This 6 1/2 minute little video is hands-down the best soil video I’ve seen on TH-cam this year. This Efficiently and eloquently encapsulates how we should be thinking about soil in the way we grow plants in it. I just listen to it three times in a row and I expect to do it even more so while I’m driving to work like my favorite song or album thank you so much for this.
This is great. I have been increasing the humus content in my vegetable plots for years. Last season, we had hot and dry weather for over 10 weeks (that's a lot here in the UK), yet I harvested near normal yields of crops for only a bit more watering than usual. That organic matter really does hold moisture, as well as benefiting the wider environment.
Yea, you can see the benefits very quickly under drought conditions. I'm gardening in Texas sand (perfect for a sandbox, terrible for agriculture), and I've been no till, minimal dig (I still grow potatoes and build hugels) for a long while. You can see it improving water infiltration and retention and fertility year over year. The soil in the garden is unrecognizable to the soil anywhere else on the property, and even the grasses look different in that area, and downhill of it
I watched a video of putting rice (don't remember cooked/raw, I think raw) into a stocking. Tie it off and bury it under trees/bamboo. After about a month dig it up. Rice should look moldy. Put rice into molasses/water combo in gal. Let sit again and then move to larger 55 gal drum you water with. It puts the valuable fungus back into soil. There's a YT video on doing it. Just watched it, want to try it.
Varthur Narayan Reddy, an Indian farmer from near Bangalore has been doing this since about 4 decades Hundreds of farmers in the state have followed suit
I bought a small farm this year. It was used to breed horses and so there is a lot of manure on the top of the fields, with mostly sand underneath. I am going to till the soil this spring to bring that manure layer down into the ground so there arent just layers. After this upcoming year though I am not going to till any further.
It might work depending on the hay the horses were fed...if the hay had herbicide in it the manure had herbicide in it.the only way to see is to plant something like a tomatoes plant in it.you might be ok...just depends,but good luck
I sowed a multi-species cover crop on my allotment in September, it's now pretty much an oasis of lush green plants amongst a hillside of barren earth bar the odd brassica bed and weedy plot here and there. It's interesting to see people's reactions, a mix of curiosity, wonder, fear, disdain and total bewilderment would probably do it, but iv'e watched that many soil health video's on you tube that what others opinions don't phase me at all.....However it won't truly be a success until i'm crunching my way through no-till carrots hopefully next year....
I'm a simple backyard gardener. 4 years ago, i stopped tilling the soil, eliminated all synthetics, and plant cover crops every fall. Each year, my soil has gotten better and better. I can SEE the results. I'm growing soil, and it feels amazing!
The problem is that the more plants the more water they take out from the soil into the air... In a semiarid place like where I live the more plants, the less time they survive during summer, the more time the ground is fully exposed to the elements because none survived the heat and the drought...
You need to lean how to MANAGE THE TRANSITION to Healthy Soil. See Advancing Eco Agriculture. They've been successfully taking farms over the hump while MAKING MORE MONEY. The key.... getting plants healthy enough to PHOTOSYNTHESIZE ~400% Better than now. The abundant sugars from WAY MORE PHOTOSYNTHESIS feeds the soil...Then the Soil feeds the plants better and then the plants feeds the Soil EVEN BETTER... and so on. BONUS: Very healthy plants are IMMUNE TO PESTS AND DISEASES.... while using NO Pesticides, herbicides, or Fertilizers. Just takes 3 to 6 years to get there.
Glad someone is actually talking about what Convention Ag, with their Pesticides and Herbacides is doing to the Soil and Micro.. That is the big part of the Picture
Related to this is the burning of the Amazon: In the Amazon, the ‘exploiters’ are the agribiz outfits that use tractors, fertilizers and pesticides to farm lots of land, and in doing so push the ranchers deeper into the forests where they proceed to clear and burn after having depleted the soil in the previous location. Search: Amazonia’s Subsistence Farmers
Does glyphosate affect the soil carbon? Ive seen farmers trying no till. And they spray glyphosate and do a no till. But using glyphosate cant be good for the soil food web right?
