Special guest Alberta graziers Clay & Lea.
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- Special guest Alberta graziers Clay & Lea. This young couple are a actively involved in the daily ranch management. It’s always a pleasure to meet young folks that are passionate about regenerative agriculture. This young couple has a bright future in ranching.
What a great couple! Thanks, Greg and Jan (you're a great couple too)!
How comforting to meet this fine young pair knowing they are determined to continue their parents’/in-laws to be’s fabulous regenerative, sustainable future. I wish them a happy, successful and blessed life together.
Thank you for sharing, Greg and Jan.
Thanks for the video! They are moving in the right direction! It’s great to see everyone can do this even in Canada! I’m glad you interviewed them. It looks beautiful there.
Always great to hear about people using these methods for many years already and this young couple wanting to keep it going.
Lets be frank, Lea is super easy on the eyes. I wish Clay and Lea all the best in their efforts, honestly, such a fine goal. Greg and Jan, wonderful teachers and hosts as always, thanks for the great interview.
About time you all came to Canada, we need more farms like yours up here.
Appreciate you sharing these folks story some. I think my favorite thing you put out is your interviews with graziers. Nice to know about all these good folks you get to meet out there in places I’ll probably never go caring for their spheres of influence well and hopefully inspiring others to do better too with all the nice grass they grow.
One more success story !
prayers for the Netherlands farmers.
Another great video 👏👏👏
I like that they don't need a lot of equipment. I have a custom baler right now, and trying to figure out if I get my own tractor or just buy hay.
I'm a non-farmer. The closest that I have come to farming is attempting to raise a substantial portion of my yearly vegetable consumption in a series of intensively planted, 24" deep, raised beds located in the backyard of a Baltimore City rowhouse.
Most of the people that farm for a living whom I have met over the past 40 years since I built that first raised bed are uttery blind to the health of their soils. I would venture to say that at least 95% of them regard the soil as nothing more than a medium to which they apply nitrogen based commercial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc.
I can always tell what kind of farmers they are by their response to my fundamental *TEST* question. *"If I take a hand trowel and dig a small, 6" deep hole in any of your fields, how many worms will I find?"* I can count on their response being some variation on the following. *"Mister, I can't tell you the last time I saw a worm in one of my fields!"*
When I initially started trying to double-dig that first raised bed back in 1983, I didn't see a single worm in the turf grass sod that I removed from the plot where the bed was to be located. There really wasn't any true topsoil below the root zone of the sod. The color of the soil intermixed within the sod's roots was a light brown. After 2 frustrating hours of unsuccessful double-digging, I realized that going up with a structure for the sides of the bed was my only option. The soil in my mother's backyard was extraordinarily compacted red clay with streaks of blue, white, and yellow clays that were sticky beyond belief. These sticky clay streaks were like *Silly Putty* and stuck to the blade of the spade and the point of the pick like glue. In retrospect, I now know that when the farmland had been cleared for building sites in 1950-1951, whatever existing topsoil that was in those fields was scraped off with a bulldozer and sold for a profit. Leaving only highly compacted subsoil.
That first bed measured 9' wide × 27' long × 24" deep with a volume of 486 cubic feet, or 18 cubic yards. I built it in early September of 1983, and filled it with 25% clay subsoil, washed sand, vermiculite, perlite, peat moss, potting soil mix, composted cow manure, composted chicken manure, and 130 thirty-gallon Lawn n' Leaf bags full of maple & oak hardwood leaves. Most of the fill was free. With the exception of a few large bales of peat moss and about 4 bags each of the vermiculite & perlite which I purchased; the balance of the fill consisted of three full 8 foot long pickup truck beds worth of broken bags that a local nursery gave me for free in exchange for cleaning up a year's worth of broken & torn bags scattered over about 6 acres of the nursery's property.
In the spring of 1984, when I started planting those first seeds & and transplants, that bed was *TEEMING* with life. Billions of microorganisms, insects of every description, and most importantly, *WORMS!* In the late fall of 1983, that bed had been mostly sterile. In 7.5 months, from mid-September to late-April, the organic matter, the open pore structure of the soil mixture, and adequate moisture had created a miracle of life from what was once just sterile turf grass mixed with dandelions, plantains, and other weeds.
What those raised beds taught me was that tillage, *ANY KIND OF TILLAGE,* destroys the structure of the soil, and indiscriminately kills off soil biology. It doesn't matter if the tillage results from a hand trowel, a 3-tine hand cultivator, a heavy tined garden rake, a rotortiller, or a plow pulled by a tractor. Tillage is tillage is tillage, and all tillage is destructive.
The other major thing that those beds taught me was that worms are an indicator species. Kind of like the proverbial *Canaries in the Coal Mine.* Without a healthy worm population, there's no such thing as healthy soil.
110k subscribers! Yay. A few more Canadian followers?
Fantastic!
What’s their farm called?
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Great video
If you can keep one cow for milk your children will be as balanced and pretty as their mom. Ask Weston Price.
We do have one haha!
Quite glad you're doing the same!
Chick looks like Clair Danes
Hello sir i am from pakistan i like this job if u give me a opportunity i tried my best for doing this job
Hello sir i am from pakistan i like this job if u give me a opportunity i tried my best for doing this job