A Wild Idea | Buffalo, a Boot, and a Family’s Work to Save the Prairie
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2020
- For years, we’ve been sourcing the humanely harvested meat for our Patagonia Provisions® Buffalo Jerky from Wild Idea Buffalo Company in South Dakota. Their mission is to regenerate the prairie ecosystem by reintroducing and increasing the free-ranging herd size of its largest native herbivore, the American bison. Wild Idea’s general manager Jilian Jones sums up the reciprocal purpose of their work: “We have to have healthy land, healthy soils, and then that feeds the buffalo, which then in turn feeds us.”
But it never sat right with us that the hides were ending up in the compost pit, so we came up with the wild idea of making a boot out of material that would otherwise be wasted.
A Wild Idea shares a day in the life on the ranch and the ethos that informs every aspect of their work, how our Wild Idea Work Boots are crafted in Portugal by fifth-generation cobblers and how everyone involved in the process is motivated to leave things a little better than they found them.
As the founder of a small leather company fighting the waste of goatskins in the UK, this is so inspirational to watch. Great to see Patagonia not jumping on the anti-leather bandwagon.
I hope Patagonia never stops pushing forward...one of the worlds best companies for sure.
discorperted elaborate
discorperted but Patagonia doesn’t claim to be a perfect company, however they make clothes in the most responsible way possible, even encouraging people not to buy there garments. They have something called Worn Wear which helps people buy and sell there used garments.
discorperted I don’t think I understand what you mean by this?
discorperted I meant I don’t understand your grammar
Everyone needs clothes because it is illegal to be naked and we need protection from the climate. There is no better clothes for the planet than the one made by Patagonia. Not even close. Saying they are an oil company is just a ridiculous statement. Study their mission and company DNA AND what they have done year in and year out and you will see just how ridiculous that statement is.
Story starts with the Grandfather saying sit down were rolling here, like a tough guy. You end the story with him tearing up showing he's a teddy bear just like most of our grandparents. Whoever edited this story together, job well done!
I was raised on the short grass prairies of Texas and heard stories of the buffalo that once roamed there. Thank you to everyone involved with this effort. It brought tears to my eyes as well!
I got my bison boots yesterday and no joke they are the best feeling boots I’ve felt. And the most beautiful boots I’ve ever seen!! Nice enough to wear to a party, built for hard work in the field. Best boots I’ve ever experienced 🦬 🥾
South dakota gotto be in a strange way one of the most beautiful places ever. And seeing buffalos roaming the endless grasslands gives me a great feeling inside.
I’m from West Coast of Canada, but been through South Dakota 4 or 5 times now. Beautiful area, very underrated
"I've got sleeves," as the grandfather tears up. You hear about the loss of passion between generations of farmers. This boot is an interesting concept from an environmental perspective as we all question the role of plastics that were once the promise away from animal products. I know Patagonia does their research, works with incredible farmers and suppliers, and is breathing life back into lost trades. Commend you all for the hard work.
So happy to see Portugal represented in a Patagonia video.
Leaving things better than we found them. Fur our kids and their kids. The world can be saved this way! Thanks :-)
This has been my dream since childhood, watching the bison and nature run wild again!
Long time customer of Wild Idea. The quality of their buffalo is outstanding! The family is an American treasure so I'm not surprised they found a way to give back even more to this planet. I don't buy beef anymore.
Congratulations to the people in Dakota, to Patagonia, to the folks in Portugal and to the friends who helped made the video. Things like this make you have lots of hope in this complicated world we live in. We need more people like this and specially to make these typo of videos really available to schools and the new generations !!
Dan wrote a really good book called 'Buffalo for Broken Heart' definitely worth reading it, such a wonderful story of how the Buffalo story started there with him
Outstanding! Thank you O'Brien family and Patagonia.
Regenerative, restorative, resilient. This is the only way to go. Thanks for showing us how 👍🏼
AS a portuguese american of numerous gens, this is how our communitities function. Thank you. Obrigado from gens of perm and sus farmers.
