Changing Paradigms | Regenerative Agriculture: a Solution to our Global Crisis? | Full Documentary
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2021
- Tom’s Outdoors is based in Tumut nestled in the Snowy Valleys, enclosed by Kosciusko National Park and rural farmland. Our home in the outdoors is our lifeblood and the lifeblood of our beloved home is agriculture. The climate crisis concerns us deeply and we are passionate about the longevity of our rural country town and its neighbours.
“Changing Paradigms” explores the power of regenerative agriculture in improving the natural environment, human health, and reliable profit in sheep farming. We, as humans, have an innate attraction to the natural world. But, the way we currently interact with the environment is unsustainable and causing a disconnect with nature. We have one generation, our generation, to take action and change the paradigm.
Charles Massy (author of “Call of the Reed Warbler”) and Norm Smith both take a sustainable, systems thinking approach to sheep farming. They have moved away from industrial practices of land clearing and using chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Now they work with nature rather than against it, in turn, reviving the once over-grazed land. The power of regenerative agriculture is even greater than improving the profitability and resilience of family farms, the implications on planetary and human health are tremendously positive.
Filmed and directed by Henry Smith
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Absolutely brilliant and beautiful film! So grateful to stumble upon this gem and see Charlie and Norm's stories out there for the world to see. Thank you for sharing this in-depth look at Holistic Management and the paradigm shift it's creating for folks!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for sharing on your channel!
Both of y'all are doing your part. Now it's my turn. I'm unplugging; married, 3 kids, subconsciously and complicit in human impact, until NOW. Excited to use the rest of my life in a prayer to and for this 🌎
Put me to work 🙏🏼
Ahô ♥️🙏🏼
Great job buddy .from Canada 🇨🇦
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your right I live in the US we are dead.
Powerful words!
USA. We’re killing our children. Your absolutely correct. I’m scared for all our future. If large farmers don’t make drastic changes !
@@SJA-ox3hs This is happening in the United States. Watch Gabe Brown’s videos.
@@SJA-ox3hs You are such an ignorant liar!!! American is STILL the most productive country on Earth. But...but... how could that be after you said we are dead because our soils are depleted???
Recently, I thought my depression about the world, the environment, would win the day. Then I started looking into gardening, and then into no dig gardening, and then into what is happening in regenerative farming. The hope I now feel is something I didn’t think I’d feel again. Thank you for helping our earth.
Check out the Paani Foundation and what they’re doing in India, as well as permaculture in the Loess plateau in China. Those two projects gave me my hope back.
Me too. So much to learn, but all makes perfect sense…
We are 100% with you. The more I learned about the state of the planet the more I despaired. I can't recall just how I heard about regenerative farming but it was a Gabe Brown video. I was so hungry for any hope and I've found it.
Look into the works of Japanese Natural Farmer, Masanobu Fukuoka :)
@@natanielh.7538 Is it you posting this under regenerative videos?
I’m an Aussie and bought an acre in Spain, the property was dry hard dirt and in only a few months it’s back to green grass and full of flowers, my veggies are fed grass, water and sun no chemicals or fertilisers.
Great work!
Hobby gardens are fine but they can never feed the world. We need high intensity agriculture for that. We'd have to raze half of the remaining forests on Earth to grow all we need using your rainbow unicorn farm fad.
That’s amazing! Why Spain? :)
@@popeyegordon you’re right I should have been born into a rich family with 1000hectares already damn my b.
@@planterbanter I like it here, the weather is sunny all year.
these guys are bloody heroes buy a country mile.
They sure are!
All it takes is a few bold farmers to embrace change. Don't be jealous of them, be educated, and guided by them 🌱
I’m so glad that regenerative agriculture is becoming more and more widespread! We need to make it the only way to farm, and look after our land 🙏🏽💚🌱
Lets all share this program to all landholders. Would be great to hear what efforts landholders are undertaking at present. We have reduced synthetic fertiliser by 30% with a phase out over 3 years replacing with guano fertiliser. Introducing protozoa, beneficial microbes (from Graeme SAIT) , adding vermicast from self managed worm farm. Adding humates with all granulers, adding fulvic acid with all liquids. Big thanks to Graeme Sait and Nicole Masters. Cover cropping with lucerne under cereals. All legumes are left alone in cereal crops. My boys learning more, never stop learning.
