Compost on a large scale: Regenerating 1000 acres: With Cory Miller and Kevin Lackey

[@longterm11581]

This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT videos on KZbin. Hope for our future, as traditional chemical farming is a colossal disaster.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Going there, meeting them and learning has given me so much hope.

[@miz180]

I agree!!! This is a very important video, our farmers need to see this is possible at a huge scale!

[@joniboulware1436]

One thing that always comes through these regenerative natural approaches is that farm animals play an important role.

[@rickysens597]

The NWO wants to eliminate farm animals.....you will eat zee bugs!!! I literally fear my own govt....😑

[@craigaladd3262]

Non-human middleman is unsustainable simply end carbon drawdown. Hope is compassion action to end suffering. 13:55 mono-culture inherently less resilient less biodiverse

[@johnmcneal9477]

I started incorporating a similar system onto our market garden soils around 10 years ago. My small cow herd is the key to our success. My tomato plants averaged 8-10 lbs per plant by the old method and they now average approximately 40 lbs of fruit per plant. This is a very inspirational video and now I'm excited and pondering ways to tweak and streamline my systems for next season.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Wow that’s such a huge difference. I’d be interested to know if adding in this kind of compost makes a bigger difference. Keep me posted.

[@lilblackduc7312]

Wow! 🇺🇸 😎👍☕

[@hikerJohn]

The hay is the key. You can compost it or not and you will get the same results. Composting just gets it going faster. You don't need to wash the microbes out and spray them around but this is just a proof of concept that it's the microbes that are what makes soil fertile. The compost is the habitat and food source for the microbes. As long as you keep the soil microbes fed you will never have to do another inoculation. Red worms speed the process up as well if you don't want to do rapid composting or even add worm castings to your ripe (cooled) compost. It almost does mater what you do as long as you DO SOMETHING with compost. We cannot just take, we have to give something to the soil. Look at what Joel Salatin is doing by having his chickens spread his manure or use the manure mixed with hay and spread it in the spring.

[@martavionhamilton3634]

Come on now Yahuah is the creator of all things all life play a role in everything even insects. The natural way will always produce more yield, better quality better tasting products

[@barrybr1]

Healthier soil, healthier animals, healthier humans. Fantastic work! He mentioned at the beginning the freedom of not having the pressure from family members (and ag/chemical industry) pushing traditional farming methods

[@charleswalters5284]

"traditional" only since hitler. Chemical warfare agriculture. Spraying poison on your food. Not really traditional

[@andersholt4653]

How refreshing to hear that there are people in the US that believe in a healthy environment. Up til now, all I've heard is about over-administration of penicillin and other unhealthy live stock treatments. All the best for the future and I'm convinced you'll be successful because you have an attitude that goes beyond the "investors quarterly report". Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪.

[@willm5814]

I’m a techy - mech engineer - own a software company….but, there is nothing more important than the work you are doing! The fact that you are sharing your learnings is awesome!!

[@maxwellvillaire5361]

This is truly amazing. I would love to see this happen across America and then across the entire world

[@peopleoftheplants]

It’s starting to happen! Words spreading! 🙏

[@Real_Question_Marked]

Staring at that prairie line produces the same feelings as looking out into the ocean or the night sky on a stary night in the country.

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

I am so happy to see on a BIG scale what I have been doing on a comparatively tiny scale for almost 60 years. Now if the message can be spread and practiced world wide. I need to find something to be hopeful for my grandchildren. Thank you and keep spreading the word.

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

Ps..just had to sell my last ditch effort, a worm farm.

[@charleswalters5284]

@@marjoriejohnson6535 dang

[@mickeygallz5483]

I've been working with small farms and following this style of farming for several years now. Happy to see it's being scaled up

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you for farming.

[@harmonyintegration6612]

This video is exactly what I needed to show my client that just purchased land and is having problems with yields. Thanks guys, you rock for taking the time!

[@peopleoftheplants]

This is so exciting! Let me know when it’s done, I’d love to see pictures of before and after.

[@yellowbird5411]

Loved this video. It shows that making compost "tea" and using it as a fertilizer can be converted to a large-scale operation. This knowledge will be crucial to changing from chemical fertilizers to "homemade" fertilizers across the growing spectrum. That it can be done in a year flies in the face of all the naysayers who insist it takes years to improve the soil enough to rely on it for good crop yield. It is my hope that this information and formula is dispersed to all farmers who are looking for alternatives. I hope you publish this information in every farming journal and website you can find. It is likely you would be inundated with questions and other farmers who want to visit you to see your operation up close, which could be a bit overwhelming. But you are pivotal in helping farmers find a new way forward.

