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Saving The Magic In Our Soil | Kris Taylor | TEDxOakLawn


we must save
I want everybody to take a second today
boom was the last time you wouldn’t
picked an apple tree to get that snap
when was the last time you when brings
the cow that playing with you oughta
sell everything to you just close the
work when was the last time we would
need to be grounded and flower making a
difference and you got sandwich
chances are goes to do you haven’t done
any of those things that’s okay I
haven’t done most of those come back but
take a second to make a little deeper
now so what is the common denominator
between public reasons since wonder when
I think about it I mean we know so
little about how that actually works not
just reason us or leavening people but
we as in the scientists and experts have
been studying this stuff their entire
careers only really been in the last
scientist have classified thousands of
eating soil types all over the planet
he’s perfectly evolved by their specific
ecosystem we’re gonna temporary seasonal
forest evergreen forests in the
evergreen forest boreal forest in your
essence perennial grass that’s Paris
best deserts there’s a lot I can learn
from all that – Chris yeah we’ve
approached farming likely choose kind of
all of the 380 million acres of uses the
US preference for crops well this is 71%
of Batman espera on three cross just
three we have this responsibility to be
looking at all this diversity that’s out
there using and influencing back to our
farming systems I think it looked I’m
gonna see how this conventional farming
period on the pilot plant harvest repeat
plant harvest repeat that we’ve been
using for the last couple of thousand
the Fertile Crescent thought Mesopotamia
used to be where agriculture and
civilization reform the ladies been
plowed there for 5000 years yet when you
look at the region of today what was
once the cradle of humanity has now
become an ecologically and looking a
little less back at the Roman Empire
it’s a massive amount of deforestation
and erosion progress to the soil that
was once fertile became to create it and
there are the lines on the questioner
eventually the growth of the umpires too
much to keep up and this team is not
uncommon our history
Neela the Europe ancient Greece
Mesopotamia Central America China only
over to the world and the American
Midwest the group gospel was broadened
by the crowd risen by poor farming
conditions over clatter the fields let’s
bear between seasons it affected over
100 million acres nationwide including a
large portion of nightmare Texas daily
loss has peaked in 1936 at four hundred
and forty million dollars that dates
back and the wicked call for us
Americans didn’t come until some of that
soil that was lived in thousands of feet
into the air blew hundreds miles away in
New York City in Washington there’s no
in between all of these organ systems
large farms big stuff of monocultures
relying upon tiller you see in Yule
Christ
beeping slows Baird disturbed and
without diversity and sure we don’t have
a decibel anymore it’s good looking at a
2007 book the National Resource
Conservation Service a branch at the
USDA erosion rate of Americans still 3.8
tons per acre per year which is the
public good enough that holds like a bus
full the swell just drive mr. a farm
that rate hasn’t changed much in the
last 20 years I still ten times faster
the soil foundation for us texting the
conceded in a little more fun go change
on the keys for that looks like a bus
with that dump truck because the average
here is an eight point eight times per
acre per year do that’s that may
destructive impacts our planet
throughout history million hearts are
wide
just like this ripple eventually nothing
that subsides much of always change it
turns to its priority and that’s not the
same we don’t make significant impacts
their travel experience but one thing
always remains true disrupted disturbed
integrated farmland is fragile so it’s
fragile a bit expedite that but I’m not
up here to harp on the problems
this is TEDx here to talk about the
solutions we can have a blank slate we
have the solutions that and the
solutions are in the soil as a volunteer
this is where you’re really excited for
the soil to know that the magic is in
the biological let me give us one of my
records everybody know who’s next
photosynthesizing use sunlight carbon
dioxide water to create oxygen sugars
however most people don’t know that ever
to have the sugars you could plant
through the roots of those streams the
ground a few microbes in fact one
teaspoon of any as well has over 1
million miles
now why in the world would I play one
microbes are not experienced well the
mysteriously reason that a city eats a
whole slew of professions are people to
make it work the swelling’s host of
different biologies to make this work
just write some of the microbiology sir
visit doctors and the nurses of this
world protecting the plants that gets
tested is these pressures you used to
need for harmful chemical pesticides
some of the microbiology bacteria and
fungi surges a free workers turning raw
materials to the soil and the air in
tubes and available forms of fertility
reduce convene persons with chemical
fertilizers in a specific type of fungi
or muscular memorize they were required
timing the factory floor and nutrients
but they also the psych hospital as
plumbers they tend of street is the
plant roots the whole pipe in the hard
to reach water reduce cleaning
figuration and increasing drought
tolerance what does a big deal now is
deportable those higher level limit
changes the emulator chain policemen are
conditions of those work death and in
fact they created the waste stream in
the process not a big surprise but
unlike the savings this ways to turns
into something beautiful beneficial
turns into something called soil organic
if the microchip
city work then the small organic matter
are the homes in apartments for those
people in prevents erosion
it holds nutrients in the next line is
funds for water we should have about six
to eight percent of it was given the
current parking paradigm has driven
those numbers downwards the one to three
percent protection that’s a huge bummer
of a problem just one percent of stuff
are awesome a career plan can hold as
much water as a backyard swimming pool
so these does the same you should do
everything we can to protect and promote
this biology using something called
iterative agriculture the focus is just
that can you guess which type container
defensible screens not probably does it
feels like this one with your right or
life having higher again author Michael
Pollan one step PD is an ecological that
every time you take a bite of the food
