Description Gabe Brown didn\'t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota.
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But that mindset was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized.
In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things.
The key is how we think, Brown says.
Using Regenerative agricultural principles, Brown\'s Ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only twenty years The 5, 000-acre ranch profitably produces a wide variety of cash crops and cover crops as well as grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured laying hens, broilers, and pastured pork, all marketed directly to consumers.
The Brown\'s Ranch model, developed over twenty years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil.
In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing Journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge--restoring the soil.
In so doing Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem Into one full of life--starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.
He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices.
Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture.
As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing Journey Into a new type of farming: Regenerative agriculture.
Brown--in an effort to simply survive--began experimenting with new practices he\'d learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers.
But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm.
Description Gabe Brown didn\'t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota
