You people in the USA should put the guy in charge of agriculture. An inspiration to anyone in farming. Hope his influence spreads far and wide. Do this worldwide and we’d be on our way to combatting climate change.
You cannot fight climate change! Climate change is controlled by the sun, this planet's been changing since its inception. When will the arrogant humans on this planet understand that? Go research the 12,000 year disaster cycle. Then you will know the truth of what is happening.
Discovered Gabe Brown some months ago. We have a smallholding with about 4 acres of arable land on our plot in Zambia. Our rainy season has just started. For the last 20 years we have allocated about a lima of land to each of our employees to plant what they want each year on condition that they used pothole tilling using NO commercial agriinputs or agricides. Manure and compost only; crop rotation with legumes. YESTERDAY we played Part 1 of "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem" as the first step of training them in regenerative gardening. Today our meeting was with a handful of men and one woman with great enthusiasm.
Let us know how they worked it. I’m presuming you’ll have to use grasses that can be killed by bending them over as I don’t think you get the freeze needed for winter killing cover crops. I hope this works amazing for you and your growers.
I'm 10 minutes in and what I love is he explains things in such a way someone with zero knowledge of farming can understand, follow and learn. That's a real talent. He's a farmer but also a natural born educator.
Well said Sister... My conversations with my mother have centered around gardening and the farming culture we have a natural kinship with as stewards of the Earth.
In 2017 I took a course in Prairie Horticulture from the University of Saskatchewan and this was one of the required videos. I've watched this over again through the years and still recommend it to anyone getting started on their soil health journey.
This guy is a life-saver, I swear. And he is also a great example of honesty and integrity, putting this 2h30 conference online for free. I'm a student in agronomy and you're a big inspiration. Thank you Mr Brown.
You always need the bacteria count, however, when the fungi count is more than the bacteria count...anything will grow there. Everything grows in the bush.
I am speechless! This has completely changed my way of thinking.... this needs to be required viewing in EVERY SINGLE Ag program in every college in our nation!! We would bankrupt Monsanto in 5 years if everyone saw this! I most definitely will be sharing this with everyone I know!!
The reason he can do organic no till like this is because he has a hard winter that kills off all his crops creating a stale seed bed, there is no way of killing off all your crops without tilling or spraying. Cripping can work but is very hard to get right.... but yes he is a very very epic man :)
Cripper Rollers only kill a select few plants really like rye and hairy vetch, which is due to how their stems transport nutrients. It wouldn't kill pretty much any other cover crop you try to grow. It's also can be very hard to drill into as there's so much living residue, blocks up the drills :/
You need to watch the principles again. These practices are being used around the world even in temperate climates, with success. We never needed synthetic chemicals in the first place. What you need is to observe your land and the plants that do well in your area. It takes time and patience to observe nature. Tilling is the absolute WORST thing you can do to your soil. Crimping (not "cripping") is not hard, you just need to take the time to learn.
I have watched this guy and Ill keep watching whenever a video starring him comes on TH-cam and I don't even have a farm. I have a garden, and he helps, encourages and inspires me with that. But even if I didn't have a garden, I would listen and dream about it. He is funny, relatable, and just awesome. What a star. He needs a TV show. We'd all be farming.
11:10 Winter Triticale & Hairy Vetch 14:30 Cowpea & Sundan Grass 21:53 Green Armor 27:30 Feed biology, Fungi & Bacteria 🦠 1:16:53 Mycorrhizal Fungi 1:19:45 Keep your seed (acclimated to their specific environment) 1:21:45 Fungal to Bacterial ratio of your soil 1:22:31 the majority of the biology in the soil live in the top 2 inches 1:30:09 green armor 1:32:17 worms at work 🪱 1:40:27 Cover crop diversity 1:49:00 Always have something growing (promote healthy soil) 1:51:26 Photosynthesis 🌞 capture solar energy 1:55:06 diversity specifically 1:57:35 more sun absorption
I am a city dweller, London U.K., and I cannot believe I just watched all of that. Absolutely fascinating. I have an urban garden with a rubble dirt soil and I have not been able to improve it by very much. This has totally changed the way I am going to approach this problem.
Look up Charles Dowding. He's on youtube.. There's several things you can do - put in several feet of chipped tree trimmings and wait a few years for it to turn to humus; pick out a lot of the rock and make a rock garden out of it.. I dealt with something similar once. I used the rubble to make long beds and infilled with earth - sort of like 2-foot high hedgerows. Planted in ferns and they did well (area was shaded). Very Victorian. Or just flatten it and bury it under lots of mulch.
Yup, but unfortunately some people are stuck in their way of thinking, Gabes neibours still go till, single crops and chemicals. Yet they can see what Gabe is doing.
Gabe, I am not a farmer, but am a small gardener in the city. Even for us, with .25 acres or less, this knowledge is still so very valuable. Thank you so much for all you do!
Gabe, you are a credit to the human species. Not only is your content informative and solidly presented, you know the material indide and out. Then you mix your unique blend of humor in and the result is eye opening in more ways than one. Bless you for sharing your knowledge and helping make the world a better and more productive place to live. 👍💯💯💯
Does Rodale integrate livestock? What I really appreciate is that Gabe is not ashamed to say he is in business to make money. And he is dealing with researchers, sees the impact to climate. Richard Perkins is also Passionate along these lines.
