- I believe what we are doing
and what the regenerative moment is doing
is absolutely sustainable.
I also believe that it's the solution,
a big part of the solution to carbon sequestering
and turning around this greenhouse gas problem
and we have in our world.
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It's the industrial revolution
that we've been on here in the last century
that has taken us down a path that is probably
absolutely not sustainable.
And so this is just simply us as farmers,
you know, owners of land, implementing some common sense
that says we wanna be part of the solution,
we wanna be part of discovering
what's wrong with the current system and moving forward
and then helping to change policy ultimately
and of course change farmers' minds.
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- We're mimicking nature, the way nature should be.
Just like our own bodies,
our gut is the start of our whole health system
and the whole health system of a plant is that soil.
It needs to be alive and well.
We wanna do everything to that soil
that feeds that microbiology, that feeds that microbiome,
and all the bacteria living down there,
they all have purpose and they all need to be really alive
and well to have a live, nutrient dense plant
for our cows to eat in the pasture.
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We compost, of course, all of our manures solids
that happen in the barn during the rainy season
and when the cows go in the barn to milk
and we also add to that
the bedding that our animals sleep on,
and in our region in happens to be shavings
that we get from the lumber mills,
and then we get all the fish waste
from three different counties
because we're right on the coast.
And so together, with whatever else happens on the farm
that needs to be composted,
whether it's the silage that didn't meet quality
or something like that, we compost that
and we turn it and temperature it and turn it
and it's this just beautiful gold, dark stuff
that we then put on certain properties
that we identify that need help.
And we know that that is miraculous
and the value of compost we very much honor.
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- We have a lot of friends that are conventional farmers
and dairy farmers across the country
and we're not here to really throw darts at them,
we're really trying to show them
that there's more to the story
because we were once them.
You know, I mentioned my grandfather
and my great-grandfather, they've been doing this forever
and this biological farming isn't new and improved,
it is simply honoring the system
that we've been given for thousands of years
and understanding it more clearly.
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You know, we're talking about going to the farm
instead of the pharmacy.
- Exactly.
- And getting the nutrition here
and having kind of an insurance policy in your body
that says that you can handle a virus when it comes along,
you can handle whatever comes along
and ultimately the dollars spent at the doctor
are gonna be less.
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