Using a Shovel to Heal Soil - Ray Archuleta on A Regenerative Future with Matt Powers

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[@johngault8688]

We need more Ray Archuleta's in the world!!!

[@cdpoolgirl2813]

I love the idea of nature and religion being one, when I was a little girl my grandfather would always tell me when we go out into nature that we are in the dirt church.

[@natorsi]

“The plant is the mouth of the soil” - I LOVE it

[@Yesimthatkid]

Yes this is a great idea; could you understand who he was quoting?

[@Yesimthatkid]

Actually I was able to find this quote elsewhere - Archuleta added, “Ancient people used to say: The plant is the mouth of the soil. So, if you don’t have a plant, you don’t have a mouth. You’re not feeding the microbes and the microbes need to be fed every day.”

[@Czibs111]

Wow I am surprised to see comments that refer to mixing religion with gardening ...... No we took God out of everything and now we are paying ! The creator of the universe made everything and through him all things were made !!! Bring the relationship between God and man back and you will always have success ❤❤❤

[@garywillow6578]

I am religious in my approach to gardening and I believe in paramagnetic energy. The cannabis that grows is a gift from the earth that connects myself to the planet. Peace and unity in the green community.

[@randalmoroski1184]

moretoknowmoretogrow…

[@johac7637]

Happy, hungry, sleepy.

[@SHANONisRegenerate]

Great chat guys. Lets get as many Farmers on the Journey as soon as possible 🎉❤

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

Thank you Matt for bringing these Conversations to life. I I love Rays work and hope to follow in his footsteps.

[@henrykuyvenhoven2542]

Thanks Matt Powers and Ray Archuleta. Being supported to change course is essential for everyone. I have been one of those organic farming guys who did a great deal of tilling and destroyed my spil structures. I didn't understand what happened. I thought I was doing it right. The science is emerging from a different place because now Humanity is threatened and the love for our children, family members and communities is what is motivating the questioning of what is the right relationship to Nature, soils, insects, animals, plants and the living food we eat.

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

Thank you for being here and being part of our community Henry!!

[@twindragon-tu1wd2]

And Father God ❤😂🎉...

[@earthpurse]

Thanks Ray! Great to hear you speak. These are some of the most important conversations we can have in this time.

[@cooperativegardenscommissi9694]

Food is medicine

[@tinfoilhatscholar]

Well this is exciting!

[@randalmoroski1184]

More to grow more to know.! Great video!

[@Lana.L.Benson]

Understanding ecology properly strengthens our economy. There’s nothing more important really in this time, or anytime for us to understand. Thank you MATT for your love and passionate quest to understand the most precious thing we really could come to know. SOIL and PLANTS.

[@emummy2]

Love this! Its all about our individual context. Where am I RIGHT NOW and where do I want to be. Then, how do I get there? ....In a safe regenerative way? (And that applies to ALL areas of life not just gardening and agriculture)

[@Yellowskunkfarms]

Thanks for the knowledge and wisdom 🙏

[@pamelag.4417]

Thank you for bringing the family together, you’re the best. 😊🌴🦋

[@dank_strainger]

I love the energy in this conversation !! Thank you guys for doing what you do .. much love and respect

[@CharlesGann1]

Thank houforthks great interviewwithI Ray. Appreciateyour allboth ofthe you have donetremendous in regen and soil biology health.

[@SolarSolaceFarms]

9:30 these demos are awesome, I demo these for the NRCS in Utah now. Opens eyes, really does, it’s almost impossible to believe Ray once was nervous to speak in front of people.

[@RizIsTheBiz]

Great discussion!

[@credenza1]

Ray's comments about "renewal" remind me of the passage in the Bible about the "new leaven"; a change in the fundamental perception of life. It makes wonder if the experience of regenerative agriculture would be a way to help people with addiction issues, by connecting them in a direct physical way with the healing nature of God, and the beauty of true goodness.

[@penniyoga]

Thank you both❤

[@lenayeagle9650]

This is an excellent talk!

