How regenerative farming can help heal the planet and human health | Charles Massy | TEDxCanberra
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2024
- Regenerative agriculture is an ecological approach to agriculture that enables natural systems & functions to not just be renewed, but also to do the renewing: to self-organise back to healthy function, a radical idea of empowering and not controlling nature. In this talk, Charlie Massy OA draws on his decades of farming experience and research to propose new ways of farming that don't harm the land and the planet in the way industrial agricultural practices can. Along the way, he shares some of his own personal journey of learning and change, and explains how he came to be the regenerative farming advocate he is today. Charles gained a BSc in Zoology at ANU (1976), before going farming and developing a prominent Merino sheep stud business (Severn Park). He still manages the family’s grazing property in NSW while teaching at universities and consulting in the fields of Merino breeding and landscape design. He has chaired and served as a Director on a number of national and international review panels and boards of business, research organisations and statutory wool bodies, involving garment manufacture, wool marketing, R&D, molecular genetics and genomics. Charlie’s concern about land degradation and the Anthropocene crisis led to him completing a PhD in Human Ecology (ANU) in 2012. This resulted in his new book, Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture - A New Earth (UQP Sept. 2017) concerning the emergence of a regenerative agriculture in Australia and cause for hope This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Amen Brother. American Farmers need to heed this.
Five years down the line and the message is made louder by those who have have the blessing of remembering the experiences of the 70s and the current. indeed we have taken the path to correct Nature rather than giving it the chance to help live on it happily and in health. We are the reasons for all our problems and yet in failing to acknowledge our mistakes we end up doing more harm. GOD gave us nature with all its abilities our role was not to change it but to maintain it sustainably driven by a desire to live happily and in good health. Thanks for the insights. Our minds needs a regeneration too.
Thank you Charles, you will be remembered.
We're getting there, I only hope it's not too late.
Really cant fathom the lack of views on these videos. Good on you mate, great talk.
because we live in hardcore capitalism and nobody has figured out how to make saving the planet profitable. 👍
@@WeAreCameron Actually, regenerative agriculture is incredibly profitable, more so than conventional farming since it doesn't cost much to do. When you don't have to buy a bunch of chemicals to make your crops or animals thrive, you can produce everything cheaply and make more selling it since there is a market for food that is grown this way, and people will pay more for it.
@@WeAreCameron The thing most of the hard core industrialists don't realise is that it actually saves money to do regenerative farming. The reason for that is obvious though. The profits are not immediate. It takes time to see the profit.
It is really quite simple, he called out industrial chemical companies. Talking badly about corporations is against youtube policy on the grounds of national security. (corporate security and national security are considered equivalent to youtube)
Richard Russ, really? I’ve been watching UA-cam videos about regenerative agriculture for a few months now, and I still haven’t gone through all the information here.
It's nice to hear that I'm not alone with these thoughts :). I will plant crocuses to help the pollinators with early spring food. Every little action counts.
Yes Anna Lena, think about year round pollen and nectar providers and the needs of long tongue, short tongue insects.
@@wobblybobengland Hi Bob, I' m learning. We have one bee here that must have a nest made of clay and wood spinters. The biologists are learning and have built these nests so now that bee is coming back :)
Preach! To empower nature is to empower each other!
Charlie for Prime minister. Answer is here!
Awesome - in the truest sense of the word.
I love it! The simple belief that production can benefit all who are involved is moving to me. For too long the discussion has been focused on the damage done rather than the options that are available. It takes bravery to encourage production as a solution. Well done!
Brilliant, and my conclusion after 30 years of immersing myself in Regenerative Farming Community Design, Permaculture and REALITY. Love this! ALOHA, Claire
Agree the solutions won't come from the big end of town, governments are only doing what they think is popular. Successful change comes from the bottom up not the top down and all farmers can make a huge difference in making the world a better place. I believe no problem is without a solution and the natural world offers us the answers for health, happiness and to fix the wrong we have done to our planet. Keep spreading the message.
I got goosebumps when he showed and talked about the Reed Warbler!
Fantastic to hear this topic explained so eloquently. Thank you Charles on behalf of our planet, for being open to learning and most of all to change. Also shows why we should listen to children...’from the mouths of babes...’ Aligns with Zach Bush MD teaching, thank goodness for people like you!
I am in the planning stages and with the help of the Department of Natural Resources I am a believer in REGENERATIVE GRAZING.
Excellent talk Charles. Yesterday I was reading Bucky Fuller’s eight general guidelines for securing a happy future for humanity. Here's No1, exactly what you are saying:
1. REALIGN WITH NATURE. Despite what we have been taught, it is not our role to dominate nature, but to live by her rules. Nature is never wrong. She wants us to succeed, but she does not depend on us. We are not her only experiment. If we fail to conform to her design integrities, she will sweep us aside like a bad case of fleas and start over. Nature’s design principles must guide all our decisions about how to live.
Avoid, sugar, grains and vegetable oils, Great presentation. Corporate farming, processing of foods and retailing of cheap processed food is the problem.
