How You Can Replace Factory Fertilizer | Joel Salatin

If we took all the money the world spends on fertilizer and invested it into a carbon economy, how fast could we heal our lands? Joel Salatin discusses how a carbon based economy is an integral part of regenerative land management and can lead to other benefits like reducing forest fires, reducing fertilizer costs, building soil, and providing a regenerative solution for farms with woodlots of just about any size.
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[@logan_black]

I still hear my family implying that why an engineer wants to be a farmer? I'm still getting there, but it's already worth it for my mental and physical health. 😀

[@Carolynfoodforest355]

I'm so glad that you have your own KZbin channel now Joel. 😊 These are fantastic videos.

[@talkingjoseph5582]

Best thing in 2024 in messy world

[@MakYuYuYa]

Oh God, this world needs more people like you

[@Ozarkmountainoutback1]

So awesome you have your own channel 🎉 I've read all your books and have learned so much from them! The great part is you always show people how to actually implement ideas that truly benefit for the long haul.

[@DaveE99]

One thing I’m suprised isn’t talked about more is recycling urine. It’s free nitrogen, compost it for number of weeks or filter it etc, and it’s good fertilizer, maybe even just solar evaporate it to condense. That’s all the nitrogen that we produce with money and energy via fertilizer being flushed down the drain. And it’s sterile if composted for like 8-10 weeks for women. For men it’s good to go straight away, though if your a woman and want to learn to use it for your garden, you can get a sort of attatchment that lets you pee standing up and because the urine dosent drip down and get fecal contamination, you could use it right away like men. It’s like a piece of plastic to use while roadtripping or camping to making it easier. So that way both sexes can use that nitrogen right away. That’s the N, P I think I do want a grain grinding mill or something, at minimum I can make legume grains and or I can make bone broth in pressure cooker, then grind the bones up and you got the P, and for K you can just burn some wood and make wood ask, ideally work into compost or apply to garden. Etc, it’s great. And there is some chemical you can add to urine that makes it a solid and then it just needs to evaporate water off to dry. Can make slow release crystals kinda

[@terencemcdonald2147]

Those junk trees are the 2x4s at Homedepot. Great video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

[@woodchipgardens9084]

Urine, crab, fish smells funky but nothing beats it in my yard.

[@user-eq5me6ob5e]

Yes I noticed a huge surge after spraying liquid seaweed on my lawn!

[@thebalaa]

Damn, now I want a wood chipper. Putting out the burn pile.

[@user-gk2ut8mc5e]

Excellent content, Thank You bro Yoel!! May YAHUAH bless you for blessing us with your knowledge and understanding. HalleluYAH!!

[@Farmer4Truth]

Great video! Really awesome to see Joel himself putting out content on KZbin 😉

[@rodolpheroger8258]

Thanks Mr, you are just rediscovering all the works of the French pionner of the 1950/60 Mr Pain that was in the South of France and invent ways to harvest all the underbrush of Mediterrean Forest to improve soil (heavy BRF) and Heat and even Gas (ogene) to make work IS car Citroën 2CV. His company still sells the spécial schredder that make it possible (minimum size wood chips, almost Pulp) That's my next buy! Thanks for making these ideas alive Again ! God bless you Sir !

[@rodolpheroger8258]

His full name was Jean Pain if I remember correctly!

[@tcfarms7645]

Awesome Joel, thanks for making great videos!

[@naomi2646]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have 36 acres with thick pines. I know it needs some thinning.

[@traviswilson1895]

Thank you so much for doing this. Please keep at it!

[@homesteadknowhow]

I started making biochar with my tree waste.

[@matthewpeckham9035]

Joel for president

[@user-tm5or9pk5k]

Hopefully the next president will appoint Joel to be the next USDA Secretary, put someone than understands the problems and solutions in a position to make the big changes!

[@markhasenour12]

Joel is a completely ignorant windbag who doesn't even understand basic AG science...

[@dantheman9135]

ThankQ

[@maxgator260]

Over here in europe you can do a master degee in agriculture.