[@dantheman9135]

ThankQ

[@earthpurse]

That’s right! Breaking addiction doesn’t happen overnight. 💔❤️‍🩹❤️

[@markus_selloi]

We should not reduce things in this complex situation to one thing, saying that CO2 is not a problem is just completely easy to disprove. Like we know what this gas does. Not saying that AG doesn't fix that also, and not saying that the other things aren't as important, but with what mr Archuleta said at min 51 then reduces the complexity again. A little bit of a paradox, saying this with all respect to the true things that were said ❤

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

We definitely need more CO2 cycling and more efficiently. That much is painfully clear from the science despite all the efforts to obscure that. Ray sees it for what it is. The topdown authoritarianism using CO2 as a bogeyman are the issue. We just need to bring back nature i.e. " biodiversity". Check out an entire video on the topic from the Carbon Cycle's perspective: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppvRqZeIq6Z2fas

[@markus_selloi]

@@ThePermacultureStudent I don't disagree with any of that :) There are loads of problems with our neoliberal politics, the industry is just way too powerful.. Austria's leading party for basically decades now has like a third of them as large scale, conventional farmers. Our legislation has been horrible. Our taxes are pretty nice in farming, but it mostly is just rigged for the big guys. None of our politicians has our best interest in mind..

[@Lana.L.Benson]

“ASK NATURE” 💎💎💎💎💎

[@jeremyschissler337]

A sickle mower is a superior tool for cutting and harvesting a cover crop that can be used as a green material for a compost pile….which also integrates an exogenous carbon source adding to the overall total added organic material…. In the event that a cash crop is harvested …the detritus layer is largely ignored and so my postulate is simply that it could very well be much more effective use of the bio matter in the field if the material was used to make compost or fermented materials if of course you can facilitate the reduced Fenton reaction with a quick germination process…. I’m actually thinking it would be great to integrate all of these methods…where one might sickle harvest from a foot high and crimp the unusually high stubble down so both compost and the detritus layer were facilitated….the compost affords the agronomist an opportunity to carbon chelate and embody all of the nutrients necessary to hit the target fertility ratios for the desired succession stage. This means that the overall long term fertility program could be even more effective at generating sufficient organic matter …… I would like to ask and see what Ray thinks

[@MelonsandMaters]

We would have so many more farmers if the serfs agreed to stop feeding the cops attorneys and other bureaucrats who claim to hold higher claim to your land and work.

[@jeremyschissler337]

❤

[@andrewwoodruff9773]

I will be forever indebted to Ray Archuleta for his all day workshop he gave ten years ago. I left that day knowing my life was about to drastically change. Today i am a consultant for a non profit that took over a piece of land that i farmed for many years. Five years ago we implemented all of the principles that i learned from Ray. We grow vegetables at tractor scale, with a strong focus on reducing tillage while implementing rotation grazing, multi species cover cropping, and composting. The changes we have seen in this short time have been mind blowing. It has taken a lot of patience and re-education, and having faith that when you restore the natural systems at full strength, your soils can over come so many of the challenges that plague our current production systems. My regenerative journey has been life changing and brought purpose in my later years, thanks to Ray, and all of the other amazing regenerative farmers that are sharing their journeys. Thank you Ray!!!

[@kotukuwhakapiko467]

58:19 💚💪 What can man offer?.....When man gets everything from soil .

[@Scc-gn6kk]

What is your email, so I can send you a few pictures of some fungi I've never seen?

[@lorraineesman20]

I'm trying to restore our wheat field and kick off the farmer who leases it for wheat but everything is covered in JohnsonGrass... like at least one plant per SF. My old school parents want it tilled and I am trying to figure out how in the world to fix it. HELP!?!

[@b_dalea449]

Completely anecdotal recommendation but if you never let the seed heads form, the plant loses most of its vigor. In a season or two it reduced by more than 50%, and it 4 years (for me) was gone. You have to stay on top of it though. If you miss the seed head growth, it then puts its energy into root growth, making it stronger and harder to get rid of.

[@chippsterstephens6800]

Sure seems like god got this right, we screwed it all up.

[@ThePermacultureStudent]

The Adam & Eve portion of the scriptures took on new meaning for me a few years ago when I recognized that. What have we done to nature? What is happening to our health? It's all connected.

[@allon33]

Greedy stupid methods of farming, leading innocent men to destroy their land. ☹

[@matsnjp1033]

What the fu... are you saying? This is a misleading and terribly unfortunate way to express something as (most probably?) an important mission that you have ... You can do better!

[@natorsi]

What’s the problem?

[@williemasterofdestruction5339]

Are you referring to the implications that tilling is good? The title is off-putting...

[@phineassamuel4657]

He meant using a shovel to see into the soil so that we can know our land @@williemasterofdestruction5339