I am glad and happy that you have changed the way you think. It is not just about the money.!!! My old Grandfather told me years ago that we are custodians of the land, that's all, as it will be there long after we are gone. So if you ever purchase land , make it as fertile as you can for the next generations. Don't just have one type of animal using it and grow all different kinds produce and trees.. This is not something new, it is just more people are realizing that pesticides & herbicides are not really needed which saves them money straight off the back.. Well done, keep up the good work.
This man's book changed my life.
....me too!...
mine too!
My paradigm is changing and heavens help us... Teach old dogs like me new ways of living and feed those hungry young pups who are gonna drive the cultural revolution 👀
Big up and eternal love from some of us in the US (not all of us are lost souls 🙏🏼)🌎🕊️💞
One wonders after witnessing whats going on next door, Charlies neighbour hasnt yet begun to question his own farming methods. Massy among a handful of greats including Peter Marshall on water, that have begged to be listened to for decades. Australia and parts of the world it seems needs to be dragged kicking and screaming to see the light, lets hope its sooner rather than later. Great film, Regards.
I have been using this same thinking for years now. We use what we need to for our rabbits, chickens and ducks and get them onto a new patch of natural grazing within the week.
We're seeing the results already. This lot was traditionally farmed (sprays and whatnot) before we purchased it. Now, three years on, deer come to graze our pasture. Not our neighbors to the north. Not our neighbors to the south.
One of those neighbors asked why the deer aren't afraid of us. I told him they are afraid of us but our pasture is so much better tasting and nutritious, compared to yours, that they are willing to risk it.
He laughed and said I was full of crap but still the deer graze my lot. Not his.
They spray. I don't. The deer tell me who's correct.
Wonderful reading this!!
Yes Brother 🙏🏼🕊️
Those old habits of land management have given our cousins in nature NO reason to hang around with most of us humans. But YOU, Rofl, are leading the FAMILY REUNION 🕊️✨🥰🌄💞
Shoot, something as wild as I might show up some day 😂🤦🏼♂️
Amazing, well done on land management ❤️
@@tesha199 thanks. Though, truthfully, it is easier than you think.
@@roflstomps324 it also comes with its problems, pushback and so on
What a gift to be working in the Regen space for over 10 years! We have been working with change-makers all over the world and we have seen this movement unfold from people feeling alone and isolated and now in 2021 getting closer to mainstream. What a journey and excited that this news is spreading wide and far.
I warmly recommend Charles Massy's book. It is great!
This is a stunning encapsulation of the positive impact regenerative agriculture can have on land, our health and climate change. What a beautiful film.
Decide to see your farm in 30 years, maybe longer ... and you’ll see it. We need men like you to assume they get to stay longer than expected . Thanks for your work. ❤️
Last I went along to a Climate Change Symposium at Central Queensland University arranged by the Capricorn Conservation Council. One of the speakers was a local glazier of cattle, he was promoting the same idea. His property outside of Rockhampton, Qld. had dramatically change since using the principal for the better. Wonderful documentary, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I am a big believer in what people on the land long ago can tell us about the care of the land, and farming long before chemicals. We hear so much about the word 'substainability' these days, farming the same piece of land for hundreds of years is the perfect example for me.
I just visited Polyface farms, it was so beautiful!! Regenerative Farming is wonderful, uplifting, inspiring and hopeful. Just do it!
Bought 33 acres in Australia, 2 years ago. Always been of the organic mindset. We are certainly turning things around slowly. A couple of acres is full of fruit trees , shrubs , plants etc. our sheep and 4 cows run on the rest with out fowl. Looking forward to turning things around over the next few years.
Of note, we have started to get more thistles ( look similar to the ones you showed) our Dorper sheep absolutely love them and are expecting a large drop in thistles next season. As they eat them before seeding.
This is phenomenal. The cinematography, the message, the farm, and its story. Well done.
I'm adding to my list of videos I use to convert people to a better way of living.
Ive started my own business doing bush regeneration and rural maintenance. I love this stuff, its where my heart is and I belong.
Really remarkable. Greetings from Germany. Wish there would be also a change in agriculture overhere.
