On my small property, purchased only 4 years ago, the previous owner scraped the surface bare every year for weed control. The weeds he sought to eliminate only inhabit severely damaged and destroyed soils. He was only cyclicly perpetuating his own problems! I have my work cut out for me!

Good to see simple solutions in saving our planet and our children’s future.

What if they also cultivate mycelium beneath the soil as well in order to further potentiate the carbon control? Mycelium feeds on carbon and in turn releases phosphorus and nitrogen into the soil. I hope someone sees this because it’s a profound realization I’ve had.

Is anyone really surprised by this? That’s what compost is for. Good animal husbandry 101 move your heard around to replenish fields. This has been done for centuries. Hasn’t it?

Thanks for sharing. Excellent information!

Still need to cover the open dirt with a cover crop or mulch stacked 4"deep at least. Never leave soil open. #SaveSoil

Have you people never heard of Holiistic Management by Alan Savory?

impressive - exactly what my Grandfather used to teach me ...during ww2 traditional Organic farming work for us since the 15 the Century

great video, but his grazing technique was developed by Allan Savory and utilized by joel salatin for decades, also gabe brown, greg judy and hundreds or thousands of other regenerative farmers/ranchers have been using these techniques for 10 plus years, his video seems kind of myopic considering the huge number of regenerative farmers and academics like Elaine Ingham who have been carrying this torch for many years. Good to see it picking up momentum though.

Cover crops are also very important!!!

Wow, fertilizing the grass with compost actually made them healthier. This is a brilliant discovery! Ugh.

"Stumbled upon a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere" Revolutionary solution: *literally just photosynthesis*

Love the American Gothic pose with the weed-whacker. John Wick you have moved the needle so far on this critical issue. Thank you!

Omg John Wick, 👍😁. Awesome name.

This is old old farming news, twenty plus years ago.

John Wick what an awesome name lol.

Brilliant!

Joel Salatin

His name is John Wick! You just don´t mess with John Wick, even if you´re CO2.

His name? "John Wick"... enough said

Pretty sure John wasn't first to the party. Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin, Ray Archuleta and many others have been preaching this gospel for many years.

So John wick is a farmer now.

Bison used to do this across the praries.

i knew that in primary school about 22 years ago

So this must be the guy that Allan Savory learned this from 30 years ago.

So what do you do with the crown manure if it is not being spread on the ground? And where do you get the vegetation to make so much compost?

Alan Savory, Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin, and many others.

What kind of compost?

Diaplikasikan ke lahan padi Apa bisa

Yes more people need to see this

Just dont kill his cow.. John Wick will be pissed off

We need to bring land under vegetation and shade. Plant litter will increase soul organic matter. #savesoil Increase organic content in soil to a minimum of 3-6%

It's may 6th, 2019 & this vid has 8,140,932 views on facebook, but only 3,130 on youtube.

Wow, to think that this is new information to people, farmers have practiced this for thousands of years. The problem is that we have an economic system that demands monoculture factory farming to feed cities with no people on the land to do all of work required for mixed farming.

Well, if you don't produce your compost in a very controlled way you will produce of lot of methane. And methane is a 25 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So I am really wondering if the overall balance is favorable...

What did compost made of ,not specified

In my village people are doing that for all there life.

does anything explain why this works?

👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

Goes in the direction of what Allen Savory found out...

I just take care of the 5 or so acres around the house . I never cut the grass until it goes to seed , never rake it up. It just stays green and thick . I have some low areas that I have filled in , Who can afford to buy expensive top soil and large amounts of grass seed , Seed what you can , never cut the grass until you know it's going to rain . Healthy grass will crowd out a lot of weeds .

New ranch owner with breakthrough discovery. 🙃

This is nothing new. I'll even say that manure is only producing methane if mixed with urine. Cows on pasture or bedding systems that separate urine from manure don't produce that much methane. You have to understand that producing that compost will produce methane as it breaks down anyway. Regenerative rotational grazing is the real solution. Check Greg Judy's channel.

The weeds were sucking more co2 than the grass ever will....

To anyone interested...Future cannabis project on KZfaq every Thursday,they talk all soil,microbiology,organic and regenerative.

The problems of California and the East Coast are not the same problems of arid windy plains. Permaculture generalizes. Animals are part of the food chain. Where does compost come from, .....animals and dead plants. Both are useful.

Did carbon kill his dog? So he's back for revenge

Well duh! We've known this for 5000 years. But it's a lot more effective in sequestering carbon if you inoculate biochar with the compost. It will be in the soil for thousands of years instead of turning into CO2 and escaping within a couple decades. Mycelium grows in biochar and turns hardpan subsoil into fertile soil, and it holds nutrients and water.

