Creon’s Recommended Links on Regenerative Agriculture

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Creon’s recommended links on regenerative agriculture

first installment

mostly videos


My intense interest recently has centered around regenerative agriculture. I have become more and more convinced that regenerative agriculture is the only way to ensure the survival of the soil, the restoration of the farm economy, the continued production of food, the stabilization of the climate, the restoration of the oceans, the long-term flourishing of human civilization, human health, animal welfare, wildlife habitat, and biodiversity.

I have watched or read all of the following material - often multiple times - and about 8 times more material, including reading and annotating about 20 books and many scientific papers. I have about 50 more books on my reading list. I’ll document the book list soon.

What follows are some of the most useful resources from my perspective. I’ve started with videos and will add more media and more perspectives later. Be warned: these materials are, in general, beyond “TED talk” level. It goes deeper. You have to be willing to take some time - just like with nature.

Feel free to make suggestions or comments.

A few of my favorite lectures by some of the “titans":

  1. Joel Salatin (you may already know of him, but this is one of his great rants) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzpl-UwB7ls&t=50m29s
  2. Gabe Brown - leader in the modern US regen ag movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A
  3. Alan Savory - (I know you've seen his Ted talk - this is better IMHO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vILw12ecPM
  4. Abe Collins - rebuilding hydrology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1zU5NM2bVw
  5. Walter Jehne: soil biochemistry (no slides, can just listen, all of his lectures are great) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPDUDT9HjA
  6. Sally Fallon - the matriarch and person who started me on this path ~15 years ago. A long talk but well worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKdYUCUca8
  7. Wes Jackson - another patriarch. Engineering perennial cereal grains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7_8MsTepY
  8. Allen Williams - one of Gabe Brown’s partners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO39Js9FUq4&t=6m26s
  9. David C. Johnson - a very important man with amazing information and results : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79qpP0m7SaY
  10. David Montgomery (author of the “Growing a Revolution”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ22IV2tDvs
  11. Frank Mitloehner - ruminants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uniz3l5lMF4
  12. And of course Wendell Berry - who saw it all in the early 1970s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1tioiBrZRE

Younger brilliant voices:

  1. Paul Kaiser (singing frog farms) - “soil is life, tillage is death” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFpwvlkqUY
  2. David Perry (CEO of Indigo Ag) on The Teraton Initiative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383DF803e5U
  3. Justin Winters - exec. dir. of Leonardo DiCaprio foundation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sitqEPRE0
  4. Dr. Christine Jones - Best intro on soil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_w_Gp1mLM
  5. Alex Eaton - Smallholder Farmers as Climate Change and Food Security Leaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlUEEnzY9bI
  6. Ethan Roland - Carbon Farming https://youtube.com/watch?v=ljuJhQtLYt8

Produced films and shorts (rather than lectures)

  1. The Soil Solution to Climate Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxiXJnZraxk
  2. 100,000 beating hearts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQWLK8-CYE and all the “soil carbon cowboys” short films: https://carboncowboys.org/films
  3. Unbroken Ground (Patagonia, Wes Jackson, perennial grain, buffalo, fisheries) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ezkp7Cteys
  4. Hugh Hammond Bennett: The Story of America’s Private Lands Conservation Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G78ihulTx1k
  5. A Regenerative Secret - Kiss The Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2W8dKdgGhc
  6. The Magic Pill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6duhSjYyj0k the whole movie is worth watching, but there is an especially powerful segment by Lierre Keith starting at 1h07m34s.
  7. Restoring Paradise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_asuZ6OtE
  8. Farmageddon (free on amazon prime)
  9. The biggest Little Farm (feature film)
  10. Look and See (documentary about Wendell Berry)
  11. Upcoming feature film: Sacred Cow
  12. Fantastic Fungi - not really about regenerative agriculture per se, but very relevant.

Then there is the whole carnivore vs. vegetarian debate about human health, ecosystem health, animal welfare, and climate. Let’s just say I hope you aren’t starving your children of animal protein.

  1. Belinda Fettke: The Evolution of Plant-Based Dietary Guidelines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlhL-WQ_X2Y
  2. Gary Fettke: The role of nutrition in everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkvriSwX8I&t=28m19s
  3. Georgia Ede: WHO says meat causes cancer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgzgDSInt0
  4. Peter Ballerstedt: Ruminant Reality Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t_axkQ8IcQ
  5. Nina Teicholz - Red Meat and Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rz-8H_i1wA
  6. Amber O’Hearn: The Carnivorous Human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJBHEhmXqc
  7. Prof. Tim Noakes MD - Medical aspects of the low carbohydrate lifestyle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5-9ZxamXc
  8. Frédéric Leroy: Meat's become a scapegoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RFzJ-nFLY
  9. Diana Rodgers. The producer of the upcoming “Sacred Cow” film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwaYkYLJLg
  10. Temple Grandin: Why Do I Still Work for the Industry? https://grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.human.afterward.html
  11. Also see Sally Fallon, Alan Savory, Frank Mitloehner, and others above.
  12. Also see hundreds of youtube videos from Paul Saladino MD, Ken Berry MD, Shawn Baker MD, Steve Phinny MD, Robert #Lustig MD, Peter Attia MD, Paul Mason MD, Jason Fung MD, Nader Ali MD, Ivor Cummins, Dave Feldman, Lierre Keith.

Marcin's Additions: Seminal Books

  1. Masanobu Fukuoka: The One Straw Revolution
  2. J. Sholto Douglas: Forest Farming
  3. Phil Rutter's work at Badgersett Research on perennial polyculture (hazeltun and chestnut breeding to provide a viable perennial polyculture alternative to corn and soybean staple crops)
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