Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem Part 3 with Gabe Brown
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2017
- Gabe Brown of Brown’s Ranch in Bismarck, ND, shares his transformative journey of cultivating his farm from modern conventional use to a thriving living ecosystem. Through no-till and extensive cover crop usage, Gabe and his family are able to support a diverse array of farm and ranching enterprises that are both profitable and models of sustainability in regenerative agriculture. Learn more at www.brownsranch.us
I'm not a farmer, i actually live in a high rise condo downtown capitol city, and I just finished watching your videos back to back to back,now when i drive past those heavy till fields, often empty many many months, i just feel so sorry, for the farmer, for the land, and for the quality loss, i miss abundant diversity and water supply... I could never afford my own farm but i will spread the knowledges as far and wide as i can! keep up the great work!
you dont need a whole farm, just move outside of the city to a semi rural/suburban area and get a few acres of land and grow a food forest garden. if this video interests you i bet "urban permaculture by geoff lawton" will really peak your interests. it shows all kinds of examples of people in cities with almost no land growing alot of food. regenerative agriculture is the first steps before premaculture which is designed to create climax old growth forests that just happen to be food forests that grow what we choose.
One thing I LOVE about Gabe, is that he does so many things! I’ve had people tell me that I’m just doing too many things to be good at any of them. Well, Gabe is proof that they’re wrong. Thanks Gabe!
They're laughing at you because you're different.
@@vivalaletaI'm laughing at him cause he cares what others think.
"We have a 200 year plan." Outstanding!
I know, what a statement!
Too many people have a 40 year plan tops
It's kind of sick when you put the perspective to that
How long did it take to build the cathedrals of Europe?:)
THANK YOU, VERY MUCH, GABE BROWN, FOR THIS PROFOUNDLY INTERESTING, AMAZING LECTURE/PRESENTATION!!!...("SHARED")!!!
Watching your videos from Tanzania in Africa and for sure am so motivated. Soon I will retire having worked as an auto-mechanic for over 25 yrs and I will be doing farming. After listening to this video I am sure I will be busy enough to remain relevant in the society. Am not interested in making huge profits but as you say, whatever you have on the farm has to add value in one way or the other. for me this is key.
This is becoming my entertainment: learning is fun again.
Well said, i agree, ive probably watched the 3 videos in this series about 15 times. And am still learning new things each time.
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My home is surrounded on 3 sides by organic farmland. The 4th side is Chemical based farming. I have watched small herds of whitetail deer leave the cover of woods, walk through the Chemical based field and eat in the organic fields, in the wide open, with no protection nearby.
Animals KNOW the difference.
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Great content! I teach high school science and am teaching regenerative thinking to my students.
Young Farmer here working with an organic operation, and it was a teacher like you that helped nourish my interest in regenerative farming. Keep up the good work dear stranger! lol
Not a farmer, but This video awakened me this morning and found it fascinating! You are very inventive and creative. Many farmers do not have your curiousity, energy, and interest in the environment. I used to garden, now I only grow orchids, yet my respect and interest in creators like you never wanes.
I'm not a farmer, I am retired and I look around CZcams. My grandparents all came from Nebraska farmers near the capital, their parents and grandparents homesteaded the state. And now I understand a little more about their stories - and their confusion by what was happening to the food they got in their old age from grocery stores. This was fascinating. I want to learn more!
Mr . Brown, I can relate to you in more ways than I can imagine. you are a "man's man". No B.S. Telling it like it is. Truly a rare commodity.
I want to thank you for the message.
Absolutely fantastic, this gentleman has a wise mind and a fire that catches and spreads, I would love to learn and grow alongside somebody like this!
56 and plenty of life in me and this is the life I want to live, instead im temporarily trapped into factory work that just yields being a consumer instead of making the world a better place to live.
Soil health is wealth, sustainable farming is hard work but the only way forward that will allow future generations to thrive.
Hats off to everyone involved here, much love blessings and aloha Gabe Brown, Brownsranch and co. & Living Web Farm's!
Absolutely fantastic presentation!
I study permaculture and regenerative design. It is wonderful to see this on a commercial scale. thank you for bringing it to farmers. hope they listen.
Farmers should be the rich men. They should be the people we want to brown nose. They should be sitting in the house of lords with cleaners taxi drivers perhaps some nurses and fishermen. Instead they have become defeatist and many have given up the battle, happy to inject antibiotics and feed animals plastic pellets and steroids. 'weve heard it all before' breaks my heart to see a field of cows, farmers payig for their own e coli tests and pasteurisation etc... then i have to go to the supermarket to buy some milk imported from overseas! Farmers.... we want DIRECT MILK AND DIRECT MEAT and we want to KNOW what you have fed em!