Great question. Tillage and glyphosate both do damage to the soil, but the science is still out on which is less detrimental. Here’s a link to our statement on glyphosate. www.nofamass.org/articles/2019/01/nofamass-statement-glyphosate
Good video. I believe in minimum tillage with the idea of avoiding tillage as much as possible. I believe in working with nature and mimic nature as much as possible. Every idea needs to be on the table.
To expand on this, here are some good links - www.carboncycle.org/ - www.erdakroft.com/Erdakroftfarm/Blogs/Blogs.html - www.vimeo.com/channels/erdakroftfarm
Farmers no longer have to pay for all those things, the tillage (fuel, equipment) herbicide pesticide fungicide fertilizer, so the reason they keep on it is IT PAYS
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
Follow the logic. Everything is finite so what happens when the atmospheric carbon is mostly sequestered? Crop failures? Or that there is a desirable level so what is it? BTW the Carboniferous had levels of CO² that would make no sense to the AGW argument; and it did rather well as far as supporting life goes. Might need more than emotions to resolve that. So if you love logic at least acknowledge that the most volatile GHG is H²O (humidity) and that the world needs rapid dehumidifying - or the entire argument is flawed. What will go down in History as the Peak Stupid. How Regenerative Agriculture gets involved in this I have no idea. It is a huge breakthrough in land care, food production, flood management, etc., and does not need any association with the hysterics of Climate Change.
So, why wait for nature ... help it along and make biochar (wood or other organic matter, burned at a high heat with little or no oxygen). "Biochar is a charcoal by-product that is created by heating wood at extremely high temperatures. The agricultural industry is interested in the possibility of using biochar to enhance production. The northern boreal forest has young soils that are generally low in carbon and major nutrients, creating a challenge for Yukon farmers. Biochar is predicted to help agricultural productivity in the Yukon. The creation of biochar can also be used for heating buildings and supplying energy to farms that are off grid." yukoncollege.yk.ca/index.php/research/post/biochar_research_project_attracts_many_partners
Biochar is only a storage container and does nothing to build soil that the biomass it is made from, actually less. Making biochar destroys all the nutrients in biomass it was made from. to prevent it from robbing nutrients from the soil it has to be charged. This can be done with organic or synthetic fertilizer. To charge it with organic fertilizer takes at least the same amount biomass that was destroyed. Doesn't this amount to to using twice the amount of biomass to get half the nutrition. Synthetic fertilizers harm soil life. Soil life can't eat biochar and would starve. Soil life feed on organic carbon made by plants and feed the plants nutrients they would not have access to. Making biochar converts organic carbon into inorganic carbon. There is a symbiotic relationship between plants and animals; they feed each other. Tests show god soil with lots of organic matter and thriving soil life produces higher yields. Adding biochar reduced the yields. Try it and see.
So the solution to global warming is for us to abandon efficient power plants and everyone burn fuel individually to heat their homes? Sounds completely idiotic.
@@dustystahn3855 biochar by itself is not good. It is of course carbon rich and combined with decent soil can contribute or so I am told. Fungi and other microbial life need carbon sources in the soil.
CO2 does not drive climate change. However, for sake of arguement, let's say it does. More CO2 in the atmo means higher global temps and other "bad" things (setting aside the fact that more CO2 in the atmo is GOOD for plants, and thus animals and people). Now, we sequester CO2 in our soils, this is an all around great thing, for the microB, for plants, for nutrient cycling etc. etc. etc. But what none of these anthropogenic climate change hysterics seem to realize is, if we are able to put enough CO2 back into the soils, according to their fear models global temps will fall....global cooling/ice age. This is BAD for plants and people. Thankfully, CO2 does not drive climate change, climate change happens, we have to adjust to it. This in not to say conventional ag, wasteful use of energy or any other such things are ok. Otherwise, good video.
my only question is, what in the hell were people doing before and why? I mean, I know that the wrong ways of doing it were based on science, as they always are anymore, but what idiots funded that science and why aren't we talking about how embarrassingly wrong they were to do so?
