Can This Shepherdess and Her Sheep Prevent Wildfires?
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Today, Grasslands are the least protected habitat on earth. And due to factors - such as development, wildfires, industrial agriculture, and extreme biodiversity loss - our Grasslands continue to be in serious danger. Shannon Waldron has made it her life’s mission to live and work as a nomadic shepherdess in California, where she utilizes sheep grazing to help heal the California landscape.
Women of the Earth is a new show on PBS Terra, produced by Summer Moon Productions, featuring stories of women across America who are leading a new movement to restore and protect the land. By focusing on women in land stewardship roles like farmers and shepherds, the series will explore women’s unique relationship to the earth and their innovative undertakings to heal the earth from climate change.
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I'm 73. And I have a huge smile on my face. Thank you for being human and women. And being a better answer for a healthy future.
I birthed this Shepherdess.
And well she is a woman that will change the Earth
Yip yip
More please
DYW XO love my girl
Really appreciate the land and idigenous acknowledgement at the end 🙏
yeh, first time I've seen it on a US video. It's normal in Australia. I hope it grows in frequency there too!
A million ways to create a life❤ bravo to Shannon Waldron, Christian Cain, & the filming & editing team at PBS! We love hearing these stories
I love the idea of using nature and natural processes to combat climate change, this is very beautiful
I hope more people take to such initiatives, we all need this earth and we should all protect it
Very positive message ❤
@@larrymartineau7507 this screams, ignorance
Sad 😔
Sheeps are the best, they are so gentle and easy to work with im glad to see someone putting an old art to use. You’re giving me ideas and I really appreciate that! Great work and wish you further success!
Wow what a cool woman, I bet she comes from a really great family.
;)
This sound suspiciously like a dad or uncle comment… 😏
AMAZING!!!! SHANNON YOU ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE FOR THE REST OF US!!! Action is what we need! Can't wait to pick your brain on how I can be a Shepard out near my spot some day soon! PERENNIAL GRAZING FOR THE WIN!!!!!! I have tears in my eyes and hope left in my heart thanks to people like you!
This was so soothing to watch! LOVE this idea for a new series within PBS Terra. Can't wait for the next one.
Wow. Such a clear and concise explanation and Shannon is awesome!
7:02 “we’re giving them a hard back so the way forward is the best decision for them” - yet another lesson from this way of life more in touch with the earth.
It’s a really nice life they’ve made for themselves. She definitely inspires me
Oh my, if I was younger, what a life. Thanks for showing this lovely person and her sheep.
I hate to break to you, but Vampire describes the majority of the California state legislature irrespective of party affiliation.
Yes! We need to support the rebuilding of the soil.
"Just go simple, and TRY, because there's a million ways to create a life." Well-said! And from a BEAUTIFUL heart! Thank you 💓✨️
Shannon is glory, personified. Beautifully done PBS crew
Thanks for an excellent episode.
This fine young couple, their sheep, and their dogs give me a bit of hope for the future.
Fantastic! Would love to see this kind of service offered for suburban lawns for people who want to grow natural vegetation
great idea, but might not be financially viable at the prices people would be willing to pay for the services, but maybe someone could set up a system where they owned the sheep (to avoid issues with an owner living urban) & leased them out to a group of homeowners, who had a rotational roster for where the sheep lived each day. Person who owned the sheep could be responsible for all their care & organising the roster, but homeowners required to move the sheep between properties themselves. Would be even more awesome to do in houses with kids & to have the sheep even give birth while there & let the children all watch in a really controlled way & get to see & play with the baby lambs & even learn to knit with their very own sheep's wool :)
This would not be a nice life for the sheep.
@@mehere8038 yes because an animal would just love to live that life, and especially to give birth in this scenarios. 🙄
@@nahaniyes in a controlled way. A lot of livestock today are breed specifically to be fine with this sort of stuff, it's like the dairy cows that are breed to be bad mums & just walk away & leave their calf & not care about it in the slightest (in most cases, some do, but they are breed out).
If managed properly it should be fine, shouldn't be any more stressful for the animal than giving birth while being watched by a bunch of howling wolves that want to eat the mother & baby while vulnerable!
There's wild animals in my country that seek out human homes to have their babies in or around, because they feel safer around the humans, that they know will protect them from their predators. If wild animals will choose that, then I'm sure domesticated sheep can cope just fine!
