Soil -- from dirt to lifeline: Fred Kirschenmann at TEDxManhattan

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  • Опубліковано 28 лис 2024

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  • @HomeGrownVeg
    @HomeGrownVeg 10 років тому +10

    This is a good informative video and well presented. Having watched a few you tube videos on soil and composting, I have concluded that soil that is compacted and dry becomes dirt and that all that was good in the soil is now dead. Dig it up, turn it over and wet it and it starts to look like soil again but it's still dead. Turning in some composted organic matter, leaves, grass, seaweed etc reintroduces some life and makes the soil better year on year. Just use what nature provides. That's it!

    • @jasoncook2294
      @jasoncook2294 9 років тому +3

      yep. Funny how we could farm and be GOOD to the soil. yet we are trying to dump all the chemicals we can even to the point of genetically modifying our food to be able to withstand the chemicals... Pretty backwards.

  • @ssirajd
    @ssirajd 2 роки тому +2

    Ten year old talk good for all times. Insight to a living world underground that should master much

  • @growingyourgreens
    @growingyourgreens 12 років тому +7

    Gentlemen, we can rebuild him (our soil) . We have the technology.. We can start working with nature instead of against it. I teach how each individual person can do their part.

    • @fantasticsituation9461
      @fantasticsituation9461 5 років тому

      it would be absolutely wonderful to interview you for a podcast im launching about permaculture and inspiring news! what youre doing is vital, thankyou :)

    • @stebarg
      @stebarg 4 роки тому

      Thanks, John❣️😃🙏🏽

    • @jazzakahmapasa3620
      @jazzakahmapasa3620 3 роки тому

      So John is here too. My favorite 🔥🔥. Much love from Malawi.

  • @johnshafer7214
    @johnshafer7214 6 років тому +1

    I met him in 2006 at UW-Stout, in Menomonie, WI. Great speaker and really smart man.

  • @leslieskimmings6819
    @leslieskimmings6819 10 років тому +6

    I love your programs, they bring such important and timely information to the attention of the public. But I, like many "seniors," have hearing loss. Could you see that all your presentations include captions so we can better understand every word? Thank you.

  • @walrusnose
    @walrusnose 10 років тому

    He's so cute and cuddly.
    Great speech

  • @andrewtowell6074
    @andrewtowell6074 10 років тому +2

    Great talk, really enjoyed it and him touching on the importance of soil microbes in relation to plant health.

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 10 років тому +1

      We need greenhouses, bio-fuels,aquaponics,hemp, you can even build houses,paper,rope,textiles,fuel,oil,clothing and cars out of hemp!!! Look up the kestrel car, also the soybean car.

    • @andrewtowell6074
      @andrewtowell6074 10 років тому

      masterpalladin
      agreed

  • @everardomezajr3495
    @everardomezajr3495 10 років тому +2

    Dennis Hopper is amazing!

  • @joshuaandrew5689
    @joshuaandrew5689 3 роки тому

    I want to start a compost collection company and branch out from there. Love this video. 🙏

  • @philfox8878
    @philfox8878 8 років тому +8

    Britain has used this system for ever. Cut your field sizes down and put the animals back on the land and rotate crops to help the land instead of killing it with pesticides.

  • @liquidminds
    @liquidminds 12 років тому

    @Forestofthyme Peat has a lot of nutrients. I guess that's why it's used so often.
    But I agree. I do prefer Coco as it has the same handling soil has, but several advantages like that it is organic matter or that is nutrient-free, allowing custom nutrition or that the buffer-effect is only about half as long as in soil, allowing more direct nutrition of plants than Soil.
    I'm all for coco.

  • @liquidminds
    @liquidminds 13 років тому

    @Beligerentt1 the problem is, that the really good soil, aka peat, is almost gone.
    Afaik there are only a handful of areas worldwide where the really good peat can be harvested.

  • @dr.timothypatitsas7889
    @dr.timothypatitsas7889 3 роки тому

    GABE BROWN has progresed lightyears ahead of this now.

