It is never too late. Nature will come back.

@marygard4608

Жыл бұрын

If given half a chance.

Hopefully this documentary will be viewed by farmers and vegetable growers in many countries.

@MrLoobu

Жыл бұрын

Most don't make enough money to have the choice.

If we take good care of the nature, they will take care more than triple the humanity and the planet!🙏

@henrietta9206

Жыл бұрын

thank you, Inado👍

@MorsayNickTaMere

Жыл бұрын

Say that to the west

@nhylinado3347

Жыл бұрын

@@MorsayNickTaMere we need to remind everyone, not only the west my dear, this paradise before is ours till now it is ours, entrust to human care by the good and great, but now the nature is being abused, poisoned, begging our help, they're crying out but only God hear them,...but we felt them already, what we do to them, it wil bounce back to us.

@katooloughlin

Жыл бұрын

I like that you said "triple the humanity" and not humans

@brdmohamedali

Жыл бұрын

مادا ينقصنا لتحقيق الهدف المنشود؟

I am in almost constant tussle with someone who just looks at the dirt (compacted clay) and shrugs it off, saying "That's bad soil".. I finally managed to get a worm farm going, used the compost to make an extract, asked him to add it into the garden. This year quite a bit of the plants are darker green, growing free of mildew and insect infestations. The plants are strong enough to withstand the infections, most of the pests like aphids haven't appeared.. Grow the soils, the plants will be healthier. Chemicals cost a ridiculous amount this year, we're not using any at all. Regenerative agriculture is a growing (no pun intended) way ranchers, farmers, and food producers are now seeing as a viable way to increase crops, healthy animals that don't need antibiotics, etc. The major agriculture chemical companies don't want people to change, to rethink the ways farming and food production is done. It's cutting into profits.

@capicuaaa

Жыл бұрын

Most definitely! And not only is it much less expensive than buying synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, etc, it actually heals the land as opposed to killing the life within the soil.

@elenalatici9568

Жыл бұрын

I live in Tuscany where the soil is exactly what you described: compacted clay. Trying to dig even a small hole to plant seeds is like trying to dig into rock. As for worms, I've never seen a single one in the 20 years I've lived in Italy, whether the Bolognese plain, the Appennini, or the hills of Tuscany. Maybe it's always been like this here for millennia. I don't know enough about soul conditions here, but I would love to have your advice.

@thisorthat7626

Жыл бұрын

@@elenalatici9568 Please look into cover crops to help aerate the soil and provide organic material. When watering, add a small amount of dish soap to help the water get into the soil. The dish soap will act as a surfactant and won't hurt the soil life. Starting a worm farm would also help if you can buy worms. You can feed them leftover veggies, etc. Lots of videos on worm farms on KZread. Alfalfa feeds the microbes in the soil so please continue to add it your garden. Roses will require very little water once established if you mulch the soil. My climate is much like Tuscany, and I rarely water my roses during the dry months of summer. Have fun learning.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

@@elenalatici9568 Buy a bag of dolomite limestone to break up and reduce the clay, then add organic matter, compost leaves etc. with animal manures! You will have beautiful soil in a few seasons.

@ninemoonplanet

Жыл бұрын

@eleni latici start by using dead grasses, garden waste and spread it over the area you need to improve. Dig it in just a few cm and add water. You can also build up a pile of dead leaves, grasses, bits of wood and add water, then pile in anything green (growing weeds, leaves, plants without the roots, stir it, add water. Let that sit for a week, adding enough water to just keep it moist. It should turn a dark brown. Look inside once in a while, you may actually find a worm or a few inside. If you're near a farm with animals, see if the farmers will allow you to take a few dried, old manure piles, put those into the leaf pile. What happens then is a soil amendment for you to use.

Thanks DW, it’s so important to know that there is many people out there that don’t loose hope in doing the right thing for Mother Earth. 🙏🏻✨

@Yaastika

Жыл бұрын

Its not DW, they just like to hog the limelight. Its Sadguru who has been relentlessly working on the Save the Soil mission

@MrLoobu

Жыл бұрын

They just talk, we learned all this thousands of years ago but now the rich and powerful get to kill the rest.

