Regeneration - An Earth Saving Evolution : Lifeworks Foundation

Regeneration: An Earth Saving Evolution It is important to understand that there's more biomass of living micro organisms below the soil than there are living organisms above the soil and by our agriculture we effectively have killed those organisms to release those nutrient pools which is then a key part of that productivity. The story at the whole round is though that this is mining, this is extractive nutrient harvesting and it's not sustainable and of course right through history we have had civilisation after civilisation collapse once they have completely extracted and exploited their soil resources. Soil has been demonised and considered a peasant activity. It is a dirt cheap situation. The reality is unless our food is actually from rich, alive, minerally enhanced, nutrient dense origin and we are in a situation where the production of that food and our general resources and needs is creating extra soil, is enhancing the quality of soil, then we cannot call ourselves civilised. We cannot call ourselves advanced or intelligent and we are actually operating under an illusion of academia because our base resource is depleting and we don't yet even understand it. We've been prescription farmers for, heavily, for I'd say the last 25-30 years, very, very heavily, prescription farmers I've really noticed probably in the last 10 years, we've run into, we have probably hit a brick wall. You'd get to a stage where usually more is better but that was fine we could see it, you know, we used to slash say nitrogen, urea based chemical fertiliser you know you would just use it like water or hundreds and thousands, you'd spread it everywhere, you'd just go out and do it and do it. you'll go broke if you don't, if you do the right things but you know you just do have to step out of the square a little bit. Biological farming involves balancing the microbes in the soil and re-mineralising the soil so that microbes have a basis of delivering nutrients into the plant. In simple terms symbiosis develop. One organism feeds another organism which feeds another one which feeds another one. You have a self perpetuating reaction that can develop. Essentially microbial balancing seeks to perpetuate and incorporate a system which will fix the problem by itself. There are organisms in the microbial world whose job it is to capture energy, there are organisms whose job it is to capture nitrogen there are organisms whose job it is to find phosphorus to do stuff and they will do it if they are all together and happy they will do it on their own and they don't need supervision. You'd see a dramatic change in a growing season that you wouldn't really expect. You're not supposed to be cause you're thinking you doubt yourself when you do it but to see the result is very encouraging. He's started on this biological fertiliser and i've just been noticing the difference between what I do and what he does. We seem to be running out of moisture right at the very end of the year like at harvest time we need another inch of rain but we don't get it. His crops seem to hang on better than our crops do. His soil structure even looks better. If you get your hands in the dirt it just looks healthier. The grounds just like chalk and cheese between the two different paddocks and there is only a road between them so there is no real soil difference it is just the biological stuff that he sprays on which I don't really know what is or nothing about. It just seems to be doing a fantastic job and I am going to try and start using it this year for the first time. Where a cycle or a dynamic reaction is occurring you always need to have the organisms that are there at the end of the train also present at the beginning of the train. So that the whole cycle continues. If we don't go back to where we discovered that disinfectant and pasteurisation were the way to stay alive and reinvent that process from there to include all other things that keep us alive we're in trouble. There is only one thing on this planet that they are not making much more of at all and that's land. In the long run our food security, our water security, our welfare depends on how well we manage that land for the welfare of not just us but all living things. First of all fix the soil health and then the wealth will follow. That's where carbon fits into the cycle. You can trade it now and sell them now but the real trick is the health is the wealth of the soil. This film was sponsored by the LifeWorks Foundation as a contribution to the public exploration of new ways to ensure healthy soils, healthy plants, healthy animals and healthy humans. All proceeds from the sale of this film will be used to further this exploration and to catalyse regenerative solutions globally.