@@tireddad6541 the Rodale Institute study is easily found on their website. Gabe Brown and others have been the driving force behind producers dropping tillage and chemicals in the new regenration of soil life and carbon sequestration in the upper midwest. You will never hear me knocking their work.
i was looking at examples of composting, and lift the autoplay button "on" to play constantly to next videos as I did laundry. This guy came on after few videos, and I was about to click next, til he mention why California is desperate for water. I got hooked. I live in cacaCalifornia; and it is true about how we cultivate the land to a runoff. It makes sense of what Mr. Brown says about using a good "cover crop". Its a must try. I'm off to the next video, thank you for SHARING🌻💖🌻💖🌻💖🌻💖👍
People who live in town can treat their properties as an ecosystem as well, and i learned alot from your video, thank you! I will be implementing the things i have learned. This year i can say i have noticed the difference in the quality of the food, and its taste even just from building the soil. Crazy difference in taste, and incentive to keep going.
YES. I'm building my soil back from neglect aside from probable chemical sprays & compacted clay. Growing 30+ berry bushes, a dozen fruit trees, asparagus & grape vines, etc on my meager 1/4 acre!
What a superb talk! I am in the U.K. and although I am not a farmer I am from a farming family and I am a keen grower of fruit and vegetables in my garden and allotment. I came to this channel from a mention by someone on a Richard Perkins video and I am very grateful to that person for his comment. I will certainly be experimenting with cover crops and mixed plantings - starting with when it stops raining here!
I have wondered for years why this wasn't happening on a larger basis. It just makes sense! I figured that out as a kid, mimic nature and things grow better. I have had 17ft hollyhocks, summer squash with leaves that were almost 3ft across and usually about 5 large squash per plant growing at the same time, and my cucumbers get HUGE and still have a very nice taste and texture. My garden looks like a jungle.😂😎
'Industrial organic' is better than 'conventional' chemical-based industrial agriculture.... but the current USDA standards are a long way from what organic farming and gardening was originally.
I turned west Michigan sand into 2.5 feet of top soil in 10 years, organic matter 7-8% and greater in certain parts of the yard where the gardens are. Soil Health = Human Health Aloha
Deeper ploughing will also give you amazing results. I have seen my father deep plough half a plot and the difference in growth is insane. Constant ploughing leaves a compact table that roots cannot penetrate. Penetrate it for them and there is centuries old untapped organic fertiliser!!
urban outsider All that does is move the hard pan down a few more inches. It would be better if your roots penetrated the hard pan with no tillage. I’ve seen roots of white clover that go down seven feet with no tillage. Tilling that deep is impossible.
I've got 10 acres of grass that is grazed for horses. To say I know nothing is understatement of the year. I've just watched this video from start to finish and this is so obviously the way to go. Reduce overhead and the profit rolls in .thanks for your efforts, I shall definitely spread the word.
I have the same as you for horses👍🏽 I’ve always rotated my horses paddocks. I did Equicentral for 3 years and found it a complete useless waste of time. I now run a track system with rotational grazing and my land has improved immensely in the past 3 years. This guy is brilliant 💕 and an incredible wealth of knowledge.. understanding your soil and working to improving it is gold 😊💕👍🏽
THANK YOU THANK YOU! I started watching Justin Rhodes years back which led me to learn about Joel Salatin, which led me to your video! And may I just say wow! Your presentation was wonderfully worded, and so easy to understand. Anyone can comprehend the fundamental message you are getting at: Take care of nature and nature will take care of you! God bless you and your family
Wow! Farm smarter not harder. Fascinating and so educational. I wanted to take a break but couldn't tear myself away. Such a wealth of knowledge and information, shared in an easy to understand way. Bet the Ag chemical companies hate you Gabe, but I love what you are doing! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing. Interesting quiet passion of mine for some decades now. I am one of those young regenerative agriculturalist on the move for my appropriate location. Thank you for sharing knowledge. Peace
I am not even a farmer and watched the whole thing in one go. Thank you very much for the wealth of information. I am glad that there are level headed people spreading these ideas and that you have such an interested audience.
It's refreshing to see some REAL SCIENCE and real-world critical thinking. I began to experiment with garden diversity after my cucumber and tomato plants would not get along with each other. You seem to have taken it to a whole new level.
Just going throw videos and this started playing, I don’t know the first thing about farming. Now I think I could start a better farm then anyone I know. I just couldn’t stop watching.
Wow, Gabe is just wonderful! Here's a man who knows how to talk to people in a language they understand, in exactly the way that produces real change where it potentially makes the most difference -- in how we think about what it is we're doing. Really inspiring, and I'm not even a farmer.
Woooow, Quite an addictive but educative video that one may not want to switch off before one completes it. I will certainly give it as an assignment to my students to watch.
