Rebuilding our Soils - Keith Berns
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2024
- Rebuilding our depleted soils can seem like a monumental task. Join Green Cover co-founder Keith Berns as he looks at the example of Nehemiah, who also faced a daunting task in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. By following Nehemiah's example of leadership and by implementing the six truths of biograce, we can accomplish more for our soils than we might think. Keith presented this talk at the Regenerative Nexus Event in Omaha Nebraska in January of 2024.
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So thankful for your videos!
Keith,
This is an excellent presentation. I truly admire your boldness for the gospel of Jesus Christ coupled with your God-given passion for His soils. You demonstrate strong leadership capabilities, and I appreciate your willingness to share them with us. This is by far my favorite video on UA-cam.
Thank you for these kind and encouraging words! We very much appreciate it!
God said "dress this garden and be happy" we've been undressing Mother earth for a long time
Fewer Rains but bigger storms....is occurring BECAUSE OUR FIELDS arent storing enough water....to "fix" the hydrological cycle that PRODUCES more smaller rain events.
Greenery produces more rain. Rainforests, for example. Evaporation and condensation.
More greenery, more rain.
I have never heard a mention of biochar in any of your presentations. From what I have heard it seems like the perfect addition to this whole system. What is your thoughts on biochar?
It is an excellent source of carbon and its huge surface area makes it a good "home" for biology. I think it can be a good product of you have access to good quality char at a fair price. Be careful not to apply too much or it can get the C:N ratio of the system out of balance. I would also "charge" my char with biology by spraying some sort of compost extract on the char before applying it.
@@keithberns910 I am on year 2 of using it on my deer food plots at 2yds /acre and going to no till.
According to John Kempf (at AEA), biochar benefits peak at around 25 pounds per acre. Biochar takes time to get incorporated into the soil, so multiple applications of biochar over time might increase it's effectiveness. The Amazon biochar soils have lots more "char" in it (tons per acre)...and that stuff is perfection.
@@larrysiders125 lbs/acre? My supplier recommended 1 to 2 yds per acre according to the university testing on his char.
Have you got the slightest idea of how to scale up biochar production to make even a modest dent in the erosion problem, even if adding biochar is a solution? Which it isn't. The known solution is multi species green cover during the entirety of the growing season and cover left in place over the winter months. Maximum photosynthesis via multiple plant families leads to maximum long term soil carbon with the attendant benefits of good soil structure and in soil water reservoirs which with the plant armor in place means no erosion from wind or rain. Doable. Has been done on large scale (thousands of hectares) and is being done by increasing numbers of farmers and land managers. Meanwhile a few hippies are tending a fire trying to make biochar for the backyard garden.
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Many state constitutions address land patents, even post Lincoln, but I don't know any farmer that has one and most don't know what they are. The loss of land patents was the loss of property rights. Everything since is a rent from the attorneys.
Rest for a year is understood as soil rest every sunday. Which equals 52 days a years. Multiply 7 yrs by: 52 x 7 = 364 days which equals a year. 😃
Keith Berns six fundamental truths of BioGrace?
1) Solar energy is free and plants are the best way to capture it.
2) Carbon is not a problem - Its free food for plants and biology.
3) Nitrogen is free and abundant.
4) Soils are rich in plant nutrients and minerals.
5) Soil biology makes the system bigger, faster, stronger.
6) Water is essential to all life and the process.
"I dont know about climate change so im going to avoid that discussion"
Spends 90 minutes talking about how to save our planet/soil from humans destroying it.
The most political thing to do to a topic is to call something political
you lost me a minute into the sermon. admire your work with healing the misdeeds of greedy folks selling "product" at the expense of all life on this grand planet.
Sorry I was rude. I changed it.
Whether you believe in God and His Creation or not, the fact remains that sunlight, carbon, nitrogen, minerals, and water are given to us and in order to be the most profitable, we need to fully utilize these "gifts" within our system. And even if you do not believe in the Bible, Nehemiah is a historical character and is a great example of a humble leader that accomplished much because he understood how to work with and inspire people. Excellent lessons to be learned all around. I would encourage you to watch it again strictly from a historical and biological point of view...
I came here to hopefully learn something new, not go to church, see? I`m trying to quickly improve soil on my new lot with only 1 to 3 inches of weak topsoil on hard packed red "bedrock" type stuff. I`ve only been improving the soil in my small garden space for just under a year by starting with beans/peas/greens suited to my region and some okra, squash, cucumbers, and sunflowers, and I mulched with pine straw and fresh grass clippings.