Science? Well it's normal to till the soil so that you remove weeds and such that are going to compete with the crop that you are trying to grow. I personally till the minimum because I am lazy, not because I care about the global warming impact of my tiny vegetable garden. If you have a field and are a professional farmer, it's probably a million times easier than anything else to till the soil with a machine. The only way I can think to do everything like in the video is to do it by hand. They've got lots of grass competing with what they are trying to grow, so honestly it's probably just more hippy bs on youtube.
Your crazy if you think our climate isnt changing, ocean water is getting warmer, pollar caps melting, coral reefs dying, huge extintion of animals, the indicators are all around you.
This 6 1/2 minute little video is hands-down the best soil video I’ve seen on TH-cam this year. This Efficiently and eloquently encapsulates how we should be thinking about soil in the way we grow plants in it. I just listen to it three times in a row and I expect to do it even more so while I’m driving to work like my favorite song or album thank you so much for this.
This is great. I have been increasing the humus content in my vegetable plots for years. Last season, we had hot and dry weather for over 10 weeks (that's a lot here in the UK), yet I harvested near normal yields of crops for only a bit more watering than usual. That organic matter really does hold moisture, as well as benefiting the wider environment.
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Yea, you can see the benefits very quickly under drought conditions. I'm gardening in Texas sand (perfect for a sandbox, terrible for agriculture), and I've been no till, minimal dig (I still grow potatoes and build hugels) for a long while. You can see it improving water infiltration and retention and fertility year over year. The soil in the garden is unrecognizable to the soil anywhere else on the property, and even the grasses look different in that area, and downhill of it
I watched a video of putting rice (don't remember cooked/raw, I think raw) into a stocking. Tie it off and bury it under trees/bamboo. After about a month dig it up. Rice should look moldy. Put rice into molasses/water combo in gal. Let sit again and then move to larger 55 gal drum you water with. It puts the valuable fungus back into soil. There's a YT video on doing it. Just watched it, want to try it.
Two of *the best* soil scientists!
Varthur Narayan Reddy, an Indian farmer from near Bangalore has been doing this since about 4 decades Hundreds of farmers in the state have followed suit
I bought a small farm this year. It was used to breed horses and so there is a lot of manure on the top of the fields, with mostly sand underneath. I am going to till the soil this spring to bring that manure layer down into the ground so there arent just layers. After this upcoming year though I am not going to till any further.
It might work depending on the hay the horses were fed...if the hay had herbicide in it the manure had herbicide in it.the only way to see is to plant something like a tomatoes plant in it.you might be ok...just depends,but good luck
I sowed a multi-species cover crop on my allotment in September, it's now pretty much an oasis of lush green plants amongst a hillside of barren earth bar the odd brassica bed and weedy plot here and there. It's interesting to see people's reactions, a mix of curiosity, wonder, fear, disdain and total bewilderment would probably do it, but iv'e watched that many soil health video's on you tube that what others opinions don't phase me at all.....However it won't truly be a success until i'm crunching my way through no-till carrots hopefully next year....
So, how is your harvest looking like?
Dr. Jones knows more in her pinky about soil science that I'll ever know, yet she is able to phrase things for the rest of us clearly
I'm a simple backyard gardener. 4 years ago, i stopped tilling the soil, eliminated all synthetics, and plant cover crops every fall. Each year, my soil has gotten better and better. I can SEE the results. I'm growing soil, and it feels amazing!
You will still hit a roadblock not following biblical farming methods.
@@joshportie Sorry, not into magic spells.
@@robmarkovitch
What kind of cover crops do you plant?