@@WakeyUpPeople decentralize "RBE", resource based economy, as proposed by Jacque Fresco, founder of the Venus project, with Noomap, now called Holoweb, sitting atop a replacement of the global money system, that enables each person to stake their 1/7billionth of earth towards the construct of THEIR choosing, to attain voluntary systems.
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@@WakeyUpPeople SARS CoV2 testing would be great also. Yikes. As if we needed more reasons to embrace regenerative agriculture and building the soil food web. If we all stopped eating meat, where is that going to take our extensive soil loss problem? I find it odd PETA isn't more concerned with this. BTW, the alternative to fur is plastic and plastic is forever. Leather and fur decomposes back into soil.
USDA refuses to test our meat and poultry for COVID and certainly won't release the testing data. www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/07/usda-wont-require-meat-and-poultry-testing-for-covid-19/
Besides a great explanation of regenerative agriculture and its importance for both nutrition and saving the planet's soils, this was one of the best business videos, i have ever watched.
Perspective - permaculture *is* modern farming for the 21st century, and we'll look back on the decades of the "conventional" chemical farming experiment the same way we look back on bloodletting and medicinal leeches today :) Great stuff!
The same way we talk about pre-dust bowl
On balancing the rations for pigs - In this system, the pigs are probably balancing their amino acids and minerals themselves. As Gabe pointed out, the nutrient content in his crops is higher because his soil is alive. The soil food web makes the minerals in the soil available to the plants, which makes them available to the pigs and other livestock. It's a beautiful thing.
This 3 part series is so great, informative and sensible, love it
a master in regenerative farming, productization and original thoughts in farming ... great!
This was a great series to watch. I bet Gabe and his son are now selling their carbon removal credits to Carbon Trade companies. With the years they have accumulated building their soil, they sit on even more gold by just doing what is right by nature.
I love how he looks to add value to everything. I wish we had more people in my area that would do this. I have found a few pasture raised hogs an occasionally a grass fed beef but they are few an far between.
I am a teacher... I am watching your video for the 3rd time. I now feel like I am able to present your teachings as a form of certifiable information. I am also practicing some of your principles in my garden. Thank you for your teachings. You are always welcome to stay with us in Japan. :)
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thank you for posting these videos! I want to get my master's in agriculture and study regenerative farming for my thesis and this is helping me a lot to figure out how to design my research, talk to advisors, etc.
I'm certainly inspired. This is the first year I'm going to plant without tillage.
Update possible? Curious.. Thank you
Although in my early 50s, I would like to replicate these practices in regenerative agriculture. Thanks for these videos!
Great information. Thanks Gabe for your efforts and willingness to share plus others who help it all happen! God bless you.
Quite useful, all of it, I really liked the stuff from 11:10 when he's telling about what will make you special and that you need to market it to set you apart.
I realize this video is 6+ years old. That being said I'd enjoy conversation with these guys just for my further education in regenerative agriculture.
Gabe is one of my personal heroes. Love the guy!
On working dog pups - Around 36:19, Gabe says they sell non-vaccinated pups at weaning. Many States, especially along the West Coast and east of the Mississippi, have laws about how young pups can be sold (generally at least 8 wks minimum). Many States also require that the pups be vaccinated. Most puppies going to a farm - unlike pet or show puppies that go to classes, or the dog park, etc - have a low chance of being exposed to the diseases the vaccines are supposed to protect them from, but that does not matter. (Or that over vaccination can cause problems, too.)
A lot of States also have a pretty low limit on the number of dogs and/or pups you can sell before you need to have a kennel license. In most places that used to just be a fee, but now it also means an inspection. There are also requirements for things like a dish for every dog, and a dog house for every dog - not too large or too small , even though the dogs may never used them (a lot of livestock guardian dogs won't, or if they bed down in a barn or run-in shelter with the sheep, etc.