About 7 weeks ago I started adding chopped mowed over leaves and more grass clippings, piles of pine straw, and I`ve started hauling in leaf mold, rotted stump powder, and the mulch and soil in the forest where leaves collected and decomposed. I put small amounts of the forest soil and leaf mold over the piles and rows of leaves and grass then burned some pine straw on top, added a small amount of urine a few times, inoculated it with organic mulch with 20 microorganism types, then covered it in pine straw to hold in moisture.
I keep it wet if it doesn`t rain. Just the thick cover crop of vining Southern peas made a big difference in many areas, turning the soil black and loamy and adding some depth. Before spring planting I`m clearing the surface pests by burning a 3 to 5 inch layer of leaves and pine straw to improve PH and calcium and other minerals. Plants will be mulched with more green grass clippings, pine straw, and small amounts of chopped leaves, plus extra leaf mold forest compost soil sprinkled in the layers.@@keithberns910
@@baneverything5580 Sounds like you are doing a lot of good things to build your soil... Do you know what the pH of your soil is? I would be a bit concerned about lowering the pH too much with too much pine straw. Keep adding the organic material and keep plants growing as much as possible. Do you have any plants growing through the winter time?
Our Louisiana soil is in the acid range usually around 4.8 to 5. I sprinkled a small amount of fast acting lime pellets over the soil before a recent rainy period. I`m saving about a pound of it to mix in mounds I`m planting dwarf mulberry trees in when the weather warms. I have four celeste fig trees on the way too and I`m trying two pineapple guava. Beets didn`t grow but I have nearly 1/4 pound of those seeds. Onions are growing properly though and okra did well enough. I`m gonna mix up my own soil blend and grow a tiny patch of those and some of those little round Parisian carrots in that. I did buy 5000 Danvers Half Long seeds to try in the garden but I`m gonna have to make more Parisian seeds. Those were expensive for a tiny amount.
I grew radishes, turnips, and huge mustard greens this winter but pines shade most of the direct sun in mid winter so only the huge mustard green plants did well, but I did get radishes and smaller sized turnips to eat raw. The turnip eoots are growing faster now. Soon I`m gonna burn a 3 or 4 inch layer of pine straw and leaves to reduce the pests living in it that keep nibbling on my radish and turnip greens and that will add nutrients. @@keithberns910
I`ve been testing small amounts of the garden soil and the soil/leaf mold mix from the woods by planting seedlings in it and playing around with the PH and nutrient levels to help me figure out more about it. Arugula will turn purple if the PH is too acid, so it`s a great indicator, and I calibrated my cheap test strips using it. So I`m slowly changing the soil in the garden with small amounts of limestone pellets and ash which will add calcium and trace minerals too. I`ll get it close enough eventually.
Once I get it healthy it will be able to regulate the PH itself with soil fungi I believe. Right now there isn`t enough life in the soil yet. It was the worst soil I`ve ever seen anywhere. Just hard to believe how bad the people before damaged it. I`ve never encountered a situation like this in Louisiana so it was a real big disappointment when I discovered it at planting time last February after moving here to stay the autumn before. @@keithberns910
Enough of the god crap
I believe that you missed the whole point! Maybe listen to the presentation again, with an open mind. Bless you.
Hey Kieth hope you or someone else can answer this question regarding free soil nitrogen fixing bacteria. Beings they can only fix about 40lbs what happens when one adds another 40lbs of other nitrogen whether it is chicken manure or synthetic nitrogen. Some of my research suggests these bacteria will only work to fix nitrogen if there is no other source and if therefore the additional 40lbs that got added will basically void out the 40lbs they would have fixed themselves at the expense of soil carbon as it’s energy source
@@timshirk6261 there is more to n cycling going other than n fixing bacteria, the addition of high nitrate n just disrupts the natural process, as it shuts it down, and puts the f:b/c:n out of balance
@@charlesdevier8203 I didn't finish listening, I became tired of skipping through the irrelevance
Read the video description. It says pretty clearly that this is going to use a book from the Bible as means of understanding the task of rebuilding soils. If that bothers you, move on. There are plenty of other videos on this channel, and elsewhere, that hardly mention faith at all. Insulting other people because of your own beliefs is rude and disrespectful. I, for one, appreciate these kinds of videos because they offer new perspectives.