Hi.! I am from Costa Rica, que hermoso video y estoy convencido de que la agricultura regenerativa, muchas gracias por este video, les saludo desde un pais pequeño en territorio pero inmenso en Biodiversidad. Pura Vida
This approach should be mandatory throughout Australia 🌱 thank you for your work and passing on your knowledge
The only thing that needs to be mandatory is Aerated Compost Tea, which is what makes all of this possible.
Makes a whole lot of sense. Presented so well. I hope this gets everyone listening and learning.
Absolutely brilliant talk!
Great talk... the implications for revitalising small family run farms as a cornerstone of regenerating our soils, our farming practises and our country towns ! forget mining ,,,
no, the cornerstone of repairing soil is the Aerated Compost Tea. Absolutely nothing else matters.
@@ZennExile Please, put down the Kool-Aid and listen.
love this! thanks so much for sharing what you do and how we can help.
Thanks so much for sharing this VITAL message Charles. I am also reading your wonderful book "Call of the Reed Warbler". Given your last slide on what we can do, "source healthy food and nourish communities" and "love and nourish our planet", this message needs to go much further. I live in the suburbs, I don't own a farm, but I see this message is just as important to me and anyone else who cares about their and the planets health. For example, I do not wish to consume Glyphosate, I do not wish that on anyone ! People need to be more aware. I have pain points in my backyard for example which I would love to fix in an environmentally friendly way. Maybe if you read these comments, you can respond on this point.
Very much enjoyed your talk and your input into saving the planet and the future that we leave behind.hopfully many more farmers that are set in their ways of farming will change or even just put a padock aside to trail a differant farming metherd and or a differant produce..
Wow! I’m going to do a talk on this topic soon and I’m so impressed and inspired by who you did it! Love the work you’re doing!
unless your talk was about Aerated Compost Tea you wasted your breath.
I live in Georgia near the Okefenokee . The old timers would graze cattle among the long leaf pines after burning the woods
I've watched more than a dozen of similar videos on youtube and can't stop feeling angry about the lack of interest in the topics dealing with our survival on the planet. Apparently, keeping up with the Kardashians and Paris Hilton is more important for the majority of the UA-cam population
I feel like that sometimes, too. I just try to hold onto the truth that you don't need to have 100% buy-in , just a tipping point. I hope that helps.
Very few people think about the Kardashians and Paris Hilton. Return to reality. This stuff on the vid is mostly not on peoples attention.
Most people are passive. Wether it's scrolling through FB, or going into work. It takes something big to wake them up.
Also pair that with corporations that are greedy, and most people that complain about environmental issues, only do so because it's the popular thing, but they'll still be in their Land Rover at Starbucks the next day not giving a damn. It's going take quite a few of us to get this out there as the new "norm". And then people will catch on. Keep fighting folks 👌🔥
Start leading and doing. Thats enaugh
A really informative and well thought out explanation of how the planet can recover.
It completely ignores the most important part though. The Aerated Compost Tea which is basically the plankton of terrestrial habitats.
Both Regenerative Agriculture and Permaculture look like both the way to go and will have the largest impact on eventually getting ahead of the big Global Warming crisis. Lots of other things we need to do as well and this is why we need to be in a WWII-style emergency mode of action.
The bigger problem is whether or not the governments of the major industrialized, historical high emitting countries of the west for lack of a better term actually agree to go into emergency mode.
Not much time left before this move has to be made or we'll all be toast, eventually.
Thank you Charles for putting it out there we can actually feed the world with regenerative approaches
Nope! Go vegan, and stop believing the greenwashing lies of the meat and dairy industries, which are the most destructive industries on the planet, that need to be ended, worldwide, effective immediately.
So Exciting! Nature is the world!
Gran aporte para mi trabajo de investigación sobre la economía regenerativa, justo lo que estuve buscando.
The more we keep talking about such changes I think the ones that listen but do not hear will finally hear us.
Help spread the word on this work! Thank you Charles.
Great presentation Charlie.
@GardeninWithAtley, I agree, I want everyone to see these videos to widen public knowledge. I'm just trying to watch, like, subscribe & share as many as I can. I'm hoping if we all do that, their standing on UA-cam will increase. Then hopefully, even more people will see them come up in there recommended list.
Charles, glad you listened to your grandson ...
This is such a good little talk with a great message
Other than it completely ignores the real secret to all of this. The Aerated Compost Tea.
@@ZennExile He had 18 minutes to use. What should he have left out?
@@nickguthrie9309 everything except how the Aerated Compost Teas help bacteria and fungus rapidly proliferate to fix nutrients every plant needs in the soil with nothing but sugar and organic waste as catalysts, is unimportant.
The solution begins and ends with the soil microbes. Plants are just barometers for how healthy the soil is. This is what industrial agriculture and monoculture have overlooked. This is why global agriculture is destructively harmful and results in billions of tons of CO2 being released into the atmosphere for the sake of putting convenient food on rich people's tables.
