How A Regenerative Farm Turns Desert Into Paradise Growing Trees & Cows

This is how to restore degraded and eroded desert landscapes into thriving ecosystems!
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[@dougoverhoff7568]

Fills me with optimistism for our future, and for the planet as a whole. I hope to see these techniques spreading worldwide very soon. Peace!

[@anikac8380]

I interviewed a farmer in Virginia, USA who switched to rotational grazing, just like this farm in your video. It made an extraordinary difference in the health of his herd and in his income. He was no longer losing money. And he didn’t have to spend all this money on chemical inputs. There are so many benefits to rotational grazing. In the states, some call it grass farming, because you’re looking after the health of the grass , since that is what sustains your animals. When the farms aren’t so extensive, they have to monitor how long the grass is, and move the animals to the next paddock when the plants have had enough. It’s exciting to see the further and potential of this technique on damaged landscapes. With less greed and more concern for the ecosystem, they found the correct number of animals to graze and the proper method to manage them. Looking at desert landscapes always made me feel tense and sad. I love seeing such a place rebounding with such a variety of life. Thank you for this.

[@philippinephoenix6869]

@anikac8380 Please watch Carbon Cowboys and Kiss the Ground documentaries. They will show you so much.

[@anikac8380]

@@philippinephoenix6869 kiss, the Ground was wonderful! Intelligent, well, crafted, passionate. Loved it, so… Indeed! I’ll check out carbon Cowboys.

[@philippinephoenix6869]

@@anikac8380 Also "Roots so Deep You Can See the Devil Down There"

[@anikac8380]

@@philippinephoenix6869 copy that, and thanks again!

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

Big ag, big chem, universities all push high inputs to keep farmers under their thumb. See Gabe Brown, Will Harris,...

[@hebierob]

Any story about Land regeneration is awesome!

[@1888swordsman]

Great planning through care and management. This needs to go global. Water = life

[@paytonturner1421]

It's nice to see seeing practices like this that will help farmers and the environment at the same time. I hope this type of thing will be standard practice or adopted by small and big farmers to help with our food supply.

[@mikeycbaby]

Awesome. 👏🏽 they should implement this technique on all the neighboring farms.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

That would be cool!

[@philiptaylor7902]

Interesting to see the same basic principles: reduce grazing density, return organic matter to the soil, slow the flow of water off the land being applied in innovative ways in different countries.

[@thegreencompany2101]

That’s amazing!🙌🏼🌳

[@frankmorris4790]

"Those things once the ruin of the forest can now be it's salvation. Fire, the ax, the gun and the cow." ~Aldo Leopold~

[@youtubeuser6067]

This is a MUST SEE video for all those who think that cattle by are problematic in land management. Clearly, if utilized intelligently within the context of the ecosystem, cattle can be an invaluable animal asset to restore the land with greenery. Share this video as much as you can to educate those who have been indoctrinated to have a negative knee jerk reaction to cattle.

[@knoll9812]

Not indoctrination if correct and there are huge areas damaged by cattle. Agree if you are talking about people who say all cattle bad. Reality is there are huge areas of bad practice and enough to worry people. Solution is better practice so that there is less to worry about.

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

Management of the grazing is either aiding soil health or degrading soil health. Short duration of grazing followed by enough time for plants to fully recover and paracite cycles to be broken for the species grazed to avoid reinfection is wise. Continuous grazing or grazing more than 3 days in a paddock or returning too soon is less than ideal management and soil, plants, animals, and wallet will suffer.

[@TobiasDuncan]

This is your best one yet. Really enjoying watching this channel improve and do such important work. Thank you

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Wow, thank you!

[@safffff1000]

Thus proving 90% of the world's land can be regenerated and support billions, just get rid of the delites and let people do their thing

[@b_uppy]

Roots so deep channel is a little better channel for explaining good grazing methods.

