Regenerative Farming a Farming Revolution in Australia - A documentary - Episode 1- Soil and Seed.

[@Picci25021973]

I am on your same path. Spraying and using synthetics foy decades until I asked myself: "How could I think that using poisons to grow our food is a good idea?!?" Now I am regenerating soil, I save money from fertilizers and pesticides and my yield is steadily increasing. Take care.

[@FarmingRevolution]

Thank you so much for this. One by one we will see the truth. Lots of videos being filmed and edited so stay tuned and if you ever have any questions please keep your comments flowing because this is our channel and I will film whatever needs to be filmed in order to answer questions and doubts.

[@lorrainecostanzo9092]

Brilliant, God Bless You, I have been doing this for years and been called every name in the book but now my grown children are in to it big time and I'm so proud to see them making a difference for the better, THANKYOU

[@jmc8577]

Joel salatin calls it lunatic farmer. As in what is normal is considered crazy by industrial farmers. His books are great

[@hariparthan4244]

An organic and Biodynamic farmer myself ..now can see magic in my small farm ..12 years on have converted a plot with pH 12 ..to awesome result using Indigenous cows as center of my farm

[@FarmingRevolution]

Wow pH 12! That’s a lot of work to drop that. What was growing before you started regenerating?

[@hariparthan4244]

@@FarmingRevolution ..lots of thorney bush ..and a few mango trees was all I had ..today 15 fruit variety grows ..along with timber trees and animals

[@shemnilon504]

Love this video! Just starting this journey myself on my hobby farm

[@FarmingRevolution]

Thank you. So pleased to hear you’ve started. This channel will hopefully sow a few seeds to inspire you on your farm. 💚

[@tepidtuna7450]

Fantastic video and so great to see more Aussie farmers using these techniques and getting outstanding results. I did notice that some of the "planters" were still tilling the soil. This kills off the soil and releases the carbon into the atmosphere. They would see better results if they didn't till. Gabe Brown has some great videos on how he plants crops without tilling.

[@FarmingRevolution]

Absolutely, however, what’s in the shed and bank account is also a limiting factor to how quickly regeneration can happen. Sometimes a bit of disturbance is beneficial especially to crack through any hard pans but always backing up with biologicals. Thanks for your regenerative knowledge xx

[@medaltv6766]

Watching from Ghana 🇬🇭 I really enjoyed it

[@FarmingRevolution]

Thank you so much 💚

[@Maxindifference]

The biggest lesson I've learnt in my time farming, is the slasher and a few cows or sheep rotated in short bursts are your best friend in improving your soil and biodiversity of plant life. A paddock over run by "weeds" are only dominant because the soil conditions favour that plant or species. When you slash the green "weeds", you fast track the soil biology with green matter that can be used as food. In a few shorts seasons, that same paddock can go from being over run with a certain plant species, usually broadleaf and turned into a grass dominant paddock with multiple volunteer species.

[@FarmingRevolution]

It’s a fantastic succession change literally in front of your eyes, hey? Weeds are definitely our friend we just have to understand what they are telling us. Thank you for your comment.

[@pinkelephants1421]

Definitely need more tree cover on every farm highlighted in the video & in farms in general, worldwide; just as they found in Senegalese contribution to the Great Green Wall Project of the Sahel. It seems counterintuitive, but for both cropping & grazing land, trees really do help, particularly when planted on contour & if possible, using berms & swales. The Senegalese Project turned severely degraded land that was allowing the Sahara to continue advancing at an alarming rate into productive grazing & cropping land, & in turn, meant massive drop in food insecurity, malnutrition, poverty, drought issues & they were able to afford to send kids to school - many for the 1st time. The Sahara has since stopped advancing in this region & they've even been able to push it back a bit. In India, Middle East, Africa & wherever else tree cover has been made a priority, massive regeneration of the land has ensued. Plenty of KZbin videos documenting this work.

[@FarmingRevolution]

I agree. Regenerative farmers who have given back up to 25% of their land to native species have seen an increase in healthy production. It’s happening but for trees to get established, they need water. In 2019 the Dry in Oz was so bad that our forests were dying. They then burnt from Sep 2019 to March 2020. Massive swathes of Australia on the Eastern sea board burnt at extremely high temps. Rainforests burnt, that’s how dry it was.