[@peopleoftheplants]

He’s getting a call a day. It is amazing! He’s loving helping people, he’s teaching on the farm and anyone with a van/rv can stay on the farm through harvest hosts, he’s also speaking at a few events and when his harvest is over he is hitting the road to meet farmers who have reached out to him. It’s exciting to see so many farmers getting excited about trying this method and Cory can help guide anyone willing to give it a shot. So keep reaching out to him and keep sharing.

[@sprucemoose1133]

And it's even more than just a "fertilizer" it's jump starting and guiding the soil to healthy Carbon and Nitrogen exchange between plant and soil life. Amazingly cool work for large scale use. Especially the direct application with the seed at planting!

[@MessyTimes]

Damned inspiring! Thanks for sharing that. I almost bought a dairy farm in New Jersey 20 years ago - the thing I remember the best was that the farmer had built an entire composting tea process to turn cow manure and wood chips into the liquid he spread on the fields which then grew the grass that fattened up his cows.... It was a beautiful system.

[@peopleoftheplants]

That does sound beautiful. A circular system where everyone benefits. 🐄🌱💩🌎

[@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher]

Wow. This is what I need, a living guide of how to implement regenerative ag at scale. Thank you

[@peopleoftheplants]

Good luck with it!

[@Wildnativeedimentals]

This video is showing love and care to our mother earth and every living in it! Thank you so very much! ♥️

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you for watching!

[@judithmorton8658]

So far ahead our times. I would like for all farms to do this. The fact that the cattle get fed nutritious feed from his land is so important

[@ewiase]

I can't believe this! What a jewel!

[@CelticDruidess1]

My company has been manufacturing, selling, and providing professional consulting for liquid composting on a commercial scale since 1983; we're taking all that "farm" waste and liquid composting it into a bioliquid fertilizer. I am a soil and plant scientist (with a few other specialties in there too) and I can't express enough how seeing people put soil health above everything, which then provides the benefits (as with improved animal health), makes me smile and warms the heart. Early on in my horticulture education I was seeing that soil health appeared to be far more important than the "genetic" route that many professors were pushing...and it just so happened that my family business involved the manufacture and sale of equipment that conducted liquid composting in liquid waste systems or continuous inversion (in aquatic systems).

[@corymiller5538]

Thank you so much for the work you do. If people like your weren't out there to share information, I would not have been motivated to choose this direction. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@sharonjones7674]

Fabulous melding of the old with the new. The old ways of feeding the soil with the technology to study your outcome.🌷

[@joehackney4828]

Pure genius, apparent tremendous amount of time spent in designing this process. Love the repurposing of equipment to aid in your process. Seems to me the answer to chemical fertilizers. Once you've healed the soil, the "bugs" do the work. Thank you.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you for watching.

[@yeltsin6817]

not a farmer but man the chemistry is amazing. shows you don’t need those cancer causing chemicals from the big corps. this needs to be spread!

[@jamesclose5085]

This is without doubt one of the most significant videos I have seen on KZbin. Please follow up on this and make a full blown documentary as this information deserves much more publicity Globally. Regenerative farming and increasing soil fertility are two important directions for agriculture and ultimately for mankind. Well done and get the word out there.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Lots of conservations happening. Both of us are committed to telling this story because we know it’s works and this is what needs to happen. Thank you for watching!

[@wdlovesthee736]

Beautiful. Diversity is essential. Thank u fungi & bacteria & all the living beings we cant see who help us live & thrive ! Sincerely

[@peopleoftheplants]

Well said

[@TheRozylass]

Impressive! I'm grateful for farmers and ranchers who are such good stewards of their land and animals. Keep up the great work!

[@peopleoftheplants]

Me too!

[@peterclark6290]

A hidden gem of a video (now saved for re-use). One man's story (without the burden of tired expectation) of successfully getting it done. Pastoral care of an entire planet is the next big step. I see he has acquired lease land which means his success is spreading. From the bio we learn he sought out the experts (Elaine, David) and still put his own stamp on things. All the best Kevin from DownUnda.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Beautifully put, thank you!