@@gregorymalchuk272 Mixture of cool season grasses and legumes, mustard, & daikon radish. Buy on Amazon
The problem is that the more plants the more water they take out from the soil into the air... In a semiarid place like where I live the more plants, the less time they survive during summer, the more time the ground is fully exposed to the elements because none survived the heat and the drought...
You need to lean how to MANAGE THE TRANSITION to Healthy Soil.
See Advancing Eco Agriculture. They've been successfully taking farms over the hump while MAKING MORE MONEY.
The key.... getting plants healthy enough to PHOTOSYNTHESIZE ~400% Better than now. The abundant sugars from WAY MORE PHOTOSYNTHESIS feeds the soil...Then the Soil feeds the plants better and then the plants feeds the Soil EVEN BETTER... and so on.
BONUS: Very healthy plants are IMMUNE TO PESTS AND DISEASES.... while using NO Pesticides, herbicides, or Fertilizers. Just takes 3 to 6 years to get there.
This is so important, thanks for oploading
Glad someone is actually talking about what Convention Ag, with their Pesticides and Herbacides is doing to the Soil and Micro.. That is the big part of the Picture
especially when it is totally unnecessary.
They are killing everything and they know it!
Awesome. Love and respect from farmer.. India.. Asia
Related to this is the burning of the Amazon:
In the Amazon, the ‘exploiters’ are the agribiz outfits that use tractors, fertilizers and pesticides to farm lots of land, and in doing so push the ranchers deeper into the forests where they proceed to clear and burn after having depleted the soil in the previous location.
Search:
Amazonia’s Subsistence Farmers
Does glyphosate affect the soil carbon? Ive seen farmers trying no till. And they spray glyphosate and do a no till. But using glyphosate cant be good for the soil food web right?
Great question. Tillage and glyphosate both do damage to the soil, but the science is still out on which is less detrimental. Here’s a link to our statement on glyphosate. www.nofamass.org/articles/2019/01/nofamass-statement-glyphosate
Well it's a antibiotic so I would bet yes. If you kill all the good bacteria it's easier for bad ones to repopulate
Great video. Light farming!
Instead of farming light, I see myself as farming soil. That's where my attention is, anyway
I'm convinced. So how do we start the change in practice? I own no land so probably should talk to local farmers to have them give it a go?
My favourite video, well done....
Good video. I believe in minimum tillage with the idea of avoiding tillage as much as possible. I believe in working with nature and mimic nature as much as possible. Every idea needs to be on the table.
Simply inspiring
And to find out more about soil carbon sequestration, here's a link to the NOFA page which sets it all out marvelously.
www.nofamass.org/carbon
good video
Thank you
The only way to stop climate change, build healthy soils, protect pollinators, and entire ecosystem is through Agroecological farming.
To expand on this, here are some good links - www.carboncycle.org/ - www.erdakroft.com/Erdakroftfarm/Blogs/Blogs.html - www.vimeo.com/channels/erdakroftfarm
Farmers no longer have to pay for all those things, the tillage (fuel, equipment) herbicide pesticide fungicide fertilizer, so the reason they keep on it is IT PAYS
The public can even understand if I do!
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of
drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
Yeas I am doing this at home by sheet mulching my garden and putting a layer of mulch waiting a month putting another layer on top of that and repeat
the key to produce high quality crops is biodiversity not agrochemicals.
Now incorporate jadam and this would be even better
Wonderful!
Follow the logic. Everything is finite so what happens when the atmospheric carbon is mostly sequestered? Crop failures? Or that there is a desirable level so what is it? BTW the Carboniferous had levels of CO² that would make no sense to the AGW argument; and it did rather well as far as supporting life goes. Might need more than emotions to resolve that.
So if you love logic at least acknowledge that the most volatile GHG is H²O (humidity) and that the world needs rapid dehumidifying - or the entire argument is flawed. What will go down in History as the Peak Stupid.
