GFE 2017 - Ray Archuleta 'Regenerating the Land'

[@abdolnasersanaeesabzevary8359]

Huge information from usa havchanged my life.thank u so much.

[@thechaosgardener]

Great content! I teach high school science and am teaching regenerative thinking to my students.

[@karleichorn5172]

I have been finding and listening to many of these presentation in the last few weeks.. I am totally thrilled. God bless you Ray for speaking truth, and standing for what you beleave unashamedly. We need more of this in the world today.. one farmer, one mind at a time...

[@mpccenturion]

What do i make alive - Today - some 45 yrs after my grandfather was alive - He challenged ME - to make our ground PAY for itself. Sadly - 50 yrs after personal challenge to my soul I am tied. Some 45 yrs later - I am planting the trash! - much love to you!

[@NickShay]

We need more of this around the world spreading this message.

[@logantauson789]

What can we do if not farmers? Apply to gardening? Brilliant & beautiful thank you for your ongoing work in 2021 we need this to be heard and applied more than ever.

[@lukeryuzaki2328]

Learning and preaching. Why? Because f the policy in urban area, it's unnatural way of life. You can't have diversity of life forms to upkeep a regenerative/sustainable garden. You need predator as much as beneficial lifeform to for the life cycle to run its course wholefully. You can't let weed, grass to grow rich it full life cycle without someone calling the city to fine and enforcing you to cut down the grass in urban area. You can't have a cow in city, let alone a herd (because cow naturally need to live in herd to be healthy). And cow alone is not enough, you need sheep, goat, horse, goose, duck, chicken, rabbit, deer, bee, butterfly, fly, insect eating birds, predators... to keep thing going.

[@mavisdavisify]

Find a farm outside the city. Ask for some manure. Cows, goats, sheep are all ruminants. The bacteria in their rumen is a supercharger to the soil. Start with a little if that’s all you can get. Put it in your compost. Spread it on your soil. Once the bacteria makes contact with the soil it’s off and running. You absolutely can turn your home gardens into a regenerative ecological system. Keep the chemicals out and you’ll be fine.

[@jimbledsoe9083]

Ray for Secretary of Agriculture mind shifter in chief

[@coreybaldwin5593]

Awesome speech cant wait to read and here more

[@lukeryuzaki2328]

How to contact Mr. Archuleta?

[@mauricecalliss1303]

FINALLY SOMEONE'S TEACHING WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAUGHT CENTURIES AGO. IT'S A CELEBRATION OF LIFE TO HEAR SUCH COMMON SENSE.

[@ArsenIslamovandhiscattle]

it would be great if you could let add and translate subtitles. I really wanna stream this but really few Russians speak English

[@stevenmayhew3944]

Time stamp: 37:35: "Give the man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

[@dirtymikentheboys5817]

What about my job.?

[@saamokari2356]

❤

[@wildrangeringreen]

The issue is not that science caused our current problems... there were papers written in the late 1800's and early 1900's detailing the destructive effects of heavy tillage, and the successes of alternative production methods. There we papers in the 30's through the 50's describing the destructive and/or unnecessary use of chemical inputs. The issue is that most of those papers were ignored, because that's not where the money was (it's well documented that companies "donated" copious amounts of money to universities that supplied data to back the usage of their products). When you design an "experiment" to prove an intended result... that's not science. It's hard to make money off farming without actually doing the farming if farmers don't need heavy tillage implements and inputs (other than seed)... so you convince farmers that they "need" these things to make a living.

[@lilacDaisy111]

From 15:00 especially.

[@jimbledsoe9083]

The plow is a 10,000 year old mistake with tons of cultural inertia

[@lukeryuzaki2328]

Cain

[@wildrangeringreen]

The original plow was little more than a 4-6" diameter log that was sharpened to a point (sometimes shod in iron or bronze for longevity) with some framing on it to allow it to be tied to a draft animal (furrowing an acre by hand tools takes a week, but it can be done with an animal in a day). It was nothing more than a tool to open a furrow to plant seeds. Most styles of hoes were vegetation chopping tools (primarily), rather than soil-chopping tools (a fine edged, stone bladed tool isn't going to chop much soil before it's trashed). The mattock and adze were soil digging tools, for opening a furrow and removing perennial sod and tree roots in the area immediately around the furrow. Fields were essentially rows of crops interplanted into disturbed sod, and you managed "weeds" by chopping them down below the canopy height of you crops (much faster and less effort than chopping the roots out of the soil, if they grow back it's fine, if not, "oh well"). The modern moldboard plow, and the destruction that comes with the intensive tillage systems connected with it, didn't really exist globally until the mid 1800's (you did see some attempts in the 1300's in western Europe and 200CE in China, but due to limitations of material production, was relatively limited in acceptance until the 1700's). It's a classic example of technology advancing, and rather than asking the question "should we?", we asked "can we?". You turn the entire field over in large slices, it's too rough to plant into, so you invent discs to cut it up, then it's still not able to be planted into, so you create the harrow, then it's too loose to retain moisture (since all the surrounding vegetation and roots are gone), so you invent the cultipacker, then, because you have the entire field barren, weeds come up, and you can't manage all of it, so you invent the cultivator (which breaks the soil even more). All the while, your topsoil is washing/blowing away, and the biology of the soil is being baked to death in the sun (and because there's no vegetation other than the crop, starves before and after it's harvested). Until the last 200 years, virtually all farming was low-input, intercropped Stip-till and no-till, our materials and technology didn't allow for anything else.

[@jimbledsoe9083]

@@wildrangeringreen Thanks this is a well written history of agriculture that brings to my mind questions about our ancient practices because of the desertification of the American southwest and Tigris Euphrates Valleys Valley. The plow being a less destructive tool in those times. i also hold to using the idea of the plow and cultural ineritia as an emblem of our overall missteps in regard to ecological function in both our farmlands and cities.

