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Gabe Brown: Keys To Building a Healthy Soil

Transcend Productions · 407.4K views · 2014-12-08 · 58:53

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Overview

Farmer Gabe Brown talks about how he rebuilt the soil on his ranch using no-till farming, cover crops, and grazing animals. The talk was recorded at a sustainable agriculture symposium in Idaho in 2014.

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HN readers share it as a persuasive, first-hand account of regenerative agriculture, citing its claims about soil organic matter, yields and reduced fertilizer use.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 6 months · HN mentions 2015–2023

Topics

Environment, agriculture & food systems
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soil healthno-till farmingcover cropsregenerative agriculturegrazing

What people said

clarkmoody · 2020-10 · Strong recommendation

This talk introduced me to the no-till, soil health farming paradigm: [VIDEO] TL;DR: focus on soil health and diversify your crops. His results are stunning.

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tharkun__ · 2022-01 · Recommendation

Someone posted this link in some other discussion where he came up. I found it fascinating and what you mention as well as much of what your sibling posters do is in there: [VIDEO] I don't know what kind of crowd that "Sustainable Agriculture's annual symposium" pulls but I found the number of people in the audience quite small unfortunately.

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droopyEyelids · 2021-08 · Recommendation

I saw an interesting farmer presentation on YouTube[1] the other day where he eventually starts talking about how cover crops have improved his land's ability to absorb and retain water. He even includes photos contrasting his neighbor's monoculture fields with his during rain storms. [VIDEO]

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