'From the Ground Up - Regenerative Agriculture'
Вставка
- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- Inspired by Charles Massy's best-selling book "Call of the Reed Warbler", filmmaker Amy Browne set out across the dry farming country of South East NSW to meet Massy and the other trailblazing farmers bringing new life to their land.
Regenerative agriculture is one of the most promising wide-scale environmental solutions. This short documentary is a comprehensive journey through a variety of landscapes and regenerative farming techniques.
'From the Ground Up' is a story of genuine change and inspiration - tracing the steps of individuals who transformed their practices following the life-changing realisation - that farmers have a unique opportunity to heal the planet.
Additional resources on regenerative agriculture:
TED Talks
- Allan Savory on "How to fight desertification and reverse climate change": www.ted.com/talks/allan_savor...
- Charles Massy on "How regenerative farming can help save the planet and human health": • How regenerative farmi...
Books:
"Call of the Reed Warbler - A New Agriculture, A New Earth" by Charles Massy
"The Biggest Estate on Earth - How Aborigines Made Australia" by Bill Gammage
"Back from the Brink - How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved" by Peter Andrews
I'm in the U.S. and I use regenerative agriculture on my small home farm. We have a 5,000 square foot garden, some chickens and a few sheep. We don't till our garden, we cover it with straw, and we don't use any pesticides (I try to bring in beneficial insects and animals to combat bad ones). We also graze our sheep the way the video speaks about. We learned from Greg Judy. And our chickens are super happy on their roughly 1/3 part of our acre pecking away happily at all the bugs and soaking up sunshine. It makes my heart happy to see how beautiful it is when we live with nature rather than fight it. It is very rewarding.
Around 10:00 thank you so much for your supportive words regarding under 5 acre farms worked by women. Sometimes I feel really small, useless, or ridiculous, since rather than seeking a wage, I assist my family by growing as much food as possible on our tiny lot. The more I improve the fertility of our land, tho, the more I approach that 70% of our family food supply figure. Really helped me improve my self esteem, thanks.
Love Cat, you are amazing. That you would experience low self esteem regarding your focus of raising food for your family is astounding to me. You have a healthy focus, contrasted with so many who just keep chasing more dollars with more consumption and more debt in an endless loop. Keep doing what you're doing! You will be your family's savior. You may also stumble upon a way to leverage your passion for growing your family's food into a profitable venture as well, which would really blow your family's minds, wouldn't it? It's amazing what people like Urban Farmer Curtis Stone, Joel Salatin, On The Grow or What The Fungus have learned about turning passion for self-sustainability into profits. Good luck, and keep your head up! You're doing important work!
love cat you are wonderful. Many years ago in the 80's I did the same on a 3 acre farm. I had five small children and my husband worked in town. So many ppl thought I should go and get a job. But I kept saying my job is my farm. We managed to provide ourselves with all our milk through goats. We had chickens and a huge vege garden that grew just about anything due to the red soil. I miss it terribly. And now live on a quarter acre in town. I decided that I would have a farm anyway so have chickens quails and grow as much as we can.
You are an inspiration! Thank you for doing what you are doing.
Wow thanks so much for all of these kind words!!!
love cat great good on you ,keep it up. Good luck
This documentary is just lovely! My dad and I are working to turn our sheep farm into one run regeneratively to reverse all the damage done by our ancestors, and even in a small time we've seen the effect of it all, its just amazing
That’s amazing Rey! I would love to learn how you did it :) can I give you an email or something ?
Wonderful to hear that you are turning your place around! These practises need to spread and you are doing your part.
Just started doing this on my farm. I only have one cow but i sectioned of one acre into 5 parts for my cow to graze each section for one week, which will give all the others one full month of rest in between grazing. Still need to work out some kinks but my grass is looking much better.
ABADDON 247 good shit
Are the others chickens or goats?
I am Curious the “others” would be the section of land that isn’t getting grazed by my cow. As I move the cow from one section to the other, the cow won’t be able to graze the last section he was on. Each section gets grazed for one week so the first section will get 4 weeks by the time the cows is done grazing the 5th section. But I do have chickens that follow the cow scratching up his poop.
@@abaddon2479 oh, thanks. I'm looking to try something like this myself. Probably on a larger scale tho with chickens and goats as well
@@Demon_Lord_Coom wish you good luck with your farm. Happy farming
This should be mandatory viewing all around the globe!
