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What is Regenerative Agriculture? | National Geographic
What is Regenerative Agriculture? | National Geographic
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Can farming give back more than it takes?
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Every landscape tells a story
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and here at the Waitrose Farm on Leckford Estate,
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the story is about how we farm the land,
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and how that land can recover.
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Waitrose is the only UK supermarket to own a farm
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and support farmers to transition to regenerative practices by 2030.
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It's a term we are hearing more and more.
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But what does it really mean in practice?
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Can you explain us what is regenerative agriculture?
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Just to keep it really simple,
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it's about soil and nature.
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A lot of people just don't realize that soil is a living thing,
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and of course, a living thing needs to be looked after.
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A teaspoon of soil potentially
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has as many life forms in it as people on the planet.
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And here at the Waitrose Farm,
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they have been farming regeneratively
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since 2020 and they are still learning.
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We still lose in the UK somewhere between
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two and three million tonnes of topsoil a year,
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but it can take, depending on the soil type,
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400 to 1000 years to build a centimetre of soil.
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I mean, that's extraordinary.
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So we've got to look after this precious asset.
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If I can increase the soil organic matter in this field by one [JN1]percent,
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that's worth probably
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about 250,000 litres of water per hectare,
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which in a dry summer is probably an extra
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two weeks of the crops’ ability to grow.
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One of the most important parts of the system here
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is something called a herbal ley,
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a field left to grow a rich mix of plants.
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It's part of a 12-year rotation on the Waitrose Farm.
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Peppery.
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Hmm.
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So herbal ley,
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it's made up of 18 different plants.
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So you've got legumes.
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That'll be probably six legumes, six herbs, six grasses.
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So that's why it's called a herbal ley, because of the mix.
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And cows obviously produce their own
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Manure, which can be returned to the soil.
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With the clover in the mix, you're mitigating
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the need to put artificial fertilisers on.
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Last summer, very dry summer,
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lots of people struggled, and farmers were having to feed
2:19
winter food to the cows during the summer.
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Right.
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But we found that with these herbs,
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these stay green all year.
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And these cows were out
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for the whole summer
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without needing any additional food.
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Hey, ladies!
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What’s up?
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Oh my God.
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You’re looking beautiful today.
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It's more mimicking the way the buffalo
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moved across America.
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They're not sticking to one spot.
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They're not really treading
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on the same point again and again.
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Because that's where you get your compaction.
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Yeah, you don't want compaction.
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So this is an oilseed rape plant.
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Okay!
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So this has come from one seed that was planted.
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That is crazy.
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And this one seed has then become this plant.
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With all of these branches you can see
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that that is a healthy strong plant.
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The seeds are then cold pressed [into] rapeseed oil.
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The waste is the husk of the seed.
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We can give it to the cows.
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So all of this is grown on site and it's then used on site.
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Nothing is wasted.
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100%?
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Yeah.
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Amazing.
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Every time we fill a basket,
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we're casting a vote for how the land is farmed.
3:24
Emily is a soil scientist at Cranfield University,
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and spending time with the research
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changed the way she thinks about food.
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It really just blew my mind
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that we are all reliant on the top
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few centimetres of the world,
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and we're losing it at an alarming rate.
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It's so important that we manage it well
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and protect it.
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When I go to the shops,
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I try to look for crops that are grown
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in the UK, where I live,
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and also try and eat a bit more seasonally.
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You might also see some products coming through
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with the word regenerative on.
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What it means is that farm or farmer,
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are incorporating practices
4:01
to be able to increase their soil health.
4:05
Seeing regenerative farming
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at the Waitrose Farm on Leckford Estate
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reminded me that the health of the land
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begins with the soil,
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whether it's a field in England
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or my land back in Portugal.
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The principle is the same.
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When we care for the land, the land can care for us.
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Healthy soil grows more than food.
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It grows the future. [JN1]Says 1% in the video so can we swap to this written version pls?
