Thanks Antoinette and Jordan for piecing together such a great snapshot of Mangarara and its vision! I've been working at Mangarara for about 9 months now (escaped the camera!) after years as a climate change activist and then working on land use/water quality for government. As it's topical on this thread I've also been both vegan and vegetarian for extended periods, and felt as healthy as I do now, but eventually settled on 'ethical omnivorism' (for lack of a better label). Greg and Rachel's vision for Mangarara - and its broader reach into New Zealand farming communities - has the potential to have a far reaching positive impact, developing farming systems that; sequester carbon in trees and soil; increase biodiversity; improve soil health and consequently water quality + flood + drought resilience; and produce quality nutrition & eating experiences. This is by no means the 'easy' path as NZ farming systems have been directed towards simple input in - output systems out over many decades, with many on the negative consequences of these systems beyond most farmers abilities to 'see' or understand (due to a lack of ecological education in agricultural sciences). Many of the visitors and woofers that come by the farm are vegetarian or vegan, and we respect their choices of diet, as they respect the vision for Mangarara and understand how animals are an essential component of that transition and vision (although it's not uncommon for 'environmental vegetarians' to feel quite comfortable eating our meat). One of the challenges for us is effectively communicating the complexity of farming, what practices are good for the planet and people, and which are harmful. The difference between a 'good' and 'bad' farm practise can be hard to discern when trying to account for energy, climate, soil, water, plant health, animal health, nutrition produced and profit. The local context (natural resources, human resources, markets etc) is key. There's a good argument in NZ for ethical eaters to source their protein and nutrition from holistically managed NZ farms with livestock, rather than imported beans, grains, nuts produced in high input systems (unless you prefer not to eat meat of course). If we are successful we will be planting a growing increasing amounts of fruits, nuts, timber, vegetables and native corridors integrated into our current pastoral landscape. We have an open gate policy and welcome visitors to the farm (ideally with some notice) and always enjoy two-way feedback on how we are doing and where we could go : )
@@rosemarie999 Have you ever watched a wildlife documentary? If not, maybe you should. There are a bunch of them that take place in Yellowstone National Park, for example. Here in an environment where almost all the original species of plants and animals are still there and undisturbed (the introduction of wolves is repairing the forests, among other things), you can see how nature works. Predators and prey, remember? That's how it is throughout nature. I would suggest, given the fight some of the prey put up when they're being attacked by a wolf or a bear, that no prey wants to die either, and yet that's how herds of herbivores like bison or pronghorn are kept healthy as the weaker animals are culled by the predators for their food. A whole bunch of animals will feed on the carcasses of those animals, too, everything from ravens to foxes. I feel bad myself for the lives of animals that must be sacrificed in order to feed other animals, but there we are. And if people hadn't eaten animals during the ice age when there was little vegetation to be had, you wouldn't be here to talk about it. And btw, the healthiest vegetables are fertilized by animals. They evolved together, they need each other, and we need them both, too.
Thanks for the information Sam. I'm looking into helping out and learning more about nature and the environment and farming/growing techniques on some more travels around the world. I will certainly look up this farm and area in order to help out with other volunteers.
It's true and a profound statement. We need to think about this more when it comes to our human so-called 'economy' that is more based on a made-up concept of money and profit rather than following Natural Law and sustainable, regenerative practices. If interested, take a look at the principles of a natural law resource based economy and see how much more sense it makes for humans to live that way as opposed to our extremely wasteful system we use now.
‘’Heartfelt manner’’ about paying someone to shoot a bolt through an animals head, and while still v young, just for £€$ Filthy Lucre, Blood Money! ✊🏽🌎🌻💚
Amazing. Love seeing people who are actually making a change as opposed to just complaining on the internet about what they think is wrong with the world. I hope to do this one day when I have my own little farm. I look forward to it. I’ve always wanted to be more actively involved with ecological processes.
I've been thinking the same recently - been binge watching videos about holist management and imagine running a small little holding must be one of the most satisfying things one can do. However ... how to start?! :(
Very inspiring. We believe that working with animals, along with agroforestry systems, is one of the most powerful ways of regenerating soils and ecosystems. Congratulations on the work!
Fantastic to see all those trees being planted. One thing that struck us when travelling in NZ was how denuded large stretches of the countryside looks and how breathtakingly beautiful the old still existing forests are. Great to learn that there are people making this effort to restoring these landscapes.
Love this video, i have my own farm, & run it basically the same, nature does so much work when allowed to. This system makes farming stress free, allows more quality family time. It still takes my breath away when I step out of the house each morning & see our paradise. If only conventional farmers could understand..
Thankyou for your efforts to retain regenerative farming practices. I agree with your vision and going about it the old way before farming became too commercialised with animals being exploited due to demand with trade. NZ is better off to concentrate on quality over quantity first and preserve our great resource abundant in our land. Im all for the respect of the animal and true sustainability is in the caring and natural grazing production without too much interference from mankind and understanding the cycle of life as God intended it. I have learned a lot more regarding regenerative farming in watching your video than i have in my 63years. Thankyou
This is such an important message to be getting out there : it depends on the producers of food, the sustenance of life, to make sure their models are sustainable and fight climate change. I just recently started learning about regenerative farming and am absolutely convinced it is the way of the future!!
