Regenerative Agriculture on a Small Scale | What it Looks Like
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- In Today's video we're discussing regenerative agriculture.
Answered: What is regenerative agriculture, what does regenerative agriculture look like, what is small scale regenerative agriculture, using animals on a small scale, and more!
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To my friends disappointed in the permaculture comment, 1) I agree that it comes off perhaps unnecessarily dismissive which I recognize isn't a helpful way to discuss a practice, but also, 2) the "repackaging of indigenous practices" is just one issue among many that I (and notably many other growers) have with permaculture. Perhaps these issues are worthy of a video at some later date. And absolutely, no-till has its roots in indigenous practices as well (mulching, intercropping, cover cropping, etc), which is why we have acknowledged that in my book, on this channel, and in our social media. We will continue to. It's important to us. We use no-till as a keyword for people to find ecological practices that fit into our modern economic systems, and through that keyword we hope to educate folks on where these practices derive instead of claiming No-till or Regenerative or whatever is some new invention or novel practice.
Thanks for this. I don't follow this debate closely and would appreciate more context regarding permaculture some time. For instance, is it possible you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater in response to those in the commercial trade misusing the term through specialization, cultural appropriation and cringeworthy marketing? I've never quite gotten the comparison between specific types of commercial agriculture and permaculture, since permaculture isn't specific to commercial agriculture.
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Well said, Jesse. I'd love for you to make a video detailing the different schools of thought. I'm caught up in a bit of confusion between you, Geoff Lawton, and John Jeavons when it comes to soil cultivation. I'm currently practicing "regenerative gardening" on my standard 1/4 acre residential lot with some space dedicated to lawn for the kids, wildflower meadow for the pollinators, and raised and in-ground beds for crops. Because of my small scale, I've decided to broadfork the beds and plan to do the same with wildflower areas I intend to convert to production beds in the future. I really like the idea of hand cultivation/tilling on my scale. Anyway keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to more discussion on this stuff!
Good permaculture designers go out of their way to acknowledge indigenous practices too, we're well aware of where these practices came from. When it comes to saving soil and the health of ecosystems and our bodies, as well as the health of indigenous lands, I am all for using indigenous practices when they are the best ones available. It helps all of us and the planet. But it should be acknowledged and their own practice should be supported which I have personally done a lot of. So have many other permaculturists. Mollison makes no secret of where he found the techniques he recommends being practiced in his textbook. In my online course, I refer to the source of the practices we discuss (not limited to agriculture, but including building, energy use, water use and care, economics, community building, etc). We routinely talk about the origins of biochar, for instance, and recently did a project using biochar in fire ecology for forests, working with tribes who originated this practice (Permaculture Institute of North America).
Thank you for being brave enough to mention this. Enough has been stolen from Indigenous, Traditional, Native and Tribal peoples already. Too many coloniser descendants trying to excuse or justify that theft happened.
An old big farmer saying about regeneration is if you're selling hay off your farm, you're giving away the farm one bale at a time. Right now, for most of us, if you can hear a lawn mower, there is a grass collection site somewhere near you. Find it, and get it. If you see any trees this fall, there will again be a leaf collection site near you. Your point on regeneration is huge. A small trailer that can be hitched up behind most vehicles makes collecting so easy and, of course, gets used for many other things not associated with gardening. Well worth the small investment up front as a very useful tool.
Watch out for chemicals used on lawns, especially Roundup. It kills gardens for years.
I know that this is pretty obvious but I feel it's good to mention again that when collecting grass from neighbors and from people you don't know it's always a good idea to check and make sure that they have not put pesticides on it.
I ferment my grains before feeding the chickens. I soak the seeds overnight in water. The water ferments, is frothy and nutty in smell. I strain the mixture and pour the liquid on my compost heap. Worms in the heap love it. Find it helping the soil.
If you don't give the water to the chickens you're leaching out a lot of water soluble vitamins and minerals so it's kind of a waste of money. If you use less water and then just give it all to the chickens they'll get all the vitamins.
Worms are the best thing for soil
you aren't fermenting them... you're beginning to malt them (24hrs isn't very long, usually you sprout grains for close to a week to really develop the enzymes and flavors). Those bubbles are CO2 from the grains respiring. The "nutty" smell are enzymes in the grain that start to convert the starch into sugar for the new plant. Malted Grains are excellent feeds though (and good for people too), the nutrients in the grain are much more accessible in digestion.