[@knutvreb6506]

@@FarmingRevolution Take a look at Peter Andrews and Mulloon Institutes work if you are not familiar with them. They had great results in restoring the water table in several regions of Australia. There are plenty of films about them here on youtube. It seems that his approach, combined with the one you are promoting, would be a winning strategy for sustainable farming.

[@FreddiesFarmPHILKEN]

Beautiful farm...

[@nielscorfield4163]

Great doc. Well made

[@williamwallace7299]

Great video. Keep up the good work!

[@FarmingRevolution]

Thank you 💚

[@666bruv]

The vermi extract has been shown as an incredible success for Di and Ian Haggerty

[@666bruv]

That was quick. Do an interview on Grant Simms at Down under Cover, he's a smart cookie

[@jamesrosales89]

thankyou for this 😍 god bless you

[@douglasjohnson8917]

I would be really impressed if they applied this technique in Hatai.

[@bingeducationcentre3557]

Ein sehr interessantes Video

[@barnyardbrio7597]

well made. thank you!

[@climatehero]

When farmers regularly commit suicide, all alarm bells should ring. Regenerative agriculture is one of the key remedies to global warming.

[@FarmingRevolution]

I totally agree. We see too many farmers crying in Australia and it is heart breaking. When our grassroots people are suffering, we all feel it.

[@sarbsukhsingh8347]

I have 2 questions. What is the preffered irrigating method in this practice? How plants protect themselves against aphid attacks?

[@FarmingRevolution]

2 BIG questions but I'll answer them as concisely as I can without being to broad. Irrigation depends on what is being grown and on what type of farm. There are many dry-land (no irrigation) broad acre farmers who are profiting from regenerative farming because of the mini water cycle that comes hand in hand with keeping the ground covered with a diversity of photosynthesising plants. This can create a small water cycle too, depending on the surrounding landscape (micro climate). Other forms of irrigation depends on what type of plant is being grown, crops, livestock, orchard/plantation, vegetables, trees, shrubs or low lying ground cover and of course the size of the area. The type of soil and the lay of the land are also big influencers on determining water flow (irrigation). Natural Sequence Farming is a classic example of irrigating and fertilising land from the highest contour. Are there dams on the property? If so where are they situated? Can they help irrigate? Moving on to man made irrigation like drip and wobbler/sprinkler irrigation all the way up to pivot and overhead systems using a pump. The point is to protect the soil, keep it covered, keep a living root growing to feed the microbes and reach deeper into the soil to stop compaction and erosion. Bare ground is the enemy.

[@FarmingRevolution]

Aphid attack: Why are the aphids there? Some insects detect sick plants and are in charge of cleaning up the rubbish so that we have a decomposing cycle. Some are there to feed the other insects further up the food chain. Plague proportions denote an issue. Plagues happen when conditions are ideal. Locust plagues only occur when there are swaths of bare ground, plague proportions of larvae are laid in that bare ground and of course when they hatch, there is nothing for them to eat (bare ground) so very hungry, fast growing, huge population of locusts fly to crop land and devour! What's the answer? Stop bare ground then plagues of locusts will stop. There will always be locusts of course but not plagues of them. Why does the plant need cleaning up? What is wrong with it? Does it have enough balanced minerals like Silica, Calcium, Boron, Potassium etc? Insects detect a distressed plant using its antenna, it literally see's the plant that's in trouble, this plant can be in a paddock full of healthy plants but only see's the sick or distressed one. Plants do also have a defence mechanism that they use to communicate via the roots in a healthy soil, again if the soil is dead this won't happen. Messages are communicated via fungi and probably other ways that we don't understand yet. Plants have an immune system if they are allowed to have one. When chemicals are used to kill insects this interferes with the plants ability to fight off predators and disease. Plants are also far better off being in a diverse range of other species, they protect each other by giving and taking minerals and exchanging microbes. This is the best natural form of protection aka companion planting. There are also predatory insects that help the plant fight either directly (by eating) or indirectly by laying larvae in the pest's body or eggs. This breaks the cycle of the pest. I have army worm (lawn grub) it is now under control but after 4 years of drought my turf was struggling, army worm moved in to clean it up. The following few months a predatory wasp moved in to lay its larvae in the army worms larvae. I had to wait for nature's impact but I now have a balance, yes I still have the grub but not in plague proportions. There is never just one way to answer these questions, it's a multi layered symbiotic and sometimes harsh combination, but that is Mother Nature and she has been growing food for a lot longer than we have. I'll see if I can find a perfect example of an aphid attack that I filmed and observed to help visualise anecdotal evidence.

