Learn Something Today: Small Scale No Till Farming...Building Soil From A to Z!

Learn Something Today: Small Scale No Till Farming...Building Soil From A to Z! Today we'll visit a small farmer here in North Carolina. He'll show us how he takes fields that have been conventionally tilled for generations and brings them back to health with no till farming, earthworms, beneficial fungi and microbes. I hope you'll learn and enjoy!
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[@andrewscott2866]

This is very interesting! Very curious about the economics of this approach knowing how expensive petroleum based fertilizer is. Great video as usual!

[@svetlanikolova7673]

Andrew, all I invested in is compost and mulch. I save time money water and my back. In retrospect, healthy soil healthy food healthy me. No doctors no vitamins and no garden slavery like my neighbors

[@anakamhi7097]

@@svetlanikolova7673 that’s incredible! It sounds like you have a great relationship w your land now 🥰

[@davidvankainen6711]

Even tho ya'll'r down south there, that cover crop blend could work perfectly in Michigan, too! Maybe let tillage radish and/or forage peas and crimson clover (better over winter) get a head start then spread that winter rye mid Sept -- first thing to green up after a hard winter b4 "spring green-up'. Rock'n video fo' sho, bro!

[@gpax-6197]

Please do more vids with this guy. He has it goin on! Would like to see the crimper rolling.

[@131dyana]

wE live right in Phoenix AZ. We have a compost heap in a large wooden crate. All scraps from the kitchen go in there. We will use this next spring to plant our new garden. Right now we have squash, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce, onions and okra. all in the backyard about 25 feet long and 31/2 wide. We also have a pomegranit ? tree. What I grow we eat and any left goes to Church on Sunday. You do not need acres to grow your own food. Tonight we had lettuce and radishes we grew ourselves. We put cheese on top and it was delicious.

[@georgegates526]

Worms love the kitchen scraps, since they are also made of cellulose. And they give you a "manure" that is actually new soil.

[@jeancampbell4341]

Good on you guys. Its so great to hear all this. Much love from South Africa.

[@clevingerforestservicesllc1164]

That Lane was fantastic! This was probably the most informative video I ever watched about how to build soil. Way better than any co-op or AG-extension video. Great guest find, Stoney!💯👍

[@thesaintmustwalkalone708]

Look up Joel Salatin on KZbin.

[@TheRam273]

My buddy at Barton Farms in Raymond MS has been doing this since the 80s. He can grow anything in that fine soil. Always has the best looking crops.

[@denniskemnitz1381]

I wonder how fast success occurred

[@needstacos4892]

I"m digging this lately. Came back to watch this again. I'm taking over some of our family farm and want to start farming it like this, in addition to critters and such. Looking at regenerative farming as well. Love it.

[@danvanninhuys745]

I am 6 months late watching this, but so very awesome that this way of farming is being done. I grew up on a small dairy and chicken farm and I tried very hard to change the way we looked after the land with my father and grandfather. This is a great way of doing so. We eventually went to no till planting as much as we could. Keep up with the great informative videos and your farm looks great. Thank You

[@Waddle-bottom]

This is great. Thanks guys for taking the time to show us how to do it.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Our pleasure!

[@TheHoofGP]

VERY VERY interesting!! I love making as detailed videos as possible on my channel and you doing videos like this really pushes me to be as detailed as possible! Great video and AWESOME CHANNEL man!!!

[@alwayshungry24]

the farm i worked for in pa back in the 90s never used fertilizers. we did crop rotation like this. we did corn one year beans the next . clover one year soybeans the next.

[@georgegates526]

I hope that the clover has flowers and fed the bees. :)

[@EthanSmith1122]

So this method doesn't require tilling or anything? Wow. That's amazing. I love it

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

drill...terminate...drill....terminate so no tilling is required

[@kdegraa]

The soil profile is testimony to his good work.

[@dianac2596]

So much fantastic information. Honestly I have always wondered how to the cover crop would benefit your soil. Ive never seen the crimping technique. It makes total sense. Building soil, so important. Thanks for a great video. 👍

[@wmo1234]

Doing great work guys! Saving the soil means saving our country!

[@pick4u2]

very cool, been living that type life, building the soil, always got something growing, after harvesting a winter oat crop, left the stalks, drill planted corn,..the crows didn't like the stalks as they try and eat the sprouting corn, so a better coverage and more to harvest, love learning these gems of knowledge soil on guys

[@lilahnewton7940]

Josh, I'm so glad to hear you care about the land. Maybe this learning video will help others to due without all those awful chemicals. Thank you so much. Wow, fantastic stuff.

[@66forsure]

Love it when you guys talk nitrogen fixation and hairy vetch and cover crop blends. Keep up the good work.

[@alh9338]

More please!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

piles of great regenerative sustainable farm content here for sure....hope you'll watch some more about how we're grazing our cattle

[@thomasbrighton6159]

Thanks Josh that was a technique I’d never heard about! Appreciate you taking the time to blog about it.