Source: hobby maltster and brewer
Excellent insight. Thank you ~
Hey Jesse, I farm a 6th of an acre in a city, and I am at the point where all my compost/nutrients come from the property/free inputs. We keep bunnies, ducks, chickens, and pigeons. Use living pathways, and 3 ft beds mulched with grass/hay (directed seeded stuff gets homemade compost on top of it to seed into). By adding compost to direct seeded stuff then hay/grass mulching over I'm just slowly making lasagna beds instead of "flipping" beds. The hay mulch solves the edging problem with living pathways bc I just rake back the old hay to the edges at the end of the season and then mulch with new stuff on top. Between that and the mower (22" pathways) everything stays tight with no extra effort. Wanted to explain the rundown of my set-up bc you've helped a lot in my designing it.
Vegans can still have chickens and sheep for regenerative agriculture. I can give a nice retirement home to spent hens (but keeping them as pets and not eating them or the occasional stray egg) and culled ewes, allowing them to live out their days in peace.
@@lauramonahan9343 don't forget to compost them when they pass that their spirit may carry on
Mr perfectpants
Stir. Thank you, thank you very much
Do you have a channel?
No till is great. Not lifting and turning 50 tons of soil benefits me and all my allies living in my garden. The intensive garden area of my food forest, where I raise my veg is never turned, only tilted to about 50 degrees with a potato fork to loosen weeds I want to remove just prior to spring planting. Beds are never walked on. Mulch is applied liberally. My cover cropping remains weak but I'm improving. It's a wild-looking guild based system where the beds usually have two or more veg items growing.
Keeping the soils covered is a challenge because once you create living soil you may find, as I did, that the soil digests the mulch quickly. Hence my need to improve with cover crops. Getting local mulch materials is seasonal - some cut grass in the spring, and lots of leaves in fall. Between then I scramble for soil covering. I no longer see weeds as a problem. I see weeds as free bio-mass.
We need the detailed mashed potato slurry video!! Show us an easy way to make this happen on our farm please!
10 years ago i spread woodchips in my clay garden, ive used straw on limited basis and alot of horse and chicken manure. 4 years ago i started keeping a couple of goats to help with my front compacted clay field as the ponies only pooped in one spot which got to be a pain trying to spread itmultiple times a year. The goats poop pellets all over. Last fall i layered manure, grass clippings and more green woodchips down in my garden and used a potato fork as a broad fork to loosen the soil this spring. I have so many worms in my garden now and lots of moisture. I use a commercial fertilizer sparingly on seedlings in my house in late winter then switch to my organic natural once everything moves out to the greenhouse in spring when its no longer minus 50 out. Out of season my chickens have access to my garden. Ive tried hard to do regenerative gardening and its helping. Battling water supply in dry seasons has bern my hardest battle. Even with multiple rain barrels and a 2000 ltr tank.
The more the organic matter the more water retention.
We started gardening in a rock infested piece of property with clay.
Over 40 years of layering with organic materials, it's really looking good.
It improved year upon year.
We also live in hardwoods forest, so plenty of leaf mulch.
My husband grows about 1,100 garlic that he puts in part of one garden, then rotates.
I grow tomatoes, squash, peppers, plus all the usuals.
Clay has many beneficial minerals so its a good.
Don't curse it too much.
Also when making compost, mix wood based (brown) component with weed free green vegetable matter (green) such as mowed weed free grass. By doing so you increase the diversity of minerals and the component break down perfectly. Comfrey leaves make good compost, no need to kill the plant just remove a few outer leaves chop them them up slightly and leave on the top of the soil or in the compost. They have very deep tap roots that bring minerals up from deep below the surface, they grown well in all soils including clay soils. Like stinging nettle leaves (which loose their stinginess when carefully remove from plant) are full of nutrients, again no need to kill the plant just appreciate its goodness. Happy gardening and farming.
Keep it planted. This I did not know. Learn something new everyday.
Baby nerd here, trying my hand in a 10 x10 community plot. Your videos are such a gift. Thank you, Farmer Jesse.
Reciprocating by liking, subscribing, sharing, buying your book (what a treasure), and chipping in when I can. Thank you for exemplifying an ethics of care.