Obviously these laws and regulations are not made with working dogs in mind, but officials often will nitpick and can make a dog owner's life miserable, sometimes confiscating dogs from farms (and sometimes other animals, too), threatening or charging them with criminal animal abuse or neglect, etc. This is happening everywhere. One fairly classic example at a regenerative farm in NY: thefreethoughtproject.com/family-farm-raided-animals-seized-trumped-regulatory-charges/
A deeper look at the issues: civileats.com/2015/06/02/how-one-pasture-based-rancher-is-caught-in-the-crosshairs/ Yup, some thought this small pasture-based farm was supposed to have A HEATED BARN. Experienced livestock farmers know that keeping livestock shut indoors can kill them. Sheep, goats, and alpacas are especially susceptible to pneumonia from being kept in barns. Heated barns, if practical, would just kill more of them faster.
Now look at Gabes farm in winter, with his cattle our in the snow and think what these officials and police would have done to him.
Sure, some animals are abused or badly neglected - but as the saying goes, 'one man's ideal of heaven is another's idea of hell'. And vets who really understand livestock are becoming more and more scarce, so the animal rights groups, officials, and police who target backyard farms and pasture-based farms, and basically any farm not an industrial style CAFO, are sometimes up against veterinarians who don't have a clue about farming or livestock. Some of these vets evaluate things from a 'pet as family member' perspective. Others are animal rights activists - but to police and the courts, a vet is a vet is a vet.
This has GOT to change.
Hi Jefferdaughter. Is Gabe's family farm protected from these regulatory interventions? Is regenerative farming on this scale protected somewhat in S. Dakota? Thanks for the information.
This series has been so very, very inspiring! I just bought land and want to do things Gods way, so I believe I've found my calling!
This guy is one of personal my heros.
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Without doubt these three videos are the best I have watched in years. Gabe Brown if you are ever in Thailand you would be so welcome to help us with our rainfed rice monoculture. We have 6 months of no rain and clay soils. Thousands of acres slowly deteriorating under chemical fertilisers and an ancient culture sinking with it.
You may find Volumes One and Two of the books "Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands" by Brad Lancaster to be very helpful.
At the 1:15 hour mark Gabe explains his vested interest in ‘selling’ regenerative agriculture.
You’re awesome, Gabe Brown. Can’t wait to read your book.
If the mark of a good businessman is knowing his numbers, Gabe Brown is a stud. That man knows his operation so intimately his wife is jealous.
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Just wanted to say thanks for putting this out here period I've got a 450 acre tree farm in Kentucky. Just getting to the part where you're talking about letting people hunt on your property. My neighbor son with MS come out and hunt.
I could sell a hunting lease for a lot of money.
Thanks Shawn did not know the differences in the rouñd bales nice to know why some where wrapped
You are a truly pioneer towards great health, and I can see how big business and big pharmaceuticals are against your efforts, because you practice is making life better and healthy, as opposed to big business.
This is very exciting info, thank you for sharing the knowledge with us.
Gabe, thankyou for sharing all what you have learned. The future is in maintaining our ecosystems if we do not then we will face desertification.
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What awesome information. Gives me hope for cultivating my small 3 1/2 acre piece of property.
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Thanks for sharing these examples! Generous! To abundance and sustainable!
Great information in this video
20 years ago I bought some leaks and cabbage and put them in the car. I returned a few minutes later and the whole car was filled with the scent of leak and cabbage. Now, I could pack a 100 leaks in my car and smell nothing! No wonder artificial flavours are in abundance … we're trying to add flavour to something that should already taste good.
Ooooh, so right. I bought leeks about 2 months ago that smelled like those roses you buy at the grocery store. It was.... offputting. : /
Thank you for sharing this
Great content I really learned a lot. Thanks.
Absolutely wonderful presentation.
Nutrient content of food is much less than it was years ago and I agree, it is due to the lack of goodness gained from the food sold in supermarkets - picked before ripe, from low nutrient soil, stored, gassed to ripen and then available all year round - and sometimes it is as nutritious a cork with a similar taste and texture; it just rolls around in my mouth with little or no enjoyment.
Without chemical flavor enhancers and chemicals that the FDA allows food processors to add under ingredient list term 'natural flavorings', or refined sugars- Flavor = Nutrients.
When eating regeneratively produced foods - vegetables, meats, milk and products from the dairy, and fruits - many people are finding they are more satisfied with smaller portions. The flavors are noticeably better, and the food is more filling. No doubt our bodies can tell there is more nutrition in food grown on living soils, without synthetic chemicals.
Note: When enjoying genuinely naturally raised and grassfed meats, we should not be afraid of the fats. Humans need fat for developing and maintaining the brain (~80% fat), nerve sheaths, generating Vit D in the skin with sunshine exposure, building the hormones that regulate essentially all processes in the body, and every cell membrane needs fat for the structure. Quality fats - NOT processed seed oils cleverly marketed as 'vegetable' oils and shortenings. Fats from animal sources are ideal, including meats, egg yokes, and butterfat.