[@FarmingRevolution]

I found it kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5PEdHibi5aendE

[@sarbsukhsingh8347]

@@FarmingRevolution thanks for the reply. It seems u are very passionate towards your work, i wish you good luck. I have lots of question bcoz in my region(punjab, india) we have pretty much destroyed our soil. Monocropping(rice and wheat only), excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and puddling flood irrigation etc. Mass cutting of trees. I not sure if the damage can be reversed( through which methods).

[@Larrabjl]

It's funny that it took people with a PHD and years of study to find out it comes back to composting.😂 We already knew this a long time ago. You can't strip the land of everything and then wonder why it fails. It's common sense and you don't need a PhD to figure that out.

[@FarmingRevolution]

When I first took an interest in what was going wrong I asked a similar question, “when did growing food on-farm stray away from gardening and growing food?” Gardeners still use all these practices, when did farmers stop thinking this way? Unfortunately it’s when Big Ag was created. Corporatism and Gobalisation both have led to the demise of our health in the search to make things “easier”. Life is meant to be difficult, that’s how we learn. I agree with you, regenerative farming isn’t new, it’s just got lost in the lies of greed. Grassroots will continue to spread the word. 💚

[@johnroydelacruz1433]

We need to wake up

[@azfarsyed7082]

Good habits interest to back agriculture to away from toxic natures.need toxic free lands for growing foods.thanks

[@johnslender5408]

Do regenerative farmers still spot spray non native weeds?

[@FarmingRevolution]

This is the contentious issue across the board. To truly understand why a species of plant (weed) is growing, first the soil needs to be looked at and tested. Every plant has its purpose. I personally hate killer sprays, however, I understand why farmers spot spray. A complete knock down can be buffered with humates but again is this pushing the boundaries of regenerative farming?

[@rimatanluhur6064]

does farming produce more c emission to atmosfer in time unity? o people be honest to me pls

[@FarmingRevolution]

Not sure what time Unity is? Regenerative Farming has a byproduct…carbon. Regenerative Farming is about being holistic (taking everything into account). Industrial Farming emits a lot of carbon especially ploughing/tilling the soil and feeding animals in sheds. Livestock when grazed and living in a natural environment (eating grass not grain) help to store carbon in the soil. Putting it very simply carbon moves in and out of the soil all the time. Regenerative Farming and grazing improves carbon sequestration, methane emissions, re radiation of solar heat (keep ground covered), and many many more improvements to the health of our environment. People need to stop focusing on one thing (carbon) and open up a healthy way of thinking so they take EVERYTHING into account because our health and Mother Earth depends on it.

[@fleekghtv4533]

Farming revolution I will be grateful for your team if you could help me purchase a water pump for my irrigation farming in west Africa Ghana.

[@FarmingRevolution]

Life is a struggle for me too my friend. My bank account is empty but my heart is full.

[@brendamclean3033]

Add your voice to the global movement to save soil from extinction #conciousplanet #savesoil

[@philparrott4424]

Her firstwords sent me on to a different video.

[@FarmingRevolution]

Why was that?

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

Wedge tail Eagles potentially have a problem of not enough red meat in the summer months in certain areas it may be due to rabbit (a extremely lean meat ) populations eating the grass and keeping away native animals roo,s and all local extinct smaller animals ?

[@FarmingRevolution]

We are lucky that there are no rabbits here. Just a couple of hares. I would say because it was so dry that their food supply had dwindled too much and they flew out west. WT’s are territorial so it must have been significant for them to leave.

[@jonglewongle3438]

There is your first line of University crap merchant fiction in the first few seconds; that the supposedly noble indigenous cared for the environment and treated everything with respect and reverence. Whereas it is moreso that they turned rainforest into semi-arid environment, set off bushfires everywhere, threw absolute reams of whatever creatures they could club to death onto camp fires. It is just a never ending sequence of error with humanity.

[@FarmingRevolution]

That’s a rather simplistic way of explaining the indigenous culture. There’s a lot more to be learnt if you listen to the fact that indigenous lived in symbiotic relationship with Australia for thousands of years as have ALL indigenous cultures of the world. Then look at the past 220 odd years in Australia. Pretty sure you will find a gaping hole in your argument. I have learned a small part of their culture by sitting in Yarning circles and listening, listening, listening and listening some more. We have 2 eyes and 2 ears and only 1 mouth for a reason.

