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Brad Goes Ranching in Texas | It's Alive: Goin' Places | Bon Appétit

May 30, 2021
Hey guys, today we are here in central Texas, in the mountain region. Hey guys, today we're here in central Texas, in the hill country, and we're partnering with the folks at Rome Ranch. We are talking about regeneration. unmanaged land maintenance regenerative land management earth man regenerative earth we're

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g to focus on the regenerative earth man you know these guys have that you want me to dig into hunger to introduce them to how now we'll keep that for him what? d I mean, say it again regenerative rejected, that's really it, we're

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g to focus on regenerative land management, regenerate it, what's the fun regenerative, regenerative, regenerative, today I'm going to focus on regenerative pajetta.
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Jesus Christ, today we're going to focus on Regenerative Land Management, you know, no, we don't need to talk about that, so I'm just going to stay here. Taylor, founder of Rome Ranch, and Taylor, can you tell me a little bit about what exactly regenerative land management is? Regenerative agriculture is a decision. decision-making framework where we intentionally make ownership decisions to create a net positive return on the ecosystems and the tools that we're using, which are actually what you see here, is our livestock, so we manage our livestock from a way that is replicated. natural ecosystems and allows these animals to express their behaviors that create that net positive return, so basically, you know, you try to imitate how nature would normally work, which is a pretty well-balanced and perfect system when left to its own devices, exactly what this land had.
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It has been farmed in a very conventional way, so when we acquired this property it was very degraded, we barely had biological diversity because industrialization, especially of a livestock network, is not sustainable. No, yes, recently the FAO, which is the Food and Agriculture Organization, issued a statement. that we only had about sixty crops left before extracting the soil, the resources necessary to produce food in this and on the planet, yes, so let's go back, let's build health, let's build wealth in our soil, in our ecology. I love these bison, let's get to work. There is something, what is the first step of the work here today?
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It's really important that we keep these bison moving, so we're going to move them out of this pasture, we're actually going to move them to a new pasture that's never been grazed by them and so they're going to be very excited to move in today, so when they go to a new land they will get something new, you know, like you said, the new grasses and natural foods, and they will get quite angry about it, uh, yeah, it's amazing, this is this. It's a food desert that they're in right now and we need them here, we need them to impact this ecosystem, but they're ready to go and where they're going, there's actually a lot more food, okay, get me to work together, great. this myth, yes, we are getting ready to start moving the bison.
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I'm going to get on the mule. I have a couple bags of alfalfa pellets and we're going to tease them a little bit and the idea behind this is for them to follow along. I start the mule Oh, give me a second, I could throw a bag, well, we have half, we have a good chunk, but a couple of them, as you can see there, Benny got scared, so we have to go. It's just a day in the life of a rancher here, it's not sweet, they smell delicious. I could see why they would want them and it's great because alfalfa is something they would normally eat.
You know, they're feeding the bison. The bison would do it and want to. eat healthy food make healthy bison make people happy good appetite makes my little one nervous big animals I have to say they give off a kind of calming energy and I discovered that treating is not that I do it a lot but treating animals is if you give that back to them energy, they kind of feel it, you know, yeah, one behind you, a loner, get in there, let's go for Vince's hand feeding, that's there, oh, that's daddy, I like that one, yeah, come on , daddy, daddy, hey, daddy, hungry. girl, yeah, big wet nose, come on, daddy daddy, okay, successful, we were talking a little bit about this before these alfalfa pellets, how you guys wouldn't want to use them like a grain or corn or something, these are ruminant animals, So we're biologically designed to digest grass grain, it makes them sick, it kills their gut biome, so we're very strict about what we supplement to these animals.
It's the dormant season, so our grass has stopped growing here and we give them alfalfa treats to help stimulate. Turn up that protein and that smell. I almost like some of this. It's a kind of sweetness. I mean, it smells good. Yes, our two year old daughter, Scout, eats them. It's quite rare. Oh yes, there you have it. It's not bad at all. Cup. of coffee, it's actually pretty good, yeah man, yeah, one of the reasons antibiotics are so widespread in livestock is because we feed animals diets that they are not designed to consume, so they get sick .
We're trying to replicate that biology that thrives in your intestines. They are designed to eat exactly and then in return we don't have to do anything, they are healthy animals, we don't have to treat them with any kind of external medicine, it's okay, it seems like a win-win situation. He's not a smart man, but that seems obvious, those are the reasons why the people who are doing it, you know, feed themselves grains and corn, it's just for profits and desirable markets, you know that when you feed their animals with corn, they gain weight very quickly. We decided not to do it, it takes us about another year to have these animals ready for harvest, but the quality of the meat and the health benefits are far superior. gut health and how it is linked to everything, why wouldn't it be linked to all other creatures?
Yes, it's vitally important, we want the bacteria in the gut to settle into the soil to feed the bacteria in the soil, so the bison are just being nice. They helped build an ecosystem, yeah, when you let them be bison, whatever, what are bison supposed to eat, they regenerate the land through that beautiful rumen, it's great, now we have them here, what's the next step ? Yeah, so this area that they entered is called grassland, so it hasn't been industrially farmed, so we have a lot more grass here than what you just saw. We'll let them be bison for the next two or three days before they have to move again.
How do they ask how often I am? Of course it depends on the plot of land, but how often do you move here? We have a trailer, it's me. I want to talk about what I want to talk about before I suck with Taylor. I guess we don't need to do it now, but there are like 30 different minerals that have that and they have to reintroduce them to the animals because the lands have been so depleted that the vegetation, the grass used to have all these minerals and now they don't understand that Cool, I guess that we just take what's in the bag and put it in the appropriate container here, yes, exactly, yes, well, I have the option of the old FC e3 Enterprise, which is the rebrand.
