Carbon Farming: Harnessing The Power of The Soil
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2019
- John Wick, co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, was just trying to find a way to get rid of weeds on his ranch when he stumbled upon a powerful climate change solution. He learned about an approach to farming that helps sequester carbon in the soil.
Credits:
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: JOEL BACH, DAVID GELBER and DREW MAGRATTEN
WRITER: JOEL BACH
SCRIPT EDITORS: JOEL BACH, JOSH FUTTERSAK, DAVID GELBER, MAYA LILLY, DREW MAGRATTEN and MATT ROSENBAUM
VIDEO EDITOR: ETHAN DAVID
Sources:
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[ia] MALT.org. Carbon Farming. Accessed: Mar 29 2019. www.malt.org/protected-lands/...
[ii] PubMed.Gov. Greenhouse gas emissions from liquid dairy manure: Prediction and mitigation. Jul 18. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
[iii] MarinCarbobProject.org. Compost. Accessed: Mar 29 2019. www.marincarbonproject.org/co...
[iv] EPA.Gov. Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data. Accessed: Mar 29 2019. www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/glob...
On my small property, purchased only 4 years ago, the previous owner scraped the surface bare every year for weed control. The weeds he sought to eliminate only inhabit severely damaged and destroyed soils. He was only cyclicly perpetuating his own problems! I have my work cut out for me!
Good to see simple solutions in saving our planet and our children’s future.
Still need to cover the open dirt with a cover crop or mulch stacked 4"deep at least. Never leave soil open. #SaveSoil
Is anyone really surprised by this? That’s what compost is for. Good animal husbandry 101 move your heard around to replenish fields. This has been done for centuries. Hasn’t it?
No one knew how important it was for carbon capture until now.
@@72marie people have been saying this since the 80s. Not the MSM obviously, this doesn’t suit the agenda. But regenerative ranchers.
@@72marie yes they did that's why they did it. Probably just didn't know it was carbon
What if they also cultivate mycelium beneath the soil as well in order to further potentiate the carbon control? Mycelium feeds on carbon and in turn releases phosphorus and nitrogen into the soil. I hope someone sees this because it’s a profound realization I’ve had.
Sir
May I suggest Sea Weed farming also an additional option for tackling Climate Change
I promise that in any healthy soil, mycelium is cultivating itself just fine. Unless you want a saleable food or other product, you wouldn't need to do anything
@@johntheherbalistg8756 Yeah, but I want to take nutrients out of the soil and (after turning them into plants) eat them. So I need to replenish the soil. biochar helps by retaining nutrients and water, breaking up the soil, and giving that mycelium a place to live.
@@jamesvandamme7786 Yes, but that replenished soil will have plenty mycelium with or without your help, which is my point.
impressive - exactly what my Grandfather used to teach me ...during ww2 traditional Organic farming work for us since the 15 the Century
Have you people never heard of Holiistic Management by Alan Savory?
Thanks for sharing. Excellent information!
great video, but his grazing technique was developed by Allan Savory and utilized by joel salatin for decades, also gabe brown, greg judy and hundreds or thousands of other regenerative farmers/ranchers have been using these techniques for 10 plus years, his video seems kind of myopic considering the huge number of regenerative farmers and academics like Elaine Ingham who have been carrying this torch for many years. Good to see it picking up momentum though.
Exactly! Mark Shepard has been doing similar work with more intention. Do not trust this Wick guy...
You know your shit.. yes allan savory.. I'm going to study his book once I'm out of the city
Yes, this isn’t a secret at all. When proper grazing techniques are used, livestock can be a part of a carbon negative solution! If you haven’t seen the study from White Oak Pastures, check it out in the link here. The science of the carbon cycle is neither understood nor acknowledged by those who want to blame cow farts for climate change, to push their personal agendas. blog.whiteoakpastures.com/blog/carbon-negative-grassfed-beef
"Stumbled upon a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere"
Revolutionary solution: *literally just photosynthesis*
Exactly. These people... They keep at this too. Endless schemes and propaganda trying to take credit for God's creations.
