Exploring How Lentils are Grown & Their Sustainability Attributes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Ever wondered how lentils are grown? What a lentil plant looks like? What about how growing lentils contributes to sustainable food production?
This video will explore how lentils are planted, grown, harvested, and how growing lentils contributes to soil health and betters the environment and the food productions system as a whole.
Thank you to Corey Loessin and Aidan Loessin of Aidra Farms in Radisson, Saskatchewan Canada for contributing their time and expertise to this video.
For more information, please visit www.Lentils.org.
I’m eating lentils right now and I had to look up how they’re harvested. I appreciate being able to eat this so much more. 😭
Try red lentils.
🤣🤣🤣 me too!!
Same here! Just had a homemade lentil soup :) I'm trying to be more mindful and actually know where my food is coming from and what the process is, so this video was super helpful.
Literally me right now scooping spoonfuls into mouth.
Same
I'm so thankful that you're making sure to keep a topsoil cover, and not just leaving bare ground in between grows. huge respect for you guys
what exactly would happen to the soil and local environment if the topsoil cover was neglected?
@@gordoniane6443 it would cause evaporation, erosion, kill the soil life, make the soil infertile, all that impacts many organisms, the problems pile up since everything on Earth is interconnected
@@Renata-rv7wp I appreciate the information and the reply!
No one likes another dust bowl I guess.
@@gordoniane6443soil erosion
This father and son did an amazing job explaining things. Very articulate
I wish all farmers would do it the way you are! You are amazing!
What a hope inducing video! It's beautiful to see that the food we eat comes from people who care about soil health. Thank you
Purchased a bag of lentils from local Costco and was surprised to read product of Canada. This lead me to some online research on lentil production and found out Canada is the largest producer of lentils. Clicked on the link regarding lentil production which brought me here. Very informative and great to see a progressive and sustainable family farm. Cheers and thanks!!!
Lentil sprouts are excellent. Mumm's in Canada is the best supplier: high quality and affordable.
Our future would be in good hands with guys like these.
Yes indeed! We need to become family here
Agreed
There's lots of "guys like these" across the northern plains. While I farm in the US just south of the border with Saskatchewan in Montana, everything they talk about is standard knowledge for any respectable producer. Farmers can be trusted, and most of us do what's best for the health of our soil and our operation.
@Jeremias Juan I hope you get caught. Hacking is wrong. And illegal.
This was such an illuminating video-the first cheerful and optimistic news about the future of food production I've seen in a long time. What an admirable philosophy of farming!
Intelligent farming is the only way we will have sustainability in food supply. Thank you to all the farmers that take educating themselves for their future and the future of all mankind. Please keep up the great job and pass on the information. 🥰🤩🙏
totally agreed, but maybe think about using the word humanity, it is so much more inclusive
@@DerBieberliebtdich:
Learn the origins of words before attempting to correct someone.
«mankind (n.)
early 13c., man-kende, "the human race, humans collectively," from man (n.) + kind (n.). Also used occasionally in Middle English for "male persons" (late 14c.), but otherwise preserving the original gender neutrality of man (n.)»
Let me repeat that last part:
«preserving the original gender neutrality of man»
«man (n.)
"a featherless plantigrade biped mammal of the genus Homo" [Century Dictionary], Old English man, mann "human being, person (male or female)»
Just found this, thanks to a friend.
Thank you for caring for the earth, as you work. I am grateful for your integrity.
Love to hear them talk about soil health! I buy lots of Canadian organic lentils and yellow peas
Good to see no-till farming.
@Jacob Dawson You are flat out wrong. Tilling compacts the soil and destroys the life in it.
@Jacob Dawson Good ol' ad hominem. The last bastion. The less you disturb the soil, the better. Just enough to put in a seed. They have machines for that, too.
@Jacob Dawson You may be confusing tilling with amending. If you churn clay, it's still clay.
Which website can we buy lentils from?
I have gotta say, this is a really great video! Like the son in the video, I am also a young farmer from western Canada studying crop production. This video is spot on when explaining how we do what we do while being easy to understand. Farming is a highly complex and detailed operation, and you guys explained it perfectly without getting caught up in the details!
Thanks for your kind words Wade!
Am also a farmer from Africa please need your email address......
It is absolutely marvelous listening to you guys talking about crops. I feel very happy that so competent people are participating in food security. Thank you guys!
This video is really satisfying to watch! Father and son doing a great job!
Very interesting and informative. I just started eating lentils a few years ago. Now I love lentils and cook with them often in my plant based diet. I'm amazed that there are only 2 lentils to a pod and the plants are so small. It seems like it'd be too much work to grow the plant and harvest it for those 2 little beans. And then they appear in my store where I buy lentils for less than a dollar per pound. I'm getting a tremendous value.
Hoping2Help Most likely imported from India where slave or indentures servants are picking the lentils in arduous conditions
@@okas425 okay tell us how to not enslave sentiment beings.
@@lloydchristmas4547 grow on your own.
