This is very interesting! Very curious about the economics of this approach knowing how expensive petroleum based fertilizer is. Great video as usual!

Even tho ya'll'r down south there, that cover crop blend could work perfectly in Michigan, too! Maybe let tillage radish and/or forage peas and crimson clover (better over winter) get a head start then spread that winter rye mid Sept -- first thing to green up after a hard winter b4 "spring green-up'. Rock'n video fo' sho, bro!

Please do more vids with this guy. He has it goin on! Would like to see the crimper rolling.

wE live right in Phoenix AZ. We have a compost heap in a large wooden crate. All scraps from the kitchen go in there. We will use this next spring to plant our new garden. Right now we have squash, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce, onions and okra. all in the backyard about 25 feet long and 31/2 wide. We also have a pomegranit ? tree. What I grow we eat and any left goes to Church on Sunday. You do not need acres to grow your own food. Tonight we had lettuce and radishes we grew ourselves. We put cheese on top and it was delicious.

I am 6 months late watching this, but so very awesome that this way of farming is being done. I grew up on a small dairy and chicken farm and I tried very hard to change the way we looked after the land with my father and grandfather. This is a great way of doing so. We eventually went to no till planting as much as we could. Keep up with the great informative videos and your farm looks great. Thank You

Good on you guys. Its so great to hear all this. Much love from South Africa.

I"m digging this lately. Came back to watch this again. I'm taking over some of our family farm and want to start farming it like this, in addition to critters and such. Looking at regenerative farming as well. Love it.

My buddy at Barton Farms in Raymond MS has been doing this since the 80s. He can grow anything in that fine soil. Always has the best looking crops.

That Lane was fantastic! This was probably the most informative video I ever watched about how to build soil. Way better than any co-op or AG-extension video. Great guest find, Stoney!💯👍

The soil profile is testimony to his good work.

So much fantastic information. Honestly I have always wondered how to the cover crop would benefit your soil. Ive never seen the crimping technique. It makes total sense. Building soil, so important. Thanks for a great video. 👍

Doing great work guys! Saving the soil means saving our country!

Josh, I'm so glad to hear you care about the land. Maybe this learning video will help others to due without all those awful chemicals. Thank you so much. Wow, fantastic stuff.

very cool, been living that type life, building the soil, always got something growing, after harvesting a winter oat crop, left the stalks, drill planted corn,..the crows didn't like the stalks as they try and eat the sprouting corn, so a better coverage and more to harvest, love learning these gems of knowledge soil on guys

Subscribed. Great video and I appreciate your buddy going into detail on his process. It's much needed and critical we learn and understand how to care for God's gift mother nature

God bless him. I'm so glad to see men doing things the right way.

the farm i worked for in pa back in the 90s never used fertilizers. we did crop rotation like this. we did corn one year beans the next . clover one year soybeans the next.

I learn a lot watching Stoney Ridge

So exciting to see some of the old tobacco land being renewed.

Thanks for the video homeboy..no till nation

VERY VERY interesting!! I love making as detailed videos as possible on my channel and you doing videos like this really pushes me to be as detailed as possible! Great video and AWESOME CHANNEL man!!!

This is great. Thanks guys for taking the time to show us how to do it.

We use this system and learn more every year it is truly a science you truly can upsize to large scale operations 😎👍

So this method doesn't require tilling or anything? Wow. That's amazing. I love it

Brother Josh, you are crushing it on this video... Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for showing this permaculture principle. Your rocking now bro. 🎸

So cool to see more and more people farming the natural way ^^

Excellent presentation guys. We need more farmers like this who rely on natural scientific methods, that are good for our planet, rather than chemicals to grow crops.

Fascinating

Love it when you guys talk nitrogen fixation and hairy vetch and cover crop blends. Keep up the good work.

Hi Josh, I'm in Northern Ohio. Thanks for that simplified explanation of rejuvenating soil and no-till!!

I'll have to try this when I'm more experienced, I'm still new lol

2nd year, first generation, Alberta no till, no fertilizer, no spray, hay farmer and rancher here. I admit I haven’t sprayed or tilled because I was simply not confident enough in my understanding of the effects of each system. This video is EXCELLENT! Lane exactly sums up months of research I have done. Very knowledgeable and a great reference! Thank you to you and Lane for this video!

This is the way

I've heard about no till farming but never knew how it works. Thank you for educating me.

Fantastic intro to no-till! Thanks!

Thanks Josh that was a technique I’d never heard about! Appreciate you taking the time to blog about it.

Thank you so much for sharing this environmentally friendly way of farming info!

Carbon farming. Amazing

I totally understand the rationale of using what in the UK is termed as green Crop Manure plants to replenish the bio mass or humus to regenerate the soil structure. What I do not understand is how the vital trace elements and minerals that have also been depleted are going to be replaced. These are just as essential to healthy crop growth as nitrogen. In the UK traditional historic cropping would have used a rotation of various crops which would have included grazing of the grass or other green crops by animals. And farmyard manure would have been spread on the land as appropriate. In coastal areas seaweed was harvested from the shoreline and incorporated in the farmyard manure during the composting process. All these measure would have assisted in returning trace minerals to the soil. Mined limestone would have and is still used as necessary to regulated soil acidity.

Amazing

Very informative, thanks for sharing !!!

Awesome!! Now I have a million questions!

Love you guys for growing crops this way with natural fertilizers the way it should have been done all along . Now if you guys can keep the government out of your crop growing you will be doing a great thing for everybody.