[@Cyclonut96]

It is good to see that this no till farming and manure application is being done on large scale farms. This will also prevent soil erosion while producing healthier plants and feed for people and animals. Big kudos!

[@pinkelephants1421]

So fantastic to see someone not hidebound by the so-called 'traditional' ideas of farming; the irony of which is that 'traditional ideas' of farming are anything but. What this gentleman is doing is simply the application of science to what our ancestors largely knew for centuries. i.e. look after the soil and it will look after you. I wonder if this short film was ever broadcast on USA TV? It would go a long way to convincing other farmers of all stripes that this isn't simply 'more of that green crap', it saves you money, sequesters carbon in the soil, saves water, makes farms far more resilient to drought, pests, diseases & fluctuations in fertiliser and fuel costs, both of which are hot topics worldwide at the moment. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the video was whether or not they were increasing tree cover. Australian farmers who planted about 25% of their properties found after roughly 3-5 years an increase in productivity of around 30%, due in no small part, to the ability of trees to assist with the sequestration of water into the soil & to bring nutrients to the surface. I also didn't see if they were also taking into account the contours of the land, using it to store/manage/spread water across the landscape accordingly & if they were continuing to plant monoculture alfalfa crops or mixtures of other grasses. Overall an impressive start. How we farm directly affects climate change. A quote I read yesterday said:"You can either continue to do hard farming or change to a sustainable system now. Do you want to carry on farming or do you want climate change to do you out of business?" Massive losses (financial & yields) worldwide of the climate change induced 2022 drought severity are a warning from nature. Food security IS national security for ANY country & climate change means we simply cannot rely on importing our way out of food shortages. Artificial fertiliser production & usage is a huge driver of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, not just in the USA. I'm watching this during the major drought of 2022. I wonder if their change in management practices have resulted in the farm being far more resilient to drought this year.

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m curious to know more about trees and farm land. If you know anyone who is knowledgeable in this field, please let me know. The water story is the next story I’d like to tell. Restoring the small water table on any piece of land, is a huge part of the regenerative process. Cory is very lucky. He has a lot of ground water, ponds and water ways and I know he plans to plant trees. Plus the organic matter in the soil restores that soil sponge and always having roots in the ground helps, so when it does rain that water doesn’t run off or cause erosion. We are looking to do some contouring on the land I’m on, it’s only 16 acres but I’ll share that process when we do it. And I’d love to know more about planting trees on farm land. If you know anyone who specialises in this, please send me the details.

[@harrykersey5151]

warms my heart to see people being smart about their work and commitment to our future land the health of our planet! Right on Dude!

[@markrodrigue9503]

Love this closed loop system besides the spent brewer grain

[@SecretsOfTheSoil]

"Getting that liquid compost produced on your land is invaluable" - Quote of 2022!

[@pharder1234]

wow very simple but also very high tech. great way to transition old equipment used for tranditional fertilzers into something regernative, great stuff

[@forthrightnight]

Amazing. Love watching this kind of stuff. The virtual fence blew my mind.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@liammurphy2755]

This is a beautiful thing looking forward to it flourishing worldwide.

[@langdons2848]

It all starts with soil biology. Great to see farmers taking up this knowledge and running with it.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Me too! Once you know about the biology, farming makes a lot more sense.

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

It so great you got into this with your background of fungi

[@ginagriffiths3677]

This video is just beautiful. Kudos to those regenerative ranchers and the film producer.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you, we all had fun making it.

[@organiccleanfoodconnection]

God bless you sir :-) I live 50 feet from a no till farmer that has destroyed everything in my life. You are on the right path go go go go I had to heal the micro biome of my gut and hear it from three other countries. Our country just practice medicine and cost $10,000 in testing. You heal the soil just like you heal the gut. My channel is dedicated to speaking the truth about chemicals in our food. Micro greens is what brought me back to life no secret crap. My gardens do amazing on compost tea and Korean farming jadam.

[@OBRfarm]

This is awesome. Amazing work. I wish there was someone around me that could help with doing this to my land.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Where are you based? We could see if the soil food web has someone who could help you. They are all trained specialists in soil regeneration.

[@peopleoftheplants]

You can also reach out to Cory, who is very happy to help anyone transitioning to regenerative ag. He trained with the soil food web (Elaine Ingram).

