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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
The answer is regenerative agriculture and real food.

There's a lot of people heading in this direction. Some people argue there's no such thing as regenerative agriculture but I've seen videos where people take a shovel to their field and bring up nice black dirt. Gabe Brown is probably the most well known and a good speaker/presenter.

There's another guy North of me in MO, Greg Judy. He raises grass fed beef cattle and he never mows or burns his fields. I'm seeing here recently, the only fields that aren't brown from the dry hot months of July, Aug and now Sept, are fields that haven't been mowed or been overstocked with animals. That includes a small paddock I just let our meat goats on to. I kept them off of it and just let it keep growing all year and now that everything else has been eaten down to a few inches by them and isn't growing due to no rain, I let them onto this "stockpiled forage". Between that and some small trees still having leaves, they'll be able to eat until we get a hard freeze. The tall growth shades the soil which allows it to hold some moisture. If never cut, it gets matted down creating mulch that does the same and also rots down into humus. Humus is good.

Here's one of Gabe Brown's presentations, Keys to Building Healthy Soil; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk

11 posted on 09/29/2021 10:10:01 AM PDT by Pollard (Some people like to argue just to argue.)
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To: Pollard

Thanks for posting this. I only watched a few minutes and can tell it is going to be good. I’ve bookmarked it for later, when I have time to really watch it.


21 posted on 09/29/2021 1:55:50 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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