Sally Fallon Morel, Weston A. Price Foundation - Nourishing Traditions czcams.com/video/mMHlJlo89I0/video.html
Dr. Stephen Phinney, 'The Case for Nutritional Ketosis' czcams.com/video/_evJd_iZZzs/video.html
Nina Teicholtz, The Big Fat Surprise' czcams.com/video/p_EC4ZmxPIM/video.html
I'm so happy I found You! I'm trying to do this very thing in the Philippines on a tiny scale in about 1 acre though it is still pristine untouched soil at this point. Where can I get more info on choosing the right complementary crops to grow most legumes and vegestable? any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you.
Rey Tamayo look for info on the salt system developed for steep farms in Philippines.
"Managing Cover Crops Profitably" at SARE.com is a free book on cover cropping that goes into details about each plant such as what it contributes, any drawbacks, etc. Use it as a free information resource.
sare.com does not exist..is there another site?..ahh..finally found it.. sare.org
Good all around topic. Love it a lot. Lots of information is explained in a book, Regenerating Farms & Gardens available on Amazon.
I find all this fascinating. I'm in business in farther North California, serve framers/ranchers but only a home gardener. I collect truckloads of wood chips for my modest yard and 'orchard recycling' is my bread and butter.
So much good information in this video. Love it!
If you are in or near a growing urban base, what is to prevent future politicians from confiscating your land via emanate domain on behalf of developers to build on, thereby increasing the city's tax base? Many other productive farm lands have been "priced" out of existence; some against the will of the owners. Can you create a Farmland Trust with a Conservation Easment...thereby insuring your property is farmland in perpetuity..?
A good question, worth looking at and politicking towards the preservation of farmland.
Great info. The older man in the front row looks like Eustice Conway from Mountain Men on Discovery Chanel in the Mountains of NC. lol
I thought the same thing!
really appreciate these videos - super cool stuff
I enjoyed all of the 3 parts. No-till vs. till, how important soil biology is for infiltration etc. But at @1:15:55 and at 1:17:00 that was such a great theater, hahaha. Big thumbs up!
This is just beautiful!
I fell asleep listening to music on CZcams and it took me here
I hope you enjoyed it here 😃
Soge King, where is the land of Snipers at?
Same. Fell asleep listening to music and heard a man talking , I woke to this playing at 2AM. It peaked my interest so I woke up and watched it till the end.
Thank you Gabe. Thank you.
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Wish I could come and work on your operation for about a year, so I can learn first hand how I can mimic and know how not to do things.
How can I come work for you?
The Big Ag is trying to outsmart nature, creating other problems to solve. I think running the farm as an ecosystem and cohesion with nature is necessary. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome videos!
My complments to the sound person on this video.
Thanks for the insight.
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I will be keenly trying to follow in your footsteps in a Tiny scale with no profit margin in the UK something has to change. Hopefully we can change that with your methods just not sure how to kill if the cover crops without poaching the ground with high stocking density as our winters are often wet to flooded and mostly above freezing... Do you have a particular type of roller on a thick cover
Regenerative agriculture.
Love it!
It's Co-operative Careship.
Well, on the way.
Add Social Purpose and well! On the way!
See ICA Principle7
Thank you
I appreciate all the info, and I am trying to apply all the princaples. What do we as farmers do in the current situation?
We do our best!
Please help in RSA? Thank you friend.
Also watching from RSA, hope to get this going in the Northern Cape. Where are you?
@@barberton3695 Western Cape
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Wow this was 4 years ago insane
Looking for PART TWO.
ONE AND THREE EASY TO FIND WHERE IS Pt.2?
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It's here on CZcams. Just watched it before this one(3)
love this #livingsoil
I love to see this man passing it down to his kids. I Canada here a lot of kids do not take up the family bussiness and the chinese are buying up land and driving up land prices in the rural praries. The china actual bought somemajor canadian industry to previously owned domestically. This means the CCP has power and control in our polotics when they own a lot of our land and food production and bussiness.
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Preach brother this must be the new way of producing food for everyone heal the earth and eat healthy #farmersaredope = instagram
Fantastic
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I’d vote for you for president. And I am not kidding you.