What a great company! I wish all companies did this, restore the land instead of decimating it,will be checking out there items for sure. Thank you for your conservation of the land,and its animals 💖🐂🌍
***No link to purchase, anywhere.
I like that :)
🤜🏻👍🤛🏻
These people give me so much hope, but I recognize we have SO much left to change! ❤️
Love this! Keeping our ecosystems in balance is key and providing work for the buffalo wranglers and shoemakers while keeping the open prairies healthy - what a great backstory to a long-lasting product that people need, thanks Patagonia!
Imagine a world that we have given 75% of it back to the animals. And most of the ocean.
beautiful, inspiring, thank you Patagonia and Wild Idea
We love everything about this. We would love to see the herds approach the numbers they once had before they were senselessly massacred.
I’m so glad Patagonia exists
That’s what I wear sleeves for x
and again, Fantástico
Fantastic the sentiments, the emotions, the families, the boots and above all the energy transformations. Great patogonia.
This is awesome. Brands need to do half of what Patagonia does.
Patagonia, once again, you guys and gals do a bomb job delivering a worthy message along with great marketing. That's advertising done right!!!
Cats named Ralph and Kevin? This is a man after my own heart
All of that boot making skill. That used to exist in the USA.
I will buy these no matter what they cost because they are going to LAST
Awesome film, I just love Patagonias ethos and how much it genuinely cares about the environment and putting back. Thanks for another look at those hardworking people doing their bit for conservation and the planet.
thank you!
beautiful patagonia !!!!
I would have watched a 2 hour long documentary version of this 😂
I wish these boots were available on the European market. Stunning.
Love you Patagonia.
America Heck yeah!
Can’t wait to get a pair!
Awesome
I'm eating a Wild Idea steak right now. Those people are heroes. Patagonia are such clim8te alarmists, they must be conflicted supporting ruminant agriculture, which is vilified relentlessly by the clim8te cult.
beautifully made.
Well done all!!!
I have always had a problem using the word "harvested" with animals. You "harvest" wheat. And "humanely harvested" is just a text book example of
"oxymoron". I admire much of what Patagonia does (this example excepted) and many of my shirts, jackets, and even wetsuits are from their store.
Patagonia is a fantastic company, they make a lot of great vegan products, i still struggle with the ethics of "traceable down" and "responsible wool" but glad they offer alternatives and that people who still purchase animal products have the most ethical options available
what great stories! Boots!
Beautiful film of a wonderful family and their Wild Idea buffalo boots. Love it!
This is amazing. This is my dream.
Simply WOW!!! Thank you for actually giving a damn!
Origin USA is making boots from American bison leather in Maine. Would love to see y’alls leather stay in America, supporting another American company. Also while limiting the emissions used to transport the leather from SD to Maine instead of all the way to central Portugal.
This is the only concern/question I have. While I fully support honoring the animal in utilizing all of it but is it still honor by shipping it halfway around the world and back again? Don’t get me wrong I love a lot of what Patagonia represents and their movements but this causes me to raise an eyebrow
@@mikegoff6377 EXACTLY!!! I fully agree!!!
@@mikegoff6377 Pretty sure a lot of Patagonia's money is made in Europe. Also Patagonia is a leader in sustainability I'm sure they're investing in clean forms of transportation.
Bison, Damn it! Bison
Great work!
Pretty cool. Lots of dedication.
This is right on brand.
The last 4 years have been a disaster for America. This gives me hope that hard working American families like and innovative American companies like Patagonia can actually change our country for the better
Oh man. Only size 13? Any chance for a 14 or 15.
its Discovery channel
the entire globe needs to start thinking more locally in terms of business models.. More community based or at least in our own countries. then it really is full circle. more jobs in your area or in your nation!
therefore i say this. This is all pretty good.....BUT....are we saying that there aren't any boot makers in USA that can do this job so its at least in the same country and therefore less damaging to the ozone in form of saving on sending all the leather/hides over the ocean??????????
is it not a more cost effective, time efficient and more importantly, from what patagonia are trying to portray, more sustainable way of going forward with this kind of project???
I love Patagonia but please you have to consider other class of people that Can t afford 300€ plus boots.so you have to come with a plan to reach this class with reasonable price for at least some of the product.i own many of you product made in USA ,i don t my patagonia From else where ?thank you
My current boots are worn through the patches on the uppers and torn beyond repair. Can't wait to check these out
@discorperted that's funny, I just bought a pair.
@discorperted what?