I'm only @ 16:14, and I know you never intended this, but you have helped remind me that adversity is a means for God to bring about a new work. I have been up and down in my battle for my health, it's been rough; sometimes I feel like I've been pellted by that monstrous hail, but like you, I can't quit. I may think about it, but there's too much at stake. The farmer waits patiently for his harvest and for the former and later rains-- he's done all he can do. And so, I'll wait patiently for my health as I am doing all I can do. The Lord will bring the rain that brings the harvest. Thank you, Gabe!
This is one of the most informative videos I've watched on TH-cam. You have changed my perspective on soil and, thanks to your son's population observations, how the life cycles of insects allow one to dominate a portion of the year. Fascinating. Thank you!
Fantastic education. I'm not a farmer but an focussed on improving my soil and gradually creating a food forest in my urban back garden here in the uk. I learnt loads here. Thank you.
I’d love to see you in person if you ever get to Houston,Texas. We just bought a property in Hockley, Texas. I love the idea of having land and was thrilled when we got this property. The back yard/pasture gets run-off from all the other properties around us. So we have crevasses from the flow of the water. We also have hard compacted sandy soil. I’m trying to figure out how to absorb some of that run off so my soil will get healthier. I’m just not sure how to start if I can’t disturb the soil that’s so hard. I’ll keep doing more research. This was excellent. I knew this deep down. I knew I had to find something to grow to improve my soil… and seeing this video validated what I just knew was the right thing to do. Thank you.
The second he admitted that he didn't know re purchasing Fungi I knew I was listening to an intelligent man. Super interesting and can't wait to experiment
Gabe brown needs his own TH-cam channel! I use most of his strategies in my arizona backyard permaculture garden I teach about on my channel. They work in the desert! The only thing I’m missing is a grazer but I “hand graze” my cover crops for green manure so it’s better than nothing. Thanks for teaching me more than I learned in Ag science in college!
My heart longs for this life. i grew up in rural Scotland, I moved to the city in my late teens. God I miss th countryside. Ive converted our dining room into a Micro farm!! I grow allsorts, Some in soil some in water. Ive had peppers 50cm long! One day I shall buy a plot of land!
Get the land. I've been amazed what some do on even 1/8 acre. I have 1/2 acre and it takes a lot of time to use it all effectively, some 150 productive trees, bushes, vines, etc. and a lot more room even with some 80 ft. established redwoods and other big trees.
I'll let you use mine. My wife and I just bought a farm because we wanted out of the city, we have big plans, but we also have more than we need at the moment. I won't even charge you lease. Come grow.
@@highoctain113 oh I envy you, I look everywhere for the opportunity to farm on someone's land, since I don't have any of my own. The opportunity just hasn't arisen... Yet. I will continue my search. This girl was meant to be a farmer. I try to give vegetable plants to everyone and teach them how to grow. Sadly, most decline even taking the plants home with them. We all must learn to grow food, for one day it will not be at the grocery store anymore.
Love 💘this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏. I am humbled by your words about how we can learn this at warp speed. I am more then excited to embrace the renewable farmers farm 🚜 🌽 🍍🍋🥒🫑🌶🍅🍇🥔🍄🧄🥑🙆♂️👨🌾
Fantastic information! Very well articulated as well, easy for folks to understand that are clueless to the process. They should teach kids this in school. These simple principles can reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the air. It can produce more nutrient packed healthier food and more of it. Job security for our friend the farmer and that's always a good thing. Excellent video thanks so much for sharing!!!
I'm not a large-scale farmer. I am a gardener in the Sheyenne Valley. My soil is almost pure clay so all my garden soil is in raised beds. It is all made from composted leaves and grass clippings. However I have been pulling out all the organics in the fall and tilling. It packs like cement! I will be doing some experimenting next spring.
Excellent presentation. I hope all the farmers are adopting these organic practices. It’s about profits, not yield. To adopt an old phrase from sales and applied to farming, would be, “you can’t fold up yield and put it in your pocket.” An excellent book for everyone to read, from farmers, to home gardeners, is “Teaming With Microbes,” by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. It goes over everything this man is talking about: Soil science.
However principles of permaculture are found in every example of how he changed his approach to agriculture so whether any of us, including him, consider him a permaculturalist or not is a moot point.
Permaculture is all about guilds and diversity mixing as many plants as possible.. If he has one plant on fields of acres that is MONOCULTURE not Permaculture, that is what Permaculture is completely against. Permaculture is as much diversity as you possibly possibly can.. Look at the Permaculture principals, ''Use and value diversity''.
Nothing more boring than a dogmatic permie. Permaculture is 'all about' those things is it? Reckon you've grown some lettuce and eaten some kale and now you're gonna tell us all how it is.
People are finally beginning to become humble and realize that Mother Nature knows what she is doing much better than we do. Much better , in fact, that we will ever be able to do. Trust her and she will take care of you as well as the earth.
Another almost random click that turned out to be fascinating and rewarding. I have never farmed or grown my own food, and it is unlikely that I will ever farm, although I plan to move to a house with some land around it so I can grow some veg. I have seen a good number of videos of this nature here on YT, and this certainly ranks among those I would recommed. Thank you. 1:20:06 Oh, I would bet good money the did it on purpose.