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would biocharcoal not be a way 2 make this even bether? it holds reserve of nutrience, water and is carbon, that dont degrate.
mby goats 2 strip the bark, chip it, musrooms 2 sell, biochar it 2 get heat in winter, let the pigs eat and spread it.
I wonder why donkeys aren't used instead of dogs to protect sheep.
It's possible they don't know about donkeys as an option. Good point
Living Web Farms Are you on Steemit?
You ever think the cattle grazing land to land, lead cow/bull leading you to best land?
. Good info video & a farmer in Virginia, told me that a adult deer eats $200 dollars of soybeans in a season. What do ta say ? We have white tail, do ya have bigger black tail deer ?
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How many people work this operation?
Gabe said it was just himself, his wife and his son, with 4 summer interns that apparently are not a great deal of help :-)
Watched a documentary on DW news an English Speaking German news channel here on CZcams. It was about the nutrient loss in the vegetables nowdays. They found almost 90% loss in nutrition in the tomatoes they got from a large supplier who bred for shelf life. Almost like they couldn't have done a worse job turning the food into cardboard. Soilent green is cardboard! I think it was vitamin C was completely gone. They said the nutrition itself is taste also. You can taste and smell the nutrition. I sometimes wonder...
Also watched a documentary on Canada's news channel and they revealed the seedy underbelly of the farmer's markets. People selling veggies that they bought from a major supplier at wholesale. Some lie and say they grew it. Some don't and just say it's not illegal. Ridiculous. You can't trust anything anymore.
Great talk. I don't have the ability to have animals but my 2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels but we are doing a medicinal garden. Veggies relay planted for juicing ect and medicinal plants and mushrooms. Got my wood chipper for Christmas and went to town on the red alder all over the place. Got the world's largest bull kelp too. I did Hugelkulture using whole kelp 'logs' buried next to the logs for nitrogen. Kelp is also fun to put thru the wood chipper 😁
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Does anyone know Mr Gabe Brown's email address?
Been looking for it and can't find it anywhere.
Thank you in advance.
I'd market on the terms: pastoral, heirloom, and nutrient density, because big busine$$ organic has made organic mean almost nothing.
How the hen mobiles work at about the 45 minute mark.
Great stuff Gabe. Just a note from a Limey - Berkshire is pronounced Bark-sher. Gloucester is pronounced Gloss-ta. You don't want to insult your pigs :)
$7 dollar corn in a $4 market? Maybe his profit is in seminars!
Artificial hormones give great strength but at the cost of higher division rate and subsequent shortening of telomeres.
Looking for some guidance on how to start a farm. Anyone you know in the San Antonio area that can point me in the right direction?
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I really hope his son got married XD
I did a test with honey bee's eating ground roundup ready corn from TSC, No bee was acting normal, headstands, rolling over, walking along the ground & wobbling when walking. I ground down some of my regenerative organic heirloom corn. A pan a 1/4 of the RR corn pan & went about chores. I came back about 15 minutes later. Every one of those bee's was in my organic corn & not one bee in the RR corn pan. Not several bee's, but thousands from 11 honey supers, I did the same with deer & squirrels too, they would only consume the RR corn if No organic corn was available. That is nature screaming" We hate this toxic crap". One's who love it, big oil & chemical & corrupt politician's. I'm following nature, not the corruption committee's.
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Used to be, Organic certification, (before the government was certifying), was true organics, and not too difficult. Now it is a huge effort, and it is just a vehicle for non-organic practices by big corporations to rubber-stamp their product as organic.
Great video (until he got to compost and fungal inoculation). Mycorrhizal fungus will not grow in compost. They require roots.
How about leaf mold?
@@veritasvincit2251 They will not grow in leaf mold either. They require a living root to propagate.
@@gardenfornutrition6373 Thank you for the reply. It's been a quandary for me
Who is the people from South Africa and how can i make contact with them, i am also in the RSA.
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It's not just soil health that affects nutrient density but the seeds.. people grow GMO now.. heirlooms have more nutrients and better taste. GMO yields higher and longer shelve life
US spends more money on health care than any other country in the world, (1:39:00) but 42nd healthiest country. Deer prefer Gabe‘s open pollinated corn. “70 different species in a chaos garden”
I have a concern in regards to interns. We must protect the soil however we must not abuse labor
Interns are a voluntary labor force, the bulk of their “wages” come in priceless experience and knowledge. No one is applying for these internships (or any) for monetary reasons. The primary goal is to develop their own skills by apprenticing a master of that trade .
Those whiskers are for tallest plants not for nutrient density.
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