Gabe Brown Update and Future of Regenerative Agriculture
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Join us for our second engaging interview with Gabe Brown, a leading figure in regenerative agriculture and a close friend of Will Harris, featured in the documentary 'Lessons From Bluffton.' In this insightful conversation, Gabe delves into the expanding influence of Understanding Ag, emphasizing the power of effective communication in sharing the principles of regenerative agriculture.
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Understadning Ag understandingag.com/
Regenified regenified.com/
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Key Highlights:
Gabe discusses Understanding Ag's global growth and its role in consulting.
The crucial role of context-specific approaches in advancing soil health practices on different farms and ranches.
Insights into the profitability and sustainability of regenerative agriculture, contrasting it with traditional methods that aim to out-produce the environment.
The impact of regenerative practices on producing nutrient-dense food and its consistent results across various farms.
Gabe's advocacy for localized food systems and the concept of food as preventative medicine.
The need for enhanced marketing and business skills within the agricultural sector.
The role of photosynthesis in soil health and the potential of aggregators in local food systems.
Discuss the challenges, including the failure of a local food co-op, and opportunities, such as regenerative food programs. - Навчання та стиль
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I'm not even a farmer but I stalk Gabe Brown on the net looking for new videos. This one's as good as it gets. Thanks.
Wow. Thank you 🙏🏼
When i met Gabe Brown, he just had his book out and had it available at the seminar. At the end of the day, i approached Gabe and asked him to sign my book, and when i didn't hand him a copy of his own book, but instead my copy of 'holistic management', he didn't bat an eye. He graciously signed as i requested, and included some amazing words of encouragement. That touched my heart and let me know without a doubt that Gabe is the real deal! I feel very privileged to have learned from him!
He's good as gold. No ego and sincere. 🙏🏼
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Gabe i think I need to research your definition of "context". Should I start by studying your book? Which chapters? Which books? Do you include many pix? Nutrient density currently seems like a complex topic in it's infancy. I'd like to learn more specifics regarding "regenerative" farming's positive effect on human health. Dennis K. in KS
PS thank you for the recent informative interview
@@denniskemnitz1381context was added after the book. Great book though. My copy has much underlined that stood out to me, as one born, raised, and worked on my family's conventional, then CAFO, dairy farm.
@@denniskemnitz1381i do not recall pictures, but it is an easy read. He is very straight forward in his writing. Dirt To Soil is the title.
I can remember exactly the first time that I saw the words in a high school textbook in the late 1960's, stating that *"We, meaning the United States of America, have to feed the world!"* in regards to the *Green Revolution* farming practices that were pioneered here in the United States of America; and that were producing record numbers of bushels per acre of corn and wheat in comparison to the various *5-year Plans* which had failed in the Soviet Union, time after time after time.
Fast forward to the mid-1980's when I finally figured out that minimal tillage in my backyard raised bed garden boxes, in conjunction with year-round mulching with nutritient dense shredded hardwood leaves, as well as spacing seeds and transplants closely together so that the mature plants, regardless of the density of their leaf canopy, shaded out the soil as completely as possible, thus reducing moisture loss, and denying weed seeds and seedlings the necessary sunlight to compete with the food plants.
