Conservation Agronomist, Ray Archuleta with the National Resources Conservation Service joins David Brandt of Walnut Creek Seeds for a workshop on soil and the use of diverse cover crops to build life and fertility in the soil. Produce abundant yields while implementing the best organic and sustainable methods of establishing and maintaining maximum biology. Build aggregates that make up the best soils and see it grow your best crops year after year.
VIDEO: Soil & Diverse Cover Crops with Ray Archuleta & David Brandt Part 1
Conservation Agronomist, Ray Archuleta with the National Resources Conservation Service joins David Brandt of Walnut Creek Seeds for a workshop on soil and the use of diverse cover crops to build life and fertility in the soil. Produce abundant yields while implementing the best organic and sustainable methods of establishing and maintaining maximum biology. Build aggregates that make up the best soils and see it grow your best crops year after year.
Thank you very much for the information in this great video. I understand soil and it's care much differently now.
Im always a little puzzled in the dig vs no dig discussion. We are taught that digging disturbs the soil and burns out the organic matter. And at the same time we have biointensive gardeners who not just dig but double-dig their beds and get a increase in organic matter content.
Great video! – Really learning a lot from you, Elaine Ingham and Mr Lowenstein about soil microbiology! — When is Part 2 going up on YouTube? – Thanks
Thanks for these videos. Good audio quality, well shot, etc. Ray gets better with each passing year!
Hi there i have a question if thats ok . we recently purchased a property and before finding out about no till decided to till it over (i know dumb huh :/ ) we only tilled the once but this has unleashed dormant bindweed seeds that were hiding away .
see this is where it gets tricky our soil type is sand (not the sandy loam) just sand with temperatures as low as -22 f in winter and as high as 85 Fahrenheit in summer with the last frost around May 15th and very little rainfall . This is going to make you scratch your head 😀 we basically need a cover crop mix that is winter hardy,drought resistant & sand loving (mission impossible) . buckwheat and sorghum is the go to here for sandy soil but the minute there is a frost its bye bye or it just shrivels up due to summer heat. this land was extensively tilled for many years and is now just covered in moss . any help would be much appreciated. thank you Gabby
Awesome! Love how the no till soil is left in the beaker the whole talk, and it still is a perfect clump. Such a great way to make a point! Thanks for the videos.
For people who already like the idea and are familiar with the biology side of it already, skip to 7 minutes for the empirical visual demonstration.
Question if you pick the beans do you still the nitrogen
I've watched this twice and will certainly watch it again and again. This is a VERY important soil video. I'm so grateful that you have shared this with the world.
Most organic matter is in the top 2 inches. At 14:10 For every 1% organic matter, I can hold 17,000 to 21,000 gallons more of water per acre. Plants leak 80% of their carbon but weeds only leak 20%. In terms of size of particles the largest is sand then silt and then clay.
is there some one to tell me how to seed vetch without disturbing the ground?
You till you kill
I love pat
He's in every video he almost have knowledge of every thing
What if one wanted to re plant 10 ac of walnuts with something else (35+ yo) on black walnut rootstock? As an individual who practices no till I’m kind of at a loss of to pull and rip or pull and leave the roots in to break down? I know they release toxins and of course there are (bad) nematodes. Crop hasn’t been harvested in 3 or 4 years.
If I was local to Living Web Farms, I would LIVE at their facility. I have learned soooo much from their content, and I get incredibly inspired by it to make my little parcel on this earth a better, more alive place.
How do you deal with things like ruts and footprints that make the field rough and uneven without some tillage????
How do you call those bacterias that eats up the carbon complexs in contact with air after tillage? i cant get the right word be hearing
Excellent! Clear and didactic explanations! Congrats!