My Vegan Experiment Hello fellow vegan, good on ye for being willing to give it a look. Cattle managed right are an eco plus. I don't care to kill or eat them, but this kind of ranching is good. Nobody wants to 'sustain' all the problems. Regeneration is better.
@@downbntout yeah, humans as a whole are not going to give up eating meat any time soon so we need to encourage these types of farming practices as much as possible. Getting people to eat less meat is important too but expecting all of humanity to go full vegan just isn’t going to happen
@@CampingforCool41 Well said. Exactly right. Good for vegans to not eat animal products, but it isn't realistic for everybody in the world not to eat meat or animal products. We can eat less and waste less, for sure. We can shift farming practices to be sustainable, regenerative and eco-plus. But the farmer said it: "There is no life without death." Even the ol' Disney movie The Lion King put it well when Mufasa explained to Simba how even though they rely on the antelope for food, they need to respect the natural balance, because as would be seen later in the film, when Scar took over and killed needlessly, the entire ecosystem broke down and all living things suffered. Humans can live sustainably with other living things on this planet if we do it right. Natural Law is what it's all about.
Here from a Dr. Shawn Baker video showing a clip of your farm. I hope more ranchers start using this system to raise cattle 🐄 shared to my local homestead group.
Mangarara is such a treasure and so many people in our area no nothing of its existence I hope this changes in the near future great things are happening here congrats Greg and Rachel love what you are doing 🥰 thanks for the eggs guys 👍
Great film @Happen Films- I really enjoyed hearing Greg Hart speak about holistic grazing and the effect its having on the environment he lives in. I really these short films- it gives me hope that there are others on this planet who care about it and want to make a positive and balanced change for the better and to see people working within their heart energy makes my heart sing and my face smile :)
This was a nice look into the paradise. Although I have had as not native English speaker problems to follow your accent, I will remember one beautiful sentence for ever: "Garbage is a human concept. Nature does not produce garbage!" Thank you for this insight. Hope this will inspire a lot of people here in Europe. We have all over this continent a lot of landscapes to heal from human barbarism.
love, love, LOVE this! Saving to reference anytime I end up in a binary discussion on the place of animals in agriculture. I was already looking forward to your feature film, now I'm even more excited! Great to see people including holistic grazing in discussions on sustainability :)
This how everyone should farm! It is not only up to the farmers it’s also consumers who have to help. Buy your food local. You know what you get and don’t waste food mileage. You are supporting your local community and you invest in a better local environment.
Post covid, our government is hell bent on destroying dairy and beef farming in NZ, this video is gold and must be seen by every person who thinks farming only destroys the environment. Please share in 2020.
Restoring the balance is important. It is always the same that the agricultural producers respect the animals and are honest hardworking people. It is a shame that many environmentalists are not honest, and spread often through ignorance lies and misinformation
You do it very similar than I do, the only thing I did was put a single goat through first before the cows to eat any weed seed heads, docks etc, it worked brilliantly
Fantastic ideas and solutions throughout this video. I hope these ideas can be translated to more populous countries like the UK (especially the reduction of sheep grazing)
I am from India.. We are following the organic farming for many thousand years until WESTERN MEDIA/COMPANIES starting to promote that only we can increase production only by using chemicals......Now the world is realizing that best way to run farming is to have balance in usage of chemicals OR no chemcials at all.........Only sad thing is this that no one in the world questions the HYPOCRISY from western world
@@AcornHillHomestead Oh, I think as they observe their neighbors making good money at farming without government subsidies, when they observe how healthy their regenerative-farming neighbors' soil is, how healthy the crops are, how they're able to withstand drought and even heavy rains much better because of good soil health, they'll figure it out eventually.
I Figured for a long time,, that if people just took care of their own health,, physically, emotionally and Spiritually, we would Naturally take care of others and the earth. People treat the earth the way they treat themselves.
Tree planting like but animal poultry for regenerative its not a part of life agri on idea its erase the term regenerative. I like how passionatly take care of animal freely this is traditional farm. Wow not optimizing profitably i am impress. Like you deserve a responsible philosophical idea about farming. Your country loves you.
It's great to see regenerative farming grow in popularity but it should be about the land, environment, food and livelihood. Whether it's cattle, grains or plantations as a farmer you need money so climate change is not the drive for this type of farming. It's a sustainable way of farming that benifits the environment but at the end of the day it's about food on the table.
If everyone had one acre we would be healthy and happy But we have been living with a government that chooses corporations and currency manipulation over people
Osiris, not true! Coming from a farming and agricultural background the average omnivorous person needs 3.7 acres, the average vegetarian needs 5.1 and the average vegan requires 7 acres. You cannot assume a perfect harvest and a perfect growing season every year nor can you account for a 100% efficiency record for every person all the time. You may be able to get away with 1 acre near the equator in a tropical environment but Canada, Russia, Scandinavian countries with very short growing seasons would die
Diego, EXPERIENCE AND COMMON SENSE! The 1 acre myth is retarded. First off, soil quality varies greatly, secondly, not all areas have suitable climates for a long growing season. Third, certain crops like tomatoes need to be rotated and some plants cannot be placed where tomatoes grew the following year. Third, there is no room for drought, pests, errors etc. lets say you live in New York and it has a zone 5 short growing season, you wouldnt see ANY food until late summer and I doubt you can farm a whole years worth of 2000 calorie a day food requirements on 1 acre. An acre is roughly 209 ft by 209 ft. Not very large. Next think of all theadfitional calories you will need because farm work IS NOT EASY, you will spend most of your day working to feed yourself.
