NOTE to anyone filming speakers - If the speaker is showing slides, PLEASE spend at least 2/3rds of the time on the slides, NOT the speaker. In this presentation, viewers cannot even SEE many of the slides at all. As cute as Gabe is... we can learn more from what he is trying to show us than by looking at him. That said, THANK YOU for posting this presentation!
Am I the only one to notice that farmers need to know as much as lawyers, programmers, engineers and scientists? I listen to this kind of stuff very frequently, and despite my best efforts, starting from the ground up (no pun intended) I find that there is still an infinity to learn. There are a number of subjects that I talk about, but this is what really gets my yayas off. At the end of such a video, I feel inspired, invigorated and the world becomes a bright, shiny new place. It is the same feeling I had as a small child. Maybe that's a clue as to what I should be doing. Now, all I have to do is figure out what to do with winter.
Francis Roy You're not alone for sure. I'm a soil/ag geek too and the learning curve is EPIC! If you haven't already, I'd suggest taking a Permaculture Design course. All the techniques Gabe uses are embraced by permaculture and it will help you find a holistic way to deal with any problem and give you a framework to work from. One of the principles of PC is "The Problem Is The Solution" which turns problems to advantages. Also look into Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work which Gabe uses. She has a free mini course on her soilfoodweb.com site and tons of great videos on YT. Geofflawton.com is another great resource. His online permaculture course is amazing. Once you understand this stuff, you can partner with Nature instead of fighting her. She makes a great ally but a terrible foe. Winter is your friend if you can use it to your advantage!
Mr Roy, you are so correct! The list of subjects one needs to know is HUGE; Soil science, hydrology, physics, biology, entomology, botany, chemistry....light spectrum artificial and from the sun...cover crops are wonderful...but if you think they are NATURAL, what a joke. This guy just said nature has no monocrops. I disagree, what are meadows? What are forests? All of our gardens, ornamental beds, landscapes we've made, plants in pots or water ARE artificial. Human made. No till is a complete pile of compost? Grins! Are we talking about personal gardens or large corporation fields? Using no fertilizer is just sad. Sad. If we humans want to grow plants as close to nature as possible one better know the rules. Photosynthesis needs external chemicals (fertilizer NOT FOOD) or forget eating a harvest if that was the goal. We strip off topsoils (that at the very least were full of organic matter to feed the micro and macro organisms and provide super tilth) already void of proper chemicals because all of these chemicals...nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, silicon, zinc...etc. ARE IN THE LIVE BIOMASS NOT THE SOIL. I do not like these speakers, they are not talking science. They are talking wu wu wannabe gardener talk. Giving a very distorted view of gardening.
I created a thriving garden out of hard clay...just place a lot of discarded vegetables, sometimes fruits, on the land. The discards come from the local market where merchants will throw out what they cannot sell or those that are discolored, etc. Free. Zero cost, gave me good excercise daily as I lugged home some 20kg. After 12 months it is thriving with some 40 species of plants were donated, migrated in from elsewhere. Birds, bees, spiders, earthworms, geckos, snails, etc. Even an occasional monitor lizard. I live in Singapapore, hot, humid, sunny. No till, no pesticide and the plants sort themselves out and reach for the sunlight. I trim some so that they do not crowd out others. Nature is fun.
Well done! This would not be practical on large acreages, of course, yet each of us can find a way to feed the soil life on the bit of soil we have. A lot of people prefer to run waste vegetables and fruits through pigs and/or chickens first, which also works beautifully. Lawn clippings and leaves are commonly thrown away around urban and suburban areas. Permaculturists grow plants to 'chop and drop' - which is basically what Gabe Brown is doing, only he is doing it on THOUSANDS of acres each year - and using animals and/or winter to do the work of getting the plant matter, the biomass, on the ground where it protects the soil and feeds the soil food web. Keep up the good work!
For Farmers out there who actually wish to replicate Gabe Brown's success, you literally have to go through a sort of therapy of deprogramming from the industrial business model and first understand how nature installs and maintains all of it's ecosystems around the globe. The same basic fundamentals and principles work universally. For example, when purchasing a pouch or bag of mycorrhizal fungi, don't expect it to be some quick fix magical dust that will poof profit that first season. You MUST gradually build up the soil health through cover cropping with plants that are truly mycorrhizal colony hosting, not with ruderal plants like Radish, Canola, Mustards, etc which ONLY thrive in a bacterial system. The soil has to be gradually built up, much the way Gabe intelligently illustrated a drug addicted must slowly be weaned off heroin. I think people often miss that very important point.
Actually Shaggy, the same basic fundamentals operate identically in all plant ecosystems and under any area of practice. If we are talking home vegetable type of gardening, then the simply cultivation and care will be fine. Many vegetables are not mycorrhizal anyway, so application of good mulches and /or manure is all you need anyway. However large urban landscapes will be maintained almost identically to large farms. No synthetic chemical inputs will ever be required or needed if you cultivate and care for the mycorrhizal fungi.
And there are lots of mycorrhizal 'products' so one can add more to a depleted soil, boost the chances of a transplant. No synthetic chemical inputs if the mycorrhizae is healthy? How so? What is 'synthetic' and what is not in terms of fertilizer or chemicals? How does one know that there is enough chemistry in the soil for plants one wants to grow?
stormy A good rule to follow is what does not exist in nature is synthetic. GMOs do not exist in nature but are made in labs so they are synthetic organisms.