[@wildrangeringreen]

@@jimbledsoe9083 absolutely! A theory I've heard mulled over is that the excessive removal of trees caused a massive ecological shift/collapse, similar to what is suspected to have happened in Scottish Highlands during the bronze age (for smelting and to clear land for grazing) and to the Mayans in the Yucatan/Oaxaca regions (for added fertility). It's been noted that the presence and removal of tree populations can have significant impacts on local weather patterns.

[@Lawiah0]

Adamic-man, *Behold the Christian Race* ... Cush (Greek: Ethiopia), means sun-burnt face Phoenicians described by the Greeks, as fair-haired, fair-skinned people Persia means Lord of the Aryans now renamed IRAN Zimbabwe once known as Rhodesia Chicongo once known as Chicago ... 12 Tribes passed through the Caucasus Mountains (i)ssac's Sons / Saxons / Anglo-Saxons / Europe / Australia / New Zealand / North America / Christian First World / "We the People" ... 38 For as in those days before the flood, *they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,* until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, *so will be the coming of the Son of Man.*

[@greatdane3343]

I'm not sure if you realise how much the inclusion of religion in these presentations can undermine the confidence of the viewer. It really makes me question the validity of Ray's teachings when he wraps up with how much he believes in something that is totally farcical to an analytical mind :'(

[@regeneratetheland293]

Than maybe listen to other speakers who only use science arguments. They come to the same conclusion anyway 😄 How about Allan Savory, Elaine Ingham, Christine Jones?

[@regeneratetheland293]

I'm sorry that i cannot understand that you cannot understand that some people believe in something higher, bigger than us. But don't you ever wonder? What is your explanation for everything then?

[@regeneratetheland293]

Actually i think it's an interesting critique that he brings against science.

[@NickShay]

I believe that is why he stated that this is His why, and everyone needs to find their own why. Also, regardless of his belief system, you cannot deny the facts of science presented. It is hard for anyone to hear truth when it doesn't match up perfectly with their belief system. That's the beauty of his speech, is that we are all different, and we can find commonality as well as a greater cause than ourselves.

[@lisamcnichols5791]

So … an unbeliever such as yourself, is the only person with an analytical mind?? That just shows your historical ignorance of some of the greatest minds of history.

[@slangster233]

Our creation myth, (man booted from the garden because of a curious woman), is not helping. Man has been punishing Woman and degrading her Garden ever since.

[@darrylmueller]

Bible is NO myth. It's was not her garden! That is what got Eve in trouble she took bad advise from the snake that were contrary to the owners instructions.

[@Jefferdaughter]

@@darrylmueller - If you read your bible carefully, you will see that God told Adam to guard the garden. If he had been doing his job, the serpent would never have gotten in, and would never have had the chance to trick the woman, would it?

[@Jefferdaughter]

Slangster - You make an excellent point. Yet anything, anything at all can be twisted and used against us. The things we care most about... the deepest truths stated in the clearest way we know how... These are the most effective ways to control people, or gain power, or get money from people. Religion and spiritual beliefs are one of the most powerful tools that can be used for good, or not. Not only was the woman in the Garden curious, she was lied to; conned. In that story, tIthe man had been told by god to guard the Garden of Eden. If he had done so, the serpent would not have had the chance to deceive the woman. It is there. The bible also tells men to 'Love your wives, as Christ loves the Church (which means the people), even to the laying down of his life.' Yup, that is in there, too. So you see, it may not be the myth that is the problem, but how certain groups choose to see it. It has been said that societies that see life as a blessing value women. Those that see life as a trial, a struggle, full of misery... those societies, and maybe those individuals, tend to blame women. Because no Man* comes to life but through woman. *When capitalized, this word means all those with hands, not another appendage. It comes from the Latin, 'manus', for hand. In the 1700s, this was known by everyone who could read. Now go reread the Declaration of Independence - look at the version Jefferson wrote by hand. His thinking may have been even more revolutionary than we thought, though disguised perhaps by a sprinkling of other capital letters. After all, women were little more than property then. On Jefferson's slaves, they were inherited from his wife's father upon his death. If 'set free' they would have had nowhere to go, and would have been enslaved by another. He provided cabins and garden plots equivalent to what white farm hands would have had at the time, and freed them on his death. But he was in debt, mostly because he spent so much time and effort on helping us, The People... of the future. The argument about whether the Negros were 'Men' or more like livestock almost stalled the Revolution altogether, so a horrible compromise was made. Women, obviously, are still not 'equal' in terms of how they are regarded or paid. Like many people 'of color'. Sad, but we can continue to work toward the high ideals set forth in those Founding Documents.

[@slangster233]

@@Jefferdaughter , thanks for this. Didn't know about "manus", though it makes perfect sense. It's become apparent, around 14,000 years ago, a mile wide asteroid hit the 2 mile thick ice sheet covering northern North America at nearly 100,000 mph. The resulting steam explosion liquefied the ground, hurled town sized icebergs thousands of miles, causing huge floods, darkened the skies, pushed Earth into a thousand year deep freeze, the "younger Dryas", and killed off 95% of mammals over a hundred pounds, including the sabre tooth tiger and the Clovis people of North America. Something like that is bound to leave an indelible mark on the collective memory of the 700 generations to follow.

[@wendyscott8425]

@@darrylmueller ​ @darrylmueller Just curious how a snake could talk to Eve. Since when do snakes talk? BTW, if you read Genesis in order, God creates all of mankind ("male and female created he them"-Gen. 1:27 KJV) before any mention of Adam, which, btw, actually means "mankind" in Hebrew. "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called *their* name Adam, in the day when they were created."-Gen. 5:2 KJV Just sayin'...