[@doelbaughman1924]

Most definitely, but it will be hard to implement in this profit-driven world. In the long term this is better, but getting individual farmers to embrace it is another. Being from the Mid-west living around and being related to farmers, they wonder, "Why do this? The more cattle I raise or monoculture crop per acre I grow, the more I can make for my family!" We have a wrong-headed view of farming. When I see videos like this, where areas of decades-long drought develop year-round streams again, I just shake my head at our present situation around the world. This video isn't an anomaly! There are countless videos of deserts and temperate areas in which this has been done.

[@b_uppy]

@@doelbaughman1924 You need to point out that while the primary crop in a polyculture may only net 90% of conventional, it's the other simultaneous crops/livestock that increase profitability way past that of monocultures. Plus with polycultures (especially those managed with livestock) you increase financial resiliency against crop disaster as well as generally increase profitability with each additional crop, reduce the need for irrigation, reduce/stop use of expensive synthetic chemical inputs, etc. Polycropping is way more rotatable, even if it typically fails to get government support like conventionally raised crops...

[@kostasalmaliotis7226]

Ingenious practice.

[@TaLeng2023]

First time I heard that cattle soften the ground. I often hear that soil get compacted if trod often (hence why some home gardeners plan the plots to be within arms reach).

[@user-fu6ke9lo2z]

We need more of this

[@user-zq6oj6jt8w]

incredible results!!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

You're so welcome!

[@susandamaschke701]

Fantastic!!!!

[@kellerhorton]

I love this. These folks are brilliant.

[@devdeuce93]

Best one yet!

[@halnineooo136]

Wonderful! It would be very helpful to apply such regenerative farming to the southern Sahara where tens of millions of people are moved out of their homeland by desertification

[@ksgraham3477]

This seems to be a copy of the work of Alan Savory whose pioneering work was in Africa.

[@ScrewyDriverTheMan]

But they've been building the green wall for a while now in the Sahara.

[@halnineooo136]

Yes although it seems like the green wall is progressing slowly in that the projects are sparsely spread to have a meaningful impact

[@ScrewyDriverTheMan]

@@halnineooo136 According to the documentaries I've watched, it's had a massive impact

[@knoll9812]

Original project of ocean to ocean wall was a political elephant. Has morphed into more scientific and useful direction

[@rishishah6810]

Amazing work

[@PooPooPeeePeee]

Tis a slay

[@tesha199]

Such a clear difference

[@TrotterSoccer]

Lovely video again. Thanks!

[@Technoanima]

I cant wait to see the next video on this project!

[@patrickRyan-yz1gb]

To figure the run of a right angle triangle for every 12" just add 5" , so in your case you had 96", just 40" = 136"

[@ItAllBeginsWithSelf]

Great content 🔥

[@lauraw.7008]

AMP Grazing; adjusted to the environment. See Peter Byck, also filming farmers and ranchers doing AMP grazing where they concentrate more cattle for shorter periods of time, and native birds are returning to areas they haven’t been in over 10 years. Cows produce less methane, the perennial grasses store more carbon…win-win! Glad scientists are able to monitor & report. There are so many positive ways small farmers can take back control of our food from mega-corporations.

[@terryjones8588]

Great video!

[@pollopacheco1891]

Excelente 😊❤

[@AngelaMerkeltree]

This is great! These types of videos show that there is so much hope in helping the world as long as humans are actively participating and being proactive in natural processes.

[@gnarmarmilla]

Thank you for showing us this amazing project. I first heard about this method from a scientist named Allan Savory who gave a really good and inspiring talk on TED called, “how to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change.” He once had a government in Southern Africa kill many elephants because he thought that their over grazing was causing desertification but when he looked closer he saw that it was human mismanagement, the grazing of livestock without shepherds who move their flocks about on a regular basis. In your video they separate them into those areas but I believe that you can get the same results and maybe even better by employing a group of shepherds to strategically move the herds about the land in a way that is fruitful to the land. This information can save the planet in ways if God is willing and if we are sure to make sure that all people on earth are aware of this method.