Amen.
👏🌍🌳🐂
I agree
Torchwood Pride
Alas even when the evidence is staring them in the face some people will not even look at it let alone consider it. Example the current cretin in the White House.
Yes!!
need so many more farmers like this in australia. the droughts wouldnt be so bad.
droughts are mother natures way of telling useless and stupid farmers to piss off
@@flodjod lol not if the government throws 1b at the farmers.
The level of ignorance needed to think this way is mind-boggling. Without water there is no regenerative farming. Not the other way around. Omfg
Richard Watts. I think the farmers that have embraced this process, have done it in a way to preserve the the precious little water they have left. I’m sure they know without rainfall or water that this is useless. I am no expert but I can see merit from what they are doing.
Ben Costanzo see those hills in the background? That’s how you know this is close to the dividing range, and therefor the coast. There is no regenerative farming without reliable water resources. Farmers who do regenerative farming are doing it for marketing reasons, or they’re terrible farmers.
I love the final sentiment. That nature doesn't compete, nature cooperates.
Cooperation is a competitive advantage
Sweet summer child
@@michaelharder9737 Guess that's true bit sounds a bit harsh this way ... it's still cooperation.
It's true but only some of the time. When a lion eats an antelope it's not cooperation. Many plants compete for soil nitrogen as well.
Hhahahahha nature is as capitalistic as it gets.
Thank you to all who have stepped out of line and help start this process of change.
It does my heart food to see this awakening happening around the world! The scale at which I practice regenerative agriculture is tiny compared to these big cattle operations, but the philosophy is the same. Act like a honey bee, not a locust. Improve the conditions for all life while we gather our food, rather than strip mining every bit of value and leaving a trail of death. Great video. Thank you!
Radical Gastronomy “act like a honey bee, not a locust”. Love it. And good on you. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Andrew Ostrom Thank you. I’m trying my best to live up to the ideal. I’ve been documenting it on my blog, and now on UA-cam. It’s not just a better way to eat, but a better way to live, I’m finding.
Every little bit counts Radical!!
The Ripe Tomato Farms that’s right. Little dots of repair will spread.
Good words to hear! Thanks
That's the hardest part, changing the mindset of farmers.
Loved being transported to the farm with these guys..
I’m so happy to see regenerative farmers in Australia. We can buy food that’s alive. This gives me hope. Thank you. 😍😍.
Beautiful, logical, wise. These are the people truly saving our planet.
This is the kind of films we need more of! Thank you!
Just beautiful. Really hoping this will completely replace industrial farming.
I believe it needs to and it shall. Workin on plans to implement it currently. It'll be a slow process but eventually all agriculture will be a Fractal of small farms all interconnected...wind powered de Sal plants pumping water for extra irrigation to maintain a healthy water table! One turbine can de Sal and pump a lot of water.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS THIS INFORMATION!!! ITS WORTH MORE THAN PRICELESS DIAMONDS AND JEWELS!!!
🌳🌳🌳HELP SAVE THE PLANET🌳🌳🌳
❤️❤️❤️ECOSIA - www.ecosia.org❤️❤️❤️
🌼🌼🌼THE SEARCH ENGINE THAT PLANT TREES🌼🌼🌼
Fantastic video. That platypus looked extremely happy splashing around. Loved it.
Just don't try to touch the male!---they sting!
I'm beyond thrilled to hear this change is coming .... a fundamental change is what will save nature and as a byproduct us .
Thanks to all my fellow farmers and stewards of the land out there 🤘
These are the people who are guiding the way for future regeneration. If we started shifting over to something more like this in more places, the impact would be phenomenal. People need to learn about this because I think this will have to be very prominent in the next few decades
Few years, we don't have decades
I teach people to make and use biochar. My blog at theotherfishwrap.blogspot.com has six posts from about two years ago that detail the process. They are easy to find because they each have a one word title that begins with the letter "M".
Thank you to those who are reasoning and making the changes back to what is natural. May blessings be returned to you 100 times over.
This is a great high-quality video that does a very good job explaining Regenerative Agriculture. Thanks to all involved!