I started my organic regenerative farming in my town about 2 years ago. O had a lawn and barkdusted no fruiting plant section when I starred. Now I have 9 fruit trees in ground of various apple and pear types, 2 dwarf peach trees, 5 in one pear, chickasaw pear, Satsuma plum, shinseiki Asian pear and tons of thornless blackberry varieties and grape varieties. In between I have rosemary, mint, catnip, strawberries, native flowers, blueberry bushes and super dwarf varieties of my favorite citrus species (meyer lemon, mandarin orange, sweet Satsuma orange, fukomoto navel, Washington navel) I live it and the more time goes by, the more I build and plant to help maintain and upkeep things in the garden.
Great community we have here! I enjoyed reading about your farm too! My acre was only grass and giant trees. Now it's a food forest, almost no lawn, and one fantastic veg garden and the whole area is surrounded by windbreak trees who grew up as soon as I stopped the mowing. (That was the day I moved in. ; ) Fruit trees, pollinator plants, small fruits, and wild areas let go to whoever wants to grow there. The response from wildlife has been amazing. The neighbors not so much. lol
The more I watch farmers the more I realize how intelligent farmers are. YALL ARE BLOWING ME AWAY AWESOME KNOWLEDGE.
So I have to tell you: whenever I recommend your videos to someone new (which is like, all the time), I always describe you as, “The Alton Brown of growing stuff.” And you never disappoint, my friend. Once again, you are engaging and informative, and I’ve learned more than I ever thought possible in just a few minutes. THANK YOU for all the hard work!! It is very much appreciated!!
Good Greens by Farmer Jesse
High praise--thank you!
Have to concurr on the Alton Brown kudo!:-)
@@notillgrowerswhy the minivan at 16:43
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@@bobbyjones7505 Transporting produce to market.
Goodness, I laughed way harder than I should have when you said armoring the soil against dogma. Too good.
Been Homesteading for 2 years now. I've raised cattle, chickens,hogs and now sheep all using rotational grazing and no chemical inputs. Have to say growing vegetables I've found so much harder to pull off.
This is why I do fruit trees/bushes. I'm zone 6 so it's cherries, Asian pear, persimmon, and blackberry bushes. I am NOT good with the high maintenance of a vegetable garden. The thought of pulling weeds out of a bed every week and the water consumption most veg needs is just not what I'm into. 10-10-10 in the spring and neem oil spray if the bugs are eating anything. Can I feed myself all winter with that? Heck no, but I don't have to buy fruit in the summer and it's the most enjoyable way of gardening I've found.
So excited to have found your channel! Super clear information and a sense of humor together are a wonderful pair. 🌻
It's inspiring to see people like you Jesse, using their platform to raise awareness and encourage positive change. 🍀
So much fun and constantly learning from you, Thank You!
I appreciate the fact that you read journal articles and compile researched information. Thank you!
I picked up your book at the library and will definitely be buying a copy for myself. The book really adds a lot more depth and understanding to the videos.
You are just such a treasure trove of knowledge and I very much appreciate how witty you present the topics! You definitely put the word fun into learning!
Subscribed, thumbs up, and your book is on my wish list (more like the "Don't get me anything else but this list") for Christmas! Thank you for sharing your incredible vast knowledge with us!
Jesse. . .you are so appreiated . . . We will be here. . Continuing to watch🌱
your content is amazing, and the homage you pay to indigenous contributions is so appreciated!
Dude, I am always impresed when watching the content of your videos you make them easy to understand and apply don't stop keep on growing!
With all your excellent info Jessie, my notebook ran out of pages! Very impressive. Keep the great vids coming.
Well geez.... you're spectacular! I absolutely loved listening to everything you said and wish you were known by the masses! People would actually feel confident in information by spending time on your videos. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Your videos are like a masterclass in gardening. Bravo!!
I love your videos, but they (and the podcast) are usually aimed at market gardeners/farmers. Nonetheless, I learn a lot that's helpful for a home gardener. This one was exciting - you're talking 'bout my little acre! I just moved here in December and discovered this spring that the front yard is clay that floods, and the back yard is thin soil over bedrock. It doesn't stop me, though, because chickens, because wood chips, because raised beds! At an advanced age, I'm nonetheless excited to tackle it.