I’m sure there is. It’s being done all over Europe. The most famous one is in Austria. Sepp Holtzers farm. I would be very surprised if you didn’t have regen farms in Germany. I have been in this game for years and follow it more I guess. The mainstream will never show you this stuff, they need to keep the anti human rhetoric up.
Wagnegien University in the Netherlands offers free EdX coursework for anyone interested 💞
I took a course on "Soil Health" and think everyone 12 or older should take their course too 🙏🏼✨🕊️🤟🏼
Bless
This is such a special film! Amazing! Thank goodness farming heros like this family exist.
Thanks! We owe a lot to farming heroes like these!
Great story, needs to become mainstream
Regenerative agriculture is one of the most important things we can do to improve the health & diversity of all life on our planet. Thank you for making this documentary!
Thank you for watching!
This was a stunning film, beautifully made. Massive props to the farmers out there switching to these methods and really helping the planet 🙏
Great stuff! There is a bright future ahead for us if we can institute better farming practices. In a parallel development Cattle farming has been in used in Ethiopia and Kenya to regenerate savannah. The change from semi desert to bushy and wooded grasslands happened quite quickly with almost full recovery within five years. The planet has it all figured out already we just need to work with Ma nature not against her.
I love this regenerative farming, taking care of the soil biology and people really showing that there’s a better way to taking care of the land and having a living but can anyone recommend a video where they show the steps on how they start to finish land transformation What are they doing first what’s the least expensive best thing I can do.
This video is great! Thank you for creating this!
Thanks for the comment Ray, we appreciate it!
Congratulations Tom's Outdoors. A thoughtfully directed film that simply communicates the most important message in Agriculture.
Genesis 24:24
Thanks for uplifting the nations..
Stay blessed
Love this stuff, so exciting
Something I watched years ago in Australia was the philosophy that all ‘weeds ‘ have a place in our ecosystem…weeds help collect and direct water from the highlands to the plains…back then it was not a notion well thought of, however made perfect sense to me. Nature does balance everything out and she is able to sort out any problems that occur naturally…
yes, we need to change, change a big time, 40% of ready to eat food in USA is been trow away every day, shame,. We need to reduce this , big time, no more cheap food, but fair price and eat but do not waste. Buy only the stuff You need, and buy quality stuff, stuff that last, like 10 years, and if not then do not buy junk, You are what You eat and what You consume. TH
Unreal well done Henry Smith 🤝
Fantastic work!
Thanks guys, I love your work!
Great video with such a powerful message. If we can only get this message to the millions who don’t have a clue about our planet and what it is we need to live a good healthy life - thank you!!!
This was brilliant.
Thank you and greetings from Portugal.
Brilliant stuff! We need to spread this far and wide.
Thanks Adam, We totally agree!
Awesome inspirational film!
I just purchased a 8 acre homestead that has a lot of potential. I want to work it similarly as these guys.
Thanks! Best of luck!
Really REALLY fantastic documentary. I will share this as much as I can. Very important message and extreamely well narated, filmed and edited. Thank you for making this. Regen is our pathway into the future.
Much appreciated! Its an important subject that's for sure!
I'm proud to only be 2 weeks behind the Weedy Garden in my observation of this digestible and accessable message.
You both are inspiration🧘🏼♂️🌄🕊️
Yeah, I had the urge to hand out thumbs up 👍 and comment something, and also share
Greg Judy and Joel Salitan are doing the same great work over in the USA you all are the answer to saving our beautiful planet and many more like you. Thank you for trying ❤🇦🇺
Thank you for taking the time to make this doc and to all of you regenerative super heroes!
Glad you enjoyed it Michael!
There's a few things that makes me wonder why people do the things they do. Smoking is one, and why farmers are still ploughing, spraying and cultivating soils when it's proven so many times that it's wrong for our environment. Without soil we don't eat. Great docco
Thankyou Wilhelm! couldn't agree more!
When you live in poverty, and the only food available is the worst type for our planet, that is the food that is purchased. Being in poverty then impacts health care, as does the poor food quality. When a message of hatred is spewed nearly 24/7 on news networks, convincing you that you have forces trying to control you, it is easy to want to escape in whatever way works. Deliberate corporate decisions are made in the interests of profit --- even if they know that, like a parasite, their product is deadly.
