NO TILL FARM Pioneers How To GROW Great Food Sustainably
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- This organic farmer knows how to grow great food sustainably. Nick runs an incredible permaculture farm and this film is a short masterclass on how to grow healthy, amazing, great food sustainably. Nick has figured out a way of farming that is both intensive AND ecological at the same time using techniques that have been passed down over centuries all the while implementing cutting-edge scientific knowledge. His farm - Mochizuki Permaculture Farm in Nagano, Japan - is the future of farming.
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Another major drawback of modern farming is that seed distributors create seeds which grow into plants that cannot create their own seeds so farmers have to keep going back to the distributors after each harvest cycle.
Indeed. They also licence specific cultivars so even if you get one to germinate or get a cut to sprout you could be sued. One farmers neighbor used such a plant and it somehow got into this guy's field, unknowingly, and yes, he in fact did get sued by that agrocorp. Don't know what happened though but we already know everything we have to just from that fact...
@@mysterioanonymous3206 That makes more sense.
As a farmer I'm happy to pay seed breeders/growers to do all that work for me. For the most part. Some varieties, I keep seed, most of the higher production stuff though, I'll buy seed year after year.
I’ve grown only heirlooms for years and save my own seeds. I always have about a thousand times more seeds than I need and love sharing with locals who don’t have the money to buy seeds
Nick is an inspiration! My farm is on the way but long way to go! I'm sharing my journey, slowly slowly like nature, I will get there eventually! Thanks for sharing his farm and his story!
Great video it's amazing how much we can grow just by cooperating with nature instead of fighting it.
Never fight nature,it always wins!
@@Th4thWiseman Nice platititude.
But airplanes are a thing. And generally, they win.
If what you said made any sense at all, there wouldn't be ecological problem of the sort you'd be primed to rage about after watching another sort of video...
@Zechariah Ahl If nature was winning so hard, there wouldn't be artificial ecological problems of the sort you'd be pontificating on if the video had played scary music and warned of impending doom.
Nature will still be here doing her thing millions of years after we are gone.
Growing what thrives in your area with little to no maintenance or watering. Look into what natives grew in your area and wild edibles. Auto watering/irrigation. Rain collection. Food forest. Dwarf food trees.
Copy nature. Variety.
Some people talk total BS, some people mix some wisdom with some BS. But this man is talking true words like a nailgun
This is such a fantastic farm and ecosystem however purslane is no survival crop it's one of the best tasting and textured weeds you can have in a salad and so productive haha
@Zechariah Ahl the definition of a survival crop is it's always there for you when other things won't be because usually there is far better options.
What I'm saying is it's not the worse option it tastes great, has an amazing texture and grows well, therefore it's a maincrop salad to me.
B vitamins however good they are nothing to do with whether or not it's a survival crop
@@tomt637 "Survival crop" be interpreted as something you could survive on
Half of my freezer this winter was filled with purslane. Dang, I love that stuff!
@@luvluvluvluvcats how does it fare frozen, I had not tried due to how succulent the leaves are. And does that mean your cooking it on the way out the freezer?
@@tomt637 it is like frozen okra. I knew it would be that way so I froze it only to use in soups. Specifically for making them thicken.
That was an amazing documentary. Thanks for sharing the knowledge and your experiences.
My forefathers had trouble finding tarps.
Wow I could have watched a full hour of farming like our forefathers.
I'm curious about the effects of the black plastic on the soil- I was taught to do that as a method of killing everything (microbes and bugs included), since it subjects the bed to very high heat under sunlight. Is it just cool enough in Japan to not have that effect, or does he depend on the surrounding ecosystem restoring those small plots each time he takes the plastic off?
I'm wondering if growing grasses to make mats to cover, knock down cover crops that need to be processed...? It could be a business for locals, also...?
He stated that he does it when it's cold out in Feb-March. If it's cool enough for mice and snakes to inhabit, as he states in the video, it's cool enough not to kill your soil biology, while still being warm enough to get your weed seed to germinate and die.
I’m curious about plastic in general. Is he not allowing the stuff to slowly degrade (can’t stop that…) and soil will be full of micro plastic?
