How Regenerative Agriculture is Changing in Other Countries

[@etiennelouw9244]

It's not only farms, I have a veggie patch in my back yard, in the height of summer it's not doing well, but I still eat from it a bit. In my front yard I started a "food forest" 3 years ago by taking cutting from neighborhood fruit trees and digging a trench around the yard to catch rain and soak it into the soil, 2 trees (white mulberry and fig) have survived, 2 trees died. Fat bush, Cape gooseberries and Purselane also growing, in the field in front of my yard I planted 1 tomato plant and 5 purselane. I am trying to grow an Orange tree from seed and another mulberry to plant in the park near my house. Yes, I have become an eco terrorist and I plant in places that I do not own.

[@Debbie-henri]

I've been a gardener for 42 years, 10 professionally - and it can be a bit tricky to get out of old habits. But I shook them off, tracked down a property with 2 acres with the intention of restoring the land. It had been a sheep pasture, a third eaten to bedrock, and very little soil elsewhere. I tried all sorts of methods to build soil using just the resources available on my land, to see if it was possible and not resort to buying in topsoil. It was difficult to start with, as you can imagine. The bare rock area was tricky to finally attract the coverage of plants. But now, after 21 years, there is full grass and wild flower coverage, berry bushes, a lot of small native trees suitable for coppicing (the brash used for soil building), and small fruit/nut trees. The trees struggle a bit, I must admit. Some have been blown over in the wind and I can't pretend they produce amazing crops. They don't. But they do pay their way, and life will get better and better for them with every year and the work I do to increase soil depth. The more people turn away from conventional growing - whether it be on a farm, smallholding or a garden, the better life will be for more than just people. Soil building is very likely going to prove one of the most successful ways to draw excess carbon out of the atmosphere - if only governments would see that and stop trying to impose their silly net zero ideas on everyone. (My government recently suggested imposing a £15 per day charge on anyone who needs to use their car. I don't know what Fantasyland their minds are in because I know no one who can afford that).

[@fiffihoneyblossom5891]

Clarkson went into farming as a joke, but ended up doing more for the regenerative moment than anyone in Britain. He's a hero in my opinion

[@janlabuschagne4759]

Ek het 35 jaar gelede dit in Namibia begin . Ja met diere . Die resultate wat nou kom na groot droogtes is verstommend .

[@fiffihoneyblossom5891]

@@janlabuschagne4759 eks in Namibie! Hentiesbaai, maar werk om plot toe te skuif oor so 2 jaar. Waar is jy?

[@craigmitchell905]

Bravo!!! GO GO GO!!!

[@bloggalot4718]

Permaculture is the way to go.

[@islandgardener158]

I wonder if Monsanto/Bayer is worried yet? Considering what their products have done for this world in the past 70 yrs they should be

[@bloggalot4718]

This type of farming was used in the U.K. in the Middle Ages.

[@janetmacdonald2823]

Glad to see UK farmers doing well, and backing you in resistance to that gov't scheme for snatching the glorious countryside of the UK by inheritance tax. As the whole take would yield just a 💧 in the bucket for funding, logic (common sense) requires us to keep looking for the actual reasons. 1) Self interest of the elites who want grand estates as second or third homes, 2) Self interest of the local elites craving higher property value so they control more 💰, 3) Spreading centralized control "globalist / lib-prog / carbon footprint 👣, etc." belief system craving a 🌎 reshaped for an elite class of say 1/100 of 1% or one in 10,000 dominant and controlling all resources with no resistance, no escape possible for centuries, millennia. Luckily this has failed every time it's tried. We've seen this before; researchers have charted predictable cycles in the human built 🌎 occurring much as night / day, seasons in the natural 🌎. Collectivism is ramped up till the regular people (aka the peasantry, sheeple sheep 🐑 🐑) have had quite enough. Most recently, in the U.S. several years of lib-prog Marxist rule by Democrats 🙄 ran the usual course. Watching several news sources I noticed the independent and "conservative" had empathy and helped get aid to Appalachian Mountains survivors of 🌀 Helene. Citizens and even people of other countries rushed aid of every sort.. Men left work and home to drive hundreds of miles, provide skills, chain saws, means to clear broken roads and wreckage that was 🏡 🏠. There was a huge civilian rescue of thousands left with no power, 💧, cell service, homes, vehicles, schools, shops,often missing family, pets & livestock. The federal gov't response... the top figure was put on a flyover. On emerging from the comforts of the aircraft, response to a reporter "Uh, what hurricane 🌀 is that?" The reporter nearly concealed a normal human's reaction to this, and enquired after the thousands of citizens. Curt, dismissive response "Oh, the people are fine; they're getting everything they need." The head of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), Alejandro Mayorkas, flew in luxury across country from D.C.for an event giving speeches and awards for the agency. Back in Appalachia, FEMA employees filled available housing while citizens had tents ⛺ with no services. Volunteers bringing equipment and supplies were interviewed describing the events of being blocked 🚫 by authorities, FEMA and some local, from proceeding. FEMA was reported to take the supplies, and bring to "sanctuary areas (allegedly)". And funding at least $1.4 billion, after some enquiry as reported to have been given to "sanctuary areas" also. A good result though, regular people look at this and wonder out loud why we're paying hundreds of billions for these millions getting comfortable pay & benefit packages in secure soft office jobs 🙄. We the People handled everything ourselves. The owner of the top indoor safe propane heaters, Mr. Heat, gave thousands of these lifesaving devices with propane canisters. Elon Musk gave Starlink as cell towers were largely taken out in this powerful storm. Business owners, skilled tradesmen, pensioners with little enough all acted in our hundreds of thousands.It was inspiring to see. Mission creep here, just that regenerative (same as millennia ago, lol) farming brought to mind Appalachia. DIY citizen - organized aid groups reported already that clothes, food and 💧are in abundance. Shelter is resisted by gov't, local especially. They won't allow tiny homes, other alternatives apparently because they'd rather the people, often generations on the land,, be forced to sell,, private equity and other wealthy buyers to gentrify and yield more tax 💰, allegedly. We're making progress in every area, as a people. I just get restless for faster results. Only 14 days till January 20th morning 🌄 Thousands of citizens with their homes, crops, livestock, 🌳 🌲 taken out by floods. Even steep wooded slopes left bare to leave mudslides across roads. wants to suck 💰 Have just heard from an interview with an historian, UK programme, a root of that spreading belief system Globalist / lib-prog / what else the "divide to conquer" elitists call it". The historian cited a form of Marxism in Germany.

[@jvcaleta]

Ha Ha Ha , The American hero!!!!!

[@jhuizinga1]

To talk about India, while ignoring the excellent work being done by the Paani Foundation, just doesn't seem right.