Best documentary ever, got goose bumps love all these people geniuses love this channel. I'm an organic Gardner this fills my heart with joy ❤️

@DWDocumentary

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!

@dirmanmandalaputrachannel9541

Жыл бұрын

@@DWDocumentary Don't hesitate, I'm actually happy every day to see how beautiful the scenery in Europe, Germany is so amazing👌✌❤😁

@Blackheathenly

Жыл бұрын

and an organic writer... ;)

@junedewar5190

Жыл бұрын

@@DWDocumentary I have been wondering for some years if it is lithium and other heavy metals that are being strewn over earth by weather control measures using what they call Trail by chemicals or Chem trails.

@eco_logic

Жыл бұрын

@@junedewar5190 its called br@in error. The good thing there is help for that.

The first thing came to my mind about the farmer Joseph....Sooooooo sweet...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ when on my bike or walking... I do also avoid driving or walking on snails and worms... They to are on a journey.. Just like we humans are

I am a nature lover and gardener and I appreciate your content😊

My grandfather, a crop farmer, started his own organic garden back in the late 70's, after he retired and kept just a kitchen garden. He called it compost gardening.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Smart man.

@chrilin5107

Жыл бұрын

We used to do that to, before my eldest moved to get married and work in another country...never used any pesticides only natural compost...we got amazing tomatoes, citrus, kitchen herbs and much more. Working with nature is much better, cheaper and more sustainable.

So refreshing to see real change in agriculture...traditional ag kills soil.

Save the soil

Primavera playing in the background takes the docu to a different level.

Dr Max Gerson says .. Soil is our external metabolism

I want to buy property and restore it someday, but land in my area is really expensive. Once upon a time, this area was mostly oak prairie, but now it's urban, farmland, or forest, and that forest is really flammable. Once upon a time, that forest was restricted to hilltops and mountains because the Native Americans managed the lowlands where the prairies we're.

Some of us do this without begging for subsidies. Mandatory standards NOT WELFAREfor the rich

Mind, body and soil

Brilliant 👏👏

I just bought an acre on the inland gulf coast Florida, US. The soil is terrible, however, I'm in the process of bringing it back to life in it's beautiful sunny location surrounded by horses and grazing cows.

@marygard4608

Жыл бұрын

Great luck on regenerating your soil. We did it in our own garden, starting with as little digging as possible!

@Hakkeholt

Жыл бұрын

Cows and chicken are excellent tools to bring life back to the soil.

@emigrator08

Жыл бұрын

@@Hakkeholt thank you 😊

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

@@emigrator08 No, don't X your roses, they are tough. Give the soil some TLC with the alfalfa, chickpeas, soya beans, runcorn. Any legumes will do and look after your roses by mulching them with animal manure, pref horse, cow, not too much chicken(strong) ! Work those manures into the soil with dolomite limestone and sow a cover crop for mulch and moisture protection.

@nyunixguru

Жыл бұрын

Too sandy need organics

Forests keep the soil and planet healthy for humans. Stop deforestation or humanity is doomed.

@davidkottman3440

Жыл бұрын

Also tallgrass prairies & steppes

@lingth

Жыл бұрын

and forest fires.

@CampingforCool41

Жыл бұрын

Deforestation is bad but so is planting monoculture forests. Grasslands can also be biodiverse and sequester tons of carbon.

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

Like we need telling?

@roberts3697

4 ай бұрын

@@helenamcginty4920 We do need telling. As a farmer I know too many farmers who are hurting the land as they are only concerned with trying to make a profit. They only care about making a profit today. They don't care about the future.

So good to see!

Good story, Thank you.

Great to see the importance of soil being reported in the media. The recent book 'Regenesis' by George Monbiot is a must read on this topic.

Plant some hemp. So many benefits and it grows super easy. I truly believe it should be grown to help the earth

Another excellent DW documentary, educating and opening our eyes to the possibilities of being able to arrest climate change by changing the way we interact with nature. Thank you DW. I am hooked on your documentaries, and learning more with each one I watch.