Wow, fertilizing the grass with compost actually made them healthier. This is a brilliant discovery! Ugh.
My Gradpa could've told you that 100 years ago.
Not the obvious concept but the DEGREE of effectiveness as portrayed here is notable.
@@Mrbfgray actually they didn't explain much in what degree carbon was being stored in the land. If this is to be a solution, grass would have to store far more carbon than a forested area covering the same patch.
Sadly, a huge majority Americans have little insight about soil, less about compost. Dirt is inert, but soil is alive - highly structured living communities that build micro-infrastructures to live in.
Compost is not the fertilizer for plants, it is food for the living part of the soil, which then feeds the plants. Thats an important distinction.
Cover crops are also very important!!!
Yes they are. Keeps your soil healthy and moisture. Muy bueno
They sure are. They hold nutrients in the soil that have not been made available for the plants. Nutrient gets put in the soil over time and now becomes available for plant roots to take up.
Yes!
Love the American Gothic pose with the weed-whacker. John Wick you have moved the needle so far on this critical issue. Thank you!
No he hasn’t. We have been farming carbon, paddock pasturing and rotating crops for more than 30 years. This is why no-till farming with cover crops work and why organic farming is actually very harsh for the environment.
His name is John Wick! You just don´t mess with John Wick, even if you´re CO2.
So John wick is a farmer now.
Omg John Wick, 👍😁. Awesome name.
He shoots Co2 molecules in the head, then "sequesters" them in the soil.
Brilliant!
Obvious!
John Wick what an awesome name lol.
Pretty sure John wasn't first to the party. Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin, Ray Archuleta and many others have been preaching this gospel for many years.
His name? "John Wick"... enough said
don't kill is dog
So what do you do with the crown manure if it is not being spread on the ground? And where do you get the vegetation to make so much compost?
i wanna ask that too..if how was the process
Using rotational frazing practices the animal spreads the manure and urine. the animal is only on a given paddock for one day at a time and returns only 2 or three times per year to the same spot. compost and manure are both bebefibial to the soil
This is old old farming news, twenty plus years ago.
More like 5 thousand years ago.
Joel Salatin
It's may 6th, 2019 & this vid has 8,140,932 views on facebook, but only 3,130 on youtube.
So this must be the guy that Allan Savory learned this from 30 years ago.
I just take care of the 5 or so acres around the house . I never cut the grass until it goes to seed , never rake it up. It just stays green and thick . I have some low areas that I have filled in , Who can afford to buy expensive top soil and large amounts of grass seed , Seed what you can , never cut the grass until you know it's going to rain . Healthy grass will crowd out a lot of weeds .
Alan Savory, Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin, and many others.
What kind of compost?
New ranch owner with breakthrough discovery. 🙃
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Well, if you don't produce your compost in a very controlled way you will produce of lot of methane. And methane is a 25 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So I am really wondering if the overall balance is favorable...
Methane in compost? If you mean to the extent that swamps produce it, there’s not methane produced in contemporary composting, it goes bad if it hits that point of degradation.
Bison used to do this across the praries.
Wow, to think that this is new information to people, farmers have practiced this for thousands of years.
The problem is that we have an economic system that demands monoculture factory farming to feed cities with no people on the land to do all of work required for mixed farming.
It's the kind of information that is increasing lost in our ever more urban industrialized world and yes, magnified by unhealthy farming practices.
This person has thought about the issues more than just at a glance
We need to bring land under vegetation and shade. Plant litter will increase soul organic matter. #savesoil Increase organic content in soil to a minimum of 3-6%
Yes more people need to see this
i knew that in primary school about 22 years ago
Just dont kill his cow.. John Wick will be pissed off
What did compost made of ,not specified
Arborist waste.
This is nothing new. I'll even say that manure is only producing methane if mixed with urine. Cows on pasture or bedding systems that separate urine from manure don't produce that much methane. You have to understand that producing that compost will produce methane as it breaks down anyway. Regenerative rotational grazing is the real solution. Check Greg Judy's channel.
👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Did carbon kill his dog? So he's back for revenge
To anyone interested...Future cannabis project on CZcams every Thursday,they talk all soil,microbiology,organic and regenerative.
