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Congrats Mitch! This is a very clever film and I love the storyline and special effects.

This is a cool video. Way to go Shana. Keep up the good work Make-A-Wish Foundation.

This is Shana, thank you for posting this video! I had a blast working on it!

Very awesome job Mitch. This movie is great i enjoyed every minute of it.

Great movie, Mitch! Hey! I was born in Boise ;)

Brilliant film man. good work.

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Actually Shaggy, the same basic fundamentals operate identically in all plant ecosystems and under any area of practice. If we are talking home vegetable type of gardening, then the simply cultivation and care will be fine. Many vegetables are not mycorrhizal anyway, so application of good mulches and /or manure is all you need anyway. However large urban landscapes will be maintained almost identically to large farms. No synthetic chemical inputs will ever be required or needed if you cultivate and care for the mycorrhizal fungi.

+Kevin Franck would I be in a better place coming from small hand gardening? Nothing I see in 'big ag' makes any sense to me

+jbfeelings This is not the right conclusion, jb. Remember Gabe is talking about 15" average annual precip country. That's a whole different critter than 40-50 inches a year. Same concepts apply but there are some left hooks that are going to hit ya. NUmber one is actually revealed in one of Gabe's slides. It's a radish with a 90 degree turn to the left at three inches under the surface of the field. I was delighted to see it because it reveals a universal truth that applies to gabe's ground as much as it does to the gut in the deep south with 60 inches of rainfall. Read Genesis 8:21. Then visit with us at www.soilcurebuster.com.

+thinkertank1 Do it! I would suggest taking a Permaculture Design course first to avoid costly mistakes and create and optimized system that is way less work, less water, less pests and diseases and much higher nutrient density and yield. Also look into Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work which Permaculture uses. It will make your experience much more rewarding and much less work. Feed the soil and the plants will take care of themselves. She's got tons of videos on YT and a free soil food web course you can take. Cheers!

+Charles Sublette I suspect there is a way to incorporate no till with multi species cover crop cocktails into your operation, and get the benefits to soil health seen by Gabe, especially if you raise cattle too.. I am in Oklahoma, and I am seeing the benefits. However my operation is quite a bit different than Gabes, and your's is probably quite a bit different than both ours. So whether it is feasible for you financially or not is something only you can determine. I wouldn't just do it without consulting USDA NRCS though. And not even all those guys are up to speed on this variation of no till compared to conventional no till. Ray Archuleta might be able to help though.

+Red Baron Farm Unfortunately, 99.9% of these comments thus far appear to come from the environmental religious dogma of Permaculturalists and I doubt none of them have their entire financial livelihood dependent upon their farm's yields. Environment, climate, and soil profile is everything. The Midwest corn and soybean belt has been using green cover crops and purely no-till agriculture for quite a while and they still have to use knockdown herbicides once every couple years, sometimes once to twice a year, which now they are being told to actually start plowing their fields so that they can actually control their weed problems before they start causing serious problems for their neighboring states.If folk were to look at a map with the most herbicide resistant weed problems, then you will find that the States that religiously practice no-till agriculture dominate the area with herbicide resistant weed problems. My texas panhandle farm is conventional tillage, occasional strip tillage, "evil gmo", and THIS year (even though it was extraordinarily wet) I did not have to use fungicides, herbicides, nor pesticides not once on my corn silage fields. This year I only had to spray my small 5 acre grass corners for grasshoppers, before they became an infestation into the field, and that was it. This was possible due to proper tillage managment, GMOs, proper weed management on the land, and never allowing previous year pesticide problems go unresolved.I could relate with much of what I heard Gabe say, but the remainder I just shook my head at due personal experience telling me how false it is, unless this is where North Dakota and Texas Panhandle differs, and, at $1,500 per day for a consultation, my agronomists/entomologists would love to be getting paid so much.Don't forget folks... In order to build organic material, you need moisture... even with significant crop residue, a field can get quite dry, killing your organic material bugs, if that field does not get rain in timely intervals...The counties North Plains Groundwater Conservation District has been working for quite some time, in lieu with other farmers here, to improve practices with no-tillage and strip tillage, precision agriculture practices, and when affordable applying organic materials. Still, as far as I have seen, there has been no significantly convincing data created from these large test plots to suggest I should spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to retool my operations.Just another tumbleweed's 2 cents...

+JD DiMeglio That's close JD. However I have spoken to Gabe personally on the phone now for several years. His livestock he raises beyond organic, but his corn he sometimes uses a small amount of herbicide 1 time every 3 years. He told me he is working hard to reduce that to zero, but not quite there yet. Gabe is the perfect example of a guy who uses organic methods for their benefits, but doesn't view organic as some kind of religious dogma. He is a real down to earth guy that is trying only to be the best farmer he can be, and as it turns out in most cases that means organic, but he won't limit his tools due to some activist's notions who never rode a tractor in their life.

+Paul Kenyon You must not have listened to this talk, because he clearly states that he doesn't use chemikills at all. He's Beyond Organic, meaning that the USDA "standards" are bogus crap and he goes beyond their lame definition of organic. Look up Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work, I believe he uses her techniques too. Soil not Oil, JD

+Paul Brown Agri business and corporate managed farming can, has, and will continue to destroy our production of nutritious food until people learn how important this really is! Bravo to Gabe for getting the word out!

+Susan Whalen Spot on Susan. We have a great network of friends around the world that are using the same or similar management techniques. As a former student of a land-grant university in our sate, I let them know that I did not agree with what they taught when I went to college there. Everything they taught put money in the hands of agribusiness, not the farmer.

+Francis Roy May I suggest coursera.org or one of the other free online learning resources.

+Francis Roy You're not alone for sure. I'm a soil/ag geek too and the learning curve is EPIC! If you haven't already, I'd suggest taking a Permaculture Design course. All the techniques Gabe uses are embraced by permaculture and it will help you find a holistic way to deal with any problem and give you a framework to work from. One of the principles of PC is "The Problem Is The Solution" which turns problems to advantages. Also look into Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web work which Gabe uses. She has a free mini course on her soilfoodweb.com site and tons of great videos on YT. Geofflawton.com is another great resource. His online permaculture course is amazing. Once you understand this stuff, you can partner with Nature instead of fighting her. She makes a great ally but a terrible foe. Winter is your friend if you can use it to your advantage!

+John c Hey John, I live in AZ so I'm familiar with hot, dry climates. In the desert, it's usually the heat that kills crops off instead of the cold, although we do get 1-3 hard frosts a year (28F or there about). A living root is always better for the biota as it feeds them and keeps the population growing. Every climate has different needs, and warm climates have an advantage there, as well as usually having very productive soil, lots of minerals and a longer growing season. Anything can be an advantage if used as such. "The problem is the solution" in Permaculture parlance. If you're in a tropical situation with lots of rain, and leaching, you just need to keep the carbon/nutrient cycling going by adding lots of organic matter through heavy mulching. Tropical carbon and nutrient cycles are constant and fast, so frequent replenishment is needed to build the soil. You really can't have too much mulch in a warm/hot climate. Look up Elaine Ingham's soil food web work on soil building, she's the best in the biz.

+John c From what I've read, living root is always better when possible to sustain the mycorrhizal fungi. I look forward to Gabe or Paul addressing this better for warmer climes. Clearly, there needs to be die off at some point as well but the root system seem essential to the fungi element.