How Regenerative Agriculture gets involved in this I have no idea. It is a huge breakthrough in land care, food production, flood management, etc., and does not need any association with the hysterics of Climate Change.
Joel Salatin
Nice
You lost me at not mentioning herbivores as goats, sheep, cows.
We can feed those with those plants you planted
Graze, graze, graze
Thats where all carbon goes. Carbon cycle, learn it kiddos.
They are trying to sequester more of it into the ground. I don't care personally but that's the aim.
So, why wait for nature ... help it along and make biochar (wood or other organic matter, burned at a high heat with little or no oxygen).
"Biochar is a charcoal by-product that is created by heating wood at extremely high temperatures. The agricultural industry is interested in the possibility of using biochar to enhance production. The northern boreal forest has young soils that are generally low in carbon and major nutrients, creating a challenge for Yukon farmers. Biochar is predicted to help agricultural productivity in the Yukon. The creation of biochar can also be used for heating buildings and supplying energy to farms that are off grid."
yukoncollege.yk.ca/index.php/research/post/biochar_research_project_attracts_many_partners
Biochar is only a storage container and does nothing to build soil that the biomass it is made from, actually less. Making biochar destroys all the nutrients in biomass it was made from. to prevent it from robbing nutrients from the soil it has to be charged. This can be done with organic or synthetic fertilizer. To charge it with organic fertilizer takes at least the same amount biomass that was destroyed. Doesn't this amount to to using twice the amount of biomass to get half the nutrition. Synthetic fertilizers harm soil life.
Soil life can't eat biochar and would starve. Soil life feed on organic carbon made by plants and feed the plants nutrients they would not have access to. Making biochar converts organic carbon into inorganic carbon. There is a symbiotic relationship between plants and animals; they feed each other.
Tests show god soil with lots of organic matter and thriving soil life produces higher yields. Adding biochar reduced the yields. Try it and see.
So the solution to global warming is for us to abandon efficient power plants and everyone burn fuel individually to heat their homes? Sounds completely idiotic.
@@dustystahn3855 biochar by itself is not good. It is of course carbon rich and combined with decent soil can contribute or so I am told. Fungi and other microbial life need carbon sources in the soil.
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CO2 does not drive climate change. However, for sake of arguement, let's say it does. More CO2 in the atmo means higher global temps and other "bad" things (setting aside the fact that more CO2 in the atmo is GOOD for plants, and thus animals and people). Now, we sequester CO2 in our soils, this is an all around great thing, for the microB, for plants, for nutrient cycling etc. etc. etc. But what none of these anthropogenic climate change hysterics seem to realize is, if we are able to put enough CO2 back into the soils, according to their fear models global temps will fall....global cooling/ice age. This is BAD for plants and people. Thankfully, CO2 does not drive climate change, climate change happens, we have to adjust to it. This in not to say conventional ag, wasteful use of energy or any other such things are ok. Otherwise, good video.
so where are you on this?
my only question is, what in the hell were people doing before and why? I mean, I know that the wrong ways of doing it were based on science, as they always are anymore, but what idiots funded that science and why aren't we talking about how embarrassingly wrong they were to do so?
Science? Well it's normal to till the soil so that you remove weeds and such that are going to compete with the crop that you are trying to grow. I personally till the minimum because I am lazy, not because I care about the global warming impact of my tiny vegetable garden. If you have a field and are a professional farmer, it's probably a million times easier than anything else to till the soil with a machine. The only way I can think to do everything like in the video is to do it by hand. They've got lots of grass competing with what they are trying to grow, so honestly it's probably just more hippy bs on youtube.
Lost me at climate change, sorry.
They are correct
Your crazy if you think our climate isnt changing, ocean water is getting warmer, pollar caps melting, coral reefs dying, huge extintion of animals, the indicators are all around you.
@snuggmoney there never has been 20k years ago
@snuggmoney your nearly as bad as the flat earth people