At about 1:35:00 one guy asked about going from perennial to annual(vegetable) without tillage. Mow or crimp... Wait a week and mow again... As low as possible. Then cover w/black tarp for 3 weeks in warm-hot days. Then plant into the resulting dead mulch. No till, not chemicals.
OMG this one was and it is an amazing video, beyond my expectations, subjects not cover in other videos. Thank you for sharing your wisdom even thought I will use it in my home garden.
The first two pictures just before 40 minutes ARE the same soil sample, but I don't that that was a deliberate slip-up. Very good presentation, and I'm learning so much!
I love this video, but funny thing is at 38:13 it shows two two different pictures of the same soil sample and he says "You'd swear that's the same sample". I'm sure it was a mistake, i just couldn't resist.
Look closely at the roots in the pictures, they are not the same soil sample. although they are very similar unhealthy soils made from the same parent material because they are geologically close to each other.
It indeed is the same soil. I hope that it is just his mistake and not some kind of manipulation. The same soil photographed from a slightly different angle and it looks like the photo on the left have been manipulated, photoshoped, squashed in height. It is clear. Look at the leaf in the upper right corner and the shape of lightshine on the tip of it. Now take a look at the same thing on next photo.
@@billmcgubbins1476 lol, Ya'll are ridiculous. It's the same crop, sunflowers, but different pictures. If you can't tell that they're different then that's a personal issue with your eyes sight, not the slide. The angle of the straight edge on the shovel might make the picture look a little weird but they are both unphotoshoped.
Exactly! :D you should finish this "treating the farm as an ecosystem" series and move on to "high bio-nutrient crop production" ( th-cam.com/video/im42xjLEk3A/w-d-xo.html ) 1 regenerative ag lecture a day keeps the chem salesmen away.
I can't believe I nodded our half way through..and yes it is really good not the speaker or subject's fault.. I am going to do a seconds viewing for the last half.
You people in the USA should put the guy in charge of agriculture. An inspiration to anyone in farming. Hope his influence spreads far and wide. Do this worldwide and we’d be on our way to combatting climate change.
You cannot fight climate change! Climate change is controlled by the sun, this planet's been changing since its inception. When will the arrogant humans on this planet understand that? Go research the 12,000 year disaster cycle. Then you will know the truth of what is happening.
Stop buying the climate hoax.
Regenerative goes completely against what our enslavers want for us.
Now you're talking
We would also drastically reduce food poverty in the world.
Discovered Gabe Brown some months ago.
We have a smallholding with about 4 acres of arable land on our plot in Zambia. Our rainy season has just started.
For the last 20 years we have allocated about a lima of land to each of our employees to plant what they want each year on condition that they used pothole tilling using NO commercial agriinputs or agricides. Manure and compost only; crop rotation with legumes.
YESTERDAY we played Part 1 of "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem" as the first step of training them in regenerative gardening. Today our meeting was with a handful of men and one woman with great enthusiasm.
Let us know how they worked it. I’m presuming you’ll have to use grasses that can be killed by bending them over as I don’t think you get the freeze needed for winter killing cover crops. I hope this works amazing for you and your growers.
Good start. Please Continue. I am From Zambia too
I'm 10 minutes in and what I love is he explains things in such a way someone with zero knowledge of farming can understand, follow and learn. That's a real talent. He's a farmer but also a natural born educator.
Agree!
Absolutely ! Talented speaker And very funny !!
Well said Sister... My conversations with my mother have centered around gardening and the farming culture we have a natural kinship with as stewards of the Earth.
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In 2017 I took a course in Prairie Horticulture from the University of Saskatchewan and this was one of the required videos.
I've watched this over again through the years and still recommend it to anyone getting started on their soil health journey.
Thank you for passing along this info
I totally agree with you!
GABE BROWN IS A GIFTED COMMUNICATOR. ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER HEARD.
Ain't that the truth? We're bicycle shop owners and can't get enough of listening to this man speak.
I never watch anything over 20 minutes. I just watched this entire video at one sitting. Extremely interesting and very well presented.
This guy is a life-saver, I swear. And he is also a great example of honesty and integrity, putting this 2h30 conference online for free.
I'm a student in agronomy and you're a big inspiration.
Thank you Mr Brown.
And this is just part 1!
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You always need the bacteria count, however, when the fungi count is more than the bacteria count...anything will grow there. Everything grows in the bush.
I am speechless! This has completely changed my way of thinking.... this needs to be required viewing in EVERY SINGLE Ag program in every college in our nation!! We would bankrupt Monsanto in 5 years if everyone saw this! I most definitely will be sharing this with everyone I know!!
The reason he can do organic no till like this is because he has a hard winter that kills off all his crops creating a stale seed bed, there is no way of killing off all your crops without tilling or spraying. Cripping can work but is very hard to get right.... but yes he is a very very epic man :)
You can't just use a roller?
Cripper Rollers only kill a select few plants really like rye and hairy vetch, which is due to how their stems transport nutrients. It wouldn't kill pretty much any other cover crop you try to grow. It's also can be very hard to drill into as there's so much living residue, blocks up the drills :/
thanks
You need to watch the principles again. These practices are being used around the world even in temperate climates, with success. We never needed synthetic chemicals in the first place. What you need is to observe your land and the plants that do well in your area. It takes time and patience to observe nature. Tilling is the absolute WORST thing you can do to your soil. Crimping (not "cripping") is not hard, you just need to take the time to learn.
