Powerful video. I've read about these ideas, but the demonstrations are so effective at bringing the ideas to life! Thank you for sharing this. Ray is an excellent teacher doing his best to share his wisdom. Thank you, Ray.
when water can't enter the soil; the soil enters the water. as it all washes away, the mounds of soil we call home will fall into the valleys of the ocean, we fall and oceans rise. theres a indigenous story about how a long time ago a flood took over the earth, and a muskrat dove to the bottom of the water to pull up a mound of dirt. its said with the help of all the animals, plants and our ancestors, we sang and cared for that mound of dirt on the back of a turtle. and we grew this mound of dirt into the very land under our feet here in the americas. this is why we call it turtle island. and i think this is very relavant. you are showing us how difficult it is to keep soil on a turtles back. you are showing us how we are letting our home wash away into the ocean, all our ancestors hard work. thank you for caring about the soil ! ᒥᒃᐌᒡ
Great presentation! Healthy Soil IMO is the key to mankind's and Ag biggest problems. Main problem 1: Bare overheated soil, too much tillage, soil starvation, agreggate destruction, Carbon is not sequestrated but oxidized into CO2. Main problem 2: Soil compaction, soil traffic pan, uncontrolled field traffic, even worse in forests on slopes, forest roads after harvesting wood left compacted, uncontrolled overgrazed pastures...[Hidden hunger, stable yields for growing population, farm profitability, water scarcity and water quality, erosion, flash floods, water eutrophication, human microbiome health and immunity, synthetic plant protection product and fertilizer overuse, wells drying up...] #MimicNature #ClimateError
This test never gets old. I've been following the regenerative ag movement for about a decade now. The Earth never ceases to amaze me. And some day I hope to be in a place where I can do this. I grew up in Iowa and recently moved back. I drive by conveniently treated fields every day. It sucks. But there's definitely hope.
Its time to get out of conventional & conservative ideas and move on to regenerative and progressive ideas that work for people who aren't billionaires and have to work for a living. If you make dollars per hour and work to take a home a paycheck (small or large) or you are hands on producing, you are part of the workers. No worker deserves to die or be maimed just to make a living, especially if there is a CEO getting rich off your labor.
I’m curious why you hung a “conservative” label on the idea of conventional farming. Do you see the method of practice as being aligned with a political viewpoint or am I overthinking that comment?
I'm not hanging a conservative label on conventional farmers. The majority of "red states" and conventional farmers make the claim that they have conservative ideals. I think they are less conservative than they believe they are. If you read carefully, you will notice I'm asking them to not hang on to "the label" because its worthless to people who aren't billionaires or CEOs of corporations.
Powerful video. I've read about these ideas, but the demonstrations are so effective at bringing the ideas to life! Thank you for sharing this. Ray is an excellent teacher doing his best to share his wisdom. Thank you, Ray.
when water can't enter the soil; the soil enters the water.
as it all washes away, the mounds of soil we call home will fall into the valleys of the ocean, we fall and oceans rise.
theres a indigenous story about how a long time ago a flood took over the earth, and a muskrat dove to the bottom of the water to pull up a mound of dirt.
its said with the help of all the animals, plants and our ancestors, we sang and cared for that mound of dirt on the back of a turtle. and we grew this mound of dirt into the very land under our feet here in the americas.
this is why we call it turtle island.
and i think this is very relavant.
you are showing us how difficult it is to keep soil on a turtles back. you are showing us how we are letting our home wash away into the ocean, all our ancestors hard work.
thank you for caring about the soil !
ᒥᒃᐌᒡ
He sure is a great presenter!
Ray is a legend. Keep preaching!
Great presentation! Healthy Soil IMO is the key to mankind's and Ag biggest problems. Main problem 1: Bare overheated soil, too much tillage, soil starvation, agreggate destruction, Carbon is not sequestrated but oxidized into CO2. Main problem 2: Soil compaction, soil traffic pan, uncontrolled field traffic, even worse in forests on slopes, forest roads after harvesting wood left compacted, uncontrolled overgrazed pastures...[Hidden hunger, stable yields for growing population, farm profitability, water scarcity and water quality, erosion, flash floods, water eutrophication, human microbiome health and immunity, synthetic plant protection product and fertilizer overuse, wells drying up...] #MimicNature #ClimateError
This test never gets old. I've been following the regenerative ag movement for about a decade now. The Earth never ceases to amaze me. And some day I hope to be in a place where I can do this. I grew up in Iowa and recently moved back. I drive by conveniently treated fields every day. It sucks. But there's definitely hope.
I saw Ray do this demonstration years ago. Totally mind-blowing and practice-altering.
Its time to get out of conventional & conservative ideas and move on to regenerative and progressive ideas that work for people who aren't billionaires and have to work for a living. If you make dollars per hour and work to take a home a paycheck (small or large) or you are hands on producing, you are part of the workers. No worker deserves to die or be maimed just to make a living, especially if there is a CEO getting rich off your labor.
I’m curious why you hung a “conservative” label on the idea of conventional farming. Do you see the method of practice as being aligned with a political viewpoint or am I overthinking that comment?
I'm not hanging a conservative label on conventional farmers. The majority of "red states" and conventional farmers make the claim that they have conservative ideals. I think they are less conservative than they believe they are. If you read carefully, you will notice I'm asking them to not hang on to "the label" because its worthless to people who aren't billionaires or CEOs of corporations.