How Regenerative Agriculture Brings Life Back to the Land | Gabe Brown | TED

Very inspiring!

Love this. Excellent talk. Thank you for your insight and sharing your experiences. Hope regenerative agriculture becomes the norm very soon.

I always had some intrigue into soil. Like life just springs out of it, yet its something so overlooked. Soil is alive, just like the planet itself.

Amazing! 📚🧠🙏💚

Amazing talk! Fantastic job leading the way on this! We strongly believe in the power of regenerative farming at scale!

We love you Gabe. Your legacy reaches far beyond your land. I continue to share your videos with whom ever will listen. Thank you

The Natives always knew. Yall just had to Manifest your Mechanical technological desntiny and destory the future for all organic life.

Too bad the majority of Civilized people are, under the “Manifest Destiny” mentality. They hate nature, the love machines and the city. The Civilized mind hates the dirt, the earth, the bugs, the germs.

There will never be peace on Earth so long as Civilized minds exist.

Too bad the majority of Civilized people are, under the “Manifest Destiny” mentality. They hate nature, the love machines and the city. The Civilized mind hates the dirt, the earth, the bugs, the germs.

There will never be peace on Earth so long as Civilized minds exist.

Stop beating around the bush and saying “conventional farming”. Its using Industrial Machines: call it for what it is. Its a Machine.

The prediction is uncontrolled migration is going to cause an incredible amount of urban sprawl in the most harming ways possible. Consider the need for new schools buildings, public safety buildings, prisons, hospitals, waste water treatment facilities, many more cars on the road, more fossil fuel use, more landfills etc...Millions and millions of acres and animal habitats are going to be destroyed. I am a former democrat and environmental minded person. People need to wake up before millions and millions of acres will be destroyed. And once those acres are destroyed they are gone forever.

I'm doing this in my garden and seeing a big difference in less than 2 years. Adding compost and using compost extra and worm castings. Looks like I may be using less water to grow a crop. The plants look a lot better and have no bugs or fungus.

The government would have to intervene to break up these massive mono-crops. I'll take a plot if they start handing out grants and eminent domain that land near military bases that china owns. 🤚Two birds, one stone.

I'm so sorry to hear about your diagnosis, Gabe. Thank you for all you do for spreading the word.

Bless you, Gabe Brown. I show Kiss the Ground education video and your testimony in that movie has reached so many students from a rural background that regenerative agriculture is THE answer for modern society to draw down carbon from the atmosphere. You are a bold and brave soul, sir.

"Regenerative" livestock farming is not a climate solution. The presence of ruminants on the land does not cause the soil to sequester enough carbon to make up for the emissions from the animals themselves. We should transition to plant-based food systems, freeing up 75% of farmland (Poore and Nemecek, 2018), and return as much land as possible to nature to be rewilded. Natural ecosystems always sequester more carbon than the best managed grazing systems.

This needs to be everywhere n fast

If you are new to regenerative agriculture, here is your list of videos to watch:
1. the legendary TED-talk of Allen Savory (kinda inventor of all this)
2. several TEDx-talks of Gabe Brown and Joel Salatin
3. check out the YT-channels of Gabe, Joel and Greg Judy (the third Guru of reg ag). They have tons of howTo-videos showing how it is done in much detail. Especially if you are a (wannabe) homesteader.

I'm surrounded by GMO corn. Crop dusters wake us at least once a week. I've watched organic, then permaculture, now regenerative agriculture play on the air waves, yet each year the farmers keep tilling and spraying and plowing and spraying and paying the bank. I'll believe it when I see it. The heart breaking part of collapse is we knew how to fix it, it just wasn't economical.

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So my second comment for this.
1. If this was a farmer making non-animal produce for direct human consumption all the fawning folk in the comments section would be frothing in the mouth shouting vegan and 'how will you feed the world'
2. There will be a limit when you have the leave the land alone for a very long time, like a looooong time given the amount of animal waste that would have collected on a parcel of land. There is no way land can sustain that much waste to sustain the profits of farmers and to pay for their loads (even though they get subsidies because it is such a wasteful approach to feeding the world). So what this means is that animal agriculture through regenerative farming would need to double it's land footprint.
3. Of course biodiversity would increase, because you have left nature do it's thing. You cannot be so big headed that you think you need a human with all their animals to do this. Nature will rewild itself.
4. Animals are needed, however, to keep farmer families profitable and to pay for all the inputs they will keep increasing their herds, they would never keep their herds down, as that is not profitable.
5. The animal agro industry is on the decline (thank god) and they will keep coming up with new tricks and gimmicks
6. The good man who is so entrenched in animal agro (and for those who say he grows grains and cereals, he grows them to feed to animals) is never going to look for the real solutions that will work as he needs his animals, as he knows nothing else, so don't judge him.
7. Everyone cheering him obvs love their bacon and eggs too much and will never just ask, hold on the animals are the real issue here...
There is not enough land on the Earth to grow all your beef, chicken, pigs, sheep and all their excretions that you consume in a regenerative fashion unfortunately. All it means is that more land is going to be locked in the animal agriculture hamster wheel of destruction.

Great talk about diverse farming, well spoken from real experience.

Thank you. We need more people joining the movement to save our soils.

Thank you Gabe Brown! Truly hope your experience, shared so sincerely will help convert more minds towards regenerative farming.

A fascinating and informative presentation. I’m not a farmer but have long believed in the need to return to a form of agriculture that takes care of the soil and biodiversity. Yet whenever I have discussed with others the response is always that it would not be possible to feed the world if everyone farmed in this way. Personally, I am sure this is a ‘lie’ promulgated by Big Ag but know of no study or research that proves it to be misleading. Does anything exist that busts this position?

This was an amazing lecture and watch. Thank you for featuring this!

Impressive performance on this so very important topic of regenerative farming!!🙏🇩🇪

The speaker doesn't talk about his yields. I bet these are substantially lower than the conventional system. And so, there is no economical business model in it other than the consumers spending more. But when food prices will increase, the people will get angry. So only the rich can eat this.

Also, if everything was farmed this way, I doubt the production would be high enough to sustain the current worlds population. How are we going to fix that?

As long as animal agriculture exists we may as well cover our eyes and pretend were human

Let me guess. The large chap is an animal farmer. Dont listen to their anecdotal nonsense. Read the Grazed & Confused report.

🎯💎🏆 Great insightful & fruitful video 🏆💎🎯

लोकः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु
( May all beings lead prosperous life across Globe 🌍 )

Just like this guy, no one changes until they have no choice.

You struggle 💀

Forests have by far the most diverse, carbon-rich and water absorbant soil, NOT animal-grazed fields. Your land may be healthier than mono-crops, but it takes way more land to produce animal products this way, making it the least scalable food production system. If we all went vegan, we could re-forest enough land to cancel out all CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial revolution

He has cracked the code and has the experience to communicate- listen up farmers ( and vegans!)

Every American should know this information.

It took him 30 years to find out. Thank you for sharing this good thing to communities.

Well spoken and good arguments. We can’t take risk with our soil. The risk is just too big for our health.

The one more yellow are not good for a few reasons...

Chemicles are nothing to play with

Need to invite Joel Salatin.

Most importany things inscects

Brilliant, and vitally important points made. One day all farms will be like this.

I have been on a few farms...

Always have to think about family..

Gabe is my superhero!!! 😍😍😍

Mindset play a big role in this topic

I hope Americans pay attention more to this!

This guy is very informative and has a great sense of humour.

I would suggest you do a search for 'Carbon Cowboys" and "AMP Farming" for more on this kind of agriculture.