Read more …Digging Into Climate-Friendly Farming In “Roots So Deep”
Read more …Interview - Peter Byck re: Roots So Deep
In this podcast, ffinlo Costain talks to Carbon Cowboys producer and director, Peter Byck. Carbon Cowboys is series of 10 films about regenerative agriculture and adaptive multi-paddock grazing. They demonstrate the enormous potential of this model of land use and introduce us to some remarkable stories. Peter Byck is a film-maker and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, where he's leading a multi-million dollar research project focused on regenerative grazing, soil health & soil carbon storage.
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Allen Williams, Rancher in Mississippi and Alabama, Joyce Farms and BDA Farm. Photo courtesy of carbon cowboys
A new documentary series looks at the way farmers in multiple locations are turning to managed grazing for their cows for a host of reasons, including capturing more carbon and retaining more water in the soil. We talk to the filmmaker behind the series, as well as a Wisconsin farmer who runs an organization training apprentices on this type of work.
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The latest Episode of our Road to Rural Prosperity takes us A Little South of the Red River where we find KC Sheperd talking with Deborah Clark, a rancher from North Texas, who tells her “On average, we’re producing between a 100 and 120 pounds of beef per acre. Our neighbors’, and the county average is somewhere between 40 and 50. That’s a telling number.”
Deborah explains the way that she and her husband Emry Birdwell operate their 14,000 acre ranch- they will move their herd multiple times a day to allow them to eat the very best grass and to allow that grass to not be overgrazed.
Deborah and Emry have been featured in a documentary series called the Carbon Cowboys, A new documentary series of short films about ground-breaking farmers who have invented a new way to graze their animals.
— source article: oklahoma farm report (Episode 37)