Pasture Cropping with Colin Seis: One of the only sustainable ways to grow grains

Colin Seis shares with us the history of pasture cropping, a method for growing grains in pastures and integrate them with sheep grazing and grass seed production.

[@MistressOP]

farming isn't a meritocracy but damn I wish it was. I've run into so many super-smart farm managers and farm directors who didn't come from money or land. But they are smart and not able to try things like this or anything sometimes except doing it the same way the landowner wants. so much under farmed land.

[@Faithfulsheperd]

Applying this knowledge to my homestead its 2 acres I understand the principles I'm in similar climat in arizona I'm curious about the machine needed to seed and harvest

[@smartsoil]

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[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

40:05 is that machine (it's attachment) in the background what so is the seeds into the soil? If not, what is it, and what is it used for?

[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

43:12 is it a machine that separates the grains? I assume they're harvested together, then something separates them? Is he saying it's possible to grow different grains intermixed, harvest it all at once, and then have a machine easily and effective separate them?

[@dropclutch1]

Yes, I believe that is what he was demonstrating. It could be as simple as running the grains through a series of mesh straining screens and adding some agitation to help them through.

[@nextworldaction8828]

@@dropclutch1 thank You!

[@MistressOP]

native Americans and natives in his country were pasture cropping. they took the tops of selective seed plants. planted them as well. they weren't soil turners. they used fire yes but mostly they were planting in a no-till style system. the original three sisters had nothing to do with plowing.

[@MistressOP]

he just got to the native seed part. lol .. i was waiting for him to say that. places like Bob's Miller in the usa could sell that to up markets for 20 bucks for a quarter-pound lol. it would sell out to.

[@northavealum]

I'm suggesting you are wrong, but I live in Virginia where there is a reasonably good record of what the first Europeans encountered. I've never heard that Native Americans were farming in the manner you suggest. I'd be interested in the source of your information that demonstrates that Native Americans and Aboriginals were essentially no-til / no dig farmers and doing pasture cropping. I'd like to read about that.

[@northavealum]

I meant to say that I'm not suggesting you are wrong...

[@thisearththeonlyheaven]

northavealum For some Australian reading I can suggest the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe.

[@Nightowl5454]

@@MistressOP everything I've ever read about native American farming wasn't what would be considered no-till.

[@MistressOP]

Does he work with chickens at all?

[@naseboeg113]

i cant find the source to the elise wendel paper about insect population

[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

42:35 do humans eat any of what is grown?

[@Nightowl5454]

Dave Brandt's farm is in Ohio, not Iowa.