@chrilin5107

Жыл бұрын

Agree 100% top content

Humus farming - reduced tilliage is a step but the less cultivatiation the better - I think there is much room for improvement. Soil health is important but the soil can only hold so much carbon - probably much less when the most carbon-rich upper surface is being disturbed and yes that includes this "humus farming" - undrained wetlands do a much better job.

Excellent, and we can only hope that this sort of idea, work, etc., widely spreads, worldwide.

Save soil! Essential every thing comes from soil, our mother

In the US we had beautiful soil because we had migratory herds. These guys did all the aeration necessary with their hooves, and the pooping didn't hurt, either.

Fantastic work, thinking how to farm better, saving soil.👍❤️

@chrilin5107

Жыл бұрын

Good luck I hope you succeed

In years past we used a chain arrow, which did a simular job to the cultivator shown. One system that we employed was to leave the land fallow for one season in every three.

@theCosmicQueen

Жыл бұрын

really? the bible says to let it lie fallow every 7 years, as well. you can divide into 7 parts and just let one lie fallow each year, if necessary.

@gothicpagan.666

Жыл бұрын

@@theCosmicQueen A tad off topic, the bible says many things, not all unequivocally proven.

@elenalatici9568

Жыл бұрын

I remember those from my childhood in New England.

@davidkottman3440

Жыл бұрын

@@gothicpagan.666 ah, but you seem to miss the common theme of leaving the fields fallow on some schedule. Why be critical? 😕 Perhaps the only thing a pagan & Bible agree on, but you criticize the source rather than embrace the commonality

Really interesting and informative. Thank you!

Thanks DW. Great video👍

I remember, as a kid my grandparents and cousins on their farms (Poland) all used to use cultivators👍 That was 20-30 years ago, not sure currently🤔

In one word... AWESOME.

At a buffet, I personally sneak corn into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 boiled corn ears in my jacket pockets. It is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corn thinking they were part of the buffet.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Naughty. Stop doing it or you will be caught and punished!

Mind blowing info

Growing commercial timber on an old uranium mine. What could go wrong?

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Well if soil remediation happens as well, then the radiation is locked up in the soil chemistry and plant biota. If the timber is harvested from an identified area and checked for residual radiation then it can be used in construction.

Thank you for giving me more hope in the future! *hugs*

This is exactly correct about farming. Driving a tractor is dangerous, my papa taught me. Thank you for this video. Love this video. Hello from America. Also, I learned to plow behind a Jenny when I was a child.❤

Thank you for the elegant explanation of bio remediation and molecular prisons for harmfully oncentrated elements.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Good One !

These people are doing very important work, great documentary!

Hello how are you today, it looks very beautiful scenery in germany. prosperous, advanced and always glowing😁✌🙏

Great documentary! Regenerating the soil is the way forward. Love it.

DW, way too much background music. Please tone it down a bit. I'm here for content. I have Spotify for music. Thank you

Beautiful stories!

I watched this documentary with great attention. In the 20 years I've lived in Italy I have never seen an earthworm, and that has puzzled me. I don't know the answer. If anyone.out there does I'd be happy for your input. Also, I would love to hear from one of the documentary makers if it's possible to contact anyone in Styria for what I can do for the soil in my own little flower garden. Last year I used alfalfa to fertilize the condominium roses. The result was pretty amazing. The roses had been neglected for years and recovered over the winter. As for my own roses, which I love for their beauty and scent, the harsh heat and drought conditions this summer have convinced me that I must do away with them. They require too much water. There is a company in Italy that sells native wildflower seeds and my plan at present is to replace all water consuming plants with wildflowers that attract bees. But I want to learn more about feeding the soil. Of course I know that a small garden will do nothing much for the large amount of lawn that surrounds the property where I rent an apartment, but if I can make a small difference maybe I can persuade the owner to give up the great lawns, now reduced to to crunchy straw, and replace it with wildflower meadows. Thanks to anyone who might respond.🙏🙏🙏

@DWDocumentary

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

@elenalatici9568

Жыл бұрын

@@DWDocumentary Only thin I've seen today that gave me hope. Thanks for making the documentary,.