[@tyramasters-heinrichs921]

Regenerative Agriculture has been showing amazing results for decades, even with Big AG fighting the knowledge getting out. Here in the great plains of Canada, I'm told we should include fowl, to cycle properly (you need a browser (goats), grazer (cattle), and birds (chickens) to better mimic nature, nutrient release, pest control, and wildlife promotion -- yes, promotion). One thing, if there were wolves they would hunt the cows and keep them moving. In Wild cattle herds, it's only a few cows to a bull, and they move all the time, you also get small herds of young bulls. And to understand how close cows and bison are, they can interbreed and their offspring are fertile, they fill the same niche. The difference, everyone will tell you, is that cattle are domesticated, but look at those cows, within a very short time their behaviour returns to a wild state, in a generation they would act like wild bison, not those tamed for thousands of years.

[@ChrisHoward-ky8pv]

Truely inspirational. Thank you.

[@GudasWorld]

Amazing. I live in a simular area this would work in. Animals are the key also because they are sequestering carbon. Their farts are only an issue on unhealthy land.

[@heartlandokie4485]

It would go a lot faster if they trapped the seasonal rain water with intermittent dams in those valleys to allow the water to slow down and soak into the soil. Its been working in northern Africa.

[@Riley-iw6kj]

How long is it gonna take to fully recover?

[@emersonstaley3538]

This is awesome. My one question is before cows were brought to the americas what mammal played the grazing role in this area?

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Big horn desert sheep in this area

[@Morraak]

Pretty cool to see! I hope one day we can bring the bison populations back up closer to what they were before we almost exterminated them.

[@b_uppy]

Bison are hard to contain, and removing fences and letting them run wild across the US would be hard for ranchers to monetize...

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Bison arent actually native to this particular region it would be bighord sheep they also threatened

[@TR1P0DL1F3]

I bet AMP grazing would work wonders here.

[@busybeeteach]

the criollo cattle are almost native animals after 500 years in the desert

[@gioknows]

OMG that is just wonderful...this makes me so happy. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁

[@user-yq8ck8yf3u]

Ideally the shift to new ground would be once per day with no set grazing. Just some points. 1. The recovery period allows sward plants to seed to provide more cover which will not happen with set grazing. 2. Dung Beetles to turn, and loosen the soil adding organic matter into the soil away from the sun. This is extremely important because this is dry country, and once organic matter is secured into the soil the soils ability to absorb water takes a large lift. 3. Covering the soil the plants. This has two implications. 3a. This shades so cools the soil, and will lower water evaporation, and 3b. The intercepting cover absorbs the force of raindrops that would otherwise hit the soil directly with the kinetic energy of an explosive hence the erosion rates on non covered ground. 4. This becomes self reinforcing as the land manager becomes a land shepherd via stock management, and also making the human a keystone species for ultimate landscape species diversity as there is now habitat for the species that set stocking forced out. Deserts are caused by poor soil management either by poor stock management or by cropping which also bares the soil. 5. The Dung Beetle here is the unsung hero. There has to be Beetle stock for soil where worms are not present as a keystone species for that environment.

[@b_uppy]

Good explanation. Moving the livestock a lot means adequate green cover remains and protects soil. They have been somewhat successful because these cattle are skittish and naturally move more. Think the comnentators missed that. They also need plant diversity.

[@leelindsay5618]

There is evidence that herding or wire fencing the animals in tighter, and moving 2-3 times per day on occasion can improve the soil faster.

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

Would love to see a comparison of this and Alejandro Carrillo's Las Damas Ranch in the Chijuajuan Desert. Their methods, their soil building effectiveness, their water-holding capacities,...

[@knoll9812]

@@b_uppy even very domestic cattle will cover the whole paddock looking for grazing. I think the main thing they going for them is long recovery period

[@b_uppy]

@@knoll9812 A paddock is pretty small, bad word choice. That said cattle will be picky and overgraze tastier food over less tasty food. That tends to kill off the desirable greenery and encourages inedible/unpalatable/poisonous forbs, grasses, and woody plants. Moving cattle often is important. That these cattle are skittish makes them move more readily on their own...