Great presentation! We need more of this gardening methods the natural way let nature do the work. Spread the message 👍🏻
5:18 .... that is where you cracked the code. any time big brother is involved and self inserts their approval is when everything flies apart. the people and the land both suffer. eliminate that narcissistic know it all and life will improve in all areas.
all you have to do is look at every place Big Bro has meddled.... you get slavery, genocide, raping and pillaging, destruction of ecosystems, extinction of species. and who pays for it? YOU pay for it. and you think it's better because they REGULATE it?
that attitude only proves humans have been turned into livestock themselves. you're just another dumb farm animal that needs to be milked and fleeced. some how you feel less taken advantage of and less exploited because it has government approval.
but then you look at people who go it alone and do things the old fashioned way, working with nature, using their own muscle and horse power instead of machines and fuel.... but as soon as that becomes a trend the government comes after them with a vengeance. that should be your big red flag.
How can you become a farmer in Japan?
Fabulous video loved his gardens and natural way of growing 💙 😊
How cool i was volunteering in nagano at a farm for 3 months this is like a dream to me i wanna achieve one day
Did you volunteer in that farm?
Fascinating! I'm just curious how a Scot ended up as an organic farmer in Japan! Looks idyllic.
From what I understand a lot of farms in Japan can be bought for cheap, as many have moved to urban centers for work and don’t want to inherit the family farm.
Italy Spain are also paying to repopulate their country side...😮
@@magesalmanac6424 Even if the farm can be bought cheap. Immigration to Japan can only be done in certain very specific ways. How he obtained residence is what interests me.
That is partially correct. In Italy, properties have gone through the roof. What you are referring to is abandoned villages and hamlets that have been abandoned, but you will be living in a town, not in the countryside. Keep in mind that remodeling rules and regulations in Italy are very difficult to navigate and quite restrictive so it is not that simple.@@ruhied957
Great set up. This guy is the market gardener you have never heard of.
that valley is ideal, hard to miss in a situation like that. Beautiful spot
Wouldn't this farming technique encourage mushrooms to grow in abundance wildly? I didn't see any
might just be not a fruiting time, but mycelium should be there and abundant
This was disappointing. Talking about the short duration and not the quality, that was great! 😁
Most big farms in the US where bought out and told what to grow. I agree we need more smaller farms all over.
I’m inspired. Thank you.
Start where you are and build up. He is a smart man.
I remember the farmers rotating their crops in the early 1960’. Great video. Awesome farmer.
Reminds me of my grandparents. Everything plays multiple rolls in a natural system.
Doesn't the plastic cover encourage micro plastic? Honest question. I know the benefits of the cover, but superficially that seems to defeat the purpose?
Japanese way of farming is superior
Very interesting. A well managed farm, good to see and to learn from.
Auto watering/irrigation. Rain collection. Food forest. Dwarf food trees. U can look into what natives grew in your area, wild edibles, and what will grow well in your area with little maintenance, such as food trees
The man is a legend...well done
Portulaca can be eaten, especially in salads
That intro music is more fit for a males only nightclub if ya know what I'm sayin
Very cool, but if all farmers were focused on feeding themselves and their families in this way we'd be going back to the times when 90% of people worked just to produce their own food xD
What's bad about that?
@@10p7exactly. Being back to nature is where it's at instead of staring at a screen all day
Well it should be better than our forefathers, they created the dust bowl with their thinking.
Very nice video with a good message. Just one complaint; whoever thought it is a good idea to label this “hacking” nature has very little understanding of permaculture or modern agriculture for that matter.
Hello from Australia
I really like your video
this is NOT permaculture at all or in any way, this IS ecological farming....very nice too !
How is it not permaculture?
@Caleb Fuller maybe because it's crop rotation? I'm just guessing
if you care about "the real deal", research the work of ernst götsch
Wow, wow,,great job doing farming my dear friend ❤
All else aside, what a fantastic beautiful place to spend your time!
Great video! Thanks for sharing this with us
Great video and channel! How do I find out more about this guy? Also, what terms do I research to learn how to farm like this where I live in France - where it's been damn hot this year (40c+ at times)
Very labour intensive.
Almost done securing the land. Going to implement as much as possible. Beautiful.
I love the idea and I do organic in my small experimental garden, but much gets eaten by birds, ants, possums, locusts, snail and other stuff before I get my share. I haven't had a pear or peach in five years despite and abundance.
Great video Jakob! Nick's farm is a great inspiration.
Arigatou :)
Very inspiring, great farm!
