Happy Pear using no-dig farming: The Future of Food Production?

What if I told you most of the veggies you buy from the store and eat, contains… nothing?

Chemically fertilised soil provides very little nutrition, but they look good. And that's the kind of system we live in today.

But there is an easier, more efficient and environmentally friendly way to grow food. So why wouldn't we do that a larger scale?

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The problem with today's food system is that it's all about money. Extract the most out of the earth for as little as possible. And when it doesn't work anymore, we put more fertilizer in the soil which is like beating a broken horse to get it up a hill.

But the money isn't everything. It's also very deeply rooted in how we have done things since farming got industrialized.

However, I don't think conventional farmers are evil Mr Burns characters trying to destroy the planet. But they are paid less and less for their yield and need to increase it to make things go around. Monocropping and soil destruction becomes secondary when you need to make income for your family. And big systems like that are hard to change.

This place is all about rengenerative farming, growing vegetables organically, no tractors plowing, no tilling. And why would you do this?

When you are like me, bound to get your veggies from the nearest grocery store, it's easy to believe that a certain product only tastes in one way. A carrot is a carrot is a carrot basically.

This could not be further from the truth though.

When we were at this farm, we could pick anything from the growing beds and eat it. I remember trying this spring onion. Just breaking off a bit at the top and putting it in my mouth. And the flavours were just insane.

I never thought a spring onion could be that delicious.

But there is much more to regenerative farming than this. And we only did one short visit here. But I'm convinced that this is the way forward. Growing things locally that are nutrious, taste good and helps keeping the biodiversity intact.

With less work for more yield.

It should be enough incentive to change those big systems controlling most of the food production today.

I want to make a full documentary on this topic. Do you have any tips for me on who to talk to? Some local hero somewhere on this planet that does this or advocates for it? Or if you're a filmmaker and want to collaborate on a project like this?

Hit me up!

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[seanlord]

Great video, I second Charles Dowding as someone to look up, he has been doing no dig for over 25 years. Richard Perkins is also someone worth checking out (he farms in Sweden). I work on a regenerative farm employing these methods. It is the best way to grow nutritionally dense food and look after the environment but there are many vested interests that would lose out if these methods became prevalent. So it is not in the interest of big agriculture to promote these techniques. Big changes are needed, it is of course complex, but we have to start somewhere! Film makers like yourself shining a light on this topic is definitely a positive step!

[thehappypear]

Stunning! Thank you Robin - this is beautiful - your voice is very soothing and calming too! Thank you for your support on this very important movement to regenerating our food system to better support planetary and human health 🙏💚

[DEADLINETV]

We use a lot of cardboard in our garden too, for the same reasons, on a smaller scale. It's good stuff. Great little short here. A full docu would be welcome. I live in Ireland too and was visiting the Waterford distillery who also have an organic whisky, meaning that the land where the barley grows is untreated. And the rep I was talking to told me the difference in bio-diversity between those field or sprayed fields was unbelievable. So yeah, Ireland is doing it's best, but like yer man said, it's unconventional and makes it odd. Where it actually is not.Thanks for making this!

[michaelmcclafferty]

I also recommend that you contact Bruce Darrel who runs the RED Gardens project in Cloughjordan, Ireland.
He has his own YT channel. Thanks for this video.

[fratusd]

We have actually met Steve and Dave in real life multiple times now we've hung out.. and we actually went to Ireland just because they inspired me so much and they're just such amazing humans

[loganyates]

Nicole masters had a book called for the love of soil which is amazing an is an awesome person to talk to !

[JennyReeves-pc]

Charles dowding is the man to talk to!

[johandelange]

Richard Perkins, he is now farming for 10 yaers in Zweden. Greate farm