[@cosmic4037]

Can be done where there is a good management.

[@AussiePharmer]

Thank you for the video! Such an amazing contrast. A bit of a shame about their move away from Criollo cattle which are so adapted to low nutritional environments. Angus and Red Wagyu are high maintenance animals and won't breed well in such conditions. In your future videos can you visit Johann Zietsman? He advocates using unimproved cattle breeds like Criollo and African Sanga cattle which can breed in any tough environment for regenerative purposes.

[@b_uppy]

Agreed. Wagyu and Angus taste best when fattened on CORN and have a less desirable flavor profile when pastured/grass-fed grass. They need to crossbreed with a breed that fattens well on pasture. I know Hereford on grass tastes a lot better than Angus on corn or grass... Unsure if you know this but livestock grazed on diverse pasture have a higher, more desirable nutritional profile compared to livestock fed on conventional ag systems.

[@AussiePharmer]

@@b_uppy yeah we run Angus on our farm because the market demands it. Exclusively pasture fed. We have tried Red Wagyu and even on prime pasture and hay they have a tough time finishing. Unfortunately black animals are associated with quality in the Japanese/Asian market. This means much better breeds (in my opinion) eg silver Murray Greys, with better temperament and heat adaptibility are at risk of dying out. The processors also want large animals, but the larger the size the poorer their reproductive rates and efficiency on pasture. Explains why there are a lot more Wilderbeast than Elephants. Just hope this amazing ranch isnt falling for this trap. It's like buying Ferrari cattle, expecting them to perform on this 'off road' environment.

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

​@@AussiePharmer check into direct marketing, like Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Joel Salatin, or Will Harris...

[@b_uppy]

@@AussiePharmer Part of it stems from a skewed study way back when that said Angus beef won a taste test. It was CAFO raised, grain-fed Angus against other CAFO raised cattle breeds. It was a poor study. We had big Hereford and they were very efficient despite the soil being low in selenium.

[@AussiePharmer]

@@user-kv2pt4lu9y yeah i went to Gregs grazing school nearly a decade ago. Its achievable for sure, but our work life balance won't let us commit fully. Better to raise moderate frame animals and have the rotations right first.

[@damonchampion823]

💚

[@Daytona2]

Would using a rotavator and muck spreader be more effective, I wonder. I can't imagine that the crust is 100% waterproof.

[@b_uppy]

No. It forms a crust. If it rains it ends up polluting water. On healthy, diverse, mob-grazed pasture dung beetles sequester dung into the soil where it's fertility is better utilized. Letting cattle do their thing naturally avoids overwhelming the dung beetles. It also avoids burning plamts because the manure is too hot (because it's in a small amount instead of concentrated), etc...

[@masonbaylorbears]

Im not sure why the cattle vs bison grazing comparison matters. There is not a range like the range the bison covered with highways, fences, govt land. So cattles grazing difference is less of a factor today.

[@joyhendry3397]

Interesting beneficial adaptation of introduced animals to a degenerated local environment. It reminded me of the way nomadic herders move their cattle in other dry parts of the world, like Africa.

[@HylanderSB]

Is there enough land available in the area to be able to still raise enough cattle in this way to meet the market demand?

[@skydivingcomrade1648]

Humans are keystone species..... we are the animals that manage the world.

[@FunkLogicOne]

You should check out Allan Savory TED talk about using livestock and moving them in herds like they are being hunted by an apex predator. The effects are amazing.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thats what is already said in this video

[@sportsfisher9677]

Actuality Cougars and Jaguars are historically native to this area along with deer 🦌 and bighorn sheep 🐑 so to mimic the cycle is smart.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thats right but none of them are here anymore or very rare due to hunting, there might be a cougar in the vecinity they testing some poo now. The bighorn population are now in a protected herd in north baja, very rare to see them herw

[@RedandAprilOff-Grid]

😎👍

[@leelindsay5618]

They move them once a month? They should be moving at minimum once per 3-4 days before grasses begin to regrow.