[@monicacruz4407]

Roll this out across the country, it’s patently obvious it works and yes animals and humans need nutrient dense food. The chemical industry, the food industry and us consumers need to change. The carbon capture in the soils is yet another reason this is so urgent. Show this film to conservative farmers, help them understand, show them your fields! Fields of dreams, or reality….farmers are among the most important group of people on the planet right now 🙏🙏🙏

[@peopleoftheplants]

That’s so true. We really need to find a way for supporting farmers to transition over to regenerative methods.

[@cacosta6294]

This is THE first vídeo i watch on this channel .... It's beautiful.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you!

[@jacobe5495]

Wow, wow! Great Job, Cory, and team Miller.

[@johnthomas5806]

I have been studying Johnson-Su for about 2 years with intention of taking that knowledge to the Philippines to inprove the wifes family farms...Johnson-Su, biochar applications, mycorrizal fungi intervention and making sure that the soil is alive with bacteria and fungal loving microbes..

[@peopleoftheplants]

Great work!

[@davehalliday9399]

A virtual fence...just amazing, now the local wild life can migrate through an area with no real world physical obstacles in their way. It just gets better and better. : )

[@bradpendleton5675]

I really appreciate the information your conveying. I especially like the tube with holes you put in your bins. I use alot of grass clippings in my compost and have trouble with it going anaerobic. Hopefully it will cut down on the number of times I have to flip the piles. Thank you

[@corymiller5277]

They will definitely help. "Chimneys" in general, will help with airflow. A broom handle pushed into your pile will do the same thing. Don't be afraid to put lots of chimneys. They are also a good way to manage temperatures in your pile.

[@jasontoolan3816]

Love this one too, thx. Will you teach us about residential, aerated static composting? How much easier it’s creation is compared to the old manual rotation methods. Taking advantage of intercity free wood chips. Please share why this Biodiverse Compost creates resilient farm crops, according to Dr Elaine Ingam Food Soil Web, founder. It’s worth looking into. I’m a homeowner with a leaf blower, a tarp and a garden hose. Making high value Biodiverse compost and donating to my local farm.

[@peopleoftheplants]

I would love to know about residential aerated static compost. Do you feel expert enough to teach it? If so I’ll guide you through how and what to shoot and you can send me the clips to edit together and I’ll share it as a short on this channel.

[@colinbateman8233]

Knowledge is wasted if only one person has it thank you for sharing

[@peopleoftheplants]

So true.

[@garettwatson8468]

This is beautiful. I’m just finishing up the soil food web courses and trying to do the same thing they are but in central Indiana. This video is so well made and couldn’t have come at a better time for me!

[@garettwatson8468]

Seriously thank you so much. Where can I give you money?

[@peopleoftheplants]

This makes me very happy. Make sure you share how it goes!

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m on patreon, if you’d like to support my regenerating/ filming making habit. www.patreon.com/amysmythplants

[@aalovelace2776]

So encouraging to see so many views of this important work!

[@peopleoftheplants]

It’s exciting to see word spread.

[@JoshFlorii]

This gives me so much hope for the future! I feel like we're heading in a good direction again

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m so glad! Corys farm gave me hope too.

[@nathanwood33]

So awesome. Wish I could get more hands on training like this.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Cory is very happy to help people and the soil food web do great training.

[@johnschreiber1574]

Amazing work, Cory. Thank you for your creative content Amy.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you John! We are hoping to create some more content for you in 2023.

[@Aliasn433]

You could enhance the effects and growth of a healthy soil biome if you include more bushes and trees in the landscape. Their roots really help grow different fungi and other microorganisms

[@donnastormer9652]

I have been gardening, about 3000 ft.² for most of my life. I practiced the fad method of gardening. I am glad I found this video I’m going to practice your Compost method and see how it goes. I not only feed myself but I also grow for two elderly ladies at my church. I am having a knot node nematode problem And I’m hoping that this will naturally help that situation. I do Kodiak mustard and sorghum Sudan grass cover crops twice a year and that really knocks them down I think that building a healthier soil may also help the situation do you think so? I am in Northwest Florida. Thank you for this video.

[@corymiller5277]

If you have a food source (Root Feeding Nematodes), you will attract Predatory Nematodes to bring the root feeder population back in check.

[@ericvermeulen9853]

Started to go no till farming and cover cropping with cattle and the results are amazing, especially what you mentioned about the health of the animals it really shows it’s advantages

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m so happy to hear that! Keep up the amazing work!