From the research labs of Captain Obvious!

How about the climate mitigation of trees compared to grass? Planting trees instead of gras combined methane-burping and and farting cows?

"The land repaired itself"... weeds are plants too.

this has been done since hunderds of years in india

what ist John's farm producing?

I want to learn more. What do you recommend? How can I be of service?

At first I thought this was propaganda. However, when he started with "So the first order of business was to get rid of the cows." I realized it was just the continuation of the story...after leaving New York...like I'm going to believe he 'moved from San Francisco,' I saw the movies...

Are we going to pretend we having been using compost for a century?

His name is John Wick? XD

This cracks me up because I'll I think is ,no shit, what have people been doing for all this time.

I only wonder about what if I'd like to grow crops on that land, would the carbon harm the quality of the food being grown?

Is there something wrong with the Climate?

But what about the methane produced by cows??

Where does the compost come from? If you are taking nutrients away from another habitat are you really changing anything? Plus if we spent less on wind turbines we would have more money for ecological restoration.

Jesus did they all stop learning after 5th grade?! This is mostly basic knowledge presented as some kind of new revelation

If you plant bog vegetation your soil will retain more water and carbon.

A major climate breakthrough would be stop cutting down trees and planting them instead.

I agree with everyone else, this is old news and proven for like... EVER. SIGH.

You could double the level of CO2 tomorrow and we wouldn't notice it. Well, except for the world getting greener.

Elon musk is giving away 100 million for ideas to reduce it

This isn't his idea. People, communities and races have been doing this for years, generations and centuries. I fully support the theory though.

Come on. Please explain to me: You discovered now to spread compost on the soil. Great! A practice common in Europe's "biological farming" since 50 years. And now?

Old news

It’s amazing how no one understands the basic principle that removing/reducing cattle caused improvement. This video is showing you what can be accomplished when grazing is reduced, not what grazing provides. Remove all the cattle

Tell bill gates

this is just another savory method suggesting that grazing is good and we must continue to support meat and dairy. there is no comparison of net carbon and methane emissions between grazed pasture and ungrazed pasture . i guess the biggest discovery here is that if you add compost to plants, they grow better.

This is only a surprise to overly "educated" Californian's. This is basic knowledge to anyone in the ag. business

Live VEGAN.

This is ancient knowledge. Really not a breakthrough at all

Do you know how much the cost would be to spread compose on the land? Most farmers are barely making ends meet. If you get the government involved your selling your soul to the devil. Just don't overgraze the land.

Are you here for joke ?

None of this is new.

Plastic needs to go back into the ground we're it came from to

um no. lies

How stupid is this breakthrough, it the basic principle, and did you know that normal grass from normal farms with manure store more co2 in the ground within a year as a forest in a city in europe does, the green house gass that farms produce is made from natural resources and isn't dig up so just stop blaming everything on farmers, when it is part of an above ground ecosystem, because to produce the green house gas it first takes it out of the air, but this is never in the calculations of studie's and if you find one that takes this in to account, sent me the link it would be nice to read

First, there are 1 billion cows on the planet. Most of them are in huge industrial facilities and feed on grains. Second, the meat hunger is still growing. We need to double the number of cattle to satisfy all. Third, even if they were living on and off soil, their carbon footprint would still be bigger than without them. This is not the solution to save the planet, sorry.

😅This stuff is great - it's been around for decades - it's called regenerative agriculture. But this video is kind of bonkers. You want to use compost instead of cow manure, but you want cows everywhere to make the grass grow? So what, non-pooping cows? Just let the cows eat and crap and let nature do the rest. SImples.

Hey John, ya know where those weeds came from? Livestock. Livestock isn't the answer, but it was cute how you lied to the world to promote your industry. Really seemed like a good guy; quite the actor.