Ha. I call my acre 'my little acre' same as you.
First time coming across your content, great work. Love your sense of humour, too. Prosper.
Always great information! Thank you!
Great video as always!
I live w/ strict HOA rules. Therefore my animals are a worm farm. Using a pattern of burying bokashi solids, immediately planting a very diverse cover crop, then transplanting into it 3 to 4 weeks later. Am “grazing” the cover crop and using that as bokashi food source. Once bokashi is fermented, take some of the solids, mix with worm bedding, let it mellow a week, then feed to worms. They are eating 2 to 3 times faster then traditional bedding / food scraps, even if that is precomposted. Worm castings get used in all sorts of ways, especially when transplanting / in seed soil mix.
Can do all this intensity due to extremely small space. Totally worth it from bokashi microbes impact on plant growth, virility, & production. Add soil building impact from diverse cover crops and it’s a magical cycle!
I've been keeping worms for about a year now... It has been awesome, compost tea is easy to make with a couple scoops from the worm bin. I wasn't aware that bokashi can be used to feed your worms.
@@TheWafflesalsa The pH is pretty low, so in a tote I mix ~1/3 bokashi solids with 2/3 shredded cardboard, dried leaves, and even some weathered wood mulch. Add water to moisten a bit, but it will moisten a bit from the bokashi solids. Add some biochar and rock dust for good measure, then let it sit for a week. At that point it’s pretty neutral, and the worms devour it.
there are a bunch of insect species that not only do most of the work that large livestock do, but can also then be harvested for food or ground back up into more whole organics again. Even with the strictest of HOAs.
This comment section also supports you completely in being the undoing of your HOA. 😅 nice work with what you have
This channel is just bananas. Thank you for sharing your experience and gift.
Wow. Amazing presentations. Very well done!!
Thanks a lot for allocated your wisdom to people
Oh maaan , i am soooo glad i found your channel. Thank you for your time and energy for making these videos. You are so clear and transparent. A true gem 💎. Thank you!!!!!
Seriously one of the best videos I have ever seen! First time watching you Learned more in those 17 min than I have learned trying to 'research' THANKS!😊
Jesse,
As usual, another video from you that’s well worth the time to watch. I’ve now watched enough of your videos that I’m actually “getting” your humor too🦕
amazing video!! you may very well be the reason people don't go hungry. Bless you, Jesse.
Love these videos, man. Like always! Appreciate what you do
Yeah, JMS showed a marked improvement when I did a trial last year on a new row. I skipped about 10 feet of the row and grew a winter cover crop mix. Definitely works wonders.
Great Info 💚 I love learning more knowledge on Gardening.Something I enjoy and Love doing. (Best Hobby Ever)
Great video! Concise and informative and well explained.
About time you tried Jadam JMS! I’ve been telling you long enough 😜 You want to use old-growth deciduous forest leaf mold soil rather than garden soil because you’re simply multiplying the microbes that are in the soil… Old-growth leaf mold soil is in perfect balance microbe-wise and contains a much greater diversity and amount of microbes than your garden soil. Long live the natural farmer!
Great video! I find it frustrating to see some farms use the term ‘regenerative’ just because they happen to have some animals pooping near their beds. It is still an unprotected statement, like “no-till”. I get worried bad actors can run amok and ruin it for those of us who are focusing on putting in so much effort to actually do things well. Having someone like you do a video on this term makes a big difference in inching us closer to better farming practices as a whole
It's hard trying to keep the hard definitions from linguistic shift and normalization without being a gatekeeper. Jesse does a good job making it a "here's what it means, how some do it, and some science" presentation.
I absolutely loved this video, gave great explaplanations. Koudos!!
Have a wonderful week. I don't have a lot of time so nI will be using the baked potato and my soil from the woods surrounding my house for tea.
Awe thanks Cheryl! You too!
Great video. I'm getting into growing food now, and stuff like this is super helpful.
Happy to hear ya know Mr. John Kempf. He's been a grand source of information to me and my production. His podcast and webinars are fantastic. Makes sense you'd be associated with em. You're fantastic sir.
Haha i really love watching your videos, and your sence of humour. Makes these videos fun.
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Awesome as always .. 👍🏼
I’m going to have to watch this several times to catch everything. Great video
Nerd here...
