Regenerative Agriculture (presentation by author of Regenerative Agriculture)

Free mini-course 4 Fundamentals of Making Small Farms Work: www.richardperkins.co/get-sta...
Read Regenerative Agriculture: www.regenerativeagriculturebo...
Read Ridgedale Farm Builds (CAD plans for your farm infrastructure): www.ridgedalefarmbuilds.com/
Read Farm, Fish, Hunt, Pick, Bake: farmfishhuntpickbake.com/
$20 Natural Swimming Pool Guide making-small-farms-work.mysho...
Join the waiting list for the Regenerative Agriculture Masterclass: regenerativeagricultureonline...
Buy Market Gardening tools: reagtools.co.uk?sca_ref=3261151.PCjHoCWD5D
Buy our caterpillar tunnels: www.caterpillartunnels.co
Become a Perkins Insider: www.richardperkins.co/get-sta...
Follow me on Instagram: / richardperkins.co
Follow me on Facebook: / ridgedalefarmab
Richard Perkins is a globally recognised leader in the field of Regenerative Agriculture and is the owner of Europe’s foremost example, Ridgedale Farm, Sweden. He is the author of the widely acclaimed manual Regenerative Agriculture, regarded as one of the most comprehensive books in the literature, as well as Ridgedale Farm Builds.
His approach to no-dig market gardening and pastured poultry, as well as his integration of Holistic Management, Keyline Design and Farm-Scale Permaculture in profitable small-scale farming has influenced a whole new generation of farmers across the globe. Garnering more than 15 million views on his blog, and teaching thousands globally through his live training at the farm and online, Richard continues to inspire farmers all over the globe with his pragmatic no-nonsense approach to profitable system design.

[@schousehead]

distilled knowledge bombs like this are a gem, thanks

[@alexrule28]

This is the best and most interesting video I have seen in YEARS! Richard you are awesome, thank you!

[@Redat23]

Yes brilliant talk

[@cyndiewilley4093]

Every time I listen to you I learn something new. I hope you're proud of yourself for all you've accomplished and for your impact on others. Thank you for all you do.

[@Alexrawlife]

This is incredible...get on TEDX

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

Richard should invent TedZ(ed), because he is in the league of his own!

[@kaleygoode1681]

Inspirational and Excellent. Sharing with*everyone*...

[@DanRich01]

Nobody seems to know Allen Savary, the man at the back looks like he booked the wrong course. Richard you doing ground breaking work, keep going please, I will certainly get more involved in everything you do as soon as I'm able.

[@WadcaWymiaru]

And Alan do not know the biochar. It made the soil fertile FOREVER!

[@jennmarvin58]

Thank you for posting this video, Richard!! My fiance finally understands my push to pursue small farming based upon holistic permaculture practices. Your own enthusiasm and passion refueled my own, and captured his imagination for potential possibilities for the first time. He's so excited!

[@later_daze_4080]

Some people are born with a talent like Mozart with music. I feel like Richard Perkins was born with a talent like this for agriculture. Fucking genius.

[@rayongracer]

Thank you so much for sharing this Richard. For so many years I have seen things does not make sence in society, farming and food production. This gave me incredible energy and hope for the future I really want to take part in.

[@masanariishii743]

This is the one of the best 55mins that I had in my life. Thank you so so much for sharing this, and I really hope that more youngsters hooked and get involved in this type of agriculture. Cheers.

[@mikidominko3072]

Just outstanding lecture, you should have millions of subscribers, highest possible quality presentation, just simply incredible. People could just wish for this kind of studying material in colleges - just pure joy to listen/watch/learn. Should be a compulsory part of studying materials in my opinion. Mr. Perkins, thank you for your immense knowledge/wisdom giveaway - every single video is to be seen/understood/APPLIED in practice - simple because you are the proof it WORKS. I am always sad seeing and knowing that your lectures are simply not (yet) being able to penetrate the cloggy and misted heads and minds of national/continental administrative/educational boards - from my standing point they are restricting people/generations to gain proper knowhow and profound understanding of processes in nature that are keeping us alive, they are just creating obstacle courses that are killing the entrepreneurial spirit in people wishing to prosper - when the weight of paper used for all permissions and regulations/laws/certificates EQUALS the weight of your crops - then you can start farming officially(being 10 miles underwater because of the money "invested" into stupid governmental budgets)!!! Thanks Richard, deep deep respect!

[@svetlanikolova7673]

Miki, KZbin has better study material than any satan owned college!! And its FREE

[@billiebruv]

Hmm, i kinda agree with you

[@caseyronald3889]

you all prolly dont give a damn but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly lost my login password. I appreciate any help you can give me!

[@kingsleyorion2870]

@Casey Ronald instablaster =)

[@caseyronald3889]

@Kingsley Orion thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm trying it out now. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@stevenwieler2990]

Richard, yur killin' it! Thanks for sharing.