@@Alixxusa discorperted isn’t a real person
@discorperted what does oil company have to do with anything?
It would be great to know ,how they are tanning this leather without chemicals......??
Hey Jon! You can shop our Wild Idea Work Boots here: www.patagonia.com/product/mens-wild-idea-workwear-boots/79385.html?dwvar_79385_color=OWBR&cgid=root
"humanely meat"
Love this. I commit here and now to purchasing a pair if Joe Biden wins the election and is installed as president of the United States. If not I'm getting the fuck out of here and need every dollar to do so... GO VOTE EVERYONE!!!
Can someday say what song is that at the background!
Anyone know the name of the song played at the end?
These look great!! but why only lace style for men? Why not make both boot styles unisex?
I would guess that the styles are what popular with each gender. Blundstones are a popular boot for females and that is the style they choose for the female boots. On the other hand most men want a work boot. I would like the one with out laces as well as as man... hopefully they go that route in the future.. also make them in the USA I would pay the extra cost .
Are these buffalo boots for sale anywhere?
We’re do you buy the books from
plans on a steel-toe?
Needs to be indigenous native Americans being interviewed and farming the bison tho… the true Americans before it was called America
it remind me about 30,000,000+ buffalo being slaughtered..
Build tents, grow veggies instead.
What about bringing back the indigenous people...only then will things be right. It's beautiful what their doing, but to see a very lovely white family talking about how we need o bring back buffalo...does it not strike anyone else as odd that more than anything we should be glorifying the native people doing this work?
Yea good idea something that the Native Americans been doing for centuries, but instead were called hunters and gathers when in reality they did a form of wild permaculture
You don't know how the Indians lived. Some of them did okay. But they also hunted plenty of species to extinction and their method of hunting Buffalo, depending on the tribe, was very destructive and wasteful. Don't believe the stupid myths about the "environmentalist Indians" of the past.
@@iforbach4003 Actually I do cause I study soil biology and have seen first hand the evidence that exist, some examples include Tierra preta in the Amazon, tree islands in the everglades, chinampas in Mexico city etc. Also the evidence that occurred of the burning of lands to make way to grasses.(Megafuana use to do this by way of browsers) Also through out the world the Megafuana went extinct known as first biological contact whether in Europe or Asia
keep inovating patagonia, your corporate decisions haven’t been so great
(center r1 hoodie zipper as opposed to asymmetrical, removing a pocket feom the nano hoodie, cutting on the technical performance of products bc you think it makes them appeal to more people - it just makes your products worse. keep your technical products technical)
Not sure if you save the planet by producing and eating meat ...
Or we could just stop killing these poor animals
Hey Patagonia, why not help the indigenous tribes and reserves do the same; they need the most help and were not the ones who ruined the prairie.
Yea good idea something that the Native Americans been doing for centuries, but instead were called hunters and gathers when in reality they did a form of wild permaculture
well the horse existed on prairies prior to the white man (which were Spaniards with Arabian horse genes), hence "reintroduced" (since horses evolved in north America) but bison had existed on the prairie since prehistoric time. Natives expanded their range heavily by burning large areas of shrubs to let the grasses grow ( a job the extinct megafuana browsers would do) a form of wild permaculture.
@discorperted @discorperted Moorish occupied Spain for 800 years those are their horses. Tribes did exist on plains just not the way you would consider it to be today and many of the plains where created and expanded. Just like tree islands in the everglades or tierra preta in the amazon. Yes they drove bison off cliff also Mammoths off cliff before them but that's irrelevant to my point
Ok so the concept of not wasting the animal is amazing but Patagonia is buying the animal products from a multi millionaire family who I guarantee doesn’t know enough about the bison like the native Americans do why do you buy the animals from the native Americans and actually help people In need so in that respect your really not helping your just a part of the problem number 2 your exporting the leather to another country that doesn’t have the experience of working on leather like Leon Guanajuato the leather capital of North and South America
How can you humanely kill somebody who does not want to die? Anyone should be ashamed for abusing animals. Disappointed that Patagonia promotes animal abuse.
What a great company! I wish all companies did this, restore the land instead of decimating it,will be checking out there items for sure. Thank you for your conservation of the land,and its animals 💖🐂🌍