All we need to make sustaining human life ecologically sustainable, rather than harmful, is a change in perspective from the idea that people grow plants to the reality that microbes in the soil grow plants. This relationship is so vitally important to the sustainability problem that every other variable can be effectively ignored.
And it is also the means of not only ending the carbon crisis short term, but reversing it long term. This relationship is like the relationship between a power inverter and a battery. The sun powers the plants which draw CO2 from the air to make food which power the animals, the waste from the animals and plants power the microbes in the soil. Every living part of this cycle is made of Life. Life made of Carbon.
These layers of microbes in the soil slough off dead colonies down, into the soil. And water draining past them carry still more dissolved carbon down, into the soil.
This is how we make humanity sustainable for 10's of thousands of years.
But not if we continue to ignore the most vitally important variable in this mechanism. Not if we continue to pretend we can separate humanity from the ecosystems we depend on by making natural processes temporarily more efficient for the sake of profit.
Thaaaaaank you sooooo much! Wonderful!
@Tedx It's great that all of this information is free and available. Thanks for doing that.
Is it possible to group these talks by topic? If so please do so. Again much appreciated.
Yes if you watch on the TED app you can find all these well categorised.
Beautifully said! 👌🏻
Thanks for sharing your great approach! I truly appreciate it. Wouldn't it make your speech even more wholesome if you name whom that land belonged to for thousands of years and that it was managed in your described way or similar for a long time before the Europeans came in?
So inspiring thank you
Yes, totally agree lets do this
Thank you.
Great talk!
"Why do we have to kill things to grow things" The smartest, words come from the young..
nice talk... very simple and powerful message
Great presentation! I always wonder how a "conventional" farmer can look over his fence and see that lush landscape on the other side, and not have a crisis moment over their own state of affairs... they are really ok with such worse results on their land right in front of their eyes?
Sequestering carbon and producing great food, there is no downside and Charles Massy is a great Australian
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Better late than never
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He's using NLP, when he moved to a different location to highlight the contrast with industrial agriculture
What's NLP?
Neuro Linguistic Programming
yes
I feel the practice of medicine/healthcare similarly needs some sort of urgent holistic rethink along these lines. We can't just keep throwing chemical drugs at ailments and expect that will somehow make/keep us healthy and functioning the way our bodies and minds have evolved to work. But holistic health thinking and natural therapies are still seen by most doctors as unevidenced fringe weirdo practices to be stamped out, ignored or at best play a secondary assistive role with drugs-and-surgery remaining the dominant paradigm, whereas in fact, it seems to me it should be the other way round, with the drugs-and-surgery path as a last resort or emergency fix only.
Thank you for a well thought out talk and I look forward to reading the book.
Huge challenge...combating the massive lobbies of chemical companies in the US. Monsanto/Bayer, the GMO companies who now OWN most of the US seed companies...
until this can be dealt with in the US...sadly...tragically only small family farms will farm organically.
I live in VT so my food supply is healthy but not for the rest of the country...too much BIG $ in this.
Yes indeed. It's up to the consumer to make the change, the rest will follow.
Awesome man read his book " Call of the Reed Warbler ". His philosophy is the only hope for the desertification of Australia.
Now, if only we can move everyone to veganic farming all will be right in the world.
ALLAN SAVORY
Why no research on Regenerative Agriculture in Pakistan?
I want to be apart of this!
Check out local food forests or community crops
Mars teraforming needs to be integrated with this knowledge for a headstart with landscaping
How does Regenerative agriculture work if you can‘t use a plow or Glyphosate?
I know that most no-Till farmers here in Germany rely on glyphosate to create conditions for planting.
How can we avoid that? (Serious question)
Check out videos by Ray Archuleta. He goes into details on how, why, etc.
@@leelindsay5618 Thanks a lot!
Lee Lindsay Go try it let me know how it works out for you
@@farmermatt629 it works out very well for me. I don't care for glyphosate or the cancer that it causes.
Lee Lindsay how many acres are you farming and what do you farm?
“Why do we have to kill things in order to grow things ?“............. :-(
The irony is that people who are calling out not to animals are guilty of many beings being killed...
@Butrus Damaskus
I’m ok with slaughtering and eating animals. Giving back more though
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Das Problem von Massy ist, dass er der CO2-Erwärmunghypothese vollen Glauben schenkt. Er sollte sich mal anderweitig informieren, z.B. beim Heartland Institute.
...there are plenty of farmers that are doing here best to nurse the planet. Videos like this are certainly uplifting, but they condemn farmers in so many ways and then simply say “regenerative agriculture” with describing what it is, what it costs, how to place it into a farming operation.
There are a ton of videos that explain all this, plus books. He only had 17 minutes for his talk. Keep going on UA-cam, and you will be amazed at all the explanations on how to do it. No one is condemning farmers. They are the means for fixing our planet, but they've been sold a bill of goods by the chemical companies who tell them on a regular basis that they can only farm by fighting nature instead of working with it. Planting cover crops, using livestock to fertilize the soil and encourage water retention, it's actually not that difficult once you get the system going, seems to me.
I lose interest when someone says "un-natural" and still eat tomato. No reference of history at all.