[@knoll9812]

Would require huge resources and labour in this environment

[@sonorangreenman4472]

It;s great and it had been known to permaculturists and range managers for a long time. It is establishing controls so all cattle being grazed are managed better. I am from the the Sonoran desert (Tucson AZ)and poor range management has been going on a long time. The bottom line for cattle ranchers (yes I had worked for one) is how much weight they can put on per month. In poorly managed areas, I have seen dead cattle and many with prickly pear spines all over their mouth. Not a great weight gaining strategy. And the number of cattle was excessive and the desert takes a long time to recover.

[@b_uppy]

It's more important to avoid overgrazing than to worry about stocking numbers. Moving cattle frequently before grass is grazed too low is key. Much of the Sonoran desert used to be grass land over 150 years ago, with grass growing horse-high.

[@thinklocally]

All Praises to this kool folks for making this move to save the earth. I hope americans will do the same to nourish their land rather than wasting their time luring the internet.

[@Greenmahn333]

👍

[@rjung_ch]

👍💪✌

[@Birthhammer]

George Monbiot debating Charles Savory on the validity of holistic management was pretty wild. I did get the impression Monbiot was there to win a debate and crush an opponent. Does this project add evidence to support the theory of holistic management or is it just a case of less intensive ranching being better for the land than very intensive ranching, but both being ultimately bad for planet?

[@Birthhammer]

I do not doubt Monbiot’s sincerity in his disbelief in the sustainability of holistic management

[@abrahamchacko6822]

Only plants can convert solar energy into biochemical energy through photosynthesis. Plant diversity enhance the efficiency HB

[@TRINITY-ks6nw]

Scientists show up after the farmer figures out the problem

[@knoll9812]

Would gave liked some information about finance. Do they make more money thN neighbours

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

We will discuss more about the business side in up and coming videos

[@onilegends6650]

Native Americans were the lions of the Americas. Thats why the bison heard were so large back in the day and why the mid-west soil is so fertile.

[@therandomguy8160]

ALLAN SAVORY

[@laynelins9564]

A pecuária é o grande responsável pelo desmatamento e degradação do solo. O Brasil está sentindo na pele os efeitos do aquecimento global.

[@keepitnatural1859]

Thats because they are logging the forest and then turning the land into fields for cows, thats not regenerative farming, its the opposite, they are depleating the resources by turning jungle and forest into grasses

[@b_uppy]

Overgrazing and CAFOs are the problem...

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

meminer have 2 type of metal detector

[@michaeldill7620]

Would be great to see deer, antelope and big horn sheep return, also get more big cats Sadly the area above this zone headed towards el triumpho has high caustic water from all the previous mining, The people and animals in that area suffer greatly. Who funded this project??🤔

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

There maybe a big cat they are in the middle of analyzing some poop, will update in a video once we know. It's a business not a charity

[@michaeldill7620]

@@LeafofLifeWorld I have seen scat on the otherside and herd rancheros claim there are pumas. I have seen tons of bobcats Suerte!! 🤩

[@skybluskyblueify]

Are there any mountain lions there? If so why are they not doing what lions and leopards do in parts of the African continent?

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

There should be or there were but it was bighorn sheep that used to be the prodiment grazing animal and they all but dissapeared from being hunted, there is a protected population of them somewhere near the border

[@sportsfisher9677]

Clearly Cattle then by increasing desert brush they have actually reduced carbon on their ranch.

[@b_uppy]

???

[@hamzaahadaf4399]

Permaculture

[@_robustus_]

Those are not rivers…even in desert countries. Try stream or creek on for size.

[@brianmcchesney580]

This has nothing to do with the regenerative power of cows, it is all about reducing over grazing!

[@marlan5470]

And when the doom and gloom brigade says the cows are killing the planet and want to destroy ranchers and farmers who manage their land regeneratively, please forward videos like this one.

[@gaborszabo5416]

Basically the have 8 times less cows. Yes the land is better but the farmer has 8 times less cows to sell. Whats the economics behind having less cows? How can we convince other farmers that having way less animals doesnt mean they have less money?