@marygard4608

Жыл бұрын

You have brought back the pollinators by sowing wildflowers. I'd say you've done a lot.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

No, don't X your roses, they are tough. Give the soil some TLC with the alfalfa, chickpeas, soya beans, runcorn. Any legumes will do and look after your roses by mulching them with animal manure, pref horse, cow, not too much chicken(strong) ! Work those manures into the soil with dolomite limestone and sow a cover crop for mulch and moisture protection.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

After you have done all that, order some mail-order earth worms and set them to work under the mulch !

So nice to have a positive story in times of such negativity.

Terraform the world 🗺 Start with Africa, make it liveable for eberyone and everything. Stop pollution, look after the world ljke your own garden

People like them make me feel hopeful

Excellent.

well, if they can't open the soil,t hen plant more trees in cities and other areas without much green plants. they can use squares of soil, abut 2x2 metres , which a tree and small shrubs can grow in.

14,29 no erosion, ability to retain water, and a living ecosystem that can support a variety of species 😊👍

I love DW documentary because of such educative content

Yes Eco cultivation Organic Soil Organic Soil Biodiversity

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

Very nice!!

Nice ecology science coverages...interested matter & much useful...

Likes only! 👏🏻

It breaks my heart to hear that it is difficult to get funding for such a noble undertaking. Imagine how much Europe is Spending on senseless wars in Ukraine and other places. If only 1% of this expense goes into the venture of nourishing the soil, then every region in the world could be free dead soil. I come from Kenya and have been adding humus (cow dung) to soil since I was born, and my grandparents have been doing the same. Then very educated people introduced us to ZERO GRAZINF where we put our cows and goats in very good enclosures with concrete floors and that was the end of cow manure. Now I understand that our soil died when we stopped using cow manure and started using artificial fertilizers. This documentary gave me knowledge equivalent to PHD level in soil nutrition. Thanks very much.

@marygard4608

Жыл бұрын

I've read that allowing grazing animals to roam at will is replenishing the soil, they are trying this with wild horse herds in Siberia.

@davidkottman3440

Жыл бұрын

What happens to the manure in the enclosures? It can be collected & spread on the crop fields in various ways. A fantastic complement to any commercial fertilizer.

Very worthwhile projects. But watch the video again and take note of all the plastic. Plastic pollutes our farm soils. As we try to improve the soil are we continuing to pollute it with plastic which is a Fossil Fuel product?

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Yes, terrible and the oceans are suffocating in it. Especially the fish, which we eat too.

Great video. I'd love to know more about the bamboo growing around the former uranium mines near Jena (around 11:00). Are they measuring its phytoremediation properties?

Yes, God did create the earth...and the earth!

Now in Ukraine fields are being contaminated with shells and rockets :( Some say it takes a lot of time to clean the soil from such kind of contamination. The other problem is mines. Some farmers have already died from explosions...

@elenalatici9568

Жыл бұрын

Wars are the fastest way to extinction because of destruction to the land.

Save soil.... Sadhguru 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you DW for another great Documentary.

“But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace”

#savesoil🌱 . Save our planet 🌱🌍🌳🌳🌳🌳 save soil🌱. Save lives 🌱🌱🌱🌲🌳🌲🌍🌳🌳🌳🌏🌳🌳🌲🌎🌲🌳🌳🌲🌱🌳🌲🌳🌱🌲🌱🌲🌱🌲🌳🌳

Thank you God, for giving these farmers the patience to make barren lands, fertile again. The future is still hopefully beautiful...

People live in their comfortable bubbles.

This is really great and informative I think people should consider more friendly ways of reducing our carbon footprint and helping farmers reach there net zero goal

Compost Fertiliser rarely used in Nepal.Dependent in Chemical Fertiliser.

Yea.

70+years ago I used to listen to the farmers at the kitchen table as they discussed rverything from milk production to soil. I remember thinking g that my dad knew so much more than the rest..he didn't have the science jargon but the care of dirt to change it to soil was the same. I know the other farmers who used tractors ( dad had work horses) and they brought in tons of artificial fertilizer ( dad spread his manure and didn't leave it in piles for years and years) . He tried to convince them to play t cover crops and to rotate fields. It all fell on deaf ears and now as I drive past these farms the old fields look so baren with nothing but scrubs growing..and this is in new york state ...which should be green and lush....but sadly those fields are not.