[@williammacqueen1418]

Outstanding and inspirational presentation Richard. Thank you.

[@dsa2591]

I went to ag school for horticulture. They taught us nothing about soil building or composting. Just chemicals and more chemicals. I learned all I know about soil building from my grandmother and from reading and studying.

[@ShadowOps15]

Exactly! Chemicals are not the solution; neither in farming nor in medicines.

[@rymaal]

Late reply, but I also went to ag school for horticulture and we had whole classes about this stuff. I guess not all ag schools are the same.

[@JS-jh4cy]

Depending when and where you went to school, 33 years ago everything must have been pump more chemicals into everything and buy more machinery that needs expensive unique parts

[@RasTrismegistus]

This was by far one of the most informative and encouraging presentations on regenerative agriculture i have ever come across. Been following your channel for a while and i would like to extend my appreciation for all the hard work you put into your videos and your dedication to your work. Much love and respect from Ethiopia

[@T3hJones]

This video should have 10 million views at least!

[@combitz]

Outstanding. A non repetitive, informative, enthusiastically delivered lecture.

[@parcelstopasture635]

I agree. Small farms are the future. Here in oregon, West coast America, organic market farming is very big, but not concentrated on soil building or holistic management of soil and life. I love listening to anyone who thinks outside the box and trys new things, or brings back well founded and proven techniques. When planning or figuring I always go backwards in my thoughts. How we're things meant to work not how I want them to work. Same with cooking and preparing foods. Go backwards and you will find the healthiest version and how to prepare food to get the most out of it. It's always easier to work with nature.

[@HyaenaHierarchy]

Richard I’ve watched this lecture twice, going on my third time now. Can’t get enough. Amazing stuff. Thank you.

[@Horse237]

At 39:00 He explains why he pastures birds 4 days after the cattle have been moved from a pasture. Why? So the chickens can eat the maggots left by the flies. On day 5 the maggots would be old enough to fly away and bother the cattle. On his veg patch, he makes 40 euros per square meter.

[@jchief40]

Probably the most inspirational talk on the subject since I first discovered Salatin and his books

[@bodilheleneskumsrud6491]

You are incredibly skilled,Richard.It's a delightful pleasure to listen to you.I've been so inspired by your book and videos,that I'm planning to redesign my little farm in the spirit of Richard Perkins....some of it,at least!😄Thank you so much.😘

[@DARKLYLIT]

Looking at the "before and after" and hearing how much you've done at Ridgedale, any reasonable person would think you'd been at it a decade or more, but 3 years??! Amazing, inspiring work Richard. It's so great to see someone so passionate about farming and so generous about passing on their knowledge. I am soooo buying your book! (despite the 22 Euro ($30 CAN) shipping to Canada)

[@henkjanssen1252]

Awesome video, watched it with my girlfriend taking notes. I can't wait to get started myself, but being in France, we are running into many retired, old-style farmers that don't take us seriously, say that soils are just too bad to do anything but beef on, and say we have to go to ag school to "open our eyes". Unfortunately they are the ones occupying many powerful positions and we find it hard to talk about pastured broilers and no-dig market gardens to them, since no one is doing this stuff yet. We've no time to lose, but yet we find ourselves slowed down all the time!

[@mbongeniyekelo]

The work is inspiring. One of the most inspiring video I have watched on farming.

[@elliottcoxon]

Great presentation, thank you for recording and sharing this.

[@daltonengle5620]

Thank you for using some of your valuable time to upload and share with us!

[@VerveParis]

Great stuff as always, thanks so much Richard! Really loved the chart in the end, looking forward to the booklet!

[@jlively577]

Great job Richard!

[@tonyduncan9852]

Thanks again for all your work towards improving all our futures.

[@przemysawklimek106]

You're an inspiration !! Keep it Up !!

[@FinnBearOfficial]

Brilliant, Richard. Thanks.

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

I love all your videos and practices Richard! I just shared this video on Facebook amongst a discussion about how to change agriculture and practices here in the US.

[@joannabenson2279]

This is such an excellent presentation and explanation of regenerative agriculture. I keep coming back to it.

[@jimclaire7996]

Thank you for your optimism regarding the future farming. You seem to provide a key to allowing the young people to get into farming. God bless your innovative approach. Thank you for sharing.

[@MyVegetablePatch]

Great work Richard and the team! Inspiring, informative, easy to understand and lots of fun....thank you :-)

[@Colin-pg2su]

Sooooo Good to watch! Thank You.

[@kasualkanada8681]

Love your videos ! Cant get enough

[@WenRolland]

Great talk Richard!

[@laurahodger7184]

thank you so much for sharing it was fascinating!