In my village people are doing that for all there life.
does anything explain why this works?
Check out Howard Garrett, dirtdoctor.com, he has a great website with a lot of answers in his library. Microbes in the soil are helped by adding compost and other nutrients. The cow manure also helps and the dung beetles will do most of the work.
Goes in the direction of what Allen Savory found out...
How about the climate mitigation of trees compared to grass? Planting trees instead of gras combined methane-burping and and farting cows?
www.earth.com/news/trees-grass-carbon-sink/
There are over 7 billion people on earth today and I guarantee you we burp and fart a whole heck of a lot more than cows...get a life aoc
Over the lifespan of trees in the forest, grasslands produce more biomass than the forest does especially with proper rotational graving techniques. Grass-fed cattle also produce less methane than grain fed cattle. The animals evolved to eat grass not grain.
I want to learn more. What do you recommend? How can I be of service?
Follow more knowledgeable farmers like Joe Salatin, Mark Shepard. Permaculturists know more than this guy does, too. Check out Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. This guy isn't even citing the Ecologist or other scientists. I don't trust this Johnny-come-lately's personal account.
www.soilfoodweb.com or "soil food web" on youtube.
The weeds were sucking more co2 than the grass ever will....
The problems of California and the East Coast are not the same problems of arid windy plains. Permaculture generalizes. Animals are part of the food chain. Where does compost come from, .....animals and dead plants. Both are useful.
Well duh! We've known this for 5000 years. But it's a lot more effective in sequestering carbon if you inoculate biochar with the compost. It will be in the soil for thousands of years instead of turning into CO2 and escaping within a couple decades. Mycelium grows in biochar and turns hardpan subsoil into fertile soil, and it holds nutrients and water.
5000 years ago ?
That doesn't server their agenda.
@@ShaunPeterKelly Well, 3000 or so. Look up terra preta.
From the research labs of Captain Obvious!
Is there something wrong with the Climate?
what ist John's farm producing?
Good question, sounds like a marketing ploy to get some eco money better than ranching. It says it is a ranch so produces cattle for meat, milk or even skins. But then he says he got rid of the cows try to control the weeds? Now, the cows are back it is probably a ranch again?
Where does the compost come from? If you are taking nutrients away from another habitat are you really changing anything? Plus if we spent less on wind turbines we would have more money for ecological restoration.
Compost comes from composting manure or organic waste
@@davidpolak5607 Manure requires animals and organic waste is not helpful.
Why wouldn'be organic waste helpful?
When you compost it you save it from landfill where it would relase tons of methane gas
John buys his compost from a company that grinds up arborist waste.
"The land repaired itself"... weeds are plants too.
I only wonder about what if I'd like to grow crops on that land, would the carbon harm the quality of the food being grown?
Actually the exact opposite would happen. Good soil is high in carbon. Dead/degraded soil is low in it and is hungry for it. Crops grown on this healthy soil actually has a way higher nutrient density than normal mono-cropped food.
if you till, it would cause bacteria bloom and release carbon back to the atmosphere, if you do no till, and keep roots in the ground all year round, it will sustain the carbon capture and remain healthy soil.
@@idiocracy10 & eyebfoxy
You can also convert to perennials, or mostly perennials, shrubs, and trees. You can also do "pressured grazing". This Wick guy makes manure sound bad. But with proper techniques you can do much more good than harm. Besides nature evolved to be mutually beneficial.
@@b_uppy indeed, manure attracts bugs and worms which will break it down and make it plant available, manure also innoculates more microbes into the soil. In a healthy system it can be redundant, but when you are trying to restore depleted soils, it can be crucial. The system reinforces itself and becomes antifragile, conventional farming is very reductionist, and brittle (fragile). In retrospect it is common sense, but without the awareness of the full biological spectrum that is happening to make the soil fertile, then just putting npk salts on a sand/clay substrate would seem to make sense.
Just this morning, i was watching birds eating the juicy cedar berries on my trees and thinking, great, i will never get rid of cedar spouts from the property, but the realization that nature loves seeding itself thru the intestinal tract of animals, made me realize that doing biologically active compost extracts as a marinade for my seeds prior to planting is probably pretty necessary way to approach seed germination.