Brilliant! And I see no reason all these principles can not be applied to the home gardeners operations, or small farm, too. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
My back yard is about a 1/3 acre. I.m thinking of turning the whole thing into a garden after watching this! Monsanto must not like this guy! The most important point Gabe made is that we need to work with nature not against it. It has always amazed me how much time, effort, and money we spend on having a nice green lawn. Imagine if every American yard was producing food instead of pretty green grass.
thinkertank1 Do it! I would suggest taking a Permaculture Design course first to avoid costly mistakes and create and optimized system that is way less work, less water, less pests and diseases and much higher nutrient density and yield. Also look into Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work which Permaculture uses. It will make your experience much more rewarding and much less work. Feed the soil and the plants will take care of themselves. She's got tons of videos on YT and a free soil food web course you can take. Cheers!
thinkertank1 In WW2 Victory Gardens in towns and cities produced 40 percent of the vegetables. Today urban gardens produce 4 to 11 time the per acre yield as factory farms.
A thought iv had many times I am in no way a farmer same as you before you turn your lawn into a garden I plan on doing something of the like my self but I need property first
We need to KNOW the rules that all other life is ruled by...we don't need to remake the rules! If we were able to all grow our own food (and there is always lots more to go around out of one garden) we would NOT need Monsanto. You do know that growing one's own food is frowned upon, right? Remember the little girl living with a poor mommy who made a garden in a next door plot of weeds? The swat team came in and literally confiscated the garden the food and caused mommy and little daughter a nightmare. Growing one's own food makes one autonomous. Not needing to go to the store, not dependent on the stores...very bad according to our 'masters'...We need to understand Nature, before we are able to work with nature. We need to understand the science, the foundations of botany, soils, biology, hydrology, chemistry...to be able to grow our own food. I have to giggle. I KNOW how to grow cool season grass crops very well. Most people do not! I know how to rent a sod cutter and take out the grass crop and what to do to grow food or any plant correctly. I know how to never need to use pesticides. Shoot, one of these days I will have to have my own dog gone site...if you want a few suggestions? Go to Stack Exchange; Gardening and Landscaping...very good service...
I am not a farmer but enjoy learning things of nature for my own entertainment. I enjoyed your entire video and have no doubt of your methods effectiveness. I hope all other farmers will follow in your footsteps.
Look at how many people he was speaking to, maybe 50, 60. Look at how many people watched this video. 67,000 THIS is the power of the new printing press. youtube combined with mobile devices and high speed wifi. Let's all video record, with permission, anyone who has expertise on this subject and does a great presentation, adn upload them , so that more people can learn and educate themselves and we can bring about the age of aquarius and the return of eden.
@@mellamoesroy - People don't want to deal with the mess of fruit. Or the insects and animals that are attracted to the fruit - squirrels (even though these were commonly enjoyed as food for most of our history in this country, and still are in some areas), raccoons - which are also tasty, and their furs don't create pollution, or choke the gills of sea life - and rats. Then again, maybe a few enterprising people in each neighborhood could collect the fruits - or nuts; nut trees generally make better shade trees than fruit trees do - and 'add value' by making the fruit into other products, like fruit leather, or preserves. It is time for us to start living as though we are a *part of the ecosystems of the planet, and not somehow separate*.
I am convinced that we must work on several fronts in order to produce the food needed for 7 billion people in a regenerative way. First, let’s start with the idea that we already produce (conservatively estimated) twice the amount of food needed to feed everyone on the planet. Production isn’t the main issue, localization and distribution is. Secondly, we need to educate consumers to make healthful choices that will regenerate their own bodies. This will shift demand, to a degree, in order to deal with the economics of our food system. Thirdly, we have to get at scale in order to regenerate the landscape on a level that will have the requisite positive impact in 2-3 generations. As several NRCS experts I am aware of point out, and something they deal with on a daily basis, we can’t preach from a soap box at American farmers and think we’re going to convince them to change their ways. We have to approach the American farmer as a partner in making needed changes in agriculture and not an enemy or obstacle. We must stop vilifying the majority of American farmers who are simply trying to earn a good living for their families, send their children to college, and save for retirement. Why must we partner with them? Scale is why. We who are permaculture enthusiasts are not going to change the actual landscape to sequester enough carbon, regenerate enough soil, and purify enough water if we’re doing it 10-20 acres at a time. Yes, many people have had a change of heart about their own personal lives this way, but this pace of change won’t ramp up to the scale we need for this planet. If so, the needed change would have already taken place because tens of thousands of people are PDC certified. This is only a part of the total equation. To get at the larger part of the equation, we must convince the owner or tenant of the broadacre landscape - the “conventional” farmer - to look through a different lens in order to view their landscapes differently. The key to gaining their attention is to demonstrate to them in real and actual examples, that they can increase their profitability by adopting a new approach to agriculture. Even operations such as Joel Salatin’s or Mark Shepard’s aren’t at enough scale to make the changes needed to reverse the negative effects. But, their operations are examples of a model that’s working to produce a good income while being largely regenerative. Rather, I’d look to the farmers that Raymond Covino and Ray Archuleta are helping to make changes to adopt polyculture no-till cover crop systems with a diverse cash crop that include animals in the matrix. Gabe Brown is a prime example of someone who is stewarding thousands of acres with such a system. He is outcompeting his neighbors in productivity and profitability while holding water in the soil, eliminating synthetic inputs, building soil, sequestering carbon all while securing a future for his family. We can make this happen, in my opinion, if we don’t lose the key audience in the dialog of regenerative agriculture - the conventional American farmer.