Lose many plants each year to mistakes, predators and disease , get too-leggy seedlings, put in hours and hours of work, my wife shares not my love for botany....
But i still do it💚
-your brother from another mother☆
And if all else fails...
Punch some fricking mushroom
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Just a ton of useful and trustable information here, thanks for providing this content
Your videos is the Holy grail of garden 🙌🏾 god bless 🇧🇷
Thank you! This is awesome and helpful!
Enjoyed the video and found the information very, very useful.
I love to see how planting trees and landscaping your garden is really beautiful. Release more videos, I look forward to watching.
Kind regards, Thank you 🥰🥰🥰 amazing
You put me in mind of the wisdom of Chance Gardner (played by Peter Sellers in the movie Being There); not because you're simple because clearly you are anything but, but because your profound message is universal. The important points you make about the soil and giving back when you've taken out should be the cornerstone of any system, including governments and corporations. If you don't feed the soil and allow it to thrive then the system fails; just as if you don't support families and allow them to thrive then the nation will fail and if you don't support the workers and improve the infrastructure of your company then the company will fail. I really appreciate and respect how you deliver your message. You have a clear understanding of how even the smallest part of the system matters and works to keep everything thriving. Your video can be enjoyed just as a gardening guide, and it can be understood as so much more. I've subscribed and look forward to more wisdom. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Laughter is medicine... thanks for adding humor to you video.
For those in the same situation as myself who don't have a large property or town ordinance prevents the ownership of livestock, do what you can to invite wildlife onto your property. I have basically turned my backyard into a food forest with many different types of native species planted along with my food crops. I have all sorts of little critters visiting my property leaving small gifts! I have cover crops in my planting areas which feed wildlife and keep them from eating my crops. I also have tons of flowering herbaceous perennials to invite beneficial and predatory insects onto property to combat pests and feed birds so they don't eat my berries. Sure, some of my stuff gets eaten and I'm okay with that. I don't mind sharing because the presence of all this life on my property gives me life. I don't utilize a traditional compost system in order to prevent a rat issue, so I use bokashi fermentation and compost it in designated raised beds and top dress with it. The soil is amazing and full of life. I also follow some natural farming and jadam principles. Everyone should be regenerating their property with native plants and food. It's the greatest gift you can give yourself, your family and nature.
That sounds amazing! (I think this year is my 'learn about pests and predatory insects' year.) You say you use cover crops to feed the wildlife so they don't eat your vegetables -- what does that look like? Do you plant cover crops that animals would want more than the crops? How does that work with rotation? I'd love to know more and try my hand at something similar!
@@happypirate1000 I have only been utilizing cover crops for the past few seasons so my experience is fairly limited, but I used a 12-species cover crop blend from Build-a-Soil. It seems that the clover is what is eaten most frequently but the other plants in the blend attract pollinators. I'm in a dense residential area and don't contend with deer, so my visitors are generally small mammals and birds. Most of my neighbors have only grass and very little, if any, plants in their yards, so it's nice to see all the critters come onto my property to forage for insects and greens. My focus has been planting native species to attract beneficial predators and pollinators and find that the more native species I bring onto the landscape, the fewer issues I have with my food crops. I'm not trying to grow for resale, just to provide myself with healthy, sustainably grown food free of pesticides, and give back to nature by providing safe areas to forage. I lose very little food to wildlife, pest, or disease. I find tremendous value in the presence of wildlife; from their interaction with my property and closing the loop in the web of life, and the enjoyment they give me. You should check out the book by Masanobu Fukuoka, One-straw Revolution. Also look into KNF (Korean Natural Farming) and Jadam. I ferment all my food scraps using the Bokashi method which later gets composted and built a composting frame for yard scraps with pallets. I also have a vermicompost bin in my basement so I can make compost teas with the castings. Soil health is probably the most important factor in my opinion. As long as your soil is healthy, and you have a diverse planting of native species, everything will work well for you. I think it's also just as important to make sure you find enjoyment in what you're doing.
appreciate the share !
Thanks for the information thanks for sharing
Well done Brother !
your job is great ❤
Hey your in-video extra videos are working again! Awesome.
I'm convinced CZcams just likes to mess with us
I like the term "soil infrastructure." Thank you.
So much excellent information in here!
Hello How are you doing today?
Thanks Jesse your so darn awesome!
