Fighting the growing deserts, with livestock: Allan Savory at TED2013 (*STUNNING RESULTS*)

[BrotherIvan]

6. I have heard that from organic farmers in Northern California

Can you tell us more about the farm where you get your eggs and milk from? (I'm not sure if you can read envy through the internet, but what I wouldn't give to easy access to great milk and eggs from a healthy farm.)

I met a farmer when I lived in NoCal who had built rolling chicken coops and a system for allowing his sheep and cows to graze in his fields. The chickens ate the bugs so no need for pesticides and the sheep and cows provided the manure and helped to work alfalfa grown in fallow fields to enrich the soil. It was basically self-sustaining except for water and seed. He was working with other small farmers to enact the same practices.

And that is why I am not an advocate of monocrop farming. Animal husbandry is part of farming and cannot be taken out of it without adding in loads of fertilizers, pesticides and petrochemicals.

I look forward to watching this video. Thanks for sharing.