Dan Grubbs A resounding YES! to all you wrote above! You've got the right idea brother, we need to come alongside farmers as allies and friends and help them get out of the ChemAg stranglehold of NPK & Biocide Addiction. I'm permie too and agree about the larger scale needed. Please look into the work of Darren Doherty, Elaine Ingham, John D Lieu, Alan Savory and Geoff Lawton if you haven't already. All of them are working on large scale ecosystem and farm regeneration, quite successfully. I think we also need to bring young farmers who can't afford land, but want to farm regenratively into the mix. Our farmer population is small and aging rapidly while the young farmers can't afford land. It's the makings of either a tragedy or a win-win situation. There are a couple of organizations out there doing this already, including Salatin's operation, but it needs to happen on a bigger scale. Lets bring these young, permie educated folks into the fold as helpers and partners for the established farmers. There's one aspect of this whole "We need to feed 7 billion people" thing that most people don't get however. It's that People Are Made Of Food, and nothing else. Not straw or glass or rocks, but food, turned into flesh. So, the fact that the global population has been in exponential increase for thousands of years means that we are growing more than enough food, even for the "starving millions". They wouldn't number in the millions if there was no food. It's a longer conversation than I can write here, so please see Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" trilogy of books, especially #2 "The Story of B" "The Population Bomb" is explained there in detail and a practical solution is offered to defuse it. If we don't address that issue, growing more food will increase the population growth rate and we'll never get off of the treadmill. Another aspect to be addressed is that the current food distribution system is on the way out. It's petroleum intensive and rests on the modern industrial platform that is going away in the near future. The future will be relocalized by necessity. So we need to think about local means of distribution as opposed to massive silos and distribution centers and fleets of big rigs hauling food 3000 miles to market. Even if we still had the cheap oil, that would be a stupid idea. Rail, horse and boat transport are going to be the most efficient, especially boat cargo due to water taking the load, but the infrastructure for them is in disrepair or nonexistent these days. Cheers!
Finally- a farmer who understands how economical using tried and true cover crop planting can be! He's also increasing nutrition by using nature's method of fertilizing! Bravo! I hope he gets the message out worldwide of how easily we can eradicate hunger and the effects of drought on crops by improving the soil. Imagine feeding people, cattle, and chickens with one field! Wake up Agricultural Colleges!
+Susan Whalen Spot on Susan. We have a great network of friends around the world that are using the same or similar management techniques. As a former student of a land-grant university in our sate, I let them know that I did not agree with what they taught when I went to college there. Everything they taught put money in the hands of agribusiness, not the farmer.
+Paul Brown Agri business and corporate managed farming can, has, and will continue to destroy our production of nutritious food until people learn how important this really is! Bravo to Gabe for getting the word out!
Gabe you are brilliant sir. Respect to you, keep pushing this message, i believe by doing what you are especially the way your doing it will eventually change the world.
Great content, although editing was quite disappointing if this video was actually made by a production company. You would think that the slides should be shown when the presenter is pointing out specific portions of the slides, but far too often we were shown a side view of the presenter at those times.
Wow, that was the most compelling and positive hour of information I have ever heard. If there were time in his administration I would petition President Obama to award this man the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I am contemplating sending this link to my Congressional delegation, and perhaps every member of the U.S. Congress. Solving Global Warming and the Healthcare Crisis, Truly here it is! This posting needs 10 million hits.
It won't do any good because forcing people to do something only makes them resentful. The best way is for successful people to lead the way and others follow out of self interest. There are more leaders every day.
Fantastic information. From a backyard garden farming to a broad acre farming, this is what we all need to learn to understand. Working with Nature = Healthy Soils. Knowledge + Action is Power. Thank you for sharing :-)
I am so glad that I watched the Netflix documentary and learn more and more everyday. Thanks a lot for the information. The more farmers know, the more they will realize to stop using this junk product of RoundUp, which is killing our soils. God bless!
I'm having a go at growing veg in my backyard that was formally something that would be a code violation in the U.S. I've dug the soil to remove bindweed and brambles and nettles making raised beds then reading the backs of all the seed packs following the long convoluted slowing, potting on, planting. And then I thought how would nature deal with this? So my plan from now on it cultivated wildness... I want to get to a place I'm not importing soil improvers other than seeds. My food waste is so low composting is done by digging a hole next to greedy plants. I was out watering the ground with tap water and thought this can't be good for soil health, I'm pouring chlorine over my soil. So watching things like this further add to my understanding. I'm a novice but very keen to transform my small patch of land to do my bit. I'm also hoping to use it as an example of how things can be even in an urban environment.
For those who want to see more, watch the documentary "Kiss The Ground". It is very well worth your time. Mr. Brown is featured in it. It is a beautifully done documentary. I also recommend "The Need To Grow" and "The Biggest Little Farm".
Amazing chat! Great to reduce fertilizers, water usage, etc. And if you cut out the processed foods, meat, dairy and oil you will get lean, have amazing health benefits and reduce healthcare costs, climate change from animal agriculture and so many other benefits.
I was struck by your slide where you were planting into a no-till field and you were careful about even the smallest breaking of soil. How do you plant those cocktails of seeds without breaking the soil?