I got a CH, yeah, oh wait, oh H BAM, cool, you know? Well they just called potassium P because I'm phosphorus, I stole it, oh yeah, give like salt and vinegar, chips like salt, salt, vinegar, chips, what's next dad, let's dig right into the ground, you'll dig deep the ground, Rob, him? joining us now they took us to a field what kind of land what kind of field are we looking at now here this is definitely symptomatic of a really degraded soil system so what you would love to see is like a rich chocolate cake yeah you can put it in your hands and smell it and it has that earthy, toasty smell and what that means is there's a ton of organic matter and here we are at most no, it's been managed conventionally for so long that the organic matter in the soil We had it tested and it has less than half a percent organic matter and should be more than 7%.
Wow, and I mean, the roots of these grasses only go, you know, a couple of inches, melody, yeah, we're on the southern edge of the tallgrass prairies and those roots used to go down 15 to 20 feet and push the energy from the Sun and create this rich, thriving ecosystem beneath the ground, as Taylor had mentioned before. You know, we only have a little time left to reverse some. Of the damage we've done, right, man, well that's pretty scary, yeah, you should, you should smell that like no, it doesn't even have a smell, this should be decaying organic matter, it's really exercise, this is just Sam, the saddest.
What I've seen all day is part of the problem when, like when you till the soil, is those discs that not everyone thinks is like loosening the soil, but it's actually compacting the soil down below, so you may have dirt loose. by 10 inches and then below that you have a firm compact layer and the roots can't get through that either, yeah they leave in C the roots come down and hit it and go sideways well geez why do people Did you think it was a good idea? humans love monoculture, you love to see rows, we love to see everything as perfect, square and clean, with only one color and one thing, and nature hates a monoculture, yes, I mean, there is a lot of things we've done with the best of intentions, but then you 50 years later I realize we have to reconsider stupid humans, look at this thing, it's like a foot taller than everything around it, right, that's it because it's the only place where you can't, you can't tell where there's a tree, oh wow, look at that.
Hey, look at the color of the grass and how thick everything is, see that green footprint that we're standing on, that's literally because that's where the chicken coop was before this and Schuyler Robbie spoke, so what we have there are some chickens and us. "Setting that thing up and moving it every other day is the same thing we were talking about with the Bison to allow those birds to play their role on the land, so what they're doing here is 'We're scratching by breaking up that compacted surface layer that we talked about, which allows both seats to come in but allows the needs to come out and go through that layer.
The other thing they're doing is dropping a ton of nitrogen. Well, then you can go out and buy chemical nitrogen and fertilized fields, but naturally, as you see it done, or you can find ways to achieve that fertility through the use of animals and the impact of animals on a biodiversity situation like we have . The imprint of a few days of chickens that were here doing natural chicken things brought this area back to life as quickly as you said, maybe we can dig up some dirt and check it out, but it sure looks a lot darker and more chocolatey.
You're in the light, so look, my God, from above you can see it, I mean, it's already starting to look like it's there, yeah. Wow, completely different speed, a little more of that kind of musk, yeah, I was like. Yes, how long does it take Mother Nature to make one inch of healthy topsoil? So science says it takes between 500 and a thousand years to create one inch of healthy upper right surface, which is how disturbing it is to look at. and see where 5 to 10 inches per foot of topsoil is lost in 50 to 100 years of conventional farming in a handful of really tastes great healthy soil, how much life do you think is there, so in 1 tablespoon of healthy soil soil there is more organic life than people on the planet today and in history all times added up in the existence of humans yes, in one, all of humanity, a spoonful, you said yes, I can't understand that, yes, It has to be healthy soil although it has to be really good soil, this little place here has a long way to go, not as long as the population of San Diego, yeah, keep mentioning carbon, carbon, carbon, you want the key, tell me a little. about that or you can - Savage, we were talking about this right, we were talking about the difference in color, well, color is organic matter and organic matter is about 50% carbon, so as we go in and bring these animals in We are actually extracting carbon from the atmosphere and using it to promote fertility in the earth.
That's the beautiful thing about the bison we were also seeing earlier. You know, those bites. It is the largest herd of land-based ruminant mammals. since the last ice age and all the fertility, all the nutrition that we've all grown and benefited from, whether we eat plants or animals, comes from the fertility that the bison put in the soil for us, so who are kind of the soil engineers, they are the original engineers, the original soil builders in North America. Wow boy we really blew it uh tell him man thanks again this was honestly one of the best things I've done in a long time and the message behind it and then the vision that you guys are making is not only fascinating but it's super important and thanks again incredible man, thanks to you and a team man and dad.
I'll come back and do a little deer hunting any minute oh thanks I'm sure it's okay guys I had a great timeWell today, not only was it fun to go out and work on the ranch, what I really took away was the educational factor of it, you know? how much it was all intertwined in symbiotic relationships and how these guys are really revitalizing the earth, nature built the perfect system and all we have to do is really help, that it matters where you get your food and it's bigger than what you get . You're just eating, what's more, you know, it's the health of the world and the planet, so get out there guys and you know, get involved, go meet some farmers and you know, make a difference.
I want to thank the tailor and everyone at the Roma ranch for showing me their world and their bone Appetit, you can cut that right now, oh, there's my burnt cow, there's my puppies, easy killers, easy girls, look, yeah, it's remarkable in the summer see the role that those chickens that scratch and peck can have, and what is also interesting is you, what are the slaughter? What is a savage massacre? sad yes. Alf massacre alien life forms take it easier, right? hey lady

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