Great video. Don't think there is enough engagement with a more middle if the road approach were established farms are changing to become more eco friendly. A lot of people in the community talk down people who dont commit to the most idealized life style choice. That I think this turns people off taking the first small steps to a better future.
"We are not concentrating on optimizing our production or profitability. Our focus is to optimize life and I think profitability will come as a consequence of that."
One side thought did cross my mind: If animals and fruit are removed from the land to be consumed elsewhere, then should ground rock powders be added to restore the equivalent lost minerals from the soil, or are the minerals in such abundance that the loss is insignificant?🌄
When mob grazing, how do you move a water source with the cattle? My family is wanting to do this exact same thing and this is one of our big questions.
Y'all need to chill and read "Meat: A benign extravagance" by Simon Fairlie. Remember people: every time someone blames the poor cow for climate change, Shell and Exxon heave a sigh of relief.
'There are no vegetarian ecosystems' - as someone has said in the comments before, is a very insightful observation. This fellow talks a lot of good sense.
A meat-eater’s diet requires 17 times more land, 14 times more water and 10 times more energy than a vegetarian’s, according to research published by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This is principally because we use a large proportion of the world’s land for growing crops to feed livestock, rather than humans. (Of the world’s approximately five billion hectares of agricultural land, 68% is used for livestock.)
No, that makes no sense at all. Trying to justify raising thousands of cattle for meat or for milk by saying "There are no vegetarian ecosystems" doesn't work. Nature doesn't choose to elevate one particular type of animal at the expense of other parts of the system. All the parts work together and there is balance. While its true that death is part of the system, the excessive consumption of meat and dairy that goes beyond survival needs is the only reason cattle operations that large even exist.
A lot of other farmers are willfully ignorant pricks. Or brainwashed by the Mrs. Bank. And agg companies. The twaddle taught at some of our institutios doesn't help either. Well done on doing it right. Or closer to it. Keep observing! Be safe. X
Асcording to Dr. Mercola news a biodynamic farming is more beneficial than organic farming.Those farmers grow food like in ancient time our ancestors did.
Clearly concerned, clearly adept, remember Cattle are integrated to graze, perennial grasses of Natural Grasslands or Prairies, would be adding the grazing and moving the herd to insure that long--term damages or inputs are not needed. Often Native perennials form these Grasslands or Prairies and underneath lie healthy Vibrant soils, yet needing removal of some yearly growth, gains from some grazing even short-term heavy grazing to integrate vegetative growth into Nutrient Cycling and biota enrichment. Being a tree-planter, Forester-type, we hope to bring back Native Biota or integrate lifestyles that are being very pragmatic and using Deep Ecological Techniques to create localized evolving Ecosystems noting Past Conditions of Site, pristine environmental considerations are connected to the Vitality of Ecological forces and patterns that reflect Stewardship of Environmental Concerns which drive a compatible evolving set of Mandates or Functional Energy flows of the Biota of these systems adapting to self -sustaining and expanding on Practical Means of Production and fine tuning forces uniting the effects and affects of your Actions which are quire Dynamic and evolving. Long grass communities or grasslands do need the effects of grazing, from wild or well managed farm or pragmatic species; whereby, humane care of livestock species as they consume materials, defecate, urinate, calve, and integrate Cowboy or Herding lifestyle or series of grazing areas to emphasize Savory Techniques and also spread local seed, digested materials. and subsequent nutritional gains in productivity as they consume but not overgraze any particular area unless it is to a devised plan. Restrain use of freshwater ecosystems to emphasize practical, area or regional patterns, and being able to keep overgrazing from these evolving systems of regulating use and devising ongoing strategies to reunify Native Species and Biota which could be allowing for seed dispersal by Biota, Recruitment of Biota as emerging potentials to integrate Biota in Techniques or sustaining or enriching Community Processes. Your work is greatly appreciated to integrate a more caring Environment.
Permaculture is proven to be much better then agriculture. Humans need plants to survive but not animal flesh or their secretions. Animals can still graze,live freely,be eaten by other animals and the circle of life can continue,but humans have no justification to enslave them and use them other then for profit.. It's not necessary any more. We can grow food forests and mimic nature,let chickens and other birds take care of bugs,let cows graze etc and fertilize the soil. We should always strive for better ways.
It's wrong to say that an ecosystem cannot be in balance without animals. The fundamental blocks of an ecosystem are autotrophs and decomposers (check evolutionary history), they alone are enough to achieve a "balance". Animals or any other consumers just speed that cycle up, that's all it does (and if there are too many animals, that would tilt the cycle out of balance). Now this is not to say animals per se is a bad thing because obviously when humanity's demand is so high, we need a faster cycling system. But managing the numbers of animals (including humans) is important.
Trying to justify raising thousands of cattle for meat or for milk by saying "There are no vegetarian ecosystems" doesn't work. Nature doesn't choose to elevate one particular type of animal at the expense of other parts of the system. All the parts work together and there is balance. While its true that death is part of the system, the excessive consumption of meat and dairy that goes beyond survival needs is the only reason cattle operations that large even exist. That operation is not a natural ecosystem by any definition of the term.