You know you're watching too many Holistic Management videos when you watch North By Northwest, and instead of thinking "I hope that plane doesn't shoot Cary Grant" you find yourself thinking "don't think much of that farmer's soil management techniques"
Love the content. My only complaint is instead of showing the man and the stage and a tiny bit of the slide on the screen beside these man, show the screen and maybe part of the man!
Gabe Brown was wonderful to listen to, very informative. However, the video was crap. I can listen to him and still look at the slides, felt like I missed seeing some good images.
I'd love to know if when you speak of multi-species cover crops and keeping the armor on the soil at all times. Do you need to seed those acres each time or do you let those cover crops reseed themselves?
Can you share the slide show? I would really like it if you would put a link to the slide show with the video. The speaker is mighty handsome, but the subject matter is illustrated in the slides!
33:06 Confinement - does that mean don't use the electric fence to manage grazing during the winter?? Or does that mean don't keep them in a barn/feedlot all winter.
This is a fantastic lecture, I am extremely disappointed in the camera man though. I couldn't see a lot of the slides and I didn't need to see the speaker from the knees/waist down. Wasted camera angles.
What are the barebones to start a regenerative cattle operation? Find some acreage to lease. How many acres? Purchase some cattle. How many? What breed? From where? Purchase mobile electric fence. What and from where? ??
@@tom4412 That's a critical part of the process to work out. I realize I ought not compete with the cattle industry-so the livestock sales barn is not an option.
Jay Scott ANDERSON is the livestock sale barn, the same as what I call a livestock market in the uk ? If so then yes it’s probably best not to sell there, as the money from that will never be great. Can you sell the meat directly to the public? I’d like to do this but I’m crap at selling to the public. On the plus side though, I’m fairly good at rearing cattle.
@@tom4412 Yes, where MOST of the local ranchers sell their cattle. They have a lot of land, a lot of cattle, and have been operating for quite a while. I expect the quality of the beef harvested is poor to middling.
@@tom4412 Regarding sales, Temple Grandin says, "Just write about how you do it on your farm, how you make it work, sell your own product." See th-cam.com/video/3zN0RW2DsOw/w-d-xo.html
How would one quantify that [knowing full well that different species have widely varying nutrient (and management) requirements]? The main argument with the concept of soil health is the way we measure it. To us, it's a rehashing/rebranding of the "soil quality" buzz a decade ago. There have been no useful transferable models with predictive capability.
i would love to learn this model for my min-ute little tomoato plants or my daffodils and irises to bloom obviously my soil year after year is eroding pathetically - no doubt due to chemtrails - cause i dont fertilize that soil - so its erroding from something?!
13 inches of rain in 22 hours?? If you have 16 inches of rain a year, you had 80% of that in 22 hours? Where I'm from I have never seen more then 5 inches of rain in one day
NOTE to anyone filming speakers - If the speaker is showing slides, PLEASE spend at least 2/3rds of the time on the slides, NOT the speaker. In this presentation, viewers cannot even SEE many of the slides at all. As cute as Gabe is... we can learn more from what he is trying to show us than by looking at him.
That said, THANK YOU for posting this presentation!
AMEN!!
Am I the only one to notice that farmers need to know as much as lawyers, programmers, engineers and scientists? I listen to this kind of stuff very frequently, and despite my best efforts, starting from the ground up (no pun intended) I find that there is still an infinity to learn. There are a number of subjects that I talk about, but this is what really gets my yayas off. At the end of such a video, I feel inspired, invigorated and the world becomes a bright, shiny new place. It is the same feeling I had as a small child. Maybe that's a clue as to what I should be doing. Now, all I have to do is figure out what to do with winter.
Francis Roy You're not alone for sure. I'm a soil/ag geek too and the learning curve is EPIC! If you haven't already, I'd suggest taking a Permaculture Design course. All the techniques Gabe uses are embraced by permaculture and it will help you find a holistic way to deal with any problem and give you a framework to work from. One of the principles of PC is "The Problem Is The Solution" which turns problems to advantages. Also look into Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work which Gabe uses. She has a free mini course on her soilfoodweb.com site and tons of great videos on YT. Geofflawton.com is another great resource. His online permaculture course is amazing. Once you understand this stuff, you can partner with Nature instead of fighting her. She makes a great ally but a terrible foe. Winter is your friend if you can use it to your advantage!
+Francis Roy
May I suggest coursera.org or one of the other free online learning resources.
+Francis Roy Yeah man, it's amazing. Loads to learn. www.permies.com is a great place.
If you're making observations like that you would probably love "The Unsettling of America - Culture & Agriculture" by Wendell Berry.
Mr Roy, you are so correct! The list of subjects one needs to know is HUGE; Soil science, hydrology, physics, biology, entomology, botany, chemistry....light spectrum artificial and from the sun...cover crops are wonderful...but if you think they are NATURAL, what a joke. This guy just said nature has no monocrops. I disagree, what are meadows? What are forests?
All of our gardens, ornamental beds, landscapes we've made, plants in pots or water ARE artificial. Human made. No till is a complete pile of compost? Grins! Are we talking about personal gardens or large corporation fields? Using no fertilizer is just sad. Sad. If we humans want to grow plants as close to nature as possible one better know the rules. Photosynthesis needs external chemicals (fertilizer NOT FOOD) or forget eating a harvest if that was the goal. We strip off topsoils (that at the very least were full of organic matter to feed the micro and macro organisms and provide super tilth) already void of proper chemicals because all of these chemicals...nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, silicon, zinc...etc. ARE IN THE LIVE BIOMASS NOT THE SOIL. I do not like these speakers, they are not talking science. They are talking wu wu wannabe gardener talk. Giving a very distorted view of gardening.