[@jonglewongle3438]

​@@FarmingRevolution But what I posted was not to justify what Europeans subsequently did. But, Ayers Rock, or, the University matralineal " Uluru ', is a monument to soil erosion. I was watching another ' regenerative farming ' video immediately prior to this, and just towards the end of that, one of the born again greenie farmers said to the effect of ' not go back to pre-Europe, but, rather, go forward and go for better than pre-European ' regarding ecosystems, the environment, etc.

[@FarmingRevolution]

That’s exactly what regeneration means. There is no such thing as regenerated because we have no idea the true potential of our soils, our management and ourselves. This is why I love regeneration. It’s beyond everything we know and that includes science. In fact science is a limiting factor in understanding MN. I have seen fire being used to create rain on specific days with specific conditions. The rainforests near where I live bounced back after fires and we all thought the plants were wiped out. Fire creates grazing areas to hunt. But as with everything it must not be over used. Cool season burning must only happen every 7 years otherwise species of plants are wiped out. We know less than 1% in our reductionist lives and tech is shrinking our brains still further. We must stay connected to MN and regenerate. Thanks for your comments 💚 I enjoy searching for answers. I learn from everyone.

[@Juscody]

Ok tamsin....go find your eagles....

[@FarmingRevolution]

@@Juscody they came back after 6 months. Still live in this valley today so I see them regularly. Metaphorically speaking I found regenerative people who are now my closest friends 💚

[@Juscody]

@@FarmingRevolution I am really interested in regenerative farming practices and am trying to learn as much as I can about it. I clicked on your video hoping to learn something but your flowery airy fairy language made it feel like some mystical belief system rather than anything scientific. I got to the part where your eagle "friends" left and I stopped the vid. Hence go find your eagles. The touchy feely reply to my comment was gold. Maybe I need to invite the tree spirits back onto my farm...

[@Power_Prawnstar]

With all due respect, indigenous people burned down the continent and hunted all our large mammals to extincion. But let's keep telling ourselves they're landscape dreamtime farmer gods.

[@pinkelephants1421]

Still not a sustainable way to produce food. Far, far too much bare soil, exposing soil fauna to sunlight, wind & water erosion. Little or no tree cover. No evidence of any thought process in relation to permacultural design and implementation e.g. planting on contour so that water has a chance to slow down and sequester into the soil. The methods demonstrated although workable, mean in essence very high imput in terms of labor.

[@FarmingRevolution]

To put the visual footage into context, Australia was in the biggest Dry ever recorded having not received decent rain for years and years. I know my property hadn’t received any summer rain for 4 summers and I had no C4 grasses for 4 years because of this. Regenerative farming is exactly what it says it is and yes it absolutely works. No farming works without rain and by regenerating our land it creates the water cycles both mini and major that we need to continue to live on this planet.

[@pinkelephants1421]

@@FarmingRevolution As the daughter of a Kiwi farmer I fully appreciate how difficult weather variability can be, (and) what hard yakka farming in general can be. Don't know if you've ever heard of them, but try looking up the Australian Institute of Permaculture run by Geoff and Nadia Lawton. They consult throughout Australia & internationally for both private individuals & governments, & have been instrumental in getting permaculture design introduced to the Australian school curriculum. You might find some useful info there too. It's a tough choice given you've obviously invested heavily in expensive machinery but that machinery is extremely heavy & its continued use means ever increasing soil compaction, further damaging soil structure, reducing H2O infiltration & sequestration. I may have missed it but are you still ploughing or are you using direct drilling machinery for seed sowing? Direct drilling or tillage farming techniques & equipment make an enormous difference to soil structure, carbon content, soil fauna levels & overall fertility; quick Google will do the job 4 info. Ultimately, as a couch cowboy sitting comfortably, it's all very well for me to sit here pontificating from on high when it's your farm that you have to deal with the day to day realities of, so I wish you the very best. One can only hope those numpty's in Canberra, (Scotty From Marketing & Co), will get out of everybody's way & allow 🇦🇺 to put the pedal to the metal on runaway climate change prevention & mitigation measures & stop using Aussie taxpayer's $$ to provide subsidies to their electoral campaign contributing buddy, pal, mates in the fossil fuels industries; but that's a discussion for another day. With a bit of luck 🇦🇺 will finally vote them out come May's election. Continuing to vote that crowd back in is like keeping on voting to be allowed to shoot yourself in both feet with a double barrelled shotgun on a daily basis. 😉