Greg and his family are planting both natives and fruit trees. The benefit to natives is that they are accustomed to the climate and growing conditions here and the wildlife have evolved to use them as food and shelter. I think a mix of the two is the way to go!
ogadl ogadl the biggest problem is the enormity of the appetite for animal flesh and even fish for that matter. Its been taken to the extreme. We don’t eat meat anymore. Found it is very easy to live without it. People should give meatless meals a try. Our meals are much tastier and less boring now.
Being brought up on a farm I have been disturbed by the modern farming husbandry and the cruel slaughter of livestock. I have stopped eating meat and won't spend my money supporting this terrible trade. No, I won't ! However, I'm still a meat eater, just in hibination. If I can guarantee the animals life has been good, free range, grass fed, and its death is instant. No pain (split second). Then I believe that is acceptable. But it's not happening at the moment.
We feel the same. Meat needs to go back to being expensive. We are hoping to move to a place where living is cheap enough that we can afford to only buy our meat from small farms we know re doing things right.
Permaculture Homestead erm.. veganism is about not using animals for our own purposes. Nature is wild, humans take that away. None of the animals shown are native to NZ and are all there for human use. I would argue that people who don't eat meat are more aware of the reality of nature and choose to repsect it by leaving it alone.
I realise that the comments section of a TH-cam video isn't the ideal place to discuss ethical issues, but my response would be by that logic why is it okay to use plants for our own purposes? And why is it okay to grow non-native plants to feed people? Personally I agree with what Greg says in the video that "there is no life without death" and I would argue eating animals is more in touch with the reality of nature. What we're trying to get across in the film is that it's about how the animals are treated and working with nature rather than against it.
Happen Films I have nothing against the video and I understand what the message is, but unfortunately these things don't suit everyones beliefs and that's okay. What I've noticed in the permaculture community is that people who choose not to eat meat are still considered strange or extreme because in a permaculture or holistic system suddenly everything is justified. The two views don't meld as well as I had expected. I don't blame the systems, it just seems like there's more room for understanding to be made. I *personally* want to be part of a system that uses no fences and ideas of ownership of other animals. It's just difficult to find this reflected in the views of most permaculture systems around.
Happen Films again you can plant more plants and picking an apple from a tree doesn't do anything bad to the tree compared to slitting a cows throats you've essentially robed the cows life for your own pleasures (taste).
Thanks Antoinette and Jordan for piecing together such a great snapshot of Mangarara and its vision!
I've been working at Mangarara for about 9 months now (escaped the camera!) after years as a climate change activist and then working on land use/water quality for government. As it's topical on this thread I've also been both vegan and vegetarian for extended periods, and felt as healthy as I do now, but eventually settled on 'ethical omnivorism' (for lack of a better label).
Greg and Rachel's vision for Mangarara - and its broader reach into New Zealand farming communities - has the potential to have a far reaching positive impact, developing farming systems that; sequester carbon in trees and soil; increase biodiversity; improve soil health and consequently water quality + flood + drought resilience; and produce quality nutrition & eating experiences. This is by no means the 'easy' path as NZ farming systems have been directed towards simple input in - output systems out over many decades, with many on the negative consequences of these systems beyond most farmers abilities to 'see' or understand (due to a lack of ecological education in agricultural sciences).
Many of the visitors and woofers that come by the farm are vegetarian or vegan, and we respect their choices of diet, as they respect the vision for Mangarara and understand how animals are an essential component of that transition and vision (although it's not uncommon for 'environmental vegetarians' to feel quite comfortable eating our meat).
One of the challenges for us is effectively communicating the complexity of farming, what practices are good for the planet and people, and which are harmful. The difference between a 'good' and 'bad' farm practise can be hard to discern when trying to account for energy, climate, soil, water, plant health, animal health, nutrition produced and profit.
The local context (natural resources, human resources, markets etc) is key. There's a good argument in NZ for ethical eaters to source their protein and nutrition from holistically managed NZ farms with livestock, rather than imported beans, grains, nuts produced in high input systems (unless you prefer not to eat meat of course). If we are successful we will be planting a growing increasing amounts of fruits, nuts, timber, vegetables and native corridors integrated into our current pastoral landscape.
We have an open gate policy and welcome visitors to the farm (ideally with some notice) and always enjoy two-way feedback on how we are doing and where we could go : )
Thanks Sam! Really well put.
How can you be ethical and slaughter something that doesn't want to die
@@happenfilms Do they feed their cows biochar and use dung beetles?
@@rosemarie999 Have you ever watched a wildlife documentary? If not, maybe you should. There are a bunch of them that take place in Yellowstone National Park, for example. Here in an environment where almost all the original species of plants and animals are still there and undisturbed (the introduction of wolves is repairing the forests, among other things), you can see how nature works. Predators and prey, remember? That's how it is throughout nature. I would suggest, given the fight some of the prey put up when they're being attacked by a wolf or a bear, that no prey wants to die either, and yet that's how herds of herbivores like bison or pronghorn are kept healthy as the weaker animals are culled by the predators for their food. A whole bunch of animals will feed on the carcasses of those animals, too, everything from ravens to foxes. I feel bad myself for the lives of animals that must be sacrificed in order to feed other animals, but there we are. And if people hadn't eaten animals during the ice age when there was little vegetation to be had, you wouldn't be here to talk about it. And btw, the healthiest vegetables are fertilized by animals. They evolved together, they need each other, and we need them both, too.