[@ianutube22]

Subscribed. Great video and I appreciate your buddy going into detail on his process. It's much needed and critical we learn and understand how to care for God's gift mother nature

[@Northgate777]

I learn a lot watching Stoney Ridge

[@keelan3894]

God bless him. I'm so glad to see men doing things the right way.

[@dinosanchez8528]

I'll have to try this when I'm more experienced, I'm still new lol

[@SoilMatesofGeorgia]

Love it! We just planted our first cover crops a couple months ago where we had land cleared with a commercial brush cutter. Fescue for the cows along with millet and cow peas for the soil (and extra forage). Clover going in at the end of the summer - Alex

[@dub-dub4207]

Thanks for the video homeboy..no till nation

[@alvon911]

Hi Josh, I'm in Northern Ohio. Thanks for that simplified explanation of rejuvenating soil and no-till!!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Yessir! Hopefully we start putting this into action on our farm soon!

[@the-burrito-mega-blox]

What crops do you grow on your farm? I have four acres that I am considering trying field corn with this method.

[@mojacksmith20]

2nd year, first generation, Alberta no till, no fertilizer, no spray, hay farmer and rancher here. I admit I haven’t sprayed or tilled because I was simply not confident enough in my understanding of the effects of each system. This video is EXCELLENT! Lane exactly sums up months of research I have done. Very knowledgeable and a great reference! Thank you to you and Lane for this video!

[@americaswayout4489]

Very informative, thanks for sharing !!!

[@jlrbhj]

So exciting to see some of the old tobacco land being renewed.

[@tinahoward5931]

Fascinating

[@SLFYSH]

👍🏽👍🏽. Glad I caught this! Ready for more!

[@007darryl]

Brother Josh, you are crushing it on this video... Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for showing this permaculture principle. Your rocking now bro. 🎸

[@jonassale4849]

Carbon farming. Amazing

[@terrymangum3914]

A very informative video. A lot of information to digest. It would be nice to see the equipment Lane uses to bend over the grass and peas and then what he uses to plant the new crop. Really enjoyed the video.

[@jb12twenty2]

Thank you so much for sharing this environmentally friendly way of farming info!

[@cmax4488]

This is the way

[@drbahb1]

Excellent presentation guys. We need more farmers like this who rely on natural scientific methods, that are good for our planet, rather than chemicals to grow crops.

[@gregshearer423]

drbahb1 aye and the amount of food shortages would be unreal

[@karonosphere8390]

Awesome!! Now I have a million questions!

[@MisteeMerritt]

This is great! Thank you for sharing this information. Grow healthy!

[@lauriepearce8266]

I totally understand the rationale of using what in the UK is termed as green Crop Manure plants to replenish the bio mass or humus to regenerate the soil structure. What I do not understand is how the vital trace elements and minerals that have also been depleted are going to be replaced. These are just as essential to healthy crop growth as nitrogen. In the UK traditional historic cropping would have used a rotation of various crops which would have included grazing of the grass or other green crops by animals. And farmyard manure would have been spread on the land as appropriate. In coastal areas seaweed was harvested from the shoreline and incorporated in the farmyard manure during the composting process. All these measure would have assisted in returning trace minerals to the soil. Mined limestone would have and is still used as necessary to regulated soil acidity.

[@kurtbaker4078]

One of the best vlogs. Learned a lot. Thanks SR

[@mapinoita279]

Love it!

[@skinner636]

Awesome video here. Hope you will photo a soil sample from one of the new pastures and do a yearly comparison. Love it, great stuff

[@bcgrittner]

Very educational. Looking forward to your next visit to this farm.

[@dwightrivera3281]

Great amazing information.

[@aji6026]

Great!

[@soilsurvivor]

Fantastic intro to no-till! Thanks!

[@SunshineValley121]

Great video. Never knew just how much went into creating good dirt/land....Crazy. ✌🏻💛🇨🇦

[@gregcrowe8885]

Thank You for helping

[@michellejones9411]

These guys are awesome!! Very informative, very inspiring and very fun to watch! Thanks guys for what you do!

[@wildefox1478]

Awesome video Josh and a great learning experience, thanks for sharing! Love your videos, wooo!

[@douglasdailey5998]

Love you guys for growing crops this way with natural fertilizers the way it should have been done all along . Now if you guys can keep the government out of your crop growing you will be doing a great thing for everybody.

[@bigdawg487]

Awesome video! This is something I have been considering on my small piece of land for a few years. It would be great if you did a few turned no-till into a little bit of series, I would love to learn more about the planting and crop rotation.

[@thesaintmustwalkalone708]

Www.backtoedenfilm.com Also look up Joel Salatin Videos on KZbin.

[@treeclimbing7798]

Thanks Lane great no-til info.