  • @michaelmarchal4004
    @michaelmarchal4004 10 років тому +11

    We need to design our society, by growing locally, as long as we have to transport food from states to states, countries to countries, no much gonna change. We need permaculture!;)

  • @JenaiHerod_Paws4mercy
    @JenaiHerod_Paws4mercy 9 років тому +2

    i think its TRAGIC that for as long as these talks have been online they arent getting any real views and its either a sign of our stupidity ,or its a specific group blocking views , regardless of why this information isnt getting out to enough people we can do something about it by sharing and ACTING to correct the problem , or be happy with the problem and let it be our undoing

  • @BryanKale777
    @BryanKale777 12 років тому

    Well put

  • @thekibby8375
    @thekibby8375 4 роки тому

    I agree with his general premise but i think some of his numbers are way off

  • @SchoolDaze13
    @SchoolDaze13 4 роки тому

    Step on me, Fred.

  • @Dhragonfly
    @Dhragonfly 10 років тому +6

    you need two things: Fungi, & hemp. That is all.

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 10 років тому +2

      We need greenhouses, bio-fuels,aquaponics,hemp, you can even build houses,paper,rope,textiles,fuel,oil,clothing and cars out of hemp!!! Look up the kestrel car, also the soybean car.

  • @JoshColeman
    @JoshColeman 12 років тому +1

    Fred looks like he might be related to Dennis Hopper.

  • @liquidminds
    @liquidminds 12 років тому

    @KimbleyComputer After finally receiving the money from the Acustic-Aid-Industry lobbyist for hear-impairing thousands of people with the loud intro, they can finally afford to record with HD-cams.
    The Suffering wasn't in vain.

  • @alaskaoils
    @alaskaoils 12 років тому +1

    Yes, everytime you sell farm land and build a home on it, you destroy the ability to ever grow food on it again

    • @leavefollow1698
      @leavefollow1698 4 роки тому

      Idk about that one. You under estimate it's ability to adapt.

    • @leavefollow1698
      @leavefollow1698 4 роки тому

      Think about it: How many civilizations could have said the same thing?

  • @genocanabicea5779
    @genocanabicea5779 2 роки тому

    Like when the nile floods

  • @1voluntaryist
    @1voluntaryist 10 років тому +8

    It took nature millions of years to build soil. We can build soil in less than a decade. But we are not. Soil is being destroyed faster than it is created. This is due to mass ignorance. Organic produce should and would be cheaper if it was chosen over commercial produce. People would be healthier. The few who chose organic are helping themselves survive and our species. Commercial farming is unsustainable. It is a short sighted pursuit of profit, typical of big corporations and government working together for their special interest at the expense of everybody else. But this is made possible by the masses who allow their lives to be controlled by TPTB. A grassroots revolt dedicated to decentralized power, self reliance, and individual responsibility is needed to stop this insane species suicide.

    • @masterpalladin
      @masterpalladin 10 років тому +1

      We need greenhouses, bio-fuels,aquaponics,hemp, you can even build houses,paper,rope,textiles,fuel,oil,clothing and cars out of hemp!!! Look up the kestrel car!

    • @JenaiHerod_Paws4mercy
      @JenaiHerod_Paws4mercy 9 років тому +4

      Don Duncan we need to get rid of the FDA and USDA because they are Monsanto and Eli Lillys croneys . there are others in the pharmaceutical and farm and industry who put profit before common sense and they are using the medical profession to push their drugs on us even poisoning our children with sugar fat and fluoride and hormone spiked milk so that no body even knows what the hell sex they are anymore the guys all want to be girls the girls wanna be guys and we all are still dying of cancer even though they know the cure . HEALTHY FOOD .!. an thats just the tip of that ugly genocidal ice burg

    • @gorley3z637
      @gorley3z637 9 років тому

      Jenai Herod

  • @cgcrafford
    @cgcrafford 6 років тому

    most you are just bad farmers do not make excuses saying you are forced in certain way... sis

  • @butterman0007
    @butterman0007 9 років тому +1

    This is permaculture, just fyi.

  • @delilajahn-thue3751
    @delilajahn-thue3751 4 роки тому

    Soil is renewable.

  • @WillySheepo
    @WillySheepo Рік тому

    Die kann dich genauso wenig leiden wie ich, Merz. Das kann ich dir versichern.

  • @johnatkinson512
    @johnatkinson512 10 років тому

    hogwash