Whoever does the video edits is a boss. Gr8 job!
Regenerative agriculture is the best 🌿!
Brilliant! This is where I want to buy my food from for sure!
Awesome to hear you’re working with AEA!
Amazing videos! Thank you so much for all your info! 🌱🌿
Beatiful plants..love it..
Thaaaaank. Wonderful!!!! Old organic farmer..
You are one awesome dude! Thanks
You're always entertaining and informative. Thanks for that. I am going to give the baked potato/soil water a try.
Thank you!❤❤❤❤❤
Thank You for sharing. Great work being done in Australia for example by Charles Massy (Regenerative Agriculture), Geoff Lawton (Permaculture), Peter Andrews ( Natural Sequence Farming ) , Glen Morris (Regenerative Farming Practices - NSW farmer)
Great job Jesse!
Right on. Right oooooon.
Great video!!
admired very hardworking and you depend on organic very nice
I think this is one of your best videos. Very informative. Great information on how to build the soil. I’m digging it!
really really really important !!
Highlighted - the greater the level of diversity, the more healthy and robust the whole. ❤
Brilliant video! Thank you, you go a new subscriber 😊
You are the first content-creator I’ve heard call permaculture “repackaged” indigenous practices, and I appreciate you so much for recognizing that 🙏🏽💗🫶🏽🌱
When he said that I felt personally attacked,, but it is a good point and something i hadn't consideered.
Great video 💪
Great Video! :)
Vegans can still have chickens and sheep for regenerative agriculture. I can provide a nice retirement home to spent hens (but keeping them as pets and not eating them or the occasional stray egg) and culled ewes, allowing them to live out their days in peace.
Then what's wrong with eating their eggs
So I'm no vegan but I'm going the same thing with rabbits and maybe a bird species or two
@@rayanshaikh7349 not a thing
I love those microscope shots of soil, so interesting
Good information. Tq for sharing.
Most of the Regen Ag work seems to have focused on smaller scale like "get that compost put down" which is super hard to scale up to thousands of acres. Growing covers that create compost at the point of use like fall planted Rye/spring planted Oats are very important.
Indeed, there is a different approach for 1000s of acres than smaller scale but with the same goals in mind obviously. The "compost" on larger scales is, like you say, largely cover crops and livestock. The work of Jan Hendrik Cropp is also potentially scalable to more mid-scale farms and worth looking into. To be clear, we have not purchased compost for our farm in nearly two years and what we've used we make by hand (no tractor) so it is possible without endless supplies of compost.
Compost is like crack cocaine. The first bag should be free.
I only use it to get a smooth seed bed. Mostly, I spot compost even when direct seeding.
Cover crops, leaf mould mulch & vermi-compost extract has greatly reduced my need for compost.
Elaine Ingham approach is to use activated compost tea over large areas. There is a great video on this if you search lower Blackwood landcare group
The density of quality information in this video is, I'm sure, in direct contrast to the density of your soil.
Great video! nice to recenter on fondamentals. I wanted to thank you because I learn about cover crops from you. It's too cold here for doing it outside and was unpractical to heat the greenhouse for that. I adapted, in the greenhouse, the covercrop so it can be eat before put it in the ground. For now I use mustard, corn salade and peas that I mix with sprouted buckwheat. 8x12 feet cover the salad needs of my familly early as march. Not bad I guess considering it's often still -20 C outside in the day. If you ever come by Quebec, Canada, try to come by the AttribuT farm. Always an honor to give back the adaptation of what we learn from others.
Thanks Jesse! Winced a little at the Permaculture jab and am grateful for them repackaging and teaching indigenous practices. Nonetheless appreciate your info addressing the soil health and your book are great. Love your inclusion and insightful overviewiew of soil health, techniques to scale, andthe thanks for the inclusion of biochar, natural farming along with JADAM. Very well done in such a short time frame.
Hello How are you doing today?
Awesome video!!!
Great vids!
Great info!!!
Very useful and entertaining summary of approaches to regenerative farming.
Regarding animals, one thing comes to mind for microgardeners: aquaculture.
Planted (Sweetwater) aquariums or ponds can provide another good input of nitrogen and microbes. Just make sure the excess macro algae/fish wastes cook long enough in the compost before applying to any soil being actively used for food purposes.