I have watched this guy and Ill keep watching whenever a video starring him comes on TH-cam and I don't even have a farm. I have a garden, and he helps, encourages and inspires me with that. But even if I didn't have a garden, I would listen and dream about it. He is funny, relatable, and just awesome. What a star. He needs a TV show. We'd all be farming.
Love your idea !
11:10 Winter Triticale & Hairy Vetch
14:30 Cowpea & Sundan Grass
21:53 Green Armor
27:30 Feed biology, Fungi & Bacteria 🦠
1:16:53 Mycorrhizal Fungi
1:19:45 Keep your seed
(acclimated to their specific environment)
1:21:45 Fungal to Bacterial ratio of your soil
1:22:31 the majority of the biology in the soil live in the top 2 inches
1:30:09 green armor
1:32:17 worms at work 🪱
1:40:27 Cover crop diversity
1:49:00 Always have something growing (promote healthy soil)
1:51:26 Photosynthesis 🌞 capture solar energy
1:55:06 diversity specifically
1:57:35 more sun absorption
2:02:07 build it and they'll come
2:04:52 natural pest control (cowbirds)
2:12:40 radish, peas, sunflowers
Well done!
This is literally one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in years.
I am a city dweller, London U.K., and I cannot believe I just watched all of that. Absolutely fascinating. I have an urban garden with a rubble dirt soil and I have not been able to improve it by very much. This has totally changed the way I am going to approach this problem.
Same here Paul. Big farma destroying all in their path. Mother nature runs the show the sooner we accept that the better
Cover crops with deep roots and nitrogen fixers.
and I cannot believe you voted for BREXIT 😂
Look up Charles Dowding. He's on youtube.. There's several things you can do - put in several feet of chipped tree trimmings and wait a few years for it to turn to humus; pick out a lot of the rock and make a rock garden out of it.. I dealt with something similar once. I used the rubble to make long beds and infilled with earth - sort of like 2-foot high hedgerows. Planted in ferns and they did well (area was shaded). Very Victorian. Or just flatten it and bury it under lots of mulch.
I've watched this video 4 times in 2 years. I've never learned more from any book, class or video in my life. Gabe Brown is my hero.
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I could listen to Gabe speak all day.
This is what every new gardener / farmer in 2020 should watch.
I love the birds and insects! :) started last year during COVID it’s now a tiny bird/butterfly/bee haven. I love it so much.
Yup, but unfortunately some people are stuck in their way of thinking, Gabes neibours still go till, single crops and chemicals. Yet they can see what Gabe is doing.
Gabe, I am not a farmer, but am a small gardener in the city. Even for us, with .25 acres or less, this knowledge is still so very valuable. Thank you so much for all you do!
Gabe, you are a credit to the human species. Not only is your content informative and solidly presented, you know the material indide and out. Then you mix your unique blend of humor in and the result is eye opening in more ways than one. Bless you for sharing your knowledge and helping make the world a better and more productive place to live. 👍💯💯💯
“But I don’t care this is really easy.” IMO one of the best moments of this presentation.
I have always had a dream of having my own homestead one day so I stumbled upon this video. Now I feel so inspired I can't stop watching this!
Go for it!
You can do it!
This is fantastic! This guy did the work with help from others. This is what Rodale has been saying for 40 years. Thanks!
Does Rodale integrate livestock?
What I really appreciate is that Gabe is not ashamed to say he is in business to make money. And he is dealing with researchers, sees the impact to climate.
Richard Perkins is also Passionate along these lines.
@@tireddad6541 the Rodale Institute study is easily found on their website. Gabe Brown and others have been the driving force behind producers dropping tillage and chemicals in the new regenration of soil life and carbon sequestration in the upper midwest.
You will never hear me knocking their work.
The more you mimic nature the better everything gets. Everything is connected.
In the beginning, God created the different vegetation and ecosystems and said it was good. Then we come along and say no, we can do it better 😅,
Love Gabe Brown! We found him a few years ago and he is one of the people that gave us the inspiration to farm. Thanks so much for this!
Farmer in California really need to see and learn from this presentation. Stop the dry land and water crisis we have here.
i was looking at examples of composting, and lift the autoplay button "on" to play constantly to next videos as I did laundry.
This guy came on after few videos, and I was about to click next, til he mention why California is desperate for water. I got hooked. I live in cacaCalifornia; and it is true about how we cultivate the land to a runoff. It makes sense of what Mr. Brown says about using a good "cover crop". Its a must try.
I'm off to the next video, thank you for SHARING🌻💖🌻💖🌻💖🌻💖👍
I wish I could give Mr. Gabe Brown 500 thumbs up.
This presentation had a profound impact on my life
If too much land to get to efficiently...maybe consider selling it off to someone who will farm it.
People who live in town can treat their properties as an ecosystem as well, and i learned alot from your video, thank you! I will be implementing the things i have learned. This year i can say i have noticed the difference in the quality of the food, and its taste even just from building the soil. Crazy difference in taste, and incentive to keep going.