[@jtc_adventure]

Stunning!

[@expediter99]

thank you to the young lady for her help in the demonstration

[@isabelladavis1363]

Beyond impressive as well as encouraging…thank you so much for caring and sharing,blessings wished always..

[@peopleoftheplants]

You are so welcome

[@dwl3016]

Keep learning and growing if we didn't it may still take months to go from the east coast to the west coast. Production in today's world is a must to pay the bills.

[@k8m883]

Brilliant, high quality, informative video thank you

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you for watching it.

[@alancross2826]

Found this late, superb ideas and operation. Regards from the UK.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you very much!

[@mlindsay527]

No need to complicate nature. Spread organic material on the field (preferably with livestock not equipment) and let the rain make the “extract”. Wireless fencing technology is the innovation we need. When we get to the point where we are using it to establish trees on the land for even more feed and organic material for the soil, it will change the world for the better!

[@peopleoftheplants]

That’s where Cory is heading, the equipment with this method of compost is a quicker way to get natures processes rolling but once the soil health is restored, as I understand it, then the livestock should be all that is needed and I know Cory wants to plant trees.

[@chileshesimbulenations]

i love the transitioning 😊 from somehow farming to manage farming, this an incredible work the future is green😮

[@peopleoftheplants]

I know! So grateful for farmers like Cory.

[@kanangwanewlove-thegoodfoo1616]

Amazing work. Thanks for sharing your wonderful story.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shemwayman1146]

WONDERFUL, I BELIEVE IT.

[@carolinekeenan1499]

Great to see the applied knowledge, Regen Ag is the only way to improve soil and rcoly on farms, moving away from unconventional farming...

[@congojohn2065]

I like your approach. This is an excellent one-year evaluation. I'd like to hear whether you end up up with parasites and fungus targeting your alfalfa due to the closed loop system.

[@luclachapelle3499]

Great coverage, thank you so much

[@markpennella]

Excellent video. I showed my students. A question came up, wouldn't cow manure have more microorganisms more suited for wood break down due to their 4 Stomachs?

[@corymiller5538]

Wood is a high carbon source used for the production of fungal hyphae. Manure is used merely for its nitrogen component to feed the bacteria. Cow manure typically has more water and is more messy in the production process. Horse manure is much easier to work with and why we prefer it to other sources.

[@blacktranch]

What machine is used to make the concentrate? I’d love to implement this on our 800 acre property. Regenerative farming always sounds great until the guy says he has 5 acres. But this opens a whole new window.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Cory uses a Bio 5 extractor from soil works. There are links to all the equipment in the description. You can contact Cory directly for advise through his website (also in the description). He’s happy to help anyone looking to transition to regenerative farming. Good luck!

[@fkhanmini]

Hi Cory! for Johnson Su bioreactor mix -- 60% woody material, by volume, or by weight? Notes: 30% alfalfa hay, 10% high nitrogen source (spent grains from breweries, horse manure)

[@corymiller5538]

By volume. Easiest way is to get buckets similar to the orange bucket in the video. If you have 10 buckets, 6will be for woody species (includes leaves), 3 buckets for green material (includes all greens), and 1 bucket of high nitrogen (manures, spent grains). Doing it this way keeps it simple. Make sure you are soaking these materials before they go into your pile. Drain off the excess water and then mix the contents together. Lastly, set your chimney tubes and place your material into the pile. If you are in a colder climate you can add more high nitrogen to your mix to help you keep higher Temps. The recipe above is our spring mix (for Montana weather) as we make all of ours in the spring. Average high Temps in the spring are around 45 to 55 degrees F. Nights can be below freezing.

[@jamessullivan6985]

I watched this video today, Christmas Day 2022. I feel that this video has been the best gift I ever could have received!!!!! Wow, I can not wait to try this on a super small scale at first. Well done video.Hopefully the word can get out and you can get more subscribers!!!! 🎁🎄🎄🎄

[@peopleoftheplants]

What a wonderful comment! Happy Christmas! Let us know how it goes. We’ll be sharing how to make the compost in early 2023, so look out for it.

[@corymiller5277]

Thank you James. Please reach out if you have any questions.

[@jamessullivan6985]

@@peopleoftheplants Fantastic, a New Years gift as well, lol.