@@idiocracy10
No need to explain your use of the word 'brittle.' I think it is apropos here...
this has been done since hunderds of years in india
At first I thought this was propaganda.
However, when he started with "So the first order of business was to get rid of the cows."
I realized it was just the continuation of the story...after leaving New York...like I'm going to believe he 'moved from San Francisco,' I saw the movies...
I've known John for 45 years. He grew up 3 miles from where he resides now on his ranch. He moved to San Francisco when he got married.
Are we going to pretend we having been using compost for a century?
I guess the problem is industrial production. Using well curated compost is not the same as spreading cow dong and the administration of it would be more labor taxing than using quemical fertilizers, which are used far and wide.
His name is John Wick? XD
But what about the methane produced by cows??
Their diets affect how much methane they give off. They give off far less methane when they're in the pastures eating grass than when they're eating grains.
This cracks me up because I'll I think is ,no shit, what have people been doing for all this time.
Yeah, me too. This is pretty basic biology.
If you plant bog vegetation your soil will retain more water and carbon.
Jesus did they all stop learning after 5th grade?!
This is mostly basic knowledge presented as some kind of new revelation
A major climate breakthrough would be stop cutting down trees and planting them instead.
This isn't his idea.
People, communities and races have been doing this for years, generations and centuries.
I fully support the theory though.
I agree with everyone else, this is old news and proven for like... EVER. SIGH.
You could double the level of CO2 tomorrow and we wouldn't notice it. Well, except for the world getting greener.
Elon musk is giving away 100 million for ideas to reduce it
Old news
This is only a surprise to overly "educated" Californian's. This is basic knowledge to anyone in the ag. business
Then why are farmers still plowing?
It’s amazing how no one understands the basic principle that removing/reducing cattle caused improvement. This video is showing you what can be accomplished when grazing is reduced, not what grazing provides. Remove all the cattle
Remove all the cattle? But he says that he had to bring back cattle to bring back soil health?
I didn't understand what was the point he was trying to make. What does he mean by "weeds"? isn't that just native vegetation? No grassland looks like a golf course in its natural state.
@@algae_rhythms cattle aren't needed only their manure for enriching the land
Do you know how much the cost would be to spread compose on the land? Most farmers are barely making ends meet. If you get the government involved your selling your soul to the devil. Just don't overgraze the land.
Tell bill gates
This is ancient knowledge. Really not a breakthrough at all
Come on. Please explain to me: You discovered now to spread compost on the soil. Great! A practice common in Europe's "biological farming" since 50 years. And now?
this is just another savory method suggesting that grazing is good and we must continue to support meat and dairy. there is no comparison of net carbon and methane emissions between grazed pasture and ungrazed pasture . i guess the biggest discovery here is that if you add compost to plants, they grow better.
this is an interesting TED talk about grazing and rewilding
You don't need animals to increase soil quality, you just need compost, which can be made entirely from plants.
Animals can't create more emissions that whats in their food, meaning they don't create new emissions, only the recycled co2 plants take in.
Emissions from animal farming is according to official sources 4% , the real problem is emissions from oil, which is new emissions.
Animals don't cause climate change, only animal rights activist and uninformed people believe that.
@@mortenandersson9358 ch4 and co2 have the same carbon content but different effects on atmosphere.
@@suresh_elonbro yes, but most of it is recycled. Emissions from cows are not a problem at all.
www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/aph/stories/2008-atmospheric-methane.html
Are you here for joke ?
Live VEGAN.
Plastic needs to go back into the ground we're it came from to
um no. lies
None of this is new.
First, there are 1 billion cows on the planet. Most of them are in huge industrial facilities and feed on grains. Second, the meat hunger is still growing. We need to double the number of cattle to satisfy all. Third, even if they were living on and off soil, their carbon footprint would still be bigger than without them. This is not the solution to save the planet, sorry.
You need grazing animals for soil restoration, sorry. Grazing, not feedlot.