YES. I'm building my soil back from neglect aside from probable chemical sprays & compacted clay. Growing 30+ berry bushes, a dozen fruit trees, asparagus & grape vines, etc on my meager 1/4 acre!
What a superb talk! I am in the U.K. and although I am not a farmer I am from a farming family and I am a keen grower of fruit and vegetables in my garden and allotment. I came to this channel from a mention by someone on a Richard Perkins video and I am very grateful to that person for his comment. I will certainly be experimenting with cover crops and mixed plantings - starting with when it stops raining here!
I have wondered for years why this wasn't happening on a larger basis. It just makes sense! I figured that out as a kid, mimic nature and things grow better. I have had 17ft hollyhocks, summer squash with leaves that were almost 3ft across and usually about 5 large squash per plant growing at the same time, and my cucumbers get HUGE and still have a very nice taste and texture. My garden looks like a jungle.😂😎
Really loved how he explains good organic vs. bad organic, good no-till vs. bad no till, etc.
'Industrial organic' is better than 'conventional' chemical-based industrial agriculture.... but the current USDA standards are a long way from what organic farming and gardening was originally.
This is my first year of getting ready to plant a garden. it is already tilled and the last year i will till. thank you so much. I learned so much.
Yes. No till, no dig. I use black plastic.
Look into the back to Eden growing system, it is mulching the top few inches and planting into the mulch
@@jpp9876 That guys too freaky religious. Look up Charles Dowding for a less faith-based rationale.
I turned west Michigan sand into 2.5 feet of top soil in 10 years, organic matter 7-8% and greater in certain parts of the yard where the gardens are. Soil Health = Human Health
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Nice work. Now that's something to be proud about.
Deeper ploughing will also give you amazing results. I have seen my father deep plough half a plot and the difference in growth is insane. Constant ploughing leaves a compact table that roots cannot penetrate. Penetrate it for them and there is centuries old untapped organic fertiliser!!
urban outsider All that does is move the hard pan down a few more inches. It would be better if your roots penetrated the hard pan with no tillage. I’ve seen roots of white clover that go down seven feet with no tillage. Tilling that deep is impossible.
urban outsider so when you plow deeper you are just moving the hard pan layer of the soil deeper .. the problem is the plow destroys soil microbes..
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I've got 10 acres of grass that is grazed for horses. To say I know nothing is understatement of the year. I've just watched this video from start to finish and this is so obviously the way to go. Reduce overhead and the profit rolls in .thanks for your efforts, I shall definitely spread the word.
I have the same as you for horses👍🏽 I’ve always rotated my horses paddocks. I did Equicentral for 3 years and found it a complete useless waste of time. I now run a track system with rotational grazing and my land has improved immensely in the past 3 years. This guy is brilliant 💕 and an incredible wealth of knowledge.. understanding your soil and working to improving it is gold 😊💕👍🏽
THANK YOU THANK YOU! I started watching Justin Rhodes years back which led me to learn about Joel Salatin, which led me to your video! And may I just say wow! Your presentation was wonderfully worded, and so easy to understand. Anyone can comprehend the fundamental message you are getting at: Take care of nature and nature will take care of you! God bless you and your family
Love both those guys! God bless
Amazing presentation! Everyone should watch this!
Living Web Farms, thank you for making these available and sharing them with those of us who couldn't be there!
You shared without expecting anything back. We appreciate. It's our world.
Yes. Invaluable.
Wow! Farm smarter not harder. Fascinating and so educational. I wanted to take a break but couldn't tear myself away. Such a wealth of knowledge and information, shared in an easy to understand way. Bet the Ag chemical companies hate you Gabe, but I love what you are doing! Thank you!
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Thank you for sharing. Interesting quiet passion of mine for some decades now. I am one of those young regenerative agriculturalist on the move for my appropriate location. Thank you for sharing knowledge.
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This guys is fantastic! Where art, wisdom, love beauty and science converge while listening to and understanding nature! Love this!
This is fantastic! I am speechless. Like another commentor, everyone doing backyard garden to large-scale farm should see this video
I am not even a farmer and watched the whole thing in one go. Thank you very much for the wealth of information. I am glad that there are level headed people spreading these ideas and that you have such an interested audience.
It's refreshing to see some REAL SCIENCE and real-world critical thinking. I began to experiment with garden diversity after my cucumber and tomato plants would not get along with each other. You seem to have taken it to a whole new level.
Pure Gold! Thank you, Gabe. Inspired as I begin my journey as a Regenerative Farmer.
Just going throw videos and this started playing, I don’t know the first thing about farming. Now I think I could start a better farm then anyone I know. I just couldn’t stop watching.
Wow, Gabe is just wonderful! Here's a man who knows how to talk to people in a language they understand, in exactly the way that produces real change where it potentially makes the most difference -- in how we think about what it is we're doing. Really inspiring, and I'm not even a farmer.
Wow. I really appreciated this ! I was raised on a farm and we lost it due nonpayment in 70's. This concept works for all scopes, slopes, and spaces.