*Without realizing it, ALL that I was doing was replicating on a tiny scale what Mother Nature had perfected tens of thousands of years ago with the various prarie ecosystems scattered across North America. Extreme biodiversity coupled with a soil biome that created its own fertility in conjunction with the fertility left behind in the form of urine and dung from the millions of migrating ruminant herbivores that existed in those prarie ecosystems. Those urine and dung deposits, coupled with the crushing action of their hooves, which stimulates plant growth, is what I was unwittingly attempting to duplicate in my small garden. I merely substituted annual heavy additions of the nutrient dense oak and maple leaves collected from unsprayed sources for the dung and urine of the bison, elk, moose, and deer. My yields from that tiny, less than 500 square foot raised bed garden measuring 2 feet deep, were astronomically higher than the yields printed on the seed packets or of the labels of the transplants purchased from garden centers and nurseries.*
*Gabe Brown is absolutely correct in that the rest of the world needs to learn how to effectively feed itself. With approximately 50% of every kilocalorie of food grown never making it into the mouths and stomachs of the human beings that it was supposedly grown to feed; we as humanity need to start figuring out how to insure that the food plants and livestock animals currently being grown/raised are properly utilized and not wasted. This mantra that the United States of America is somehow responsible for feeding the entire rest of the planet has led to the terrible consequences of the Green Revolution farming practices which have destroyed the fertility of most of America's soils.*
You're spot on 🙏🏼
Hi Logan, Great interview with Gabe Brown. He is truly incredible! Dirt to Soil is a Must Read! Thanks for bringing it to us!
❤Peggy❤
Agreed, Peggy! So glad you enjoyed the talk. ❤️
Gabe is always such a pleasure to listen to ❤
I absolutely love Gabe.
Love the idea of teaching regeneration in the school systems. There should be gardens attached to schools and water harvesting in dryer areas, using the school gutters.
That's a great idea!
@@SowingProsperity I saw a video here of a public school in Arizona doing things like this.
Our district just purchased 80 acres directly next to the newest built school. Unfortunately they are going to wind up not practicing any regenerative agriculture
What are they going to do with it then?@@EugeneYus
@@vivalaleta conventional farming 🙄
Yep always love to hear something new from Gabe. Need to talk him into the low carb or carnivore diet we need him around.
It's an amazing man 🙏🏼
Gabe is fantastic, carnivore diet (purists to the fruit and honey nuts) is almost as dumb as veganismos
Wishing you and Gabe health well-being and for your message and voice to reach millions more receptive ears.
Awesome interview! You have great guests and a great message. 1:44
Thank you. Lots of wonderful people out there to talk to. 🙏🏼
Gabe always brings the focus back to profitability. Gotta stay in business, first and foremost!!
Exactly! Have to be profitable.
Trying to out produce your environment, brilliant words! I just made some changes in my crow labs as a result of this, changed a corn breeding selection specifically to address an environmental challenge. Yes, if we can't control the environment, we can control the genetics, and there's many other factors we can control, so let's control we can and be ready to play ball where we can't.
Excellent conversation! I really appreciate that part about the tomato plant removing the toxins from the tomato, something I did not realize and alliance perfectly with the new series I'm doing on tomatoes soon. Thank you both for this excellent conversation! I will need to get a hold of Gabe and see if you will come on comrades and farms as well, we need to get this message out and we finally have critical mass! 🌱
I thought it was a really interesting nuance to the topic of "plant toxins" from Dr Anthony Chafee.
I'd be happy to visit. Send me a message through Me & McGee Market and we will line it up. :)
Thanks. I am a little gardener who loves what you guys are doing and want get involved too.
It's like that moment in that old movie "The Graduate".
"Food aggregation".
Been following this for a few years now here in Ireland all our natural wildflowers in the fields had huge medicinal value from dewormers to gut health and inflammation, skin disorders that covered all live stock, then being passed on for human consumption. To me it was all a scam by the chemical industry. Good to see topic being discussed.
It's getting out there 🙏🏼
Gabe, in his Ecosystem series made a convert out of me, got me in contact with Dr. Christine Jones and others, and spawned a continuing deep dive into Regen. Not a minute of which was wasted time. This is the answer to climate change, restoring long term drought and flood damaged zones, feeding the billions with more nutritious foods, relieving farm pressure and as a consequence creating beauty with nature buzzing and flitting everywhere. His most powerful line, _"I'd rather sign the back of a check (cheque) than the front of one."_
This part is private, except for Gabe: The carnivore diet restores health, vitality, energy, brain fogginess, defeats chronic illness and diseases everywhere it is adopted. Are you on it?
Gabe is a hero and a genuine soul. I agree with everything you said.
