Re: [Marxism] Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: A Geological Perspective On Regenerative Agriculture with David Montgomery

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Another excellent contribution on his podcast site is with the N. Dakota
rancher Gabe Brown, mentioned in the David Montgomery podcast. Much of it
focuses on how he integrated and used cattle to restore his soil.

Gabe Brown is a clear, collected, and inspired voice for regenerative
agriculture, having implemented and seen great changes on his family's
ranch in North Dakota over time. In fact, Gabe’s A-Horizon (topsoil) is 27
in, and the soils on surrounding farms only have 4-6 in of topsoil!

Gabe is the author of the recently published and highly-acclaimed book, Dirt
To Soil
,
from Chelsea Green. I highly recommend reading this truly inspiring and
informative book.

see: http://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/from-dirt-to-soil



On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:07 AM DW  wrote:

> There are a million things to take away from this fascinating pod cast. I
> think Louis for posting this because it covers the full gambit of what is
> regenerative agriculture and its implications for an amazing array of
> issues, of which climate change is the biggest issue. Take aways from this:
>
> The vegan lifestyle is not one that will help the soil.
> That the use of cattle is intrinsic to increasing the organic
> matter/carbon on the soil.
> Reason that have nothing to do directly with human health of the effects
> of glyopostate/Round Up but with the health of soil.
> The diversity in cover crops and cash crops is extremenly important.
>
> One of the things I like about his talk is that we still don't a lot of
> things about soil, human health and animal health.
>
> A truly worthwhile approach that doesn't make the cow the enemy of the
> planet. It's about HOW the cows are raised and used.
>
>
> David
>
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[Marxism] Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: A Geological Perspective On Regenerative Agriculture with David Montgomery

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There are a million things to take away from this fascinating pod cast. I
think Louis for posting this because it covers the full gambit of what is
regenerative agriculture and its implications for an amazing array of
issues, of which climate change is the biggest issue. Take aways from this:

The vegan lifestyle is not one that will help the soil.
That the use of cattle is intrinsic to increasing the organic matter/carbon
on the soil.
Reason that have nothing to do directly with human health of the effects of
glyopostate/Round Up but with the health of soil.
The diversity in cover crops and cash crops is extremenly important.

One of the things I like about his talk is that we still don't a lot of
things about soil, human health and animal health.

A truly worthwhile approach that doesn't make the cow the enemy of the
planet. It's about HOW the cows are raised and used.


David
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(The metabolic rift continues.)

In this episode, John interviews David Montgomery, Professor of 
Geomorphology at the University of Washington. John and David discuss 
soil regeneration at length, pulling from David’s experience developing 
new topsoil in dead, stony ground and his deep dive into the science 
behind it.


David came to the field of regenerative agriculture from a unique 
position. As a geologist studying erosion, he became curious about 
agricultural impacts on soils.


When David set out to write his first book, Dirt: The Erosion of 
Civilizations, he imagined it would tie the subject of landscape 
formation over millennia to how soil erosion affected ancient 
civilizations. He ended up writing about the history of farming, because 
that's where soil erosion and degradation connects back to human 
societies. Spending more than a decade looking at how agriculture has 
influenced soil loss resulted in an epiphany that led him to see 
regenerative agriculture as the solution to historically degenerative 
agricultural problems.


full: 
http://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/a-geological-perspective-on-regenerative-agriculture-with-david-montgomery

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