There is nothing to explain. It’s all lies and falsehoods. Completely not backed by science, as it is not replicable or repeatable. End all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. That’s the only way to then focus of the sequestration of carbon, and the cleaning up o the cesspools and reservoirs of filth and disease that emerge from the animal populations in the animal agriculture industry, as well.
There are a lot of videos on UA-cam about the regeneration of sub fertile and even infertile land. This is the first one I’ve seen where it goes into detail about how it’s all being regenerated. And that is very refreshing to see.Keep producing more videos just like this, Fantastic!
Check out how David Bamberger regenerated 5,000 acres using grasses.
I would like it for governments to spend money on regenerating soil fertility and making land available to let more people start small farms adopting a permaculture style.
Wow it does make so much sense to pay attention to how these vast herds in nature function.
Incredible, thank you. I've been reading and researching so much about regenerative agriculture and love seeing the farmers talk first hand.
Could you please recommend some good practical literature? I would like to start applying these kind of techniques in the next few years.
@@wilks4994 Hey there. If you go through the comment section and replies, you are will find a lot of reading suggestions and quite a few links to other information that is full of thoughtful facts and ideas on how to move forward with regeneration our planet for the better.
Radical Gastronomy is a small UA-camr who has some information.
I can write a list of all information pertaining to that which you seek.
I hope that helps.
I wish this philosophy on regenerating soils would be soon applied all over the planet. Wise agricultors. Thank you for caring for al of us including the animals.
My dad was born on a farm in 1908 in Carroll county Maryland and what they are calling regenerative farming is how my dad described life on the farm growing up.
I’m happy to see farmers adopt these practices, especially seeing this practice is not new all the way from ancient Israel
Lets get regenerative agriculture as a subject is schools - its that impactful! Good work on this!
Fabulous film with an extremely accessible explanation of regenerative agriculture practices and farming in ways that sustain water, soil, vegetation and, importantly, communities. Congratulations Amy Browne.
I was mesmerized by the positive message - by the prospects. The effects can be felt from here and I'm in England. Mark
I get really excited when watching programmes such as this, knowing we have people really passionate people showing how we can make our land better,thank you.
This is the most positive thing I've watched about how to use and heal the land at the same time. So wonderful to see it becoming more commonly used. Really wonderful.
Wonderful to see regeneration of the land and sharing with the world 🌿💚
This gives me hope for our struggling farmers. Let’s get this out there for them to see.
Thank God people are find solutions to earth problems. We a creative beings our maker have given us that ability.
How wonderful. It's news like this and changes in agriculture that will help me die in peace. I am worried sick for my grandchildren
I am still young.
I teach people how to make and use biochar. It is a technology older than written language and signals the beginning of the Anthropocene. It is only the last hundreds and fifty years or so that we have made terrible mistakes, the vast spread of human history, we did good for the environment, this is one way people are showing how to do it! Sequestering is easier than most people imagine and with modern retort technologies and machines that were unimaginable nine thousand years ago, we can make electricity and/or heat homes while making char, the first step along the process of creating biochar.
I salute you all for what you’re doing, it’s about time to give something back to the land, so everything around it will prosper again..... Thank You ... Very, very much!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the advice. I have spend the last year using these principles in my Arizona garden to regenerate my backyard. They really work!
I absolutely love this ❤️ it's my life goal to be able to get some land and live a self sustainable life myself... I don't need nearly this much land tho, just a normal yard for a permaculture garden.
I feel the same way. I'm slowly working toward that goal, learning skills in my suburban area that I can take with me once I sell my home.
Best of luck to both of you 👍😃
@@pseudonayme7717 I don't believe in luck; however, I appreciate the sentiment.
Make sure you get land in a high rainfall area because this won’t work without water
Check out Paul Wheaton's UA-cam channel, the man is one prolific permie 😸
These are the folks that we need to save civilization from itself.
These examples are very positive, and seem quite do-able. The mention of "leaky weirs" is also very important. This process of slowing the water without stopping it is exactly what beaver do, both in North America and Eurasia. It keeps the water table high, and allows vigorous growth from riparian vegetation.
Seems like a great idea if you live in an area where people aren’t trying to sue you because fish can’t get through
@@johnmartinez6676 I suspect that Probably the 2 biggest hurdles to Regenerative farming/Ranching is the government and colleges. At least that's what it seems like here in the USA. On a side note, I'm a simple man,I don't have any fancy degree and I don't believe in evolution or other such stuff. However I believe we can learn alot by watching Gods creation more closely. Not that we need to become animals, but that we can learn how better to manage what God gave us. People Produced food for a long time before we had chemicals and some people like Greg Judy among others have learned to do it again.