The carnivore diet is a game changer. I think I’m understanding more about why and there is a lot to it. Deuterium is a cause of metabolic disease. It makes so much sense.
@@SowingProsperity I wanted to say that about Gabe too. I can say that I love the bloke for his depth, his curiosity and that voice that puts smiling babies to sleep. But I'm a bloke, we don't do that very often, no biggie.
Enjoy finding out more about carnivore.
there is nosauch a thing as climate change... the climate does one thing only: it changes... also known as seasons/weather... grow up @@peterclark6290
Gabe Brown you are a superhero. Feeding the world is a lie and the world needs to figure out how to feed itself. Couldn't be more true. Nutrient density is the answer. Food is medicine.
"Logan Duvall", you make a good point that "People do not change until it start to Hurt":
I say, Offer a change that is unimportant to those who want to "wait and see"; IF They take
the offer, when the time comes - "It works for them": NOW they are happy to try it when the
bottom has fell out and your safety valve proves to be the "Saving Grace":
Eg: Have some people buy a "Head Cow or Bull": The Farmer does his thing with the
animal and the purchaser in the worst case gets his money back and a profit with the sale.
Yes: The Farmer 1 - Does not pay for the cattle, 2 - makes 50% for that head of cattle.
But still make 50% of the usual profit: Note the farmer has 90% lower cost of operation.
I sure wouldn’t have changed without the “hurt”. We are always learning my friend and we need to be there when they are ready. 🙏🏼
I buy most of my staples like rice and laundry soap from Costco. I buy my vegetables and local meats from the co-op. I buy organic prepared foods like premade chicken noodle soup from the local grocery store that makes really good premade foods. (When you are not feeling great, a quick healthy prepared organic food helps get you more rest). I wish the co-op prepared more foods.
What you're doing matters so much. Might check out Ralston Family Farms out or Arkansas. They are a Regenified farm.
Logan and friends - 48:10 - would love to see links to research on the impact of food nutrient density and toxins on increase in ADHD, autism, etc.
There are many. Stephanie Seneff has done a marvelous job outlining the connection. I did an interview with her; her book Toxic Legacy is incredible. ua-cam.com/video/EdlqW-J2u3c/v-deo.htmlsi=9zFaw3ryIkEH4nuY
Logan, I am at the same place. Our medical system is totally broken. It's focus is on only two things, surgery and drugs. Both are about the money. They do not take a wholistic look at health. If they did, there would go all their money and position. I know a woman who is a naturopath and has been doing absolutely amazing things with some very sick people. Some have been sent home from the hospital to either die or with no answers and the only message being, "This is your life now." Probably the biggest thing she has done was to open my eyes. That was quite an accomplishment when she began with a meats and potatoes cowboy who dismissed her. Gabe- another amazing discussion!
Thank you, David! You're spot and an I agree Gabe's discussions are always amazing.
Gabe is so wise! To understand that each person will decide to eat meat or not, but at the same time acknowledging the importance of animals in farms, that's a compassionate way of thinking and that's the future. Vegan stewardship allied with animals!
I’m in an “I” state, and 200 bushel corn is blowing the doors off, thats with either drip or linear application y drop irrigation. But that’s very short season varieties. 75-85 day. 105-115 is the norm in the area. We grow some open pollinated corn that hits mid 100’s, that is where we really shine, because the prices are more than double that of the organic market.
I teach permaculture gardening on my place in a small town in Idaho. I would love to get my hands on some posters and curriculum for my classes.
Just found your channel with this video. Subscribed. Looks like you've got great stuff! :)
Appreciate it! Looking forward to your thoughts.
Most of us have noticed the enormous difference between a store bought tomato and a home grown one. Why, there's even a song!
Absolutely!
Thank you Logan
Great conversation 👌 👏 👍 🙏🙏
Thank you 🙏🏼
any help in achieving organic grass land in arid areas. Very fragile landscape. Just want to rebuild our soil and place.