Planting lots of trees🌱🌲🌳will create fertile soil and maintain soil ferility 🌱🌱🌳🌱🌳🌱🌲🌱🌎🌏🌍🌱🌲🌳🌳🌳🌱🌳🌲🌳🌱👍🌱🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳

Brilliant documentary again by DW. Your stories are delightful to watch and deeply informative at the same time. Laudable is that sometimes-eclectic choice of such topics, that should become part of public discourse, but seldom do. Great job. I've a strong opinion (no offense though) that DW documentary has much holistic content for diligent viewers than that on offer by Discovery and Nat Geographic - atleast for a few years now }:‑) All the Best.

@slevinchannel7589

Жыл бұрын

??

can apply this at home.

God has made humans so unique. The wisdom upon them is seen in the things they have done and are to do. Good to know that was told men to do this part of the nation as many others are on the mission to protect the soil. Nice watching this documentary.

@marygard4608

Жыл бұрын

Humans are only unique in the amount of damage they do. We need this planet to become sustainable again, and it's Nature and science, not any god, who who will do this. Human beings need to do more with less, because we are no better than any other species.

How did farmers not know this or did they forget this stuff? it's so obvious if u do any gardening at all. Good to see people waking up from the weird spell the world's been under.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Too many city slickers!

❤❤❤

It's good to see that trees are fighting back using self-defense tactics.

What happens to the materials being removed, concrete, steel, glass, lumber, plaster, paint, etc? Recycle, landfill love to see the waste management plan

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Concrete is a resource; can be crushed and reused, steel recycled, same with glass, even broken, plaster can be composted - mostly gypsum, paint might be a problem though.

How competitive with this would be agrivoltaics in which farming animals graze and fertilize the soil with their excrements as they also maintain low-sized green?

If we" had" taken care of nature but we didn't and now we're faced with the consequences of that lack of care.Now we have to take care of each other but we've ruined our relationship with Nature,so Good Luck everyone .May God help us.Nothing else can.

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

No god will help us. We have to help ourselves; no super being is coming to hold your hand !

far out ae well done..our poor earth getting abused ...lets hope it will stopped being abused...cant see it somehow greed is to rife😥

This is the kind of climate activism I can get behind!

Yeah we need plenty of green in our environment.. I get sick just by looking at highly developed areas with no green and soil around...

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Nice👍. No forced propaganda

#savesoil

👍😊❤️

Building greenhouses as villages

Thought we are supposed to aerate foyer spray mixture so does not become anaerobic. Promoting healthy microbes

Clay soil..sandy or loam? Fertility and fertilizers

How earthworms are valuable team members.... aaaawwwww ♡ Why didn't we farm lile this before if this is actually better for the soil, too? Surely they didn't figure out these things yesterday.... The whole world should take a good look at old times when people still remembered that we should be friends with Nature... It can kill us but maybe also save us if we hurry to make mends with it...

This looks only works in small scale. What is the yield of the crops? Sri lanka decide to remove pesticide and fertilizer usage and look what happened to its crop yield?

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and it depends on what was sown; some modern plant/crop cultivars need the pesticide to manage the weed competetion and to use the fertilizer inputs.

@florenceannroberts1066

Жыл бұрын

It can’t be done in a day (or a season). Sri Lanka tried to do away with fertilizers before the soil had been adequately built back to health.

Clearly some good ideas but whatever is to done needs to be in consulation and the approval of farmers unlike what's happening in Holland.

That spinning factory soil is very likely contaminated

@angeladoll9785

Жыл бұрын

Probably why they tested it

@linmal2242

Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, if all the factory did was yarn. Dyeing might have happened there and there would be records and evidence which could be remediated. Straightforward, and adaptive re-use of the building and plant will be a great advantage.

22:30 see, cattle and grazing animals are good for the soil! because of the microbes in thier manure. just don't overgraze, and re-plant good fodder.

Heal the world 🗺️ make it a better place for you & for me, and the entire human race. #Michealjackson

Its Monsanto you want to be pointing your fingers at! Wakey wakey people!

That's why sadguru says , save soil.