I created a thriving garden out of hard clay...just place a lot of discarded vegetables, sometimes fruits, on the land. The discards come from the local market where merchants will throw out what they cannot sell or those that are discolored, etc. Free. Zero cost, gave me good excercise daily as I lugged home some 20kg. After 12 months it is thriving with some 40 species of plants were donated, migrated in from elsewhere. Birds, bees, spiders, earthworms, geckos, snails, etc. Even an occasional monitor lizard. I live in Singapapore, hot, humid, sunny. No till, no pesticide and the plants sort themselves out and reach for the sunlight. I trim some so that they do not crowd out others. Nature is fun.
Well done! This would not be practical on large acreages, of course, yet each of us can find a way to feed the soil life on the bit of soil we have.
A lot of people prefer to run waste vegetables and fruits through pigs and/or chickens first, which also works beautifully.
Lawn clippings and leaves are commonly thrown away around urban and suburban areas. Permaculturists grow plants to 'chop and drop' - which is basically what Gabe Brown is doing, only he is doing it on THOUSANDS of acres each year - and using animals and/or winter to do the work of getting the plant matter, the biomass, on the ground where it protects the soil and feeds the soil food web.
Keep up the good work!
This should be made available on all long haul Flights.
I used to be into circus and dance videos, life changes, this is my favorite video on the internet
Check out Paul Gautschi Back to Eden Gardening. He will blow your mind more
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For Farmers out there who actually wish to replicate Gabe Brown's success, you literally have to go through a sort of therapy of deprogramming from the industrial business model and first understand how nature installs and maintains all of it's ecosystems around the globe. The same basic fundamentals and principles work universally. For example, when purchasing a pouch or bag of mycorrhizal fungi, don't expect it to be some quick fix magical dust that will poof profit that first season. You MUST gradually build up the soil health through cover cropping with plants that are truly mycorrhizal colony hosting, not with ruderal plants like Radish, Canola, Mustards, etc which ONLY thrive in a bacterial system. The soil has to be gradually built up, much the way Gabe intelligently illustrated a drug addicted must slowly be weaned off heroin. I think people often miss that very important point.
+Kevin Franck would I be in a better place coming from small hand gardening? Nothing I see in 'big ag' makes any sense to me
Actually Shaggy, the same basic fundamentals operate identically in all plant ecosystems and under any area of practice. If we are talking home vegetable type of gardening, then the simply cultivation and care will be fine. Many vegetables are not mycorrhizal anyway, so application of good mulches and /or manure is all you need anyway. However large urban landscapes will be maintained almost identically to large farms. No synthetic chemical inputs will ever be required or needed if you cultivate and care for the mycorrhizal fungi.
+ShaggtyDoo Yes
And there are lots of mycorrhizal 'products' so one can add more to a depleted soil, boost the chances of a transplant. No synthetic chemical inputs if the mycorrhizae is healthy? How so? What is 'synthetic' and what is not in terms of fertilizer or chemicals? How does one know that there is enough chemistry in the soil for plants one wants to grow?
stormy A good rule to follow is what does not exist in nature is synthetic. GMOs do not exist in nature but are made in labs so they are synthetic organisms.
Brilliant! And I see no reason all these principles can not be applied to the home gardeners operations, or small farm, too.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
My back yard is about a 1/3 acre. I.m thinking of turning the whole thing into a garden after watching this! Monsanto must not like this guy! The most important point Gabe made is that we need to work with nature not against it. It has always amazed me how much time, effort, and money we spend on having a nice green lawn. Imagine if every American yard was producing food instead of pretty green grass.
thinkertank1 Do it! I would suggest taking a Permaculture Design course first to avoid costly mistakes and create and optimized system that is way less work, less water, less pests and diseases and much higher nutrient density and yield. Also look into Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work which Permaculture uses. It will make your experience much more rewarding and much less work. Feed the soil and the plants will take care of themselves. She's got tons of videos on YT and a free soil food web course you can take. Cheers!
thinkertank1 In WW2 Victory Gardens in towns and cities produced 40 percent of the vegetables. Today urban gardens produce 4 to 11 time the per acre yield as factory farms.
A thought iv had many times I am in no way a farmer same as you before you turn your lawn into a garden I plan on doing something of the like my self but I need property first
We need to KNOW the rules that all other life is ruled by...we don't need to remake the rules! If we were able to all grow our own food (and there is always lots more to go around out of one garden) we would NOT need Monsanto. You do know that growing one's own food is frowned upon, right? Remember the little girl living with a poor mommy who made a garden in a next door plot of weeds? The swat team came in and literally confiscated the garden the food and caused mommy and little daughter a nightmare. Growing one's own food makes one autonomous. Not needing to go to the store, not dependent on the stores...very bad according to our 'masters'...We need to understand Nature, before we are able to work with nature. We need to understand the science, the foundations of botany, soils, biology, hydrology, chemistry...to be able to grow our own food. I have to giggle. I KNOW how to grow cool season grass crops very well. Most people do not! I know how to rent a sod cutter and take out the grass crop and what to do to grow food or any plant correctly. I know how to never need to use pesticides. Shoot, one of these days I will have to have my own dog gone site...if you want a few suggestions? Go to Stack Exchange; Gardening and Landscaping...very good service...