[@martenapperloo1055]

What are they eating, theres nothing their.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

What do you mean, theres plenty? the criollo cattle are adapted to desert plants theres tons of shrubs and trees and after it rains grasses

[@kennethnystrom593]

Reason; basic fertilisation. Yeep the animals poop. So hard to get how that is having an effect on the land...

[@b_uppy]

Watch Allen Savory/Savory Institute videos to get a better idea of how it really works.

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

​@@b_uppyor Alejandro Carrillo in Chijuajuan Desert in Mexico

[@KJSvitko]

Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

Use 400 cows in the same paddocks for a week. Then the rest period for each paddock would be 5 months.

[@b_uppy]

Right idea, but the resting period is more site dependent.

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

Use same pounds of ruminants in much smaller paddocks with shorter durations in each paddock. Not more than 3 days in a paddock, daily or more frequent moves, depending on paybacks. See Ray Archuleta talks on economic feesability of frequency of moves. As a herd gets larger, it is less costly per head, to move the herd more often.

[@knoll9812]

​@@user-kv2pt4lu9yhuge amount of fences would be required. U suspect this is the best balance for this environment. Possible that down the line they can mJe smaller pastures and bugger numbers

[@Triple5live]

Hilarious. This is what dairy farming has been doing for 100 years. No one sings its praises though, no trendy word attached

[@oloplyflapdar7384]

what? How many trees do you see on a typical dairy farm?? It's not about production, it's about sustainability.

[@Triple5live]

@@oloplyflapdar7384 How many trees? too many, I have to drive around them. Sustainability? Dairy farms are more productive today than they were 40 years ago, the soils are much better, the cows healthier and fatter. There is no linear decline, that is just an environmentalist's fantasy. But I was referring to strip grazing, dense controlled grazing and manure fertilization. Been going on for a long time. Dairy soils have high organic matter and good soil biology.

[@b_uppy]

​@@Triple5live That they have skittish cattle is a big advantage this farm has. It means the cattle are closer temperamentallly to bison. Most dairy cattle are relatively "docile," though they may be belligerent when it comes to actual milking. That said most dairies are still conventionally managed and the soil quality is failing to increase, its merely slowing the degradation. These dairies need regular irrigation exactly because the grass is nipped too close. This overgrazing also means the soil microbes die readily due to solarization and wind dessication. A dead/reduced soil biome means reducing natural fertility because a diversity of plants is better able to supply various nutrients, and encourage mycelium growth. Overgrazing reduces the amount of biomass produced per acre, per annum. This is because grass roots are sacrificed for regrowth. The presenters and ranch foreman may misunderstand all the mechanisms of rebuilding soil via ligesrock, but I also know you're off as well...

[@---nt5mb]

@@Triple5live I am sorry but exactly where are you finding dairy farms with either herds small enough or properties large enough, that can ensure that a paddock remains ungrazed for 1.5 years? Any dairy farm I have ever visited has simply grazed to the butt, manured ( usually chemical), rested for a couple of months growth and then let the cattle back on it. I know its done differently in desert regions like Australia and America where they have large tracts of land available, and until very recently most herds were pretty much free to roam and graze as they please.But even there, farmers in these regions have to admit to carry out truly sustainable farming methods, they would have to reduce their herds in desert regions to leave their land ungrazed for 1.5 years! This is regenerative land management but difficult to see how many if any farms could run a profitable business this way, and with a growing population, this is why I see precision fermentation as the inevitable future of farming. Either that or we just continue as we are and in 100 years the land is destroyed from generations of chemical fertilisation and our seas and rivers destroyed from the excess nitrogen run off. What are we going to eat then?

[@user-kv2pt4lu9y]

​@@oloplyflapdar7384why sustain a degraded resource? Regenerate it!

[@SystemsPlanet]

Dumb to claim they are making water

[@yannchretien8798]

Wooowww ... great job ... so amazing to see such a change ... well done ... 🫂🫂🫂❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘☀️☀️☀️🌈🌈🌈♥️♥️♥️