@Teressa Stuckey no, I'm realistic. Introducing children to animals in a way that they learn to love the animals & that the animals have been domesticated to be fine with for thousands of years is good for everyone concerned. It's the opposite of animal abuse!
Goats to most city kids are something they have no connection to, have one become a sort of pet for them & suddenly we have a new generation of animal welfare warriors as they remember fondly their experiences with their pet goat, when they were a child. They also get to see mum & bub together & understand how that works too. Unlike the dairy cows, goats, particularly in that situation, will be breed to be good mums & protect & care for their babies
She is a true inspiration
This is epic! As a woman who is raising women I will definitely show them this video!
That couple with their packs and flocks are amazing!!
how inspiring and what smart people. California needs more strong smart people like you. I've lost too many friends to climate change in norther California. TY.
Thank you for the work you do and the hope you give.
This is just wonderful ❤️, Great program PBS! This woman is amazing, I'm just blown away 😊 what a wonderful human being & Great inspiration ❤️
Wow, what a fantastic idea! Awesome way to bring rotational grazing into settings that would otherwise struggle to use it & with it to reduce herbicide & pesticide use, increase soil carbon, reduce climate change & produce food & clothing in the process. Brilliant!
Very inspiring that there are good souls out there caring about earth, land, micro-ecosystem. More importantly, it's not an industrial solution which often creates more problems than it can solve :).
I appreciate you folks for what you do, for the much good you are doing for us all! I’m just trying to imagine what it would be like if we had many more people just like you working together to do just this everywhere needed to get this good green earth back in balance. Your right, this is a passion, one has to really have love for this gift we are given. How beautiful it would be 😊 Thank you a thousand times ❤ You will. E greatly rewarded one day…you are doing what the good lord intended. For those who hear the calling, don’t hold back, be courageous and go for it.
Shane and the sheep. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
You’re a modern day hero…thank you!!!
What a fantastic series! Bravo
I love this series so much. PBS Terra is out here making phenomenal docs, and I'm enjoying all of them. Keep up the great work!
Nice to see people working at making things better.
🎉😊❤...
Inspirational.
Educational.
Enjoyable.
Achieve able.
..a paradigm shift of consciousness 😊
PBS, please 🙏 give us more.
Such an amazing path you guys are on. Inspiring business idea and lifestyle
Traveling shepards. I have Goats and shepatd them everyday, no fence. They made it through an entire year without eating any hay bails.
Keep up the good work y'all!
It's important to note that overgrazing can degrade soils and watertables just as badly, but sheep are a great tool especially for managing weeds, etc. Overgrazing dries the soil and leaves it prone to flooding, drought, and fire.
This needs to happen a lot more. We need a lot less 'conventional' ag.
And little to NO monoculture ag!
@@katherinejones8022
It's one thing if it's a small backyard patch with a few monocultured rows, but we can grow fruits, veggies, mushroom, nuts, meats, dairy, eggs etc, and feed livestock whIle avoiding monocropping, annual-based, water-intensive, synthetically chemically-managed, overgrazed, or CAFO agriculture.
Love variations of Mark Shepard's restoration ag with trees, shrubs, livestock etc, grass roots rainwater harvesting as taught by Brad Lancaster, and mob grazing on rangeland, a la Allen Savory.
She recognized this in the video..that's why she rotates them out.
@Lorrie
Did I say she didn't?
@@b_uppyI must say your lack of acknowledging it made it seem like she didn’t, people don’t realize that communicating is more than just the words you use, what you leave out can be just as loud. You could have easily said something like “as she mentioned” then you go on and acknowledging three men while still not acknowledging her. I could see it being an honest didn’t come to mind to type of thing (we’ve all been there) or a bias like we all have so I don’t at all fault you for it (don’t think Lorrie was either). My apologies if this sounds like an attack, it’s not meant to be. Hopefully just constructive criticism
very good , a couple in Norfolk county ON. Have been doing the same thing on the blue line road. Love watching the sheep and guard dogs. Keep up the good work
More of this please!
Wonderful example of returning to mutual survival of species. Great video. (Shivering 🖤🔔👍🏻)
Can you talk about how good trains are for the environment and how California is trying to improve their state transportation infrastructure.
J have been a proponent of this practice for a long time. Kudos to you.
Very nice, and uplifting thank you.
Love it... Best to you on your endeavor. A million wats to create a life . Love it
This is really fascinating. Great stuff.
‘Women of the Earth’ are truly the daughters of Mother Nature !