Wow, great video! Absolutely packed with info
That drone shot looks like paradise, the trees, then the decked land
woven ground cover allows water not light to pass. if the land is wet the mice cant burrow.
Crop Rotation shouldn't be necessary as healthy soil can sustain permaculture without
Yep, he's the real deal.
Why so many foreigners with permaculture farms japan? Something favorable like zoning laws or weather??
Thanks for showing me something that works .... in Japan.
Really like the farm you have set up! Very resilient and healthy! One question: were did you get the hoop houses or who is the supplier, the look stunning and old fashioned in a positive way!
So Great to see another "がいじん" farmer!!! 👍👍👍👍👍 & Subscribed!!!
Got some land in Ibaraki prefecture that I'm not making use of, so this is fantastic to see!! It's inspiring me to drive up there this weekend!
I am for this kind of farming and there is plenty to criticize about big ag. But without industrialized farming billions would starve. I do believe that the maximum liberty is found in homesteading when you need as little as possible from the outside and that the ecological impact of industrial agriculture can be retarded by a cultural shift toward homesteading. Ultimately we need certain amounts of industrialization to support 8 billion folk but global birthrates are dropping and I think we have seen peak global population.
If local farmers grew the same amount of food in all of their small sections, how is it that people would starve to death? It’s just the same amount of acreage, just not mono cropping and dotted all over the place instead of miles wide…
@@luvluvluvluvcats You cannot grow the same calories per acre with "organic" farming as with industrialized farming.
@@bencruz563 I'd rather have fewer calories than a destroyed land, monocropping which depletes the soil, and the mandatory pesticides that accompany all unnatural monocropping disasters. I think the trade-off is perfect.
Thankyou for the video, it is reassuring to know we are perfectly capable.
"The moan-tins supply organic water"... hehe i love that thick limey accent
Pioneer?
We done it this way for generations. Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina at least. Bless. Eat more food!
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Gracias Manuel, me hace feliz leer tus palabras y emojis tan positivos.
This is great, but we are seeing what happens when an entire country tries to go completely organic by simply outlawing the industrial nutrients that are used by commercial farmers. Sri Lanka anyone? They are trying the same thing in Holland, basically putting farmers out of business and destroying a farming industry that the world depends on for food.
Thanks for proving once again that Governments must be abolished for man to prosper
Here's the question that digs at me about organic gardening. If I'm trying to a run a "closed-loop system", like mentioned in the video, then how do I account for the nutrients that leave the farm when I sell crops or give away food? That's the part the prevents it from being a "closed-loop" system. Farming, by its nature, can't be closed-loop. How do you replenish the soil then? Or am I just using the plants to perpetually dig further down into the ground to access more sulfur and phosphorus? How do I replenish the atoms of micronutrients?
He mentioned putting his green fertilizer and chicken coop bedding on his gardens. His way of farming encourages worms to bring nutrients and castings into the soil. That is what I understood him to say. He also companion plants.
Nutrients wash down from mountains and hills. If you control water flow and slow it enough then then water brings nutrients instead of taking top soil. Mycelium and bacteria brake down rocks and dead organics releasing nutrients but this is a slow process.
No one has to add nutrients to the forest; that's the system he's trying to mimic. There's an excellent video called "Back to Eden" that's about farming like a forest techniques of Paul Gautschi, and it seems to work amazingly.
It's actually better to take advantage of the waste products of other places that would otherwise become pollutants. My local recycling centre gives away free woodchips. Dairy farms will probably be happy if you take away their manure. Even things as simple as pressing seeds for oil produces fine-crushed seed dust as waste, which is actually an excellent fertilizer. Rather than making on farm or property a closed loop, we really should be focused on making the society as a whole a closed loop so there is a minimum of waste and pollution.
Free wood chips brought some really nasty diseases to my gardens. I don’t use them any longer. And the farm animals these days are so loaded with meds that I don’t want it in my garden via manure. I’ve had hypodermic needles show up in the truckload of manure
2:44 the oil age has ruined agriculture and the food market, a valuable lesson is coming for humanity now with the energy crisis which was anyway a ticking timebomb to happen in some way
Great film. Thanks for sharing Nick's story.
The ending was a bit sudden. But great video, informative and inspiring!
Pretty cool. Very interested. Just wondering how much food does that farm produce?