Awesome video! This is something I have been considering on my small piece of land for a few years. It would be great if you did a few turned no-till into a little bit of series, I would love to learn more about the planting and crop rotation.

I am a Gabe Brown follower love no till.

Love it!

A very informative video. A lot of information to digest. It would be nice to see the equipment Lane uses to bend over the grass and peas and then what he uses to plant the new crop. Really enjoyed the video.

That was very informative and interesting. You got it right down on my country boy level. Thanks. Woooooo👍👍👍❤️

Yes that's how you do it!! We need more people to get into this kind of Farming Even if its a Small scale in a Back yard... NO - TILL 4 Life 100% Real Talk....

Very educational. Looking forward to your next visit to this farm.

I like this method much better than standard fertilizer. I'd sure like to see a tour of the corn field later this year right before harvest. This stuff fascinates me. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great!

Great video. Never knew just how much went into creating good dirt/land....Crazy. ✌🏻💛🇨🇦

More please!

Like holistic farming....keeping the natural in mother nature

Thank You for helping

Thank you, very interesting! I would have liked to have seen images of the soil when he first sowed the cover crops.

This is great! Thank you for sharing this information. Grow healthy!

Great amazing information.

👍🏽👍🏽. Glad I caught this! Ready for more!

These guys are awesome!! Very informative, very inspiring and very fun to watch! Thanks guys for what you do!

Thank you.

Thank you. This is a great starter video.

Nice information Josh thanks for video's

I found that very informative, thank your friend for sharing with us, love your videos.

One of the best videos I’ve seen on no till framing Thanks for making it

Awesome and informative video for me. Had no idea some fertilizers were petroleum based. Thanks for the information. Knowledge is power and I want to learn all I can. Also I'm glad that this was all presented on a level that could be understood without being a college professor and wasn't shoved down your throat by a salesman type. Thanks for keeping it real.

Wow ...smart farming . Agree with you on the fertilizer nightmare . There are creeks in Niagara that you can almost walk on by mid summer .. The fertilizers are killing the earth ... & us ...

This makes so much sense, please let it be profitable too. Then everybody does it and it saves the planet. Visit this guy more often and bring a nice box for him to stand on next time!

Great video! I've been trying to figure out the best way to turn my (corn/bean) field into pasture this fall once the beans are harvested.

Reminds me of " the three sisters " corn, bean and gourd :) I'm an old Ok Injun

That was awesome!

Love it! We just planted our first cover crops a couple months ago where we had land cleared with a commercial brush cutter. Fescue for the cows along with millet and cow peas for the soil (and extra forage). Clover going in at the end of the summer - Alex

Josh, you are a whole foot taller than that fella! Anyway, this was very interesting! I like the idea of using nature to our advantage instead of chemicals. Win/win!

It would be interesting when he starts a new field to have a soil test done, then one every year afterward to show the benefits of cover crop and crop rotation. Most people want to help prevent erosion and contaminating streams, they also want it right now. Would be educational to show the complete process.

This was a Great, great video! Keep it up, Mr. Ridge!!! Keep up the great work!! Super Informative, especially for someone like me who'll never have the pleasure of rejuvenating a bunch of land to be arable!

Now not all Iowa or Midwest farmers use tons of chemicals. Crop rotation and plain old manure is what we used

Awesome video Josh and a great learning experience, thanks for sharing! Love your videos, wooo!

good stuff

Thanks very informative 😁

One of the best vlogs. Learned a lot. Thanks SR

Wow, what a task. Thank God there are still people like you who do things naturally!! Wish there were more.. :( Imagine how much gas we could save!!)

super nice video

You guys rock. Thanks for the video.

Awesome video here. Hope you will photo a soil sample from one of the new pastures and do a yearly comparison. Love it, great stuff

Excellent video! Very informative!

I am a Gabe Brown follower love no till. Get his book now

Educational. Great video!

Very informative guys! Thanks for sharing!

Hi there, loved the video. I would like to understand better for example once you have made ground cover by crushing the let's say plants down and then you plant your seed of what your cash crop is. So let's say you want to grow seed potatoes or cabbages. Once it has been planted it will come through the ground cover of the plants you crushed. Will the ground cover plants rot right down? Thanks again Mark

Very good information...much appreciated! 👍

Thanks Lane great no-til info.

Smart man

No till works great to give you winter and early spring forage. We plant rye, oats, crimson clover, and ryegrass for our cattle in September and then graze it once or twice over winter and then cut for hay in April or May. This gives us some high nutrient forage to go with our hay and suppresses weeds in early spring and then gives us extra hay during spring lush when the cattle can't keep up with it. We also use chicken litter as fertilizer in dedicated hay fields. Be careful using anything that spiderwebs along the ground as sickle mowers like your haybine will not cut it well. Crimson clover grows vertical, ball and arrow leaf clovers spiderweb.

You do great videos. The first one I saw was processing pigs. This is one of your best.

I've been a farming fan for decades but I still giggle at "hairy vetch" lol

Really good information about cover crops..😎

Thanks Josh, this was really interesting. We live in a very dry marginal part of Australia, definitely going to try a couple of these methods.

All of the same things apply equally well to growing wildlife food plots, you just have to use different equipment. It saves you time and effort, but you have to work on the right schedule for it.

Very interesting how to. I worked on a story for Time about no till back in the mid nineties in Ohio and Illinois when it was controversial witch brew hoax voodoo thought. But the science behind it seems so beneficial especially with the way corn and 'bacco kills the soil. So glad you did this. Like to see the equipment he uses. Much different than conventional planters? Thanks again, Josh. BTW 100 dollar truck looks good out there working in the field.