My grandad said you can do what needs to be done for a sheep.
Good for you! I loved my woolies for 18 years. I miss them. I had a very small flock: 6 or 7 ewes & 1 ram. 🥰🐑🐏
One particularly hard day, I yelled to the sky, “Grandad, send me a sign I should stay in this business!” I found a rusty shepherd’s crook sans wooden handle poking up in the pasture. He had hundreds of sheep when I was very young. Go figure! That was 35 years ago.
This is absolutely GENIUS !!!
This was beautiful. Filled my heart with hope. That is rare
Wow, what you are doing is really cool!
Thank you
3:33 disadvantages of a monoculture planting 8:53 native perennial grasses develop deep root systems, help contain and retain moisture and minerals 9:57 sheep help reduce unwanted annual grasses, giving perennials room to thrive
Well done, Shannon. 👍
This is brilliant, what a cool look at a lifestyle that doesn't involve an office and does something good besides! Does anyone know where I can get my hands on the musical score behind the video? Really loved the acoustic mix. ❤
Great segment!
Man she's cool as hell. Rock on shepardess!
Brilliant!!!
Farmers are the key to a better planet. They are currently so involved in protecting the landscape, its nutrients, and so many of them are now trying to farm in a gree, responsible manner.
Individuals/families yes, corporations not so much. We need to bring back REAL farmers! Put green dollars into supporting farmers green projects rather than taking away from farmers so the farms end up in the hands of corporates that don't care
@@mehere8038 Very important distinction!
Thank you for the great content!
History teaches us that low intensity ground fire is the best fire prevention tool, but waddabout when fire can't be used ?
Bring in the Sheep !
Since us humans change the environment for the worse , it up to humans to protect and restore it.
Pretty cool! 😊👍🏼
Love love LOVE!!! SO INSPIRING!!!!
I L😍VE THIS WOMAN❣❣❣❣
ditto, she is pretty rad ❤
What you're doing is amazing the only thing missing from this video is how can people from other walks of life support people like you?
Excellent...!
Well explained, looks like you have wool and hair sheep. We have hair sheep and every day is a learning experience.
just awesome
Crazy to see that place in Sonoma County mentioned, as I used to live near there.
Please make more of these shorts, please.
So amazing thank you helping improve environment 🎉😂
Rebuilding a 'native' ecology with a non-native animal! We use the tools that are available. (I wonder if the sheep tend to preferentially eat the non-native annuals...)
Thanks for being a good Shepard of the land. There was a story on National Geographic about restoring grasses in a wasteland called Selah in Texas years ago. Yesterday I was watching and solar and agriculture mixed use so maybe tech and nature can work together to create better lives.
How can he count them without falling asleep!?
hey! those are my guitar chords in 0:01
So many puppies!
Is it the same as this applies to the camels with the sand storm?
Galumphing with the animals
Underneath the ground the fungi system is waking up
Busy guarding the bacterias
And partnering with the greens to come out to view the sun
With plenty of solar energy
Their roots drill down and firm
Holding the soils in places
From the above it’s just a perfect sight
Whole land grants our healthy souls
Beautiful
Counting those sheep get in that truck trailer must be tiring! 😏
as a shepherd I can tell you that joke (or some variant) is literally the most heard comment when we're out and about...
Regenerative Agriculture - WTG Shepherdess
Would bison have performed similar functions as the sheep when they were more numerous?
This makes me so home sick for my Northern California (and my sometimes dream to quit corporate life and do more for the earth)
Can I volunteer to help you for a month? Looks like a hard job but looks like my dream job.
Mob grazing technique??
W00t!
❤
Best way to prevent fires…get rid of the fuel that drives it…that’s why homes are supposed to clean up the plants well around your home.
Engagement for the engagement god!
Maybe a stupid question..... But I'm wondering if they've thought about growing hemp to help restore their lands as well?? It be a really great duo!! These sisters are doing absolutely AMAZING things using hemp crops to bring land back to its beginnings!!!
th-cam.com/video/FApf9HCSDsg/w-d-xo.html
Female Farmers will make and bring the results up. Because soils are very much alike as taking care of females skin care routines.
👋🏻👋🏻🤠 🐑 🇹🇷
Sure Sheep are great, but have you tried Garlic Bread?
I tried but the Garlic bread didn't want to eat the grass....
We need more wolves to make sheep grazing great again.