[@georgewheadon1723]

Great lecture, feeling inspired.

[@Jeffnixononline]

Terrific lesson Richard.

[@goggles07900]

I love it, Richard in full froth. Well you have inspired me. I’m a chef and I’m moving in to farming a market garden. I really want to go the full regenerative ecosystem but it depends on how much land I can buy

[@davidradovanovic1087]

Great video Richard! :) Thank you

[@Stilgar74]

So good!!

[@andybush368]

Great video and very inspiring

[@stephenevans280]

Brilliant and informative lecture on what should be common sense agriculture. Unfortunately there is not much common sense where big industry is involved. Thanks for the information on this topic and for all your other site visit videos to different farms operating in accordance with your advice.

[@joekincade88]

thanks for the great information!!

[@gardenfornutrition6373]

your right that eggs are undervalued. Since they have no purines they are perfect for people with gout. And not only are they a good source of DHA (better than the simpler form of omega 3) but they also have vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is essential for strong bones and nerve repair and growth. Animals are better at converting K1 to K2 than humans! Animals are better at converting omega 3 to DHA also! Thanks for the video!

[@klemenpodgorsek7220]

Awesome video!

[@DanRich01]

It all makes so much sense.

[@carlosmantillaandrada808]

LOVE It!!!

[@infolyckligafaret7168]

Great, thanks!

[@TheCopedog]

As always stellar vid thanks for breaking it down and sharing your outlook. Where did you get the info about how much soil we lose annually vs. the last ice age? No doubt you are correct but I'd like to be able to share such sobering info (with footnotes). Thanks again..

[@svetlanikolova7673]

A lot of Christians home school their children have farm and know good regenerative agriculture from a young age. Things are shifting

[@Alexrawlife]

Brilliant

[@billiebruv]

I went down the yeomans shank approach. I found two shanks behind my 34hp tractor was too much drag to be effective. It would require 50hp+. I think that tillage radish is a far more practical approach. Add a few more species and the plants will build carbon deep into the soil via the liquid carbon pathway

[@OhMiggeee]

Richard, when it comes to regenerating soil, I understand that in your context, swales don't go with your pasture lane design as well as the wet climate you have, but would you say a dry land climate could use swales instead of Yeomans keyline plow to build topsoil just as well? Mainly concerned about the initial price of the plow on top of the machine used to pull it.

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

This is a great question. I'm interested in his answer also.

[@bodilheleneskumsrud6491]

If I understand correctly,swales will distribute water,more than building soil.To build soil you have to use Yeomans plough,animals pooping,and grass growing and decomposting.

[@przybyla420]

Deep ripping will help growth of pasture, meaning topsoil is built a little quicker. It can kickstart soil building and it reduces erosion. But it isn’t permanent; it’s benefits must be retained through good management. Swales also reduce erosion and help growth of pasture, they also collect nutrient more than deep ripping will. They are permanent, but impose more design limitations. You are stuck with the swales to navigate and work around.

[@przybyla420]

Swales are usually pointless in a climate where it is already easy to establish trees. Like Ireland. No real dividends from swales in real humid climates without a long intensely dry summer (in terms of evaporation to rainfall ratio).

[@beforeafter90]

Bravo, about Brussels Belgium and EU .This people on those offices have to disappear.Bunch of ignorants forcing absurd regulations.Good job !

[@sowmyamohan5992]

I wonder if you've done any of this work in India? Very interested in setting something up *perhaps not at this scale but for the Indian market :-) wondering where to start...

[@mmccrownus2406]

Search zero budget farming

[@charliehobson33]

yes!

[@hannesssss]

great presentation! where do you get these awesome tools (for the vegetable no dig) from? is there any link? :)

[@matthewlivingston8177]

JM Fortier (author of The Market Gardener) has a massive list on his site, many of which are used at Ridgedale barring the Two-wheel tractor or the tilther - www.themarketgardener.com/market-gardening-tools/ Curtis Stone also has a video on tools with links in description - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnbGlaiki5d6nsk

[@andrewtowell6074]

Matthew Livingston Perfect reply, I would have said the same thing. Curtis visit to Roebuck is worth a look too kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4Wraal8a91ko5o

[@maximepaquier9852]

I'm a huge fan of your work it's passionating and inspiring ! I only have a question, how many people can you feed per hectare or acre ? Because this is definitely the right approach and way of farming, but could this apply to feeding a hole country ? Like France, uk or Germany ? Would we have enough land to feed the population on this model or other permacultural models ? I'm just being pragmatic, not here to bother you or destroy your work since I admire it

[@jordanthomson3031]

This is what I call "KZbin Homeschooling" lol thanks Richard

[@rwwkv6]

Amen!

