Ray Archuleta & Gabe Brown, 2018 EcoFarm Keynotes

Regenerating our Soils: Hope for Farming & Climate-Part 1
Invocation by Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Some 30 years ago, the late Robert Rodale challenged an EcoFarm audience to embrace his “Regenerative Agriculture” prescription. Although our movement, over the ensuing three decades, reached significant milestones in the detoxification of production systems - staking claim to the fastest growing share of America’s food marketplace in the process - much of Rodale’s vision for a benign agroecology is yet to be realized. EcoFarm 2018’s opening keynote features one trailblazing trio - scientist, cultivator and educator - whose innovative achievements guide us towards agricultural practices in greater harmony with our planet’s natural systems.
Agronomist “Ray-the-Soil-Guy” Archuleta was nearly drummed out of the Natural Resources Conservation Service early this century for espousing “radical” soil health notions. More recently, Ray spearheaded his agency’s renaissance, energizing NRCS staff across the nation with science-based soil health evangelism, while mentoring cadres of cutting- edge no-tillers like Gabe Brown.
North Dakota farmer Gabe Brown is the celebrated poster kid for a new breed of no-till practitioners who, by embracing high-species- diversity cover crops, broadened rotations and adaptive ruminant grazing, have vastly improved their farms’ productivity, soil function and carbon-carrying capacity.

[@halsteward1003]

Please turn up Volume. THANKS

[@downbntout]

So painful to see. I will shop at the Farmers' Market but only from those farms I've visited, and I'll ramp up my own gardening

[@vivalaleta]

Make corporate animal farming ILLEGAL.

[@downbntout]

You speared it when you said it's about integrity. All Farmers and gardeners want to be good stewards of the earth, or they spout platitudes about it. One definition of integrity: Do you do what you said you'd do?

[@MatthewHolevinski]

Breaks my heart to try and be a proud Kansan.

[@Guiller369]

Love this video, thanks a lot for share

[@caseG80]

Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks no pun intended . Cheers

[@wcm68tn]

Politically correct prayer to open. SMH

[@Henrydingus01123]

Listened to it twice and didn’t hear any politically correct bits

[@aw5832]

Politically correct prayer is an oxymoron.

[@alangalloway8187]

He recognized our creator. The Bible uses this terminology when talking about some who worship the creature rather than the creator. This invocation was ok biblically and did not denigrate Jesus Christ.

[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

you mean, not everyone believes the same as you?!?!? imagine that... can that be okay with you? Personally, I'm an atheist and don't put a lot of weight on any of that stuff. NOW, let's talk about something far more important.... Could the video producers PLEASE learn how to maximize/compress/limit/normalize the audio? If you need help understanding what I'm talking about message me. almost all video editing software has it, but you can also export the audio and do it in a different program then drop it back in after it's processed. Would LOVE to watch this video but I can't hear it. :(