Thanks for the information Sam. I'm looking into helping out and learning more about nature and the environment and farming/growing techniques on some more travels around the world. I will certainly look up this farm and area in order to help out with other volunteers.
Loved when he said “nature doesn’t do waste” I never really thought about it before
It's true and a profound statement. We need to think about this more when it comes to our human so-called 'economy' that is more based on a made-up concept of money and profit rather than following Natural Law and sustainable, regenerative practices. If interested, take a look at the principles of a natural law resource based economy and see how much more sense it makes for humans to live that way as opposed to our extremely wasteful system we use now.
Just listening to Greg speak in such a heartfelt manner about his animals and restoring his land is inspiring. It makes me want to get up and do MORE.
‘’Heartfelt manner’’ about paying someone to shoot a bolt through an animals head, and while still v young, just for £€$ Filthy Lucre, Blood Money! ✊🏽🌎🌻💚
Amazing. Love seeing people who are actually making a change as opposed to just complaining on the internet about what they think is wrong with the world. I hope to do this one day when I have my own little farm. I look forward to it. I’ve always wanted to be more actively involved with ecological processes.
I've been thinking the same recently - been binge watching videos about holist management and imagine running a small little holding must be one of the most satisfying things one can do. However ... how to start?! :(
I'd love to do this with our small block, I assume you get a variety of animals in small lots and rotate quickly.
Very inspiring. We believe that working with animals, along with agroforestry systems, is one of the most powerful ways of regenerating soils and ecosystems. Congratulations on the work!
When you get a Happen Films video in your subscription feed, you know it's going to be a great day. Another awesome video, thanks!
Fantastic to see all those trees being planted. One thing that struck us when travelling in NZ was how denuded large stretches of the countryside looks and how breathtakingly beautiful the old still existing forests are. Great to learn that there are people making this effort to restoring these landscapes.
Love this video, i have my own farm, & run it basically the same, nature does so much work when allowed to. This system makes farming stress free, allows more quality family time. It still takes my breath away when I step out of the house each morning & see our paradise. If only conventional farmers could understand..
That was the cutest thing ever when the bumblebee landed on his face 😄🥰
Thankyou for your efforts to retain regenerative farming practices. I agree with your vision and going about it the old way before farming became too commercialised with animals being exploited due to demand with trade. NZ is better off to concentrate on quality over quantity first and preserve our great resource abundant in our land. Im all for the respect of the animal and true sustainability is in the caring and natural grazing production without too much interference from mankind and understanding the cycle of life as God intended it. I have learned a lot more regarding regenerative farming in watching your video than i have in my 63years. Thankyou
I am so sorry about all the negative comments on this video. Please ignore them, and keep doing what you're doing.
What a terrific speaker on this subject. I hope he travels spreading the good news.
This is such an important message to be getting out there : it depends on the producers of food, the sustenance of life, to make sure their models are sustainable and fight climate change. I just recently started learning about regenerative farming and am absolutely convinced it is the way of the future!!
My Vegan Experiment
Hello fellow vegan, good on ye for being willing to give it a look. Cattle managed right are an eco plus. I don't care to kill or eat them, but this kind of ranching is good. Nobody wants to 'sustain' all the problems. Regeneration is better.
@@downbntout yeah, humans as a whole are not going to give up eating meat any time soon so we need to encourage these types of farming practices as much as possible. Getting people to eat less meat is important too but expecting all of humanity to go full vegan just isn’t going to happen
@@CampingforCool41 Well said. Exactly right. Good for vegans to not eat animal products, but it isn't realistic for everybody in the world not to eat meat or animal products. We can eat less and waste less, for sure. We can shift farming practices to be sustainable, regenerative and eco-plus. But the farmer said it: "There is no life without death." Even the ol' Disney movie The Lion King put it well when Mufasa explained to Simba how even though they rely on the antelope for food, they need to respect the natural balance, because as would be seen later in the film, when Scar took over and killed needlessly, the entire ecosystem broke down and all living things suffered.
Humans can live sustainably with other living things on this planet if we do it right. Natural Law is what it's all about.
Bumblebee showed respect too ♥️. Thank you so so very much for the upload and to all involved. Please keep it coming!
Restoring balance is what it's all about. God Bless you
Here from a Dr. Shawn Baker video showing a clip of your farm. I hope more ranchers start using this system to raise cattle 🐄 shared to my local homestead group.
Excellent, thank you.
Mangarara is such a treasure and so many people in our area no nothing of its existence I hope this changes in the near future great things are happening here congrats Greg and Rachel love what you are doing 🥰 thanks for the eggs guys 👍
Great video! And Bumblebee stamp of approval!
Great film @Happen Films- I really enjoyed hearing Greg Hart speak about holistic grazing and the effect its having on the environment he lives in.
I really these short films- it gives me hope that there are others on this planet who care about it and want to make a positive and balanced change for the better and to see people working within their heart energy makes my heart sing and my face smile :)
An absolutely fantastic video !!!! I farm here in Ireland, I have a lot to learn from this man.