My lentils come from Canada and are also very cheap.
mine are grown in Australia no slaves here and they cheap @@okas425
This is awesome. Kudos to these awesome farmers!
Y'all are great, very good methods and explanations. May fair weather and bountiful harvests favor your farm. Thank you from Florida
Thanks for producing food for us! I admire your knowledge and strength! My respect for you.
It's reassuring to listen to intelligent farmers talk about soil health and conservation. I am sure the undersowing method they demonstrate makes sound financial sense also. These guys are advocate s for food security. Thankyou☺
Great educational video about lentils. I am just appreciating the protein (and fiber!) of these little legumes, and it was fascinating to see how small the plants are. This family farm's approach to sustainable farming is terrific, and it's nice to know the son will take on the farm over time! Keep up the great work!
I just watched your video while having lentil soup with my Girlfriend .We wondered about the process and your video delivered .Thanks for all you do, it's very much appreciated.
They're delicious !
I just started growing lentils from seed inside my apartment because I don't have a garden. They sprouted in a day! It's unbelievable how they grow so fast. I'm looking forward to a nice harvest of lentils :-)
This is good husbandry. Let's hope farmers everywhere follow suit. I'm a lentil lover from way back. Zero percent carbon footprint, I love them more than ever.
Lentils are the best. People don't realise how delicious and versatile they are and how good for the planet .😊
I love both of you. Father and son work is so hart. Bleass you ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
How INTERESTING. SMART GUYS AND GREAT STEWARDS OF THE LAND. !!!!
Wow amazing job! Incredible to see Canadian farmers contributing to regenerative practices like not tilling the soil!
You and your family are salt of the earth, no higher compliment can anyone give. God bless
Really excellent video, and a great attitude. Thanks very much for your hard work. David 😎🇬🇧.
As consumers, we are bless for the steps that your family have taken in preserving the environment. By preserving land, thus, preserving (by feeding) humanity. Thank you and God bless.
This dad is so chill. Lucky 🍀 son.
So happy you don't till the soil and you cycle crops. Lentils are so underrated on so many levels. Keep up the good work!
Thank God for these farmers
Amazing production of an amazing food for our amazing Earth. I'm glad to have this Canadian family.
Thoroughly enjoyable video and extremely informative. Information dense yet easy to absorb.
I love lentils. I eat them several times per week! They are easy to cook, healthy, cheap and delicious. Thank you for being so considerate with the environment when producing my favorite legume.
What a super informative video thank you. We eat a lot here on Crete, Greece and make a dish called fava. I was looking online for how to grow them and found this. My husband grows all of our veg on our land and a gentle nudge is now imminent, for him to try these. Thanks
“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life." These men are doing the Lord's work to feed & keep us all. May God bless them.
Brilliant film. Thanks. I’ve just grown a few lentils in my garden in Scotland, I didn’t know how they grew.
This was very interesting and I love that you are using the method that you are!
Great to see you using covercrop and no till farming, and thank you for farming the lentils that I eat every week!
Thank you for this video, highlighting the role pulses play in the human diets, as well as its role in maintaining natural soil fertility over the long-term. Yes, as the world grapples with GHG emissions that causes climate-change, humanity is also encouraged to more away from animal-based protein to plant-based protein. Thank you for your work and service in providing this alternative - lentil production - is very encouraging. I write to you from a small island country of the Western Pacific - Papua New Guinea.🌿🌾🍃🌽
I really appreciate your
Video and wish you all the best👍
This type of farming kills the entire planet, ploughing, spraying, no trees or natural wildlife, just bare flat farmland dries up the earth
Nice Video. Love Farmers! Thank You for all you do, We Love You!
Thank you for your hard work, you make it possible for all of us to eat. I pray Gods blessing on you all and your farm.
Thank you guys for being good people & doing things the right way
So very important what you are trying and accomplishing. It is critical that you share with as many farmers your methods. 🙏🙏🙏
Amazing work you guys!!!! Very happy to hear how much you care for the land.
Thank you, that was very interesting! I grew up (in Germany) with farmers and gardeners. We grew beans and peas, but nobody ever grew lentils. I’d always wondered where lentils are grown. I lived in California most of my life. During the pandemic the shelves were bare of lentils. I ordered some from Washington State, Palouse, I think they came from. They were smaller than the lentils I was used to buying in the store. They tasted the same, and they were brown. But still, I’d never seen a lentil plant until I watched this video.
I like the efforts you’re making to hang on to your top soil and your stewardship of the land. Maybe you should give some lessons to the almond farmers in California!
Wish i could buy direct from this farmer he REALLY cares
Me too! I am on a grain, milk sugar
More important now than ever. Thanks I pray that you have health and great harvest!
I love when I see people doing this kind of jobs
A huge thank you for these guys and to thier work!
Amazing I really appreciate the lentils and farmers good job guys
Very interesting how you are growing lentils and their sustainability!