The ground is also able to absorb the excess carbon as well. Healthy ground sucks up as much CO2 as the ocean.
No, ocean stores more. But Allan Savory suggests that if more carbon is stored in the ocean it's gonna be too acidic for the fauna. The Ground solution is still perfect enough.
Isn't it funny that the term 'grassroots' is giving hope in both the realms of natural and cultural regeneration?
PURE LOVE FOR GOOD HUMANS STEWARDING EARTH.
This is almost mimicking nature, I love it
It is an attempt to exactly mimick nature.
Just read a great book called 'Cows Save the Planet' by Judith D. Schwartz. I'd definitely recommend it, it covers and expands on a lot of similar ground to this film. UK farmers definitely need to pay attention to this stuff, since there's so much monoculture here and crops are getting worse.
Have you read "Wilding" by Isabella Tree? It's about saving a typical intensive farming estate from bankruptcy by allowing large parts of the estate to revert to nature and stocking native breeds which are left to cope by themselves. As in the video, naturally wet areas are allowed to flood annually, reducing flood damage elsewhere and replenishing the meadows.
The yields are higher, there's no fertilizer costs, everything is organic ( meaning premium product) and there's hardly any veterinary input. Not only is the business now a success but the area has become an oasis for rare breed birds and insects.
All this in West Sussex.
Charles Massey's book was the most hopeful book I read this year. I really wanted to see the farms and the farmers he spoke about. This is great!
May this sweep the world.
Stop being stock managers and becoming land managers...
Stop becoming land managers?
not as great as it sounds.....they usually just want money
@@joshuabradshaw6355 It was a quote from Massy in the beginning. Massy is saying that his main focus is soil health.
@@moihawk666 huh?
Over here in Cape Town, South Africa I started my suburban veggie patch garden in August 2021, being a pensioner with very little money, I dug up the Kikuya grass and made cement slab barriers, covered the soil with cardboard and cut holes in the cardboard to put in my seeds. I have had a great harvest since then and earth worms are on the increase with very little compost. The veggie scraps I turn into the compost I use, as well as grass clippings. I also planted some trees, that are still small. Strong winds are a problem at the moment, but I will figure something out.
Yes, Take care of the land, and the land will take care of you!
Spiritual this is the word everyone is looking for
So glad I found you! Saving destruction by working with nature's wisdom! You are Earth's angels! My heart rejoices! Thankyou for your good actions. I hope they go viral! 🙏🏽🌎
I've seen this story somewhere else before and I'm so happy it's being put out there again- just so important!! Especially right now in the world and Australia it seems
I still have faith in humanity.
Truly brilliant! Well done keep spreading the word! Environment care and specifically soil care is the true essence of creating a sustainable future for us all. My garden isn’t the prettiest in the street by any means, however, our soil is now certainly the best. It has taken years of giving nature a gentle hand In regenerative practices and has well been worth the effort to have healthy root systems in soil teeming with life.
Go Mr. Allen Savory and the Savory institute!
New Mexico could really use this
So powerful and beautiful. Thank you for the film and to these amazing farmers.
Add 25% treed landscape. Good luck guys and hats off to you :)
This is genius. Thanks for recording it. It will surely help future generations get on the right track.
These farmers are providing the answers - great showcase - glad we could play a small part. Keep on growing the love.
Charles Massey! Loving his book, great work guys.
Great taster for Charles' even greater book!
i like how they point out that they´re not just improving their soil, but also save a ton of money - that will convince other farmers, who might not care about diversity but sure as heck care about their pocket book!
God bless you folks
what a fantastic film which does this marvellous book justice. i recommend anyone to also read Call of the Reed Warbler!
This should be replicated wherever possible
What an awesome story, totally agree, we are going the same way but not there yet. Thankyou
I'm glad we're making the effort now for times ahead but we need to look back in time and try to learn from the ancient aboriginals. We need to relearn the old aboriginal way of regenerative farming, The way the land was farmed for 1000's of years before we came. No they didn't have any farm animals like we see today but if we were able to call upon their knowledge of the land and try to mix it with our knowledge of agriculture we could of had a better way to farm and still give back to the soil.