That's amazing. Please do a 3hr special version
So fckin inspiring!!!
He's living my dream.
Me too. How do you deal with the ENVY?!?
That's a lot of great info! 🌱
its sounds like a paradise, but in africa there is not the same rainfall, therefore the same paradise is not possible.
@àsper absolutely
That really depends on which part of Africa you mean. Places like Uganda or Congo definitely have Japan-level rainfall, which, honestly, can actually be TOO much for agriculture sometimes.
Beautiful video as always man! Keep up the good work!
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Is it possible to go to japan and help him working?
a Scott in Japan! segoi! suki-desu
I live in Tokyo. How did he get his start farming in Japan? I have been here 30 years and have never been able to find an opportunity to open up for me.
Just start looking for countryside land for sale, put out feelers, etc. There is more land like this available in Japan than there are people that want it.
@@calebfuller4713 It is amazing for a people who claim to "love nature" they all want to live in Tokyo it seems.
OK, so here's the thing: suppose everybody decides "'ight, I'll start small and feed my family first" - who's gonna make the tools you need (like that black tarp), who's gonna teach your children (reading and writing can be done at home, physics, chemistry, advanced biology or philosophy not so much), who's gonna perform surgery or give you a cast should you need one? It's incredibly arrogant to say you shouldn't think about feeding as many people as you can and he's only able to do that because a) other people know better, and b) he's probably not of farming descent (otherwise his ancestors would've told him better). Yes, industrial farming is not the way, but neither is small scale gardening. I doubt anybody without a hiden agenda wants to go back to Medieval times in terms of medicinal conditions and other standards of living. People who say that simply have no idea how hard life was even just a century ago. There's a reason farmers jumped the industrial bandwagon! And yes, it was a misstep, but rushing 90% of the population back into argiculture isn't gonna work, so what we need is some middle ground - and it certainly exists, it's just not so much talked about.
Ok what is the middle ground then? At the very least, we should know where our food comes from, no?
Cheers from portugal
Polish surname. We are all over the world i see xD
This is the only way food should be raised!
You should really look at marketing that purslane it is unequivocally the tastiest weed I have so far found out on my garden; it has a lemon tanginess that goes great with anything, think banchan and gochujang with sesame oil then mix the steamed/ fried purslane with some sweated onions or eschallots - aufregend lecker!
It is so labor intensive though. From harvest to plucking all those tiny leaves off the stem. Probably not feasible for bulk sales.
How do you control invasive plants that choke and kill everything ? 2 years of failures on my mountain so far.
Do you use vinegar?
That was a great video!!
Wunderschön, lovely... ¡gracias!
This is AMAZIN'.
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solid content
where can I find legit Japanese tools? Interested in the scythe tool.
looks like they're available on ebay, should be shipped alright, they're not that big, especially if you only buy working part, and make the handle yourself on the spot
Another great film❣
Your videos are soooo interesting!!! Farming with no oil si definitely the future :)
Nope. Not unless you replace the oil with something just as powerful. Too many people on earth, too many mouths to feed.
@@MrBottlecapBill Yeah, totally agree that people will die. Only those who can provide for themselves (or small communities) will make it because no more oil will not be a choice.
@@MrBottlecapBill How about fusion power… from the sun? There is more than we will ever need. Problem solved.
@@jeremy6752 You sound like one of those Yank survivalists, who spend their lives wishing for armageddon, and hoping to save their own shiny white asses.
@@alex.velasco sadly the about of that power you can capture compared to the recourses deemed to capture it is a reality you have to contend with. Solar power is very low yield. A fusion reactor,.....that's not the same thing.
He is the real deal
Great ecosystem that you have created in this video...
I think this way of farming was inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka. Putting eveything back into the soil
Thanks.... Great video
Love it.
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain
Thank you for this nice interesting and crucial share.
I remembered my grandpa growing different kinds of fruits like pineapple and bananas in a slope land like this with flowing water. We basically have fresh fruits and vegies all year round and never saw him purchase any fertilizer and used stuff in nature like bat dung from caves instead. Hopefully I can save enough money in the future to live in a place like this too. What a great video.
I hauled bucketloads of guano from a barn attic a few years ago and wow, I’ve never had such a productive garden!!
thank you for this video
Thanks! Love seeing people around the world improve our world.
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