Have you followed through with the inspiration and act on your thoughts here? How's your garden yard doing now?
I'm not a farmer but I love Gabe Brown. Listening to what he has to say gives me some hope for the planet.
I could listen to Gabe Brown speak all day!
I am not a farmer but enjoy learning things of nature for my own entertainment. I enjoyed your entire video and have no doubt of your methods effectiveness. I hope all other farmers will follow in your footsteps.
Look at how many people he was speaking to, maybe 50, 60. Look at how many people watched this video. 67,000 THIS is the power of the new printing press. youtube combined with mobile devices and high speed wifi. Let's all video record, with permission, anyone who has expertise on this subject and does a great presentation, adn upload them , so that more people can learn and educate themselves and we can bring about the age of aquarius and the return of eden.
If I don't fail in a year then I'm not trying hard enough, #greatline The garden of Eden!! Our streets lined with fruit trees!!!
Well said!
@@mellamoesroy - People don't want to deal with the mess of fruit. Or the insects and animals that are attracted to the fruit - squirrels (even though these were commonly enjoyed as food for most of our history in this country, and still are in some areas), raccoons - which are also tasty, and their furs don't create pollution, or choke the gills of sea life - and rats.
Then again, maybe a few enterprising people in each neighborhood could collect the fruits - or nuts; nut trees generally make better shade trees than fruit trees do - and 'add value' by making the fruit into other products, like fruit leather, or preserves.
It is time for us to start living as though we are a *part of the ecosystems of the planet, and not somehow separate*.
Its a shame the Browns don't do TH-cam video evangelization like Greg Judy...
I am convinced that we must work on several fronts in order to produce the food needed for 7 billion people in a regenerative way. First, let’s start with the idea that we already produce (conservatively estimated) twice the amount of food needed to feed everyone on the planet. Production isn’t the main issue, localization and distribution is. Secondly, we need to educate consumers to make healthful choices that will regenerate their own bodies. This will shift demand, to a degree, in order to deal with the economics of our food system. Thirdly, we have to get at scale in order to regenerate the landscape on a level that will have the requisite positive impact in 2-3 generations.
As several NRCS experts I am aware of point out, and something they deal with on a daily basis, we can’t preach from a soap box at American farmers and think we’re going to convince them to change their ways. We have to approach the American farmer as a partner in making needed changes in agriculture and not an enemy or obstacle. We must stop vilifying the majority of American farmers who are simply trying to earn a good living for their families, send their children to college, and save for retirement. Why must we partner with them? Scale is why.
We who are permaculture enthusiasts are not going to change the actual landscape to sequester enough carbon, regenerate enough soil, and purify enough water if we’re doing it 10-20 acres at a time. Yes, many people have had a change of heart about their own personal lives this way, but this pace of change won’t ramp up to the scale we need for this planet. If so, the needed change would have already taken place because tens of thousands of people are PDC certified. This is only a part of the total equation.
To get at the larger part of the equation, we must convince the owner or tenant of the broadacre landscape - the “conventional” farmer - to look through a different lens in order to view their landscapes differently. The key to gaining their attention is to demonstrate to them in real and actual examples, that they can increase their profitability by adopting a new approach to agriculture. Even operations such as Joel Salatin’s or Mark Shepard’s aren’t at enough scale to make the changes needed to reverse the negative effects. But, their operations are examples of a model that’s working to produce a good income while being largely regenerative.
Rather, I’d look to the farmers that Raymond Covino and Ray Archuleta are helping to make changes to adopt polyculture no-till cover crop systems with a diverse cash crop that include animals in the matrix. Gabe Brown is a prime example of someone who is stewarding thousands of acres with such a system. He is outcompeting his neighbors in productivity and profitability while holding water in the soil, eliminating synthetic inputs, building soil, sequestering carbon all while securing a future for his family.
We can make this happen, in my opinion, if we don’t lose the key audience in the dialog of regenerative agriculture - the conventional American farmer.
Dan Grubbs A resounding YES! to all you wrote above! You've got the right idea brother, we need to come alongside farmers as allies and friends and help them get out of the ChemAg stranglehold of NPK & Biocide Addiction. I'm permie too and agree about the larger scale needed. Please look into the work of Darren Doherty, Elaine Ingham, John D Lieu, Alan Savory and Geoff Lawton if you haven't already. All of them are working on large scale ecosystem and farm regeneration, quite successfully.
I think we also need to bring young farmers who can't afford land, but want to farm regenratively into the mix. Our farmer population is small and aging rapidly while the young farmers can't afford land. It's the makings of either a tragedy or a win-win situation. There are a couple of organizations out there doing this already, including Salatin's operation, but it needs to happen on a bigger scale. Lets bring these young, permie educated folks into the fold as helpers and partners for the established farmers.
There's one aspect of this whole "We need to feed 7 billion people" thing that most people don't get however. It's that People Are Made Of Food, and nothing else. Not straw or glass or rocks, but food, turned into flesh. So, the fact that the global population has been in exponential increase for thousands of years means that we are growing more than enough food, even for the "starving millions". They wouldn't number in the millions if there was no food. It's a longer conversation than I can write here, so please see Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" trilogy of books, especially #2 "The Story of B" "The Population Bomb" is explained there in detail and a practical solution is offered to defuse it. If we don't address that issue, growing more food will increase the population growth rate and we'll never get off of the treadmill.
