The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
In part 2 of this multipart series, regenerative ranching expert, Jim Elizondo begins by describing more of the great benefits of non-selective grazing. This includes the whole environment of wildlife, microbes, insects, and people. He offers expertise in how this can be done with fewer inputs and winter grazing with stockpiled crops while maintaining the…
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Glean insights to…
Award winning entomologist, Dr. Richard McDonald, together with Pat Battle will focus on how to incorporate beneficial biological introductions and match them with preventive measures as our first line of defense against insect and disease pressure. Farmscaping, multi-species cover crops, minimal soil disturbance, and proper mineral availability are some of the many ways growers create…
Luke Cannon of Astounding Earth (astoundingearth.com) for a day of birding and bird language. Participants will learn from an expert how to identify birds by sight, song and habitat and begin to understand the fascinating secrets of bird life and bird communities. Enrich your experience of the natural world surrounding your garden/farm. Start to make…
Keeping our plants healthy means engaging living biological agents that might not occur naturally on our landscapes. We need to cultivate and sometimes, buy this biology. How do we know the best sources of these living inputs? What parameters are ideal in order to insure this beneficial biology thrives and has the impact we desire? What other…
Gabe Brown of Brown’s Ranch in Bismarck, ND, shares his transformative journey of cultivating his farm from modern conventional use to a thriving living ecosystem. Through no-till and extensive cover crop usage, Gabe and his family are able to support a diverse array of farm and ranching enterprises that are both profitable and models of…
See the abundance of insect activity on the extrafloral nectaries growing on cover crops. Extrafloral nectaries are nectar-secreting glands not involved in pollination produced in at least 66 plant families. The “EFNs” grow on their leaves, shoots, or in the case of cowpeas, at the juncture of the pod and the stem. The sugar and…