[@foggodyssey]

Richard, love your talk but wondering if next time if you could post the slide show with your voice over it. I can hear you just fine but can't see the slide show at all and to be honest, it's not seeing you that is important but what you have to say and show ;) Just food for thought, keep up the voice of reason for agriculture!

[@Avicena-tf5uj]

This was so awesome. Do you do consultations?

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

He talks about that in some other of his vids.

[@magnuskarlsen4390]

Farm subsidies have pretty much ruined Scandinavian farming. The fact that farmers above the arctic circle in Norway were "incentivised" to farm cattle in a climate where the cattle maybe gets two months a year outside is shameful. A lot of it boils down to what you said, they've locked their money into big ugly machinery and buildings when they should be farming for things that grow really well in Scandinavia with healthy no dig practices. Add to that the fact that farmers can claim all sorts of compensation when a "predator" (read illness, bad stewardship) kills their livestock and it's an unending circle. Farmers should farm for what works - as Karl Hammer says, if a chicken gets killed by a hawk it probably wasn't smart enough to get away and he doesn't want it. An old breed Scandinavian sheep would run away from a wolf while the new hybrid varieties are too fat, dumb and unable to think to get away.

[@peter.knupffer]

Legend

[@my_permaculture]

Richard. Again: This Pamphlet your talking about here again is somethong that I am not only very interested myself, but it could be a game changing small evaluation matrix to guide peoples ways to enter the alternative regenerative ag scene quickl, efficiently and profitable. Is there a way to support you on the creation of this? All the best. Moritz

[@ricburgs1198]

my_permaculture 3

[@davidedecarlo9167]

Sorry for asking but I did not get the name of the composting technique, minute 32:50. Can somebody let me know the name of the guy or of the composting technique?

[@olafalafel]

Hi There, Just bought your book online, eager to get it in the mail. So from what I understand about your pastured broilers is that you need not to buy feed, they eat the grass and insects from the pasture. I have just acquired a small farm of 1,2 hectare in south west france , of that I have about +/- 8500m2 of pasture, on a slope, but I believe a chicken tractor is doable. how many birds do you think I could grow with chicken tractor like yours on that space? I still have a work contract for at least another 6 months with the option of signing for another year, renovating the house as i go along, but I am thinking of planting trees and having a little garden for myself and watching your videos, I wonder if I have enough land to get into the pastured broilers business for myself once I finish my contract. Take care and thanks for the videos

[@regenerativeagriculture]

I have never said anything of the sort! Broilers need very carefully managed feed rations, layers too. They eat greens and bugs but if you don't get the feed right you'll see no performance at all. You can find out more when the book arrives...

[@olafalafel]

Cheers, well i need to read and ask questions later ;-) interesting subject matter. good evening!!

[@olafalafel]

little Roots Reggae Dancehall mix you might like ;-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJi3dql4oq-loJI

[@Francisco-ff1fp]

@Richard Perkins, I have an uncle with a huge herd of pastured cows for meat and thats all he does with more than 400 hectares. Do you think i could implement, pastured broilers or layers in his field? the area is south of portugal with little amounts of rain, but with the possibility of using irrigation, How many cows in proportion do you need grazing so that you can afterwards send the broilers/hens the the same field? Also in the summer when there is almost no rain, it can get really hot, a great part of the summer days hotter than 30ºC and will reach oftenly 40ºC, is that prohibitive for hens/broilers?

[@Francisco-ff1fp]

Is it even possible to graze cows in a land where in the summer all the grass becomes straw?

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

You uncle should diversify his operation, but land in that type of climate can only be regenerated by cattle use. Check the TED Talk by Allan Savory.

[@Francisco-ff1fp]

do you mean this video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKG3eZxthJtppqs And thx for the response

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

That's the one! His work is exceptional, as Richard noted...

[@ThorBonde]

These slides are sexy is there a place where i can download them?

[@d.tregarth4455]

Where I live people can get into legal trouble claiming to be organic when they are not certified and don't meet the requirements. Is this not a problem in sweden?

[@d.tregarth4455]

You say he doesn't claim to be organic, then you claim he goes beyond organic. In the video on his youtube homepage he claims to be organic and beyond organic. He doesn't claim to be certified. He doesnt meet the standards. Agree entirely about the customer preference. My question was about the legal status as to openly announcing being organic when not certified which remains unanswered.

[@user-hr2bi4oh5g]

He exceeds the standards of organic. Stupid rules about the age of a broiler? - who cares...

[@d.tregarth4455]

Age of a broiler, outdoor space per bird, source of feed, and independant controls verifying all the rest. I care.

[@vossierebel]

Good omen here... 777'th like!! 😁😁😁

[@Noukz37]

A bit too much slaughtering and killing for my liking, but otherwise a very inspiring and even eye-opening approach to agriculture, it's a travesty what people are being taught in schools and universities.