Soil Expert Explains 3 Levels of Soil Regeneration | Soil Regeneration

The best soil is soil that becomes increasingly more productive, biodiverse and resilient over time. Luke explains how you can build the perfect soil by using regenerative practices at 3 experience levels.
Luke Rosewood is our Consulting Manager. He has worked as a design/build contractor with a focus on land regeneration projects for more than 12 years.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:29 Level 1: Setting your foundation
0:43 Jar test
1:15 How to look at a jar test
1:39 Fixing soil imbalances
2:06 Level 2: Using plants
3:14 Living ground cover
3:49 Level 3: Integration with livestock
4:49 Importance of design with integration in mind
5:24 Power of well designed systems

[@Illi-xz8wq]

Thank you so much- trying to better my acreage where we run cattle in the alberta badlands and create a garden. Didnt consider the different levels of root systems in my plant planning, great info!

[@his1dreaml0ve]

Great video. Information is well explained and I can’t wait to start implementing these strategies in my little garden

[@user-px2fl9kl5z]

Thank you.❤

[@acasas28]

Very good. I just took an UF IFAS class on soil and learned more from this video and what I can do then that hour class.

[@DeathToMockingBirds]

This is amazing. Just incredible.

[@Justiceincorporated.]

Good video.

[@ananddeo484]

❤ practical experience

[@marcruel9401]

Like Greg Judy

[@ragairboy]

Nice

[@wvhaugen]

At around 4:00 he engages in magical thinking. Cows do not double the amount of nutrients. They give you a fraction back. Reread the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics.

[@amosbackstrom5366]

Maybe they convert some of the carbon into a more available form than decaying plants? Either way they definitely don't increase the amount of mico-nutrients, supposedly they return 85% and they burn most of the carbon they eat. And what does the figure 85% relate to? Do they return 85% per $hit. Or over a period of time? If they're continuously returning 85% eventually you end up with zero.

[@lenayeagle9650]

They return and enhance biology (microbial) back to the soil, which in turn stimulates nutrient availability. Plants get their nutrients through the biological processes that take place in the soil. It's all extremely complex, but in short, less biology=less healthy soil. Roundabout, cows help to stimulate and enhance microbes, which stimulate plants to optimize photosynthesis, which encourages them to release more root exudates (carbon; aka food for microbes) into the soil. Which in turn helps the biology thrive even more and start building soil aggregates, which store water, provide housing for the microbes and start storing carbon. It's a beautiful, feedback loop. Cows are an extremely useful tool in the process.

[@lenayeagle9650]

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[@meganpower3620]

vet here - microbial growth in cattle digestive system is phenomenal - the microbes are what do the digesting and what ultimately provide energy to ruminants - the byproduct of microbial digestion + the microbes are recycled into soils as nutrient value. It is magical - but also biology. And yes, thermodynamics still applies - reread ruminant nutrition

[@amosbackstrom5366]

Is it generally better to burn brush and add ashes to the soil or mulch it and mix that in? It seems like wood chips would need to be mixed with the soil rather than just spread on top, at least for quick results so that's significantly more work on both counts. Just wondering if it's worth the effort compared to burning...

[@smitkadu5504]

❤❤❤

[@sngwidmepnoy]

Instead of cows, would pigs work as well?