Great showcase! Just stumbled onto the channel and I'm stoked to find someone doing videos in the same vein!
such an eloquent fella, good work, lovely film xx
This was a nice look into the paradise. Although I have had as not native English speaker problems to follow your accent, I will remember one beautiful sentence for ever: "Garbage is a human concept. Nature does not produce garbage!" Thank you for this insight. Hope this will inspire a lot of people here in Europe. We have all over this continent a lot of landscapes to heal from human barbarism.
love, love, LOVE this! Saving to reference anytime I end up in a binary discussion on the place of animals in agriculture. I was already looking forward to your feature film, now I'm even more excited! Great to see people including holistic grazing in discussions on sustainability :)
Thank you :) That's great to hear!
It's nice to preserving our Mother Nature for years to come.
one of the best youtube channels out here. Bless you guys I love it
I love all the happen films! Fantastic
This how everyone should farm! It is not only up to the farmers it’s also consumers who have to help. Buy your food local. You know what you get and don’t waste food mileage. You are supporting your local community and you invest in a better local environment.
So true! Supporting small/local business is a huge goal of mine this year.
So beautiful and inspirational! I love how you are inviting life back into the land (:
Post covid, our government is hell bent on destroying dairy and beef farming in NZ, this video is gold and must be seen by every person who thinks farming only destroys the environment. Please share in 2020.
2:06 a sheep with an identity crisis?
In love with this!!! Thank you so so so much
Excellent. Beautifiully crafted as usual.
A hundred thousand likes. May Mangarara always prosper.
So nice to see. I love your films!
Absolutely loved this vid! Appreciate it a lot, keep it up!
Thanks for the uplifting video.It's all about getting everything back into balance.
Restoring the balance is important. It is always the same that the agricultural producers respect the animals and are honest hardworking people. It is a shame that many environmentalists are not honest, and spread often through ignorance lies and misinformation
You do it very similar than I do, the only thing I did was put a single goat through first before the cows to eat any weed seed heads, docks etc, it worked brilliantly
This is so incredibly interesting! Thank you for all your video's and work! You inspire!
Fantastic ideas and solutions throughout this video. I hope these ideas can be translated to more populous countries like the UK (especially the reduction of sheep grazing)
amazing...illustrates the balance and fit of man in nature and how to follow its rules but still to our advantage..well done.
This video made me so happy! Bravo!! I'd love to learn more about their systems!
Great video! Its inspiring to see content like this, TY
Balance. Something that' s been missing from the Kiwi way of life as far as the land is concerned. Well done.
Le pâturage holistique est une technique très intéressante !
Absolutely brilliant what you’re doing 👌😎❤️
Awesome video ! We've added it to our playlist "regenerative ag"
Loved the video, can't wait to see the next one 😊
This is a really great vid! Thanks for sharing
Thanks Jesse, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
I am from India.. We are following the organic farming for many thousand years until WESTERN MEDIA/COMPANIES starting to promote that only we can increase production only by using chemicals......Now the world is realizing that best way to run farming is to have balance in usage of chemicals OR no chemcials at all.........Only sad thing is this that no one in the world questions the HYPOCRISY from western world
I follow the Allan Savory grazing system in Zimbabwe, it great success for our situation. Great to see the NZ farmers adopting his ideas
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Very good video! Thank you.
Great video! Yes balance is the key to healing the planet... but sadly most humans dont understand balance if its not beneficial to them...
JonVieSays worse yet most wont even consider changing even if it means saving this beautiful planet let alone themselves.
@@AcornHillHomestead Oh, I think as they observe their neighbors making good money at farming without government subsidies, when they observe how healthy their regenerative-farming neighbors' soil is, how healthy the crops are, how they're able to withstand drought and even heavy rains much better because of good soil health, they'll figure it out eventually.
I Figured for a long time,, that if people just took care of their own health,, physically, emotionally and Spiritually, we would Naturally take care of others and the earth. People treat the earth the way they treat themselves.
Great video. Really interesting.
Wow cow and chickken and pig amazing and nature i like
Tree planting like but animal poultry for regenerative its not a part of life agri on idea its erase the term regenerative. I like how passionatly take care of animal freely this is traditional farm. Wow not optimizing profitably i am impress. Like you deserve a responsible philosophical idea about farming. Your country loves you.
Creating ecology and good habitat around you nice to see thanks
It's great to see regenerative farming grow in popularity but it should be about the land, environment, food and livelihood. Whether it's cattle, grains or plantations as a farmer you need money so climate change is not the drive for this type of farming. It's a sustainable way of farming that benifits the environment but at the end of the day it's about food on the table.
Can horses and dunkies be used as well?
If using cattle, pig, sheep and chickens, whay would be the rotation to fit all of them, or most of them
If everyone had one acre we would be healthy and happy
But we have been living with a government that chooses corporations and currency manipulation over people
Osiris, not true! Coming from a farming and agricultural background the average omnivorous person needs 3.7 acres, the average vegetarian needs 5.1 and the average vegan requires 7 acres. You cannot assume a perfect harvest and a perfect growing season every year nor can you account for a 100% efficiency record for every person all the time. You may be able to get away with 1 acre near the equator in a tropical environment but Canada, Russia, Scandinavian countries with very short growing seasons would die
Rovid Bouski just curious where these data came from?