[@heatherbottoms5813]

Thank you

[@peterrobins3708]

Hi, just a dumb question cos some bits have me stumped... One load of 25lb of compost thru the Kettle, into the main tank to have 1200 gallons of extract...how many acres will the 1200 gallons cover? FWIW we had it drummed into us when we were in a cropping district (in Western Australia) that there was Soil Chemistry (fertiliser that was actually needed), Soil Structure (gentle ploughing speeds, deep ripping for aerating etc) and the big missed one Soil Biology. We were doing cover crops etc but wish were using this extract but 20+ years ago, we weren't likely to find it Keep up the great work!!! (and great video too)

[@sarahbilling2456]

Go go Farmers - this is sooo cool.

[@360critique]

The side by side shot was wild. Thanks for the video!

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. More coming soon.

[@isabellavalencia8026]

What is amazing piece of property and a wonderful ecosystem

[@peopleoftheplants]

Cory welcomes visitors!

[@martincassels7995]

Good for kids as well

[@bobcounts4507]

In my humble opinion - the bacteria and fungi application method parallels and somewhat intersects the charcoal lattice scaffold system that was found in the amazon rainforest dark soil pits in close proximity to ancient indigenous settlements. The ancient pits revealed that charcoal was like an English muffin - it provided many nooks and crannies for the bacteria and fungi to reside. When conditions were right, it could then spread out.

[@peopleoftheplants]

This is so interesting. Thank you!

[@johndoh5182]

I'm REALLY happy to see more farmers/ranchers are getting it. The key is healthy soil and you don't need petrolium based chemical to make that happen. You just need to feed it with natural compost including cow/chicken manure and POW, you're off spending all the money for chemicals and turning soil AND you get healthier fields/crops. For grain this is harder, however in Asia where a lot of small rice fields exist these methods can still be used. I was inspired when I first saw these techniques, my introduction being Joel Salatin as I'm sure he was the first introduction for many people. We have land in Asia and are about to retire there, to manage a couple of acres of food, and in this case it will incorporate more permaculture since it's appropriate there for the scale we're dealing with, and of course at that scale it means no pasture or cows, but we can use chickens and goats through part of the property. This is the first time I've really seen such a mechanized system for dealing with large plots of land and I have to think this means it would get easier for large scale grain operations to make this shift.

[@peopleoftheplants]

For smaller plots you can replicate what Cory has done in a 5 gallon bucket and soak the seeds in the extract and spray it on as a soil drench before planting. Good luck!

[@stefanquarry1477]

Wow amazing video and links below! Thanks and love from a soil regenerator in the Highlands of Scotland, I'm inspired to carry on!

[@peopleoftheplants]

Very grateful for your perseverance. Hard but very rewarding work! 💗

[@obfuscateidentity2329]

Amazing 😁 keep going!!!

[@grantmccoy6739]

This is a traditional, ancient, method for improving soil health. It's less reliant on technology and more about recycling materials. Getting the microbes into the soil brings it to life. It's nice to see really rich soils being cultivated instead of just using some chemicals. Chemical fertilizer doesn't aerate the soil, and it doesn't hold moisture in the same way. Really healthy soils are generally not hard and compact. They have deep roots breaking them up, with organisms living inside it. Healthy soil is an ecosystem. It's really fun to think about.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Life going in a full and complete circle as we cycle nutrients, restore the food web and come back to indigenous ways of viewing our role within nature.

[@RedSiBaron]

My father developed composting technology in the 1980s. targets an aerobic process with specific environment for the right micro organisms, and it's industrial scaled (composting works better on a decent sized biomass go figure). They had it working on an industrial scale, but investors didn't see their return right away and bailed on the project. They were composting organic material in around 3 days. amazing stuff. sadly a lot of the world is just not interested, even today.

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m curious to know more. 3 days is very quick!

[@thomassmith5546]

This is great, thank!

[@williamw1907]

Be very careful with horse manure in compost! If there was any trace of roundup in their feed it will pass into the compost. A muni in Vermont found this out the hard way when their compost was killing gardens.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you for sharing this. It would be an easy mistake to make.

[@cherylcook1942]

I have come across this issue, I don't use animal waste that has come from offsite, so I can control what's in it. In addition to possible glycophosphate poisoning, whether or not the animals were wormed will also affect their waste. My compost is aged 2 years before it is applied, as at the 2 year mark the efficacy of the round up diminishes significantly as to be ineffective.