Best lecture ever heard definitely buying his book
Woooow, Quite an addictive but educative video that one may not want to switch off before one completes it. I will certainly give it as an assignment to my students to watch.
Wow, am so glad to find this video. The speaker is very well spoken with good information. Much appreciated, thanks!
Most informative video on cover cropping I have seen in years. Gabe Brown is a treasure. Rock on and save the earth!
This was just absolutely fantastic. From beginning to end! Thank you!
Thank you very much Gabe Brown for your valuable information.
I'm only @ 16:14, and I know you never intended this, but you have helped remind me that adversity is a means for God to bring about a new work. I have been up and down in my battle for my health, it's been rough; sometimes I feel like I've been pellted by that monstrous hail, but like you, I can't quit. I may think about it, but there's too much at stake. The farmer waits patiently for his harvest and for the former and later rains-- he's done all he can do. And so, I'll wait patiently for my health as I am doing all I can do. The Lord will bring the rain that brings the harvest. Thank you, Gabe!
This is one of the most informative videos I've watched on TH-cam. You have changed my perspective on soil and, thanks to your son's population observations, how the life cycles of insects allow one to dominate a portion of the year. Fascinating. Thank you!
Fantastic education. I'm not a farmer but an focussed on improving my soil and gradually creating a food forest in my urban back garden here in the uk. I learnt loads here. Thank you.
Absolute gold. DON'T SKIP ANYTHING.
I’d love to see you in person if you ever get to Houston,Texas. We just bought a property in Hockley, Texas. I love the idea of having land and was thrilled when we got this property. The back yard/pasture gets run-off from all the other properties around us. So we have crevasses from the flow of the water. We also have hard compacted sandy soil. I’m trying to figure out how to absorb some of that run off so my soil will get healthier. I’m just not sure how to start if I can’t disturb the soil that’s so hard. I’ll keep doing more research. This was excellent. I knew this deep down. I knew I had to find something to grow to improve my soil… and seeing this video validated what I just knew was the right thing to do. Thank you.
The best presentation I’ve heard on this issue by far!
Excellent presentation!
The second he admitted that he didn't know re purchasing Fungi I knew I was listening to an intelligent man. Super interesting and can't wait to experiment
Gabe brown needs his own TH-cam channel! I use most of his strategies in my arizona backyard permaculture garden I teach about on my channel. They work in the desert! The only thing I’m missing is a grazer but I “hand graze” my cover crops for green manure so it’s better than nothing. Thanks for teaching me more than I learned in Ag science in college!
I agree! I subbed to your channel too! Awesome advice for Arizona!
You are blessed with this kind of knowledge because you never gave up even if you failed. You are an amazing person, thank you for sharing this video
My heart longs for this life. i grew up in rural Scotland, I moved to the city in my late teens. God I miss th countryside. Ive converted our dining room into a Micro farm!! I grow allsorts, Some in soil some in water. Ive had peppers 50cm long! One day I shall buy a plot of land!
Get the land. I've been amazed what some do on even 1/8 acre. I have 1/2 acre and it takes a lot of time to use it all effectively, some 150 productive trees, bushes, vines, etc. and a lot more room even with some 80 ft. established redwoods and other big trees.
I'm saving for my little patch to tend too ☺️ city dwelling allotmenteer ☺️
You don’t have to own the land you farm on!
I'll let you use mine. My wife and I just bought a farm because we wanted out of the city, we have big plans, but we also have more than we need at the moment. I won't even charge you lease. Come grow.
@@highoctain113 oh I envy you, I look everywhere for the opportunity to farm on someone's land, since I don't have any of my own. The opportunity just hasn't arisen... Yet. I will continue my search. This girl was meant to be a farmer. I try to give vegetable plants to everyone and teach them how to grow. Sadly, most decline even taking the plants home with them. We all must learn to grow food, for one day it will not be at the grocery store anymore.
Love 💘this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏. I am humbled by your words about how we can learn this at warp speed. I am more then excited to embrace the renewable farmers farm 🚜 🌽 🍍🍋🥒🫑🌶🍅🍇🥔🍄🧄🥑🙆♂️👨🌾
Fantastic information! Very well articulated as well, easy for folks to understand that are clueless to the process. They should teach kids this in school. These simple principles can reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the air. It can produce more nutrient packed healthier food and more of it. Job security for our friend the farmer and that's always a good thing. Excellent video thanks so much for sharing!!!
This is a fascinating and informative lecture, really useful. Thank you to all those who made this information available
I'm not a large-scale farmer. I am a gardener in the Sheyenne Valley. My soil is almost pure clay so all my garden soil is in raised beds. It is all made from composted leaves and grass clippings. However I have been pulling out all the organics in the fall and tilling. It packs like cement! I will be doing some experimenting next spring.
born and raised in the city. your reaching us. thank you
This is gold- I don’t even farm. Thank you.
Excellent presentation. Dr. Brown, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. We surly will need it in the now and future farming.
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Absolutely excellent presentation! Thanks!
Congratulations Gabe, all very good and clear. Warmest greetings from Paraguay!
Soil profile at 37:00 is literally right where Gabe stated if you go back and listen to the beginning.
