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Gabe Brown: Keys To Building a Healthy Soil

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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Why HN readers recommended it

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.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Transcend Productions
Topic
regenerative agriculture
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
5
HN mentions in dataset
11
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • 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.

    clarkmoody on Hacker News · 2020-10
    In No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981

  • Thank you for your anecdotal account. Many petroleum farmers suffer from soil runoff. There is also desertification. Also, there is inefficient usage of water draining the acquirers. Note that California monoculture petrol farmers are largely responsible for using nearly 80% of California's water usage. There's …

    briantakita on Hacker News · 2015-03
    In Destroy the soil and we all starve

  • I can't criticize your approach, since I'm not a farmer. I respect what you do & the work that it takes to run a farm. I can only point out what I've seen & what inspires me. re: Amonia > A typical modern ammonia-producing plant …

    briantakita on Hacker News · 2015-07
    In The Plan to Feed the World by Hacking Photosynthesis

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