Another aspect to be addressed is that the current food distribution system is on the way out. It's petroleum intensive and rests on the modern industrial platform that is going away in the near future. The future will be relocalized by necessity. So we need to think about local means of distribution as opposed to massive silos and distribution centers and fleets of big rigs hauling food 3000 miles to market. Even if we still had the cheap oil, that would be a stupid idea. Rail, horse and boat transport are going to be the most efficient, especially boat cargo due to water taking the load, but the infrastructure for them is in disrepair or nonexistent these days.
Cheers!
One of the best talks I have seen in a long time! Congrats Gabe on reaching 11% OM on one plot!
Finally- a farmer who understands how economical using tried and true cover crop planting can be! He's also increasing nutrition by using nature's method of fertilizing! Bravo! I hope he gets the message out worldwide of how easily we can eradicate hunger and the effects of drought on crops by improving the soil. Imagine feeding people, cattle, and chickens with one field! Wake up Agricultural Colleges!
+Susan Whalen Spot on Susan. We have a great network of friends around the world that are using the same or similar management techniques. As a former student of a land-grant university in our sate, I let them know that I did not agree with what they taught when I went to college there. Everything they taught put money in the hands of agribusiness, not the farmer.
+Paul Brown Agri business and corporate managed farming can, has, and will continue to destroy our production of nutritious food until people learn how important this really is! Bravo to Gabe for getting the word out!
This video is gold. Thank you for sharing Gabe Brown's knowledge.
Gabe you are brilliant sir. Respect to you, keep pushing this message, i believe by doing what you are especially the way your doing it will eventually change the world.
*I love that he refers to Nature as "Her'. Well done, Mr. G... 🥰
This is inspirational! I enjoyed this video so much!
Great content, although editing was quite disappointing if this video was actually made by a production company. You would think that the slides should be shown when the presenter is pointing out specific portions of the slides, but far too often we were shown a side view of the presenter at those times.
Wow, that was the most compelling and positive hour of information I have ever heard. If there were time in his administration I would petition President Obama to award this man the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I am contemplating sending this link to my Congressional delegation, and perhaps every member of the U.S. Congress. Solving Global Warming and the Healthcare Crisis, Truly here it is! This posting needs 10 million hits.
I hope you do and I hope they listen :-D
It won't do any good because forcing people to do something only makes them resentful. The best way is for successful people to lead the way and others follow out of self interest. There are more leaders every day.
Mr Gabe Brown is the messiah for all Farmers. One the theeeeeeeeeee best videos on Carbon Farming.
Amazing talk. Just wish that all the slides had been shown. That was very frustrating.
Wow! Thank you. This is GREAT!
I could listen to you talk all day!!!!❤️
Completely fascinating, and strangely logical. Glad there are folks out there who think like Gabe.
Absolutely the best
Thank you for taking the time to upload this.
Your talk on Building an healthy soil, I love the order on how you produce good crops.
Impressive Gabe.. well done for taking a leap of faith or a dash of madness those years back..
Fantastic information. From a backyard garden farming to a broad acre farming, this is what we all need to learn to understand. Working with Nature = Healthy Soils. Knowledge + Action is Power. Thank you for sharing :-)
It would be nice to see the slides.
Great soil health video
Heal the world... Deep.. Thanks
I am so glad that I watched the Netflix documentary and learn more and more everyday. Thanks a lot for the information. The more farmers know, the more they will realize to stop using this junk product of RoundUp, which is killing our soils. God bless!
I love to see this happening.. it makes us all better.
The big take away for me is "add life to your soil"...makes sense to not use synthetics to do this.
Yup. Synthetics kill soil life.
I'm having a go at growing veg in my backyard that was formally something that would be a code violation in the U.S. I've dug the soil to remove bindweed and brambles and nettles making raised beds then reading the backs of all the seed packs following the long convoluted slowing, potting on, planting. And then I thought how would nature deal with this? So my plan from now on it cultivated wildness... I want to get to a place I'm not importing soil improvers other than seeds. My food waste is so low composting is done by digging a hole next to greedy plants. I was out watering the ground with tap water and thought this can't be good for soil health, I'm pouring chlorine over my soil. So watching things like this further add to my understanding. I'm a novice but very keen to transform my small patch of land to do my bit. I'm also hoping to use it as an example of how things can be even in an urban environment.
Incredible
Great talk.
For those who want to see more, watch the documentary "Kiss The Ground". It is very well worth your time. Mr. Brown is featured in it. It is a beautifully done documentary. I also recommend "The Need To Grow" and "The Biggest Little Farm".
great speech
Thanks for making this video, I appreciate it.
Amazing chat! Great to reduce fertilizers, water usage, etc. And if you cut out the processed foods, meat, dairy and oil you will get lean, have amazing health benefits and reduce healthcare costs, climate change from animal agriculture and so many other benefits.
I have seen alot of his videos and this one by far is the most detailed for understanding. It could be more but I'm just being picky :)
Thank you
39:42 absolute gold
This video makes me want to start farming (again).
Very interesting!
How to Grow a Garden with Scarlett Damen hi
Excellent. Learned a lot from this.