This is hilarious! Bless their hearts. It's like watching small children trying to explain how the magician is able to pull a rabbit out of his hat because the volunteer from the audience waved the wand over it and said the magic word, but reality just completely eludes them. It's cute in a way. The grass isn't taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting into the soil. Grass doesn't do that. Plants take in CO2 through osmosis and use it to make their food using photosynthesis and their byproduct is oxygen and water vapor. Animals then take in the oxygen through respiration that the plants produce from the carbon dioxide and then release carbon dioxide and water vapor and the cycle starts all over again. The soil on these farms in this video is showing more carbon because they are literally spreading carbon on the ground. The carbon is the compost they're spreading. It's silly that they're not understanding this simple fact that compost is entirely made up of organic matter which is primarily carbon. All life is carbon based. Plants, animals, insects, algae, all life is literally made of carbon. So when you spread decomposing matter from things that were once alive you are literally spreading massive amounts of carbon onto the soil. Yes, the compost is excellent for the soil and the plants because it deposits lots of carbon and other nutrients back into the soil. This has been practiced for thousands of years and is good to do. It’s nothing new! Unfortunately, most farms stopped this practice decades ago which is a major reason why the soils all around the world are completely depleted of essential minerals and other nutrients which of course is the reason our food is seriously nutrient deficient compared to crops grown just 50 years ago. The real problem is that the people in this video, and many in the general public, don’t seem to comprehend or remember for some weird reason, even though we all learned it in elementary school, that carbon dioxide is an essential, required part of earth’s eco system. Every molecule of carbon dioxide is 1 atom of carbon and 2 atoms of oxygen, hence the periodic table designation of CO2. In other words each molecule of CO2 has twice as much oxygen as it does carbon. Carbon dioxide and oxygen are intimately linked. When CO2 in our atmosphere increases, automatically so too does oxygen. When CO2 decreases so too does oxygen. All plant life requires CO2 and all animal life requires oxygen. It is what is known as a symbiotic relationship. So what do you think would happen to all life on earth if we got rid of oxygen? What do you think would happen to all life on earth if we got rid of carbon dioxide? If your answer to both questions is everything would die, you’re exactly right. You may be surprised to learn that during prehistoric periods, like the Triassic and Mesozoic, CO2 in earth’s atmosphere was as much as 500 times greater than it is today. Those higher levels of CO2 also, by default, meant much higher levels of oxygen in the atmosphere which is why earth was so densely populated with life during those times, jungles pretty much covered the earth and many animals were very large. Today earth has the lowest level of CO2 in its atmosphere than it has ever had in its history. We are quite literally in a carbon deficiency. Like all the other planets and moons with atmospheres in our solar system, our atmosphere is constantly being stripped away by our sun. The solar wind is a constant bombardment of charged particles that create a constant, non-stop off-gassing of our atmosphere into space as well as all the atmospheres of every planet and moon in our solar system that has an atmosphere. Those atmospheres must constantly be replenished by whatever mechanism is in place on those planets and moons. Other planets like Venus or Saturn and moons like Titan and Io have atmospheres of different gases like sulfur dioxide, methane, hydrogen, etc. Their atmospheres are being constantly replenished by the sources of those gases on those planets like volcanoes which spew sulfur dioxide or other mechanisms. Earth’s mechanism that replenishes its atmosphere of Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and other trace gases is earth’s life forms, plants and animals. What happens if one of the essential gases like CO2 stops being replenished? That’s right, bad things. So why do so many people believe the nonsense that CO2 is somehow bad? Why do so many well meaning people think that CO2 is heating up our planet and that humans are to blame for it? The simple answer, they’ve been lied to. They’re misled. So-called “Clean Energy” is a big business to the tune of trillions of dollars. Do you think it might be beneficial to big corporations and their minions in the clean energy business to work really hard to vilify a life giving substance like CO2 and manipulate entire populations of people to think its “evil”? If big clean energy corporations can convince everyone that CO2 is somehow bad and that we have to get rid of it and the only way to do that is to let them take over all energy production with solar, wind and other methods, which by the way aren’t actually clean at all, they stand to monopolize energy production worldwide and gain massive, massive profits. Another thing, earth isn’t heating. Why in the world would we want to decrease its temperature? Earth is currently in a cooling phase and has been since the early 2000’s. In the late 80’s and the 90’s earth was warming and in the 70’s and early 80’s it was cooling. Back then they were claiming we were in danger from global freezing which they claimed was also man made. Then when it started warming in the 80’s and 90’s they called it global warming and said it was peoples fault. Now we’re in a cooling period again and they just say “Climate Change” because they already used the global cooling and global warming cards and of course again they’re claiming it’s our fault. Go figure! So, why do we keep seeing these cooling and warming periods changing about every decade or so? Here’s a hint: it’s the same thing that is causing the climate to warm and cool on all the planets in the solar system. That’s Right! It’s the Sun. Our sun which is classified as a yellow dwarf star, has several cycles it goes through some of the cycles occur every few hundred or few thousand years. There’s another cycle our sun goes through much more frequently, every 11 years. Every 11 years our sun goes through what scientists call a solar minimum and a solar maximum. Every 11 years the sun decrease and increases in sun spot activity and electromagnetic fluctuations and experiences a magnetic reversal of its poles. This is when the magnetic north and south poles of the sun literally flip, south becomes north and north becomes south. This complete reversal in the sun’s magnetic field directly impacts all the planets and moons that orbit it including earth. So, the next time someone talks to you about climate change remember it’s the sun not people. We are just not that powerful.