The simple ideas are often the best. Thanks for sharing.
Working paddock systems is something we’ve been doing in Ireland for years particularly in the dairy sector. Never knew it was a holistic way of farming
A lot (if not all) dairy farms in Australia regularly practice rotational grazing. It's far more profitable and better for the land.
Phil, yes we used to do paddock grazing for our milk cows in the seventies. But no way is that holistic. Regenerative paddock grazing is different altogether. They use “mob grazing”. Watch Gabe Brown on UA-cam to see how it’s done
Miles Thom to my understanding mob grazing is where you put enough livestock into an area of ground to graze it within a day or so. That’s what we do most dairy farms work a 24 hour grazing system moving cows to fresh paddocks every 24 hours and a rotation of 21-28 days from when a paddock is grazed till it is grazed again. We try to run a 36 hour grazing on an average of a 26 day rotation on our own farm. If your interested head over to my channel and look for my video “a guide to our grassland management “
@@FARMERPHIL3690 As well as the rotational element, regenenerative grazing also involves growing the pasture taller, ensuring the animals only eat the top half of the pasture at any one time, using a much more diverse pasture, plus no superphosphate or urea (because they inhibit soil ecology).... I'm in NZ and all the dairy farmers practice rotational grazing, but it is not regenerative at all. But we're working to change that!
Kama Burwell depending how you define ‘taller pastures’, only grazing a plant to half high is potentially not the most effective use of the plant in terms of being benifical for the cow, being profitable and growing healthy pastures.
Daughter tillers need sunlight and if you’re leaving behind too much residual, you’re shading those tillers from growing at their maximum potential.
How wonderful. Many blessings.
God bless and protect all true farmers and ranchers everywhere on Earth.❤🌞
Awesome. Thank you for
making this video. So inspirational
Bravo and thank you!
Thank you. May we heal ourselves, our land, each other.
That was beautiful!
Legendary.
Magnifique ! Merci pour cet démonstration du "Tout est Possible" !
Love this guys. Fantastic work! The stories need to be told.
I get so frustrated when my vegan daughter says that she doesn't want to harm animals. But is happy to eat products grown on mono culture fields that are intensively farmed by huge corporations, who have no connection to the land and no care for our shared planet. Thanks for the film. I also liked 10,000 beating hearts.
Thank you for sharing this video!
Wonderful! Thank You..Blessings
Very well done in only 13 minutes! It covers animal management, vegetable production, hope to challenge droughts, shows obvious good results, empowers farmers by showing it is a rewarding job, and suggest non farming people what they can do: they can relate to their food providers more directly, and they can also start to produce some of their own.
Just great! Very well explained, thank you!
Great piece! Thank you for the work and inspiration!
I am thankful that they have caption. Took me a while to realise that.
But these guys are doing what's needed. Keep up the great work. 👍🏽
Great to see this happening in Australia
Keep showing others what you are doing. Excellent work.
Thank you.
A fantastic and much needed effort to fix our problems.
Farmers are our lifeblood. We can all unite, all people, all professions, to take care of our planet, economy, family friends and society. We must do it together.
Great video! Thanks!
It must be good to know when you have done so much good - And benefited from it at the same time.
That's the wonder of ecology. Life on earth is fine tuned to prosper cooperatively. An ecosystem IS cooperation between organisms. We ignore this at our own peril.
Thank you. This is what I want. I’m taking Allan Savory’s course. I want to be livestock farming for a very long time.
Amazing video, excellent pictures and profoundly motivating
Thank you
This is wonderful! ❤
This is great, then it got better @ 12:49 when he said my favorite word -- cooperation!💗💕
if you have a chance, please read Dr. Bruce Lipton's Book 'The Biology of Belief' ... actual evolution is explained by this ... unfortunately Charles Darwin didn't live long enough to modify his famous quote 'the survival of the fittest' to 'the survival of the fittest and most co-operative'!
@@keithnajar5802 I appreciate your generous recommendation, and I'll look into it. However, I must confess that I'm a steadfast creationist.😃 In all fairness, I don't think Darwin coined that phrase, I think someone else did. Darwin borrowed it, and in so doing, may have put his own spin on it, because human knowledge/philosophy is ever changing; rarely static.💗