we play a rollover dollar deciding what
type of party college would be one be
promoting make this connection to
ecology a little bit simpler think about
this what risks do you see that because
lean on fertilizers for the trees to
grow what mountaintop Meadows see where
you are sprayed with pesticides you
don’t have to do these things because
over millennia the systems of all the
means of self regulation and the more
that we manage to calendar to these
ecological principles the more may end
up making records like look like this
one on your left
increasing deserve a vacation of all
over the world ensure this is field
showing of past records but the same can
be said about parties for crops okay
so particularly magnet projects good
this beautiful form in North Dakota is
five thousand acres and it’s a display
of all of these differences the first
minima games you need to keep the soil
together by reducing and removing
tillage
tillage breaks up slowly lodging which
keeps years to seven
just kind of being and non-being sitting
in spider having a ripped apart each
time you’re almost done building I
should be a lot of my good meal they
have until done
people’s number twenty years in the
second tenet you need to keep yourself
covered you can do this using something
called cover crops which help prevent
erosion to build fertility and this farm
never has a bear people gets to cover
crops there they use something called
high diversity need to keep your soils
towards I would’ve ersity creates
treatment response of the basis of
pressure this farm uses eight different
cash cow species in 22 different cover
crop species
that’s some serious biodiversity and for
the business about their farming is a
business you need to put food on the
table productivity you can look at this
farm and see that’s 20% higher little
bit on average it’s a sixty five percent
lower cost of goods sold they don’t have
to spend money on these expensive inputs
which is skill genes like this one you
will never happen this water should be
soaking in used by plants bit by bit dry
times yet it’s eroded soil but formula
20 days example was able to maintain 14
inches of rain in 24 hour period
immediately okay so the fourth Timothy
need to purse once Prairie make sense
this video uses animal origin she cannot
have have to maintain their fertility
kind of like those fancy on middle on
Mother’s Day help manage some III the
vines but these sometimes come with an
active I don’t know if you’ve ever tried
to dodge a pack of spinach me but I have
this this organ grease was a degraded
hillside clear cut the forest hundreds
of years ago from the party they used
cover crops which we talked about before
because the lineal group of markers it’s
literally throwing up legislators are
unremarkable side okay so the fifth tip
you need to eat your plants in the
ground
where’s that mean
well using during the glance who can
plant them once in the number of
activity annual crops we planted this
decreases cost related piping and it
decreases the observance of biological
this form into something called
agroforestry six thousand acre farm of
yourself
Naga the worksheet allows them to grow
apples at the end of bingo baba even
cordon an extra Michigan you can grab
all that in one pass in this Lane was
once said to be too sandy perform what
could have our near not possible but
Virginia tobacco country was proven
wrong six thousand dinars in these
tenants through a good description of
what it means to be regenerator but I
know needs a definition
these are just patterns we see across
barns really doing right by ecological
processes okay
the population of Oakland is prickly
approaching a ton of people and they
need to be protected unfortunately in
the rate of erosion it’s a little lost
meaning the farm land loss is that
billion acres per year I did not learn
that’s the size of the anunnaki though
that’s a huge problem these losses are
completely unnecessary completely if I
haven’t convinced you that by now it’ll
get a little bit more excited I heard
swindle your office Mars you know if
you’re still on the fence about space
together it won’t work
the Atlanta green forest was one of
those biodiversity two regions on the
planet but 85% deer cut much like this
but this land was taken by a new logical
partner treated is a beautiful 1200
acres of it before it’s no soil erosion
soil is rebuild there in all 17 students
on the problem flow with year-round
Elena is part of the most biodiverse
fertile regions of the Atlanta green
forest now in fact particularly harvests
premises such a high quality that it’s
some of the most expensive
regenerative agriculture it’s beyond
more ways than just how the perhaps for
this way
regenerative that allows us to build
health systems and more nutrient-dense
food that’s healthy influence research
out of the University of Texas has shown
that over the last few decades the
nutrient content of our produce is slow
leading into the client here here that’s
a problem we didn’t either look at these
stores that will swell nutrient contents
from eating healthier foods or systems
that live along through the particulars
of aquaculture empower the community
expects to be mining local rebuilding
those local economies no joke there’s a
Virginia to branch out George Evans
played 152 employees that’s half of the
population of a hundred and two but this
is not the normal scheme its biggest
farming America it’s not the typical
farm agility on this chapter with
Stanley party depression and suicide
rates are the highest they’ve ever been
experienced before
and this is directly attributable to the
huge six and seven figure productions
these parts take out every single year
just to stay in touch with the
maintainence hypothesis yes or mean it’s
supposed to be hard we’ve all heard that
but no we’re not supposed to have enough
units we’re not supposed to have a
crushing debt and here definitely not
supposed to have higher suicide these
people need us we’ve only been on this
appointed or not it’s User Fee via
technology in mind if you’ve heard for
24 hours old people need been here for
170 and isn’t that one second we’ve only
told one apartment period but I’ll plan
a party planner artists sure the Vinci
is here but it would be crazy to think
that we got it right first time in that
one second we have a responsibility to
be observing these ecological processes
if all different Linnea observing the
learned in front of influenza music are
having sisters regenerative design
expert almond wants with it we’re on the
cutting edge of mm your technology to
we have the pleasure of the privilege
asleep like all of our sciences to
produce gathering man-made and natural
systems so yes we do have the solutions now and we can
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