How stupid is this breakthrough, it the basic principle, and did you know that normal grass from normal farms with manure store more co2 in the ground within a year as a forest in a city in europe does, the green house gass that farms produce is made from natural resources and isn't dig up so just stop blaming everything on farmers, when it is part of an above ground ecosystem, because to produce the green house gas it first takes it out of the air, but this is never in the calculations of studie's and if you find one that takes this in to account, sent me the link it would be nice to read
😅This stuff is great - it's been around for decades - it's called regenerative agriculture. But this video is kind of bonkers. You want to use compost instead of cow manure, but you want cows everywhere to make the grass grow? So what, non-pooping cows? Just let the cows eat and crap and let nature do the rest. SImples.
Hey John, ya know where those weeds came from? Livestock. Livestock isn't the answer, but it was cute how you lied to the world to promote your industry. Really seemed like a good guy; quite the actor.
Lol never farmed in your life have you?
I've known John for 45 years. He doesn't need to be a rancher and is not "promoting his industry". His "industry" is carbon farming.
This is hilarious! Bless their hearts. It's like watching small children trying to explain how the magician is able to pull a rabbit out of his hat because the volunteer from the audience waved the wand over it and said the magic word, but reality just completely eludes them. It's cute in a way.
The grass isn't taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting into the soil. Grass doesn't do that. Plants take in CO2 through osmosis and use it to make their food using photosynthesis and their byproduct is oxygen and water vapor. Animals then take in the oxygen through respiration that the plants produce from the carbon dioxide and then release carbon dioxide and water vapor and the cycle starts all over again.
The soil on these farms in this video is showing more carbon because they are literally spreading carbon on the ground. The carbon is the compost they're spreading. It's silly that they're not understanding this simple fact that compost is entirely made up of organic matter which is primarily carbon. All life is carbon based. Plants, animals, insects, algae, all life is literally made of carbon. So when you spread decomposing matter from things that were once alive you are literally spreading massive amounts of carbon onto the soil. Yes, the compost is excellent for the soil and the plants because it deposits lots of carbon and other nutrients back into the soil. This has been practiced for thousands of years and is good to do. It’s nothing new! Unfortunately, most farms stopped this practice decades ago which is a major reason why the soils all around the world are completely depleted of essential minerals and other nutrients which of course is the reason our food is seriously nutrient deficient compared to crops grown just 50 years ago.
The real problem is that the people in this video, and many in the general public, don’t seem to comprehend or remember for some weird reason, even though we all learned it in elementary school, that carbon dioxide is an essential, required part of earth’s eco system. Every molecule of carbon dioxide is 1 atom of carbon and 2 atoms of oxygen, hence the periodic table designation of CO2. In other words each molecule of CO2 has twice as much oxygen as it does carbon. Carbon dioxide and oxygen are intimately linked. When CO2 in our atmosphere increases, automatically so too does oxygen. When CO2 decreases so too does oxygen. All plant life requires CO2 and all animal life requires oxygen. It is what is known as a symbiotic relationship. So what do you think would happen to all life on earth if we got rid of oxygen? What do you think would happen to all life on earth if we got rid of carbon dioxide? If your answer to both questions is everything would die, you’re exactly right. You may be surprised to learn that during prehistoric periods, like the Triassic and Mesozoic, CO2 in earth’s atmosphere was as much as 500 times greater than it is today. Those higher levels of CO2 also, by default, meant much higher levels of oxygen in the atmosphere which is why earth was so densely populated with life during those times, jungles pretty much covered the earth and many animals were very large. Today earth has the lowest level of CO2 in its atmosphere than it has ever had in its history. We are quite literally in a carbon deficiency.
Like all the other planets and moons with atmospheres in our solar system, our atmosphere is constantly being stripped away by our sun. The solar wind is a constant bombardment of charged particles that create a constant, non-stop off-gassing of our atmosphere into space as well as all the atmospheres of every planet and moon in our solar system that has an atmosphere. Those atmospheres must constantly be replenished by whatever mechanism is in place on those planets and moons. Other planets like Venus or Saturn and moons like Titan and Io have atmospheres of different gases like sulfur dioxide, methane, hydrogen, etc. Their atmospheres are being constantly replenished by the sources of those gases on those planets like volcanoes which spew sulfur dioxide or other mechanisms. Earth’s mechanism that replenishes its atmosphere of Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and other trace gases is earth’s life forms, plants and animals. What happens if one of the essential gases like CO2 stops being replenished? That’s right, bad things.