Diego, EXPERIENCE AND COMMON SENSE! The 1 acre myth is retarded. First off, soil quality varies greatly, secondly, not all areas have suitable climates for a long growing season. Third, certain crops like tomatoes need to be rotated and some plants cannot be placed where tomatoes grew the following year. Third, there is no room for drought, pests, errors etc. lets say you live in New York and it has a zone 5 short growing season, you wouldnt see ANY food until late summer and I doubt you can farm a whole years worth of 2000 calorie a day food requirements on 1 acre. An acre is roughly 209 ft by 209 ft. Not very large. Next think of all theadfitional calories you will need because farm work IS NOT EASY, you will spend most of your day working to feed yourself.
Waste is a human concept, Nature dosent do waste!! Wow
Love it so much.
Brilliant!!
Clever Inspiring Brave Congratulations
Great video. Don't think there is enough engagement with a more middle if the road approach were established farms are changing to become more eco friendly. A lot of people in the community talk down people who dont commit to the most idealized life style choice. That I think this turns people off taking the first small steps to a better future.
Very nice@
"We are not concentrating on optimizing our production or profitability. Our focus is to optimize life and I think profitability will come as a consequence of that."
should be life for all living not just human life
The title made me think this was about restoring the land from pasture to a forest. This is how we’re going to reverse climate change...
One side thought did cross my mind: If animals and fruit are removed from the land to be consumed elsewhere, then should ground rock powders be added to restore the equivalent lost minerals from the soil, or are the minerals in such abundance that the loss is insignificant?🌄
That made my day. Thanks so much.
That's great to hear!
When mob grazing, how do you move a water source with the cattle? My family is wanting to do this exact same thing and this is one of our big questions.
There are mobile troughs. But usually you'd design your breaks to have a few troughs on the edges and rotate accordingly.
what is that "water " they give to the pigs at the first minutes of the video?
milk is my guess.
"There are no vegetarian ecosystems" Hear, hear!
Love the bumbelbee seene :D
Y'all need to chill and read "Meat: A benign extravagance" by Simon Fairlie.
Remember people: every time someone blames the poor cow for climate change, Shell and Exxon heave a sigh of relief.
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I m also trying to set up a farm house. It is very hard but possible.
He's right, without death their can be no life. Becoming an adult is partly about accepting that fact.
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'There are no vegetarian ecosystems' - as someone has said in the comments before, is a very insightful observation. This fellow talks a lot of good sense.
A meat-eater’s diet requires 17 times more land, 14 times more water and 10 times more energy than a vegetarian’s, according to research published by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This is principally because we use a large proportion of the world’s land for growing crops to feed livestock, rather than humans. (Of the world’s approximately five billion hectares of agricultural land, 68% is used for livestock.)
No, that makes no sense at all. Trying to justify raising thousands of cattle for meat or for milk by saying "There are no vegetarian ecosystems" doesn't work. Nature doesn't choose to elevate one particular type of animal at the expense of other parts of the system. All the parts work together and there is balance. While its true that death is part of the system, the excessive consumption of meat and dairy that goes beyond survival needs is the only reason cattle operations that large even exist.
A lot of other farmers are willfully ignorant pricks. Or brainwashed by the Mrs. Bank. And agg companies. The twaddle taught at some of our institutios doesn't help either. Well done on doing it right. Or closer to it. Keep observing! Be safe. X
You heard the man, being shit on regularly is great for growth.
Won't sheep work in a holistic managment system?
Yes I'd like to see/hear how as well please!
I'm pretty sure all ruminants work. A mix of all of them would look interesting.
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he just let the bee land on his face. CHILL
Асcording to Dr. Mercola news a biodynamic farming is more beneficial than organic farming.Those farmers grow food like in ancient time our ancestors did.
Clearly concerned, clearly adept, remember Cattle are integrated to graze, perennial grasses of Natural Grasslands or Prairies, would be adding the grazing and moving the herd to insure that long--term damages or inputs are not needed. Often Native perennials form these Grasslands or Prairies and underneath lie healthy Vibrant soils, yet needing removal of some yearly growth, gains from some grazing even short-term heavy grazing to integrate vegetative growth into Nutrient Cycling and biota enrichment. Being a tree-planter, Forester-type, we hope to bring back Native Biota or integrate lifestyles that are being very pragmatic and using Deep Ecological Techniques to create localized evolving Ecosystems noting Past Conditions of Site, pristine environmental considerations are connected to the Vitality of Ecological forces and patterns that reflect Stewardship of Environmental Concerns which drive a compatible evolving set of Mandates or Functional Energy flows of the Biota of these systems adapting to self -sustaining and expanding on Practical Means of Production and fine tuning forces uniting the effects and affects of your Actions which are quire Dynamic and evolving. Long grass communities or grasslands do need the effects of grazing, from wild or well managed farm or pragmatic species; whereby, humane care of livestock species as they consume materials, defecate, urinate, calve, and integrate Cowboy or Herding lifestyle or series of grazing areas to emphasize Savory Techniques and also spread local seed, digested materials. and subsequent nutritional gains in productivity as they consume but not overgraze any particular area unless it is to a devised plan. Restrain use of freshwater ecosystems to emphasize practical, area or regional patterns, and being able to keep overgrazing from these evolving systems of regulating use and devising ongoing strategies to reunify Native Species and Biota which could be allowing for seed dispersal by Biota, Recruitment of Biota as emerging potentials to integrate Biota in Techniques or sustaining or enriching Community Processes. Your work is greatly appreciated to integrate a more caring Environment.