[@dort5436]

It would be great to see virtual fence and how cows are moved from one area to another. Wonderful results for not many years of changes.

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m going to document more of this for you.

[@colinbateman8233]

I appreciate your expedient response I currently live in a dessert and I wonder why with the technology that’s out there why we aren’t trying to find ways to supplement open land-use perhaps we could do something to make this Grazing land or we can produce cotton Hass to be alternatives where we can combine Pirma culture practices and implement other farming techniques throughout the nation to develop better food sources and utilizing what we have I admire what you’ve done and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge

[@corymiller5277]

The direction you are offering is unfolding all across the world right now. The technologies coming up (Vence Collars) and others are making these processes easier. Farmers are starting to see these opportunities and are moving fast to explore them.

[@charleswalters5284]

The answer to desert is Allen Savory

[@snicolai]

Seems like a massive energy and technology dependent Rube Goldberg machine to essentially accomplish what nature has been doing organically for millions of years. Yet, still very impressive as a modern day operation. I’ll still take cows on a rotational grazing system over this any day.

[@FreeCanadian76]

You are the living proof that that agriculture can be done differently. and BETTER!! I am not opposed to commercial fertilizers at all, but the fact you are injecting life back into the soil should be the common practice in all Ag.

[@georgepeat5269iearth]

Right up there with Boyan Slat’s project. Way to progress!

[@peopleoftheplants]

Hope!🙌

[@tdubbs934]

My wife and I have a 35 acre organic farm. It used to be a 200 acre dairy farm here in ct, some land was sold off. Its a miracle that the farm survived through all the development through the years. Anyways we plan on farming it indefinitely. We have bees, grow hemp, vegetables and have alpacas. We remodeled the barn and turned it into a store to sell our products. I want to expand the growing area but one problem i have is that i can only amend so much area per year. I use alpaca manure and I have piles of woodchips breaking down into soil. How can I acquire large amounts of compost so I can amend 10 plus acres to grow on? I use manure from my alpacas and also two other farms drop off manure. I spread 4-6 inches onto the field then till it in. I put 12-18 inches of alpaca manure into my raised beds and I was left with over a foot of worm castings six months later. Worm castings are 5-3-3. The vegetables from those raised beds were massive and incredible. Any other recommendations for the soil to add? Microbes, fungi?

[@peopleoftheplants]

I’m reading a great book that Cory gave me called ‘The regenerative grower’s guide to garden amendments’. It’s worth getting a soil test to see what minerals you need.

[@annunacky4463]

I use this technique in my little garden out back. It works, and the veggies taste like good food vs the store trash. Less waste down the sink.

[@peopleoftheplants]

Good work! 🌱Once you know the difference there is no going back.

[@teediaries1773]

Three big messages !!

[@thaifreeburma]

Great innovation, convincing message

[@peopleoftheplants]

Glad you think so!

[@paulbraga4460]

wow, that was fast - 1 year. result depends of course on particular circumstances....blessings to all

[@jacknissen6040]

about to share with a younger farmer friend who has expressed the need for a more natural farming method. Multi species covers and Johnson Su compost being the best options thus far.

[@briansmith4724]

Thank You for Sharing Your Knowledge. I learned Much and have New projects to work on. 🙂

[@peopleoftheplants]

Glad it was helpful!

[@isabellavalencia8026]

I am so impressed with what you are doing on your farm and i would live to learn more!

[@corymiller5538]

Thank you very much. Feel free to call anytime.

[@peopleoftheplants]

More to come!

[@magpaf2436]

thanks for sharing

[@peopleoftheplants]

You are very welcome!

[@markkallstrom5672]

I love manure , compost or not both are great . We had a dairy that produce lots of manure , we had some ground as hard as concrete , so hard that the plow would pop out of the ground . The corn was only 6 feet tall on this hard ground , not to far away on better ground the corn was over 12 feet tall !!!! We put composted manure on this hard ground and Praise the Lord , the ground came alive and produce as good as the better ground . Also we grew alfalfa , on the hard ground the alfalfa grew maybe 8 to 10 inches tall and bloomed out with the better ground 24 inches tall and not bloomed . After applying compost the hard ground equaled out to the better ground . Compost WORKS Kallstrom Sweet Corn / Ephrtaa , Washington

[@peopleoftheplants]

Thank you for sharing this and congratulations on successfully regenerating your land. 💚