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video 🇳🇿❤️

[@scottschaeffer8920]

Your doctrine is called “ Wise Use” something the Sierra Club can’t understand.

[@enigmaodell6806]

The phrase ‘carbon economy’ doesn’t mean diddly to me, I was looking for a video on homemade fertilizer

[@benjaminangel5601]

Love the idea of repurposing poor quality wood for composting and regenerative purposes. I wonder what kind of trees fit this description that might also provide other benefits from a transitional tool for regenerating land, or complimenting other beneficial life during its own growth.

[@thecurrentmoment]

The thumbnail says: "Replace your farm fertilizer with Joel Salatin" I'm not sure what this implying - do we get him to ealk around our farm? (Like the quote about a farmer's footsteps being the best fertilizer) Do we get him to visit and make a "deposit"? Do we add him to the compost?

[@danielmaclean8932]

❤️❤️

[@FauxSentinel21]

Alright I now have my wood chips and I even calculated how much it cost to make. Could you explain what to do with the chips to replace fertilizer? It seems you sell your chips. Do I do that and buy fertilizer?

[@tcfarms7645]

You compost it. Lots of ways to compost. Read Joel's books or watch Geoff Lawton. Compost is fertilizer. You make compost with the carbon and use it instead of conventional fertilizer! It is perfect!

[@stephaniehill655]

I don't want to sound dumb here, I'm new with all this. But how do you figure out the cubic yard that he was talking about?

[@TheFeralFarmgirl]

It is three feet long, three feet high, and three foot wide. Think of it like a big box. 💟

[@Jason4Star]

You've got to work on the title page. The video thumbnail came up to read, "Replace your factory fertilizer with Joel Salatin." Now, while I appreciate the effort to us an organic-based fertilizer, I happen to appreciate Joel Salatin and I don't want to spread him all over my corn field. I feel like it is a terrible waste of his talents not to mention it would be quite boring for Joel to sit out there on my field day after day.

[@jeffreyandrews4270]

😅

[@Blackavian]

A white collar job will never grow the crops that feed the world. If society collapses , who would you rather have on your team: a theoretical physicist or a farmer? I’ll go with the person who can help me survive every time.

[@DaveE99]

Intelligence typically extends to lots of areas not just one, though you’re talking about crystallized intelligence, and sure all this knowledge is important, though there are scientists working on all the various damning and agriculture things to make it possible for our food system to adapt to changing circumstances and I was looking just the other day at the genetic issues needed to be worked out to make regular plants perrenial in cold regions ( a bit off because it’s not a simple genetic trait) but when that comes out things will be more resilient. We all kinda work together. And typically it’s not the scientists we have an issue with in the country, it’s the crazy capitalist legal enviroment that it exists in.

[@Blackavian]

@@DaveE99 Thank you for your excellent explanation. I did qualify my statement with "if society collapses," as in people are struggling to survive, so I stand by my belief that in that situation, a farmer wins out over a physicist. Being of a scientific mind myself, I think that under normal circumstances, both farmers and scientists are vital to the survival of a society. But, if there's no society to speak of, a farmer will have my vote every time.

[@DaveE99]

@@Blackavian the question is does all the knowledge disappear? If not, then keep them all in mind as it will just be another bottom up process.

[@Blackavian]

@@DaveE99 I think much knowledge can disappear when civilizations collapse. How were the pyramids built? How did the Romans make concrete that is superior to what we produce today? What is the true purpose of Stonehenge? What did the Mayans know of astronomy? How were the quipu read? Modern societies have become so specialized that we would lose much if millions of people died. Scientists and technical people tend to cluster in cities, which are the most vulnerable to societal collapse. So, yes, I think much knowledge will be lost IF society fails. I don't think it will, I was just pointing out that people told Joel being a farmer was a menial occupation when it, and many other blue-collar jobs, are among the most undervalued but vital.

[@maxgator260]

Over here in europe you can do a master degee in agriculture.