Shepherd is a Gender neutral term for a person that Herds Sheep. In the same way that a Trucker is someone that drives trucks.
truckster, trucktress? XD
So basically the earth needs to flick humans off and replace us with sheep (the LITERAL kind).
Anyone noticed that here sheep don't want to be next to her.
Makes you wonder why don't it.
Also she has no dam trees for shade for those sheep just like a cow farmer no God dam shade for the animal.
sheep are prey animals, they're naturally skittish. you have to actively tame them to be comfortable real close to people
also she's wearing a thick sweater and a scarf it's probably cold as fuck out there, sheep are fine without shade unless it gets real hot in summer (sheep aren't sheered yet so it's not filmed during summer)
sheep are fine you have no idea what you're talking about...
source: I am a shepherd.
I didn't know Shepherd was a gendered term. I thought a woman Shepherd was just a Shepherd. Ya' learn something everyday...
Wait, isn't that animal farming reportedly produces more green house gases, and shepherding on a monoculture farming is like cosmetic rejection of plastic wastes?
Who's a good wooly girl? Ewe are!
I don't want to say this is kind of moot/pointless but when you actually look at the environmental cost of producing X amount of food; many/most Organic is really bad -using 20-40% more water and most importantly land.
Land use is by far; the biggest harm we do to ecosystems -a lack of space and thus resources forces populations to shrink and loss genetic diversity (if not just go extinct); which makes them much more vulnerable to disease, invasive species, pollution and natural disasters, and of course less able to adapt to climate change.
Probably the most actually environmentally friendly veggies would be grown hydro/aero-ponicly in the sterilized basement of your neighbourhood supermarket, grow lights powered by solar/wind/nuclear, and mostly supplied with water and nutrients reclaimed from our waste.
Low carbon, low land use, local, no pesticides, low water use and low fertilizer use -it checks all the boxes but doesn't fit the naturalistic fallacy based narrative.
How many supermarket basements we need to feed 8 billion people?
@@kyjo72682 If you are legit asking: I don't (and nobody) really knows -it depends on the efficiency of the system and how 'closed' the closed loop cycle ends up. Creating ideal conditions for the plant should increase yields; as would reduction in loss from pests and weather damage or variability, plants engineered for much faster/efficient growth would be very significant.
Currently massive hydro/aero commercial-commodity crop operations haven't been done -they are economically uncompetitive when you can just externalize harm/costs; land and water is too cheap to bother with the massive upfront costs.
If you are not legit asking: Then the point of my comment has apparently flown right over your head.
Your technology-heavy "solution" involves a violation of the laws of thermodynamics that does not fit within a solar-based economy, and you seem to lack even basic understandings of ecosystem function and land management. It's one reason why the urban high tech farm industry is already collapsing despite tons of interest from venture capitalists. Yes we need to restore biodiversity to the landscape and improve the nutrition of our food. That will not happen via hyped up hydroponics. It will happen by reintegrating ourselves with nature and natural processes.
OK, so, how much more water is captured and stored on land that is farmed organically?? I think the future will see many many small farmers managing small parcels of land near smaller communities or villages. Today’s industrial sized farms are tilled and managed according to the calendar whereas small farms can be tilled and managed when the time and conditions are right. This results in better soil structure, less soil erosion, allowances for biodiversity, and one might say, a more sustainable food production system.
@@ayoungethan Please explain how any of of what I suggested is a "violation of the laws of thermodynamics"...hopefully you are not just one those people; whom without understanding; just vomit back out buzzwords and groupspeak that they have been taught (usually by others without understanding).
Also there is a "urban high tech farm industry"? shame on me; something is apparently collapsing that I did not even know existed, something that I was sure still needed many years of R&D to even attempt on a commodity crop scale....seems legit.
And even more shame on me for not bowing down to the venture capitalists -especially on matters of long term sustainability, resilience and environmental responsibility....
"reintegrating ourselves with nature and natural processes."
No. Feel free to look up "naturalistic fallacy".
Problem is Calif doesn’t care about anything here- our lands- our forests- our foods- our water supply- our cattle ranchers- chicken farms ect ect. Or even if we have fires that destroys a lot of peoples homes- land ect. It’s all about how much they can get & take from us CA people who live here 😡
But as a Vegan! I can’t support this! Even if it helps the environment! Eeeeeee!
Literally what I’d imagine them saying.
vegans are dumb. vegetarians I can sort of understand but vegans are just naïve idealists, like you literally can't grow plants in any sustainable way without animal manure.