As a permacultureist I LOVE this! Keeping the soil microbes in place and not destroying the top soil and drying it out is very important. I'm glad to see "conventional " farming is heading in the right direction and conserving our the soil food web, in turn conserving, time, money, resources, and the most important leaving a better world for the future generations, because they will need it, with what's going on in the world today. Im trying to team up with my local FFA to spread the word of sustainable and regenerative agriculture and teach about the importance of "little to no till" methods to keep the networks of fungi and bacteria connected. The microbes did make the very first world wide web (soil food web). As Jeff Lowenfels put it (look him up he wrote some books about it, Teaming with Fungi and Teaming with Microbes). Ya'll are great teachers.
Very interesting and informative video. I especially liked the part where they spoke about preserving the land and topsoil. #SaveSoil
Love seeing how our food is grown!!
The father looks like the radio host from New Zealand named Matt Heath.
First time I have seen the flowers of a lentil plant - so interesting!
How wonderful .... this is the right way to grow!
Your farming practices are commendable. 😀
Thank you for Lentils!
Thank you for information
Lentils are perfect for healthy diet. ❤️
Not healthy toxic and full of antonutrients
@@NeWmeatENTERTAIN flat earther.
@@lloydchristmas4547 who?
@Jacob Dawson first of all, why you cant eat lentils raw? Because uncooked its uneatable and would hurt your stomach. Lentils have to be cooked very well, without any seasoning it taste like shit. Even when its cooked lentils still containing some of the antinutrients, I eat them sometimes by my self but you should not eat them in large amount like nuts. You are fine with them when u have a balanced diet.
@@NeWmeatENTERTAIN I eat lentils everyday and I'm fine.
Amazing farmers. Wish everyone farmed like them
Very encouraging. I have begun to try indoor-germinated lentils outdoors on an amateur basis on thin poor soil over shale, prone to summer drought in otherwise damp Cornwall, and will move to the no-till method now.
Thank you for caring about our mother earth.
Whole heartedly, Thank you so much for all you do.
Beautiful !! Great Canadians. Lovely, most informative piece. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for posting this. Excellent video! Beautiful farm! I love lentils and have become more healthy and feel better due to lentils.🙂
One of the best videos I have ever seen very informative exciting and to the point.
Brilliant, thanks very much.
Yay. I love fancy green lentils. So good to see your methods.
Well explained. GOD Bless you.
Look how black that soil is! Good job man. Keep up the good work lentils are quite possibly after a cheeseburger my 2nd favorite food
Wow, so informative. Very sustainable.
Bueatiful, thank you for this production.
Woow..lovely...nice father and son...good luck
Great video! Thank you for this. Robert in New Jersey
Very good video, great farming . Thank you
What a wholesome video
They are nicest guys 🙂
AMAZING! Watching this as I enjoy lentils :)
Wow! I am moving to Canada!!!❤
Thank you for these insights.
I enjoyed that
Thanks Andrew!
What an informative video! Learned lots, thanks
Red and Green lentils are staple foods in Turkey where I'm from. Reds is used to make the most common and basic soup that you can find in almost every restaurant here, and also prepared as a vegetarian "meat"ball combined with other vegetables like green onions, parsley, mint, olive oil, red pepper paste and spices. Green is cooked to a variety of dishes and sometimes used cold in salads.
I came upon this video because I wanted to see the actual plant, having never encountered it naturally as a city dweller. I must say that farmers in more developped countries are truly lucky, having access to the most modern and expensive machinery for tilling, planting and harvesting. I bet you also have access to a lot of government subsidies and credit. Being a farmer here is almost impossible and you always run the risk of bankrupcy and subsequently migrating to the city for a form of manual low-income job. Due to the current administration's absolutely thoughtless policies without a single worry about farmers (and consumer citizens), we have moved from a position of exporter of agricultural produce in the past to an importer country. Hell, I have just finished having a bowl soup that I cooked made from imported red lentils from Canada.
Who knows? Maybe it was from this farm...
@Jacob Dawson I haven't said anywhere in my comment that it was easy or difficult to be farmer in Turkey or North America. I only pointed at differences in technology and state policies that are out of farmers' control, yet decide their luck.
Lentils really are a miracle
Thank you for the great work you do!!
Im eating rice and lentils right now haha. I made my lentils with zucchini Squash and Mushroom. It has an amazing flavor eaten with white jasmine rice.
Thank you
Thanks really needed this!
Immense respect for farmers. Question, what do guys like you who farm in northern climates do during the winter?
winter is off-season due to the weather in Western Canada. Farmers take that time to do professional development learning, post-work from the previous season, get machinery and inputs ready for next season, and even take a holiday!
I love your work and the product
Good job guys! Truly informative. Thank you. Godspeed
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very good video. Thank you for producing it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting. Thnk you..
Excellent. Just excellent. Good luck and keep up the great work!
Good!
Things my father, told me; "Plan your work, work your plan. Hard work, does not have to be hard. Listen to your Father; I did and he did!"