Yes! ua-cam.com/video/6zJtg5Yoclk/v-deo.htmlsi=FgI00_dJldEiqt2y
Lol love it the accountability is on you he is so right
I know one method is not good for every situation, but there should be a general recipe to get started with regenerative farming.
There are fundamentals. understandingag.com/the-6-3-4tm-explained/
Thanks for the response. Is anybody working on a step by step guide for getting started, or is it just up to us to start & learn? I feel with all the info out there, there should be a basic recipe.
The context for most farms in USA is make more than the neighbor! Probably the #1 reason this type of farming doesn't go over well.
What does this actually mean?
@@immoosiesmomconventional farmers compete for higher yields of their crops. Would be better to grow soil, healthy animals, healthy plants, and we would be healthier people.
Never done grain. Seems like the equipment cost well outweighs the income. Even in non subsidized non insured years.
But then I need to be shown how to improve my once mono perennial plant crop so that we can be way more productive
They've got all kinds of great information. Animal impact, my friend 😊
If there was free trade everywhere, eventually if you arent doing regenerative agriculture, you will get pushed out
Meat is the #1 tool I use to get my patients off of medication!
Tell me more!
@@SowingProsperity fatty meat is the most effective nonpharmacologic way to get insulin levels down. Elevated insulin levels are the key biomarker of metabolic syndrome. High insulin levels drive or are the root cause of most chronic disease.
Meat heals!
Nutrient density is hugely important, but that comes in the seed genetics. Commercial hybrid developments chase yield and transport hardiness not nutrition. Soil health enables land improvements and plant fertility which is awesome, but the research has not linked nutrition to soil, it's in the genes.
I must respectfully disagree.
Though genetic development plays a role in a plant's characteristics, the nutrient density in plants is significantly influenced by the soil.
Nutrients include fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and various metabolites.
A mineral's absence in soil directly results in its deficiency in the plant.
When glyphosate, a chelator, binds minerals in the soil, these minerals become deficient in the plant.
Moreover, if soil lacks microbial life, including fungi, which are crucial for producing metabolites and cofactors, plants may face critical deficiencies.
If the theory that genes solely dictate nutrient density were correct, hydroponically grown plants wouldn't need nutrient supplements in their water.
That is blatantly wrong!
Instead of a long lecture how about telling people what Regenerative Agriculture is. Profit is not what I care about. My concern is always how healthy the food we buy is. Eva
Here is an interview from 2 years ago in what regenerative agriculture is. Gabes partner in Understand Ag Dr Allen. Williams. ua-cam.com/video/u498lLBzQxk/v-deo.htmlsi=uopvfHbi04tEsYCD
Here is a a previous interview with Gabe on basics if regenerative ag. ua-cam.com/video/afcrsEdUM5c/v-deo.htmlsi=JZkxLlv6eK8ydY4u
Here is an interview with Jared Luhman who hosts the Herd Quitter podcast focused on regenerative ag. ua-cam.com/video/x792bsUVfQM/v-deo.htmlsi=jvKeqhSFk8dZOsUq
Here is Ray Archuleta another partner if Gabe and Allen, breaking down some fundamentals of soil in regards to regenerative ag. ua-cam.com/video/JareT7RyeBE/v-deo.htmlsi=rwSOOQriO599Z7Yl
I hope they help break down any questions you may have. Please let me know any specifics and I do my best you provide the information.
Increased profits will get farmers to use these growing methods sooner than affirmations on nutrient density. Farmers need to know about increased profits to encourage them. After they have to make a living. Plus farmers won't have to use these horrible chemicals on their crops which are not good for their health either!! Lets take care of our farmers and they will take care of us by supplying us with nutritious food. YAY....It's so great!!
Nobody will respond to the Johnson grass issue
What's the issue?
I am sorry. I was watching video and wanted text. The transcripts is horrible. I can't believe that the Artificial intelligence is that slow that it can not spell correctly.