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Good work

Hi, I am from India and agriculture is our family business, I wanted to ask if you can share the recipe of the worm tea and can make a more detailed video of from making, processing and applying it on 1 acer of the field. Like end-to-end process.

The Cotswolds must have the highest number of hobby farmers in the world. 😅😅😅😅😅

Trying something new, nothing ventured, nothing gained, good luck and best wishes.

Have you considered grazing right before germination to stunt the living mulch?

Experimentation is an iterative process. One of the 'non costed benefits' will be the knowledge base built up in this group of farmers in how to conduct trials, what the right questions to ask are and what nature feeds back during the process. If a group of farmers can keep experimenting in a focussed way for a decade, they will have engrained within their farming communities the culture of controlled innovation. In general, the more you innovate, the better ideas you will have about how to continue innovating.

There’s a gentleman from Belgium who’s been doing something similar for a few years now, youtube.com/@fermewilmotsagriculturebio3434?si=2vukYihy7cldEhUi

As a beekeeper, I would like to point out that white clover is an excellent honey plant. Place hives near the field and you will receive additional profit.

USA has had a crop rotation for years, farmers have run the spectrum from full plow tillage every year, to discing to break up crop waste and straw to compost on the field , others are trying a 3 tier scheme like sunflowers, wheat and clover/vetch mix (I am guessing at the tall crop, corn might fit there too) or based upon what is last to ripen with the "higher crops" ripening first and feeding the lower with nutrients as they decay.

Very cool

Never underestimate the beauty such crops bring to the environment around you. Boosting biodiversity but also increasing public engagement for sure as well. Let’s hope you nail this new strategy for the future.

And eventually healthier crops and an uptick in biodiversity as well. Win win.

Okay, who's still not convinced?

It works in Australia ✌️👏👍

Your questions/comments around 6:30 about weather the field was actually producting more relative to human food crop vs. all the production was very interesting. It brought to mind this thread on X about account systems; Bringing GAAP Down to Earth by @regenerativeresourcesco.7735 & Neal Spackman twitter.com/NealSpackman/status/1742995912639856693 Some of the replies to that thread were also quite interesting and related besides. Great stuff! And, a question, do you find that you trend toward issues with compaction becasue of the heavy equipment?

Very good but you’re all pretty innovative as it is, to be fair. I reckon putting the messages out there and showing your beautiful surroundings to one and all is probably the greatest thing you can do. Your farms, its wildlife and its beauty should speak for itself. It does for me every time I’m out doing the day job. Happy Christmas and best wishes, Tony

Useful on ya phone film making tips good for any field of endeavour, aside from farming. 😉

What are your application rates. I want to do this on 150acres of wheat here in California.

Regenerative ag all the way. It's a win for the farmer, the land, the creatures and everything else.

Which intercrop will suits with onion

Thanks for having me 😃

Keep the soil covered and she’s alright

Great ideas, are there nitrogen-fixing trees available?

Far too many industrial farmer's in the UK to bother with this !!

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I have been doing this on my organic farm in Belgium for several years. Although I sow the white clover together with the wheat, it helps to make sure the clover doesn't compete with the wheat. After harvest the clover starts covering the field and I leave it in place until next spring before a spring crop. This adds up to 150 units of N.

You need to take the step up the Regenerative Agriculture. a. Weeds can flourish in early transition soil. Building/stabilising the soil's bacterial/fungal presence deals with that problem. Use compost sprays (Drs. Johnson-Su, Ingham, etc.) b. Companion planting is not an experiment, it's what Nature does. In between cash crops sew other species for specific reasons, future forage, compaction break up, etc. Farming is primarily ALL about the soil's life, making it dynamic, busy, self-problem-solving. It needs a permanent cover (humus/armour) so you never see it again.

erm, I live in Arizona. Different mechanics, but it's still a built environment. I bathe more efficiently so I can use more water for trees. The trees lead to birds, and it's easier living in a city with birds. Phoenix has so many. Winter birds, summer birds, and year round birds. Plus blow-ins, far from the core of their range. We have done a terrible job with our pastures out here, leading to some erosion issues in all the desert west. cheers, you lovely people, from across the pond, and the Mississippi.

Why is the music too loud?

Very intresting. Is there much difference in feed per acre ?

in the US they use Daikon radishes as a nitrogen store, it soaks up excess nitrogen - it then dies and slowly releases nitrogen - maybe a combination of both clover and daikon radish might work here too... it also has deep tap root allowing deep penetration into the soil

Great work, nice to see forward thinking farmers innovating and trying new things! The multi species mix looks fantastic, especially with the sunflowers. Great for the cattle, the soil, environment and farmers public image to be growing multi species instead of monocultures. Really nice looking Red Ruby Devons as well! 👌🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

How about using Birdsfoot trefoil, great nitrogen producer, and stays short, and using a stripper header vs, the conventional straight header?

Is there somewhere online I can find the improvements and solutions that have been developed from all these trials?

I've always imagined that a soggy ditch at the bottom of a field could be full of the right plants to absorb the nitrate and fertiliser run off that, if not a crop like cress, could be ploughed back in to the top of the field and reduce fertiliser use.

#beautiful. Continue

#beautiful. Interested to know more about the technique.

Salmonella, Vibrio cholera, E. Coli, Tetanus, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, cryptosporidium, Streptococcus,Tuberculosis, any of these sound familiar? Using compost tea techniques is how you incubate them. Good luck!

People been doing this for thousands of years..food forest concept..in Morocco the is a 2000 year old permaculture food forest.the rain forests were grown by man.bio char techniques.

intresting but too much background music. what for?

How are the cash crops doing that having living mulch cover crops this year, with the current drought in Europe?

How are these crops doing with the drought in Europe?

Very good. Farming systems desperately need integrative concepts in agronomical design. This one is a very good example.

Very interesting.

Any new videos?

Which type of mulch plant is that

Very interesting work thanks for posting 👍

How to do this on a small scale?

My gut tells me this doesn't seem like very innovative!

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