhile. LOL 😂
Wanted to "test" a certain part of the land. Sow seeds (no till), etc. Warn my neighbor which I allow to bring his sheep over. To not "touch" that particular part and explain why!
Few seconds after, he tells me, with a naughty smile. "That's the worst soil on the property..."
My answer: I know, that's why I'm testing there. There's no need to test on the good part where I know it grows! ;-)
His reply: Now you got me!
LOL 😂
@@crpth1 nice one! Highly commend you for that. I'll add one for you of my own: my Mennonite neighbour had his cows and bees on my land (I implemented mob grazing, swales, pond building etc) instead of haying the fields etc which obviously causes a bunch of issues - Greg Judy was/is one of my heroes in that regard) and I decided to try something new and plant barley, oats and fall rye on the berms of the swales to help with initial mob grazing intensely fertilising the fields and changing the whole structure of the ground. THe fall rye would start to reduce the dependency of hay if you see where I am going with this. Anyway, I decided to rototill the ground as it had been severely compacted by three decades of cattle standing in certain places (it was near cement like in structure), and whilst doing that, I decided to rototill the swamp grass which had taken over the always wet areas. Sowed it by hand, with the seeds mentioned. Wouldnt you know it - swampgrass gone, fall rye took off like a rocket, and even in the "cement" areas, new green growth for the first time in a long time. Neighbour was gobsmacked. I remember his wife kept saying that I was idealistic while her hubby (Mennonite man) was experienced. I guess there's room for idealism after all.
Thank you for sharing this video! I feel inspired to become a farmer myself and will start in an organic farmers school in Denmark next autumn if everything goes after plan. I have studied environmental issues and solutions for many years, first at university, and then travelling the last years to visit ecovillages. It was all interesting, but also confusing, because I didn't know what I wanted to do as a profession. Now I know that I wish to connect with the land, with nature, with plants and animals, and with other people, and attempt to make an holistic practice out of it all, find the balance, and learn also how I can pass that on to the generation coming after me
Besutiful movie! This gives me hope that more and more people will eventually change to more environmentally friendly agriculture
I get so frustrated when my vegan daughter says that she doesn't want to harm animals. But is happy to eat products grown on mono culture fields that are intensively farmed by huge corporations, who have no connection to the land and no care for our shared planet. Thanks for the film. I also liked 10,000 beating hearts.
Don't tell her about nematodes then. They are animals found in nearly all plants 🤣 she might not eat meat, but no one's actually vegan 🤣