I was struck by your slide where you were planting into a no-till field and you were careful about even the smallest breaking of soil. How do you plant those cocktails of seeds without breaking the soil?
You know you're watching too many Holistic Management videos when you watch North By Northwest, and instead of thinking "I hope that plane doesn't shoot Cary Grant" you find yourself thinking "don't think much of that farmer's soil management techniques"
😂😂😂😂😂
i really enjoyed the presentation. nerded out on it a bit
Love the content. My only complaint is instead of showing the man and the stage and a tiny bit of the slide on the screen beside these man, show the screen and maybe part of the man!
Very informative thanks for sharing this video
INCREDIBLE!
impressive! real true blue farmer!!!
Gabe Brown was wonderful to listen to, very informative. However, the video was crap. I can listen to him and still look at the slides, felt like I missed seeing some good images.
"we have to fail every year" GREAT! That's the real precision agriculture with a lots of "nano"tech inside.
Very practical and educative.
Where do I go to get advice on how to get started on this for a home garden?
Great presentation, to dedication of life sourcec
this is exactly what schallenberger talked about, thanks for sharing. worth 5 :)
I'd love to know if when you speak of multi-species cover crops and keeping the armor on the soil at all times. Do you need to seed those acres each time or do you let those cover crops reseed themselves?
Learned a lot from your video thank u.
"We have a motto on our operation. We like to sign the back of the check and not the front."
Do you let the radishes rot down to release the nitrogen
Right out of David R Montgomery's book Growing a Revolution.
Excellent!!!
What are the costs of cover crops? The seed?
Closed captioning please please
Can you share the slide show? I would really like it if you would put a link to the slide show with the video. The speaker is mighty handsome, but the subject matter is illustrated in the slides!
de.slideshare.net/organicgrant/moving-forwardwithsoilhealth
What are the costs of cover crops?
At 56 minutes I wanted to see the eggs but the editor wanted me to see a stage floor.
33:06 Confinement - does that mean don't use the electric fence to manage grazing during the winter?? Or does that mean don't keep them in a barn/feedlot all winter.
No barn, the cattle are kept in the pasture through the winter using a rotation plan like they do the rest of the year.
(I AM ORGANIC GARDENING) sent me over! Great Video!
This is a fantastic lecture, I am extremely disappointed in the camera man though. I couldn't see a lot of the slides and I didn't need to see the speaker from the knees/waist down. Wasted camera angles.
37:16 Corn crop. No fungicides, pesticides, herbicides. Cost to produce? $1.44 bushel
What are the barebones to start a regenerative cattle operation?
Find some acreage to lease. How many acres?
Purchase some cattle. How many? What breed? From where?
Purchase mobile electric fence. What and from where?
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Jay Scott ANDERSON where do you plan to sell your cattle when they are grow
@@tom4412 That's a critical part of the process to work out. I realize I ought not compete with the cattle industry-so the livestock sales barn is not an option.
Jay Scott ANDERSON is the livestock sale barn, the same as what I call a livestock market in the uk ? If so then yes it’s probably best not to sell there, as the money from that will never be great.
Can you sell the meat directly to the public?
I’d like to do this but I’m crap at selling to the public.
On the plus side though, I’m fairly good at rearing cattle.
@@tom4412 Yes, where MOST of the local ranchers sell their cattle. They have a lot of land, a lot of cattle, and have been operating for quite a while. I expect the quality of the beef harvested is poor to middling.
@@tom4412 Regarding sales, Temple Grandin says, "Just write about how you do it on your farm, how you make it work, sell your own product." See th-cam.com/video/3zN0RW2DsOw/w-d-xo.html
How do you define soil health?
How do you quantify it?
How fertile it is and how well it can produce without inputs.
How would one quantify that [knowing full well that different species have widely varying nutrient (and management) requirements]?
The main argument with the concept of soil health is the way we measure it. To us, it's a rehashing/rebranding of the "soil quality" buzz a decade ago. There have been no useful transferable models with predictive capability.
@@DLinton The glass is half empty right?
@@savedfaves The presenter just sounds so confident; after reading about this stuff for some time, I don't have the answers.
Just wonder if you use lime on your fields (calcium) and horticulture plots. A lot of farmers here in NZ do this every year.
He doesn't apply any lime or any other nutrients for that matter actually.
Lime help if your soil is sterill(to a point)
I've found the Holybook of farming.
10:55 200 inch rain conditions to grow cover crops
5 dollars a pound for broilers ? amazing
i would love to learn this model for my min-ute little tomoato plants or my daffodils and irises to bloom obviously my soil year after year is eroding pathetically - no doubt due to chemtrails - cause i dont fertilize that soil - so its erroding from something?!
look up dave brandt videos, he and his wife does garding with tomatoes and some other plants like gabe does it.
thank you Gustav
54:25 STACKING ENTERPRISES, smart
Real nigga shiit 😤 farm money no fed money all organic
43:13 value
loved when he said, I don't wanna be apart of government welfare anymore
57:07 steps by date
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Mag hierdie lig wat Gabe na mede mens bring ,die lig by elkeen aan steek.
47:11
PLANT HEMP PLANT TREES!
BAN Glyphosate! BAN GMO SEED
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13 inches of rain in 22 hours?? If you have 16 inches of rain a year, you had 80% of that in 22 hours?
Where I'm from I have never seen more then 5 inches of rain in one day
7 inch an hour
100%
Water infiltration pores.
In the beginning God created...
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