So why do so many people believe the nonsense that CO2 is somehow bad? Why do so many well meaning people think that CO2 is heating up our planet and that humans are to blame for it? The simple answer, they’ve been lied to. They’re misled. So-called “Clean Energy” is a big business to the tune of trillions of dollars. Do you think it might be beneficial to big corporations and their minions in the clean energy business to work really hard to vilify a life giving substance like CO2 and manipulate entire populations of people to think its “evil”? If big clean energy corporations can convince everyone that CO2 is somehow bad and that we have to get rid of it and the only way to do that is to let them take over all energy production with solar, wind and other methods, which by the way aren’t actually clean at all, they stand to monopolize energy production worldwide and gain massive, massive profits.
Another thing, earth isn’t heating. Why in the world would we want to decrease its temperature? Earth is currently in a cooling phase and has been since the early 2000’s. In the late 80’s and the 90’s earth was warming and in the 70’s and early 80’s it was cooling. Back then they were claiming we were in danger from global freezing which they claimed was also man made. Then when it started warming in the 80’s and 90’s they called it global warming and said it was peoples fault. Now we’re in a cooling period again and they just say “Climate Change” because they already used the global cooling and global warming cards and of course again they’re claiming it’s our fault. Go figure!
So, why do we keep seeing these cooling and warming periods changing about every decade or so? Here’s a hint: it’s the same thing that is causing the climate to warm and cool on all the planets in the solar system. That’s Right! It’s the Sun. Our sun which is classified as a yellow dwarf star, has several cycles it goes through some of the cycles occur every few hundred or few thousand years. There’s another cycle our sun goes through much more frequently, every 11 years. Every 11 years our sun goes through what scientists call a solar minimum and a solar maximum. Every 11 years the sun decrease and increases in sun spot activity and electromagnetic fluctuations and experiences a magnetic reversal of its poles. This is when the magnetic north and south poles of the sun literally flip, south becomes north and north becomes south. This complete reversal in the sun’s magnetic field directly impacts all the planets and moons that orbit it including earth. So, the next time someone talks to you about climate change remember it’s the sun not people. We are just not that powerful.
Great explanation. Question: What about ice melting on the poles? Would that be reversible? Thanks in advance.
@@ttbhtdsh The long comment is complete bullshit. Lots of incorrect data (for example, the earth was most definitely not cooling in the 70's and 80's; CO2 levels in prehistoric times maxed out about 8 times what they are today not 500 times!). Further what matters here is human history. Climate and CO2 levels of 400 million years ago are scientifically informative to understanding the flora and fauna of the time, but they have absolutely no relevance on our ability to withstand climate change. People who have watched their parents' houses fall into the sea are quickly learning about the difference between generational time, human time, and geologic time. Public Awakening is one of those wacky conspiracy groups who's motivations are beyond my imagination. It's kind of a cult thing. Just as some of us believe there must be a greater force of power in the world (e.g. a God or Gods) these wing nuts just want to believe there must be some kind of global conspiracy out to get them. I don't know, maybe it gives them a sense of purpose or fills a need to belong to a group. It's really kind of sad because like the flat earthers and other anti-science groups they are clearly smart enough to go look up a lot of information but then they are kooky enough to twist it or completely lie about it to suit their desires.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and you're using sad old denier talking points that have been debunked years ago. Globally we're burning 3.5 cubic miles of oil equivalent in fossil fuels each year. This adds 37 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year, enough to raise atmospheric CO2 levels by 5 ppm, but we only measure 2.5 ppm increase each year because half of it is dissolved in the oceans where it decreases the alkalinity of seawater. We most certainly do have the power to change the atmosphere, and we most certainly are changing the climate.
Such a lot of effort to write pure .... manure.