Several years ago I thought up a clever sentence for the fly-leaf of a novel I was writing. At the time I thought it was a profound statement/sentiment... but now I see it as being the norm for humans
The heros of my book, trying to turn back the destructive tide of climate change, say that they wish to eliminate the power of the darkest forces on the planet, those who put the needs of their power over the needs of their progeny.
Alas, that seems to be the natural state of mankind.
That is absolutely NOT proven even once, let alone many times. You lied. Your 'without soil' nonsense is noted. No methods used today damage soils and many improve it. This thread is a cluster f*ck of myths and woo. geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/03/26/viewpoint-unprecedented-abundance-obscures-the-profound-public-health-benefits-of-pesticide-use/ Highly efficient GMO crop science involves the no-till method and winter cover crops: czcams.com/video/09LjhYW0RRQ/video.html
@@popeyegordon So your soil is super productive?
@@billiebruv All soil has that potential. The highest production per acre is high intensity agriculture which leaves the most land undisturbed. Anything you do to land disturbs it from its natural state. GMO crop science employs the no-till method, winter cover crops and more farmers are now using drones to see where they can cut back on water, pesticides or fertilizers. Wilhelm at the top here posted a lie about tilling and about the vital need for spraying pesticides. geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/03/26/viewpoint-unprecedented-abundance-obscures-the-profound-public-health-benefits-of-pesticide-use/
I wish I had a way to share this documentary with many, many people. The explanations are clear and well presented.
Brenda, share it with your loved ones 🙏🏼✨
That's how I started. Bless
What a beautiful documentary!
Thanks to all involved - enormous value in creating and sharing such critically important work.
Thankyou for the comment! We really appreciate it
Good farming guys you restore Nature at its own natural habitat.. God bless
Incredible movie, thanks so much for creating this beauty and telling these inspiring stories
Our pleasure!
Wow what an inspirational video.. I really hope this way of farming becomes the norm.
Incredible. I wish we could change over night and start regenerative farming and bio diverse farming methods as this film demonstrates to save our soil and earth.
Need to incorporate multiple cover crops on your land to replenish the soil. Watch videos on Gabe Brown, in the United States. He knows his stuff.
If not, you’re going to wind up with a desert. It’s not just about moving the sheep off and letting the the plants recover on their own, anymore. Your soil is practically ruined. It needs to be replenished.
amazing! we must save this planet and this is an effective way to do it.
Humble. Curious. Brave.
from: Anch. AK USA 2-03-24....EXCELLENT commentary / analysis ....change is needed ...healthy soil is the first step.
A ver si conseguimos que el algoritmo de youtube sea bondadoso con La Tanina 😊. Gracias por vuestro trabajo. Seguid así que nos encanta el enfoque que le dais a todos los temas que tratáis!
This man is brilliant and soothing. Excellent video!
Music to my ears-regenerative ag.
This is about as succinct as it gets. Great mini-doc.
All good ideas that work as u work in sync with how the Good Lord designed this planet. Balance being key. A variety of fauna & flora goes to breed up birds, insects & biological activity that brings this balance.
What I have added to this mix is placing my Maker as my manager. I look for guidance from above in all things as I do not know what the future will bring, only He does.
Also I have intergrated organic farming principals with finding people who wish to build a small community around the farm.
This is not easy for honesty & a moral standard are needed for that to be achieved.
Yet with guidance from above this is being achieved.
It seems to me that some farmers are literally over focused on the top line and the bottom line. They don’t put enough focus on the bits in the middle - the cost of labour, fertilisers and pesticides.
So good to see Love it. I work in Zambia teaching conservation agriculture. Now looking at how we might bring in the components of regenerative agriculture that could be adopted in context of the local traditions and cultural environment. There has to be a change in paradigms here.
Simply brilliant.
Thankyou David! glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much! I'm gonna become a farmer and I want to use these methods for my farm❤
Keep going. Your doing a fantastic job.
Beautifully filmed!!
Great video. I enjoyed both the production and the message. The more I watch programs about regenerative agriculture and permaculture the more optimistic I become.
Awesome, thank you!
Absolutely inspiring. Thanks for sharing it with us
Great work Tom.
Glad you enjoyed it
It amazes me that we humans know very little about soil given that is where it all began for our civilization. Follow the path of degraded soils and you'll learn plenty of history. The solution is the soil and always was.