This is very good, wish farmers here in Pa would listen to this.
bret354 there r farmer's doing it in PA
Be the farmer in your area who has listened and learned then.
Being such a charismatic guy he really makes learning fun.😁👌
Another great presentation from Gabe ! - thanks guys !
I’m only an hour in and my mind is blown. Amazing information here!
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Not only highly intelligent but absolutely adorable!
Thank you for publishing this. Looking forward to the other part, if you have it.
Solid stuff. Thanks for the vid and y'alls time! Learning much his should have been taught in school. Public schools are a waste of time.
I love this! I accidentally found this video a long time ago and stumbled upon it again, watched the whole thing. Its 👍
This is the entire point of farming. Self sufficiency and being independent. Glad you caught on.
Excellent presentation. I hope all the farmers are adopting these organic practices. It’s about profits, not yield. To adopt an old phrase from sales and applied to farming, would be, “you can’t fold up yield and put it in your pocket.”
An excellent book for everyone to read, from farmers, to home gardeners, is “Teaming With Microbes,” by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. It goes over everything this man is talking about: Soil science.
this video is ust so awesome! I am tearing up watching this, this is exactly the same as what they're promoting in permiculture!
I'm not sure there is a lot of permaculture guys who has 2000 acres of crop land and has fields of 50 acres with the same crop.
However principles of permaculture are found in every example of how he changed his approach to agriculture so whether any of us, including him, consider him a permaculturalist or not is a moot point.
You should check out Mark Shepard and Joel Salatin too.
Permaculture is all about guilds and diversity mixing as many plants as possible.. If he has one plant on fields of acres that is MONOCULTURE not Permaculture, that is what Permaculture is completely against. Permaculture is as much diversity as you possibly possibly can.. Look at the Permaculture principals, ''Use and value diversity''.
Nothing more boring than a dogmatic permie. Permaculture is 'all about' those things is it? Reckon you've grown some lettuce and eaten some kale and now you're gonna tell us all how it is.
Listening to this while driving through western nodak.
People are finally beginning to become humble and realize that Mother Nature knows what she is doing much better than we do. Much better , in fact, that we will ever be able to do. Trust her and she will take care of you as well as the earth.
Thank you so much. This lecture goes to my favorite file. Very informative 👏 👌 👍
very captivating presentation. you should make more such videos with practical presentation. great job.
Another almost random click that turned out to be fascinating and rewarding.
I have never farmed or grown my own food, and it is unlikely that I will ever farm, although I plan to move to a house with some land around it so I can grow some veg. I have seen a good number of videos of this nature here on YT, and this certainly ranks among those I would recommed.
Thank you.
1:20:06 Oh, I would bet good money the did it on purpose.
This is the most amazing video! I have been seeking validating info.This educates on a high level!
At about 1:35:00 one guy asked about going from perennial to annual(vegetable) without tillage. Mow or crimp... Wait a week and mow again... As low as possible. Then cover w/black tarp for 3 weeks in warm-hot days. Then plant into the resulting dead mulch. No till, not chemicals.
OMG this one was and it is an amazing video, beyond my expectations, subjects not cover in other videos. Thank you for sharing your wisdom even thought I will use it in my home garden.
This was a very interesting video! Thank you!
what an exceptionally informative talk. Thank you so much for sharing such valuable information, this is truly priceless
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This was an amazing presentation, thank you!
Yes ! fantastic Presentation, Thanks so much for sharing !!!
The first two pictures just before 40 minutes ARE the same soil sample, but I don't that that was a deliberate slip-up. Very good presentation, and I'm learning so much!
I love this video, but funny thing is at 38:13 it shows two two different pictures of the same soil sample and he says "You'd swear that's the same sample". I'm sure it was a mistake, i just couldn't resist.
Look closely at the roots in the pictures, they are not the same soil sample. although they are very similar unhealthy soils made from the same parent material because they are geologically close to each other.
It indeed is the same soil. I hope that it is just his mistake and not some kind of manipulation. The same soil photographed from a slightly different angle and it looks like the photo on the left have been manipulated, photoshoped, squashed in height. It is clear. Look at the leaf in the upper right corner and the shape of lightshine on the tip of it. Now take a look at the same thing on next photo.
@@TS-vr9of yes indeed they are the same. One is photoshopped
@@billmcgubbins1476 lol, Ya'll are ridiculous. It's the same crop, sunflowers, but different pictures. If you can't tell that they're different then that's a personal issue with your eyes sight, not the slide. The angle of the straight edge on the shovel might make the picture look a little weird but they are both unphotoshoped.
I can't believe I watched all 2.5 hrs 😳
Exactly! :D you should finish this "treating the farm as an ecosystem" series and move on to "high bio-nutrient crop production" ( th-cam.com/video/im42xjLEk3A/w-d-xo.html ) 1 regenerative ag lecture a day keeps the chem salesmen away.
I can't believe I nodded our half way through..and yes it is really good not the speaker or subject's fault.. I am going to do a seconds viewing for the last half.
I think part 2 & 3 are even better.
Thank you! I'm so happy with your info now it clear what l have to do with my flower farm
I have been doing this for a while in my landscapes. Totally changes the soil for the better.