Permaculture is proven to be much better then agriculture.
Humans need plants to survive but not animal flesh or their secretions.
Animals can still graze,live freely,be eaten by other animals and the circle of life can continue,but humans have no justification to enslave them and use them other then for profit..
It's not necessary any more.
We can grow food forests and mimic nature,let chickens and other birds take care of bugs,let cows graze etc and fertilize the soil.
We should always strive for better ways.
Arijan Bejtulahi very well said. Amen.
Except when vegan parents kill their children when they refuse to use formula milk…
Luckily opinions like yours are only opinions.
I'm not sure you realized that this video is about a permaculture where their main product is "animal flesh and their secretions" :D
"There's no vegetarian ecosystem" this needs to be cut in stone!
I use vegan Biodynamic market gardening. frankholzman.blogspot.com Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming.
@@frankholzman7087 I graze animals for food and rotate vegetables and rotate back.
It's wrong to say that an ecosystem cannot be in balance without animals. The fundamental blocks of an ecosystem are autotrophs and decomposers (check evolutionary history), they alone are enough to achieve a "balance". Animals or any other consumers just speed that cycle up, that's all it does (and if there are too many animals, that would tilt the cycle out of balance). Now this is not to say animals per se is a bad thing because obviously when humanity's demand is so high, we need a faster cycling system. But managing the numbers of animals (including humans) is important.
Trying to justify raising thousands of cattle for meat or for milk by saying "There are no vegetarian ecosystems" doesn't work. Nature doesn't choose to elevate one particular type of animal at the expense of other parts of the system. All the parts work together and there is balance. While its true that death is part of the system, the excessive consumption of meat and dairy that goes beyond survival needs is the only reason cattle operations that large even exist. That operation is not a natural ecosystem by any definition of the term.
Nice vid. What's the benefit of planting native trees on a farm? Would you not be better off planting trees with a return such as fruit trees?
Greg and his family are planting both natives and fruit trees. The benefit to natives is that they are accustomed to the climate and growing conditions here and the wildlife have evolved to use them as food and shelter. I think a mix of the two is the way to go!
5:05 Not JUST websites and environmental groups. The UN also speaks out about the damaging effects raising cattle has on the environment.
ogadl ogadl the biggest problem is the enormity of the appetite for animal flesh and even fish for that matter. Its been taken to the extreme. We don’t eat meat anymore. Found it is very easy to live without it. People should give meatless meals a try. Our meals are much tastier and less boring now.
Because they don't distinguish between holistic methods like this and conventional pasturing.
Being brought up on a farm I have been disturbed by the modern farming husbandry and the cruel slaughter of livestock. I have stopped eating meat and won't spend my money supporting this terrible trade. No, I won't !
However, I'm still a meat eater, just in hibination. If I can guarantee the animals life has been good, free range, grass fed, and its death is instant. No pain (split second). Then I believe that is acceptable. But it's not happening at the moment.
We feel the same. Meat needs to go back to being expensive. We are hoping to move to a place where living is cheap enough that we can afford to only buy our meat from small farms we know re doing things right.
I would have shit my pants and jumped about a mile in the air if that bee tried to land on me.
StrikeforceJedi why? They wont hurt you unless you threaten them.
thanks as always, great stuff. Spot on with the point about nature having no vegetarian systems, i can see the vegans freakin out now.
Permaculture Homestead erm.. veganism is about not using animals for our own purposes. Nature is wild, humans take that away. None of the animals shown are native to NZ and are all there for human use. I would argue that people who don't eat meat are more aware of the reality of nature and choose to repsect it by leaving it alone.
I realise that the comments section of a TH-cam video isn't the ideal place to discuss ethical issues, but my response would be by that logic why is it okay to use plants for our own purposes? And why is it okay to grow non-native plants to feed people? Personally I agree with what Greg says in the video that "there is no life without death" and I would argue eating animals is more in touch with the reality of nature. What we're trying to get across in the film is that it's about how the animals are treated and working with nature rather than against it.
Happen Films I have nothing against the video and I understand what the message is, but unfortunately these things don't suit everyones beliefs and that's okay.
What I've noticed in the permaculture community is that people who choose not to eat meat are still considered strange or extreme because in a permaculture or holistic system suddenly everything is justified. The two views don't meld as well as I had expected. I don't blame the systems, it just seems like there's more room for understanding to be made.
I *personally* want to be part of a system that uses no fences and ideas of ownership of other animals. It's just difficult to find this reflected in the views of most permaculture systems around.
Happen Films again you can plant more plants and picking an apple from a tree doesn't do anything bad to the tree compared to slitting a cows throats you've essentially robed the cows life for your own pleasures (taste).
02:31 Allan Savory is Rhodesian. Not zimbabwean.
Weren’t there indigenous people living on and managing the land before Europeans invaded and colonized it?
Yes. Conquest has been happening since time began.