Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health

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frereubu · 2021-09 · Strong recommendation

I don't know if you've come across this video on HN before, but I discovered it here and it was an eye-opener for me. It's a guy called Gabe Brown who transformed his farm into one that needed no fertilizer by using no-till and rotation. One of the most compelling things is that he's no tree-hugger (he even has an uncomplimentary comparison with the soil from an organic farm) - his focus is squarely on profit, which goes up when you're not forking out huge amounts of money on chemicals. I thought I'd give it five minutes, then 2.5 hours later I realised I'd watched the whole thing. [VIDEO]

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akeck · 2021-07 · Strong recommendation

Gabe Brown's talk is my favorite introduction to regenerative ag: [VIDEO] He did a book on it: [LINK] I also like Geoff Lawton's work on food forests: [LINK] [LINK]

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tastyfreeze · 2021-04 · Strong recommendation

YouTube soil health videos has all you need. Gabe Brown and Ray Archuleta presentations are easy to consume. Dr. Elaine Ingham focuses more on the soil life in greater detail than most care about but she does provide some important to understand details on rhizosphere interactions. Living Web Farms has quite a lot of lectures about regenerative practices. There are also a myriad of academic papers on soil health as well. This video, [VIDEO] , by Gabe Brown set me on the regenerative path. If you dont want to consume hours of information here is the gist. The soil is alive. Plants use microbes and fungus as an external stomach. Direct sun and disruption/tilling kill the soil life. Without life in the soil you eventually have a desert as the organics are sifted out of the sand by weathering.

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