I was just in Belize learning of a similar tale. The fall of the Mayans may have many factors, but deforestation and soil degradation are thought to be a large part of it. The article below is from a study from 2012, and while on a tour of Zunantunich (on the border of Guatemala and Belize) they mentioned the difference in land management. You can literally see the deforestation in Guatemala. Time will tell how that goes unless someone can convince them to turn it around. It was really interesting to hear local Belizians know much about their land and echo what's in the literature.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-did-the-mayan-civilization-collapse-a-new-study-points-to-deforestation-and-climate-change-30863026/
@@justiny5385 Thx for the link. Here is a video about guano and Peru, where guano was the fertilizer of choice prior to the 1900's. It was know as white gold. This quest for white gold set America on a path towards world superpower. Also the degraded soils of the 6 colonies helped drive the expansion westward in search for new agricultural lands.
czcams.com/video/DKz_2Fhy9NM/video.html
Great Video guys, great message and I hope it gets more people interested in the idea of Regenerative Agriculture and change the way we live👍
Thanks! We hope so too 🤞
The sad thing is I do share it but there are stubborn dogged people who just won't listen. But happily there are some people who have never heard about it and become very interested!!! I have spoken to plenty people and am encouraging them to source healthier food! And to grow their own greens!
Absolutely loved how you showed the two fields next to each other - one holding water and the other topsoil gone.
Beautiful message to convey
LOVE it. I sent this Vid to my brothers in WA's wheatbelt to PLS watch and CHANGE the way you farm.
EPIC docy - Really important info to be shared - I really hope 'we' can wake up in time to adopt these methods on a more mainstream scale ... it makes sooo much sense, especially when explained so well but these amazing folk actually leading by example 💚✌🌿
This is so well done! And honestly, I agree with Charles - we truly have an opportunity here to change the direction of our planet. If all agriculture became regenerative - I think SOOO much would change, just with this! Thank you for this documentary! I will share with many... let's hope this video can get in front of our decisions makers ASAP!
I don’t have a farm but I only buy organic grass fed food when possible. Thank you for this documentary.
Sir. Save Soil is a global movement to bring in place clear Soil Policies for every single country on the planet, and promote concerted action from the world's public. 🌿
Brilliant we definitely have to change our ways of looking ar what we eat what we do in life
100%!
Do it with me, Brother 🙏🏼🕊️
Bloody well cut vid. The lighting, editing, sound, music and story line. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you for you kind words, much appreciated!
Fantastic, don't know why it is so hard for people to get their heads round it.It simplifies everything and makes life so much easier but you do have to put your own brain into gear and think for yourself which many people seem to have forgotten how to do. Simple things like good soil being a huge carbon sink as is wool. Holistically grazed animals emit less methane also ( include people in this group!!)
Not everyone actually can comprehend how/what is being shared. Let's keep the love in our hearts and minds, those who have a heart will join when they can experience it ✨✨🕊️🧘🏼♂️🌎🧘🏼♂️🕊️✨✨
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... maybe bc they are shareholders in the Monsanto-Bayers, Syngentas, etc. of the world.
You do have to use your brain! I read once that agriculture used to be labor intensive, is now input intensive, and in the future will be planning/thinking intensive
Sadly in the past 3 years it seems most people learned NOTHING. But they will learn sooner or later. The easy way if they seek the truth and the hard way if they don't.
Thank you for this production ❤
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful documentary !
Thanks for sharing this story, seems the way to go and keen to hear more examples like this…👍
I just want to give the older gentleman in the blue shirt a big hug
Thank you 🙏 ❤
I love this, thank you for making it!
Wonderful documentary. Much needed today.
Brilliant and beautiful film. This is so important for all of us. Thank you for sharing and I'll help spread the word. Regenerative is the medicine to heal the world.
So interesting... mind blowing even
This is so beautiful
thumbs up for well presented Regenerative Agriculture documentary .
absolutely amazing short-film. thanks for uploading, i will turn on my recherching on that theme.
Hi Tom, Thank´s so much for all the effort you put into this subject. Organic and the branding Fairtrade is here to stay.
Thanks for the video. Its good to know that there are people who care and implement those practices. Wishing the best!
Great work . Keep educating.
the way to go
This is a fantastic film that should be shown in schools!
Great film!