[@stephaniemorales744]

Thank you. This is a great starter video.

[@ziploc53]

Amazing

[@lynneperg6853]

I've heard about no till farming but never knew how it works. Thank you for educating me.

[@thesaintmustwalkalone708]

Www.backtoedenfilm.com

[@tomthumb1941]

I found that very informative, thank your friend for sharing with us, love your videos.

[@sandroshanidze6060]

So cool to see more and more people farming the natural way ^^

[@jkcatoe]

Very good information...much appreciated! 👍

[@benjaminstockton3917]

Nice information Josh thanks for video's

[@Stomby85]

That was awesome!

[@bartpowers9972]

We use this system and learn more every year it is truly a science you truly can upsize to large scale operations 😎👍

[@williamentwistle5242]

I am a Gabe Brown follower love no till.

[@Zomsky]

Thanks Josh, this was really interesting. We live in a very dry marginal part of Australia, definitely going to try a couple of these methods.

[@codylay4341]

Great video! I've been trying to figure out the best way to turn my (corn/bean) field into pasture this fall once the beans are harvested.

[@mikewhite3293]

thank you both for the good info!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Yessire!

[@georgeyoung2990]

Thank you.

[@Will7981]

I like this method much better than standard fertilizer. I'd sure like to see a tour of the corn field later this year right before harvest. This stuff fascinates me. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@m1ndflowmaticgaddy209]

Thanks very informative 😁

[@matthewsaxe6383]

You guys rock. Thanks for the video.

[@heloshark]

Excellent video! Very informative!

[@carolynchadwick7867]

Awesome!!

[@Chardok2]

This was a Great, great video! Keep it up, Mr. Ridge!!! Keep up the great work!! Super Informative, especially for someone like me who'll never have the pleasure of rejuvenating a bunch of land to be arable!

[@dmorgan28]

That was very informative and interesting. You got it right down on my country boy level. Thanks. Woooooo👍👍👍❤️

[@markstone-brant9480]

Hi there, loved the video. I would like to understand better for example once you have made ground cover by crushing the let's say plants down and then you plant your seed of what your cash crop is. So let's say you want to grow seed potatoes or cabbages. Once it has been planted it will come through the ground cover of the plants you crushed. Will the ground cover plants rot right down? Thanks again Mark

[@greensnapper1602]

Yes that's how you do it!! We need more people to get into this kind of Farming Even if its a Small scale in a Back yard... NO - TILL 4 Life 100% Real Talk....

[@donmartin7728]

It would be interesting when he starts a new field to have a soil test done, then one every year afterward to show the benefits of cover crop and crop rotation. Most people want to help prevent erosion and contaminating streams, they also want it right now. Would be educational to show the complete process.

[@AllGrowing]

Thank you, very interesting! I would have liked to have seen images of the soil when he first sowed the cover crops.

[@chefeatsher]

As soon as i saw the Magpul hat i knew this video was legit

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

lol

[@ottawahobbyguy9414]

Educational. Great video!

[@megamattoutdoors7648]

Awesome job. I learned something. Cool

[@jinxedchef]

good stuff

[@vegasbattleborn1594]

Josh I'm not ever going to farm but this was very interesting to listen to. Thanks for the education, it stuck!

[@NorthCountryOffgrid]

Great info! I like this line of thinking 🤔!!

[@1345mack]

Great video. Thank you

[@dragonslair59]

Now not all Iowa or Midwest farmers use tons of chemicals. Crop rotation and plain old manure is what we used

[@rosaliemacqueen7713]

loved this thank you!!

[@scottsmith4111]

Hey Josh good video man I enjoyed it thank you for it

[@georgegates526]

Wow, what a task. Thank God there are still people like you who do things naturally!! Wish there were more.. :( Imagine how much gas we could save!!)

[@danielfixborn5860]

Incredible content in this video! Here in Brazil we definitly need regenerative agriculture! Hugs, and thanks for share knowledge! 🤠

[@jimcross1061]

One of the best videos I’ve seen on no till framing Thanks for making it

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Thanks...so much!

[@joediesel8267]

Great information

[@munckmb]

Very informative guys! Thanks for sharing!

[@billfischer6464]

Awesome and informative video for me. Had no idea some fertilizers were petroleum based. Thanks for the information. Knowledge is power and I want to learn all I can. Also I'm glad that this was all presented on a level that could be understood without being a college professor and wasn't shoved down your throat by a salesman type. Thanks for keeping it real.

[@redbovine]

Many nitrogen fertilizers are made from natural gas. 32% LN fertilizer is imported at Wilmington NC. 30% and 28%+sulfur is just 32% with water dumped in on top.

[@williamentwistle5242]

I am a Gabe Brown follower love no till. Get his book now

[@luciomartinez]

Very informative video, thanks for sharing!

[@circlegoutdoors9388]

Great video!! I would like to see his roll crimper!!! I would like to try to make one!!