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When you deal with nature,

which is so complex,

you realize that everything
is interconnected.

You have to think
about the whole.

- Change is needed
very desperately.

The world is
beginning to see now

really just massive
environmental degradation.

- We are seeing more of
these extremes in climate.

Flash flood, drought.

Flash flood, drought.

And catastrophic fires in
the Amazon and California.

There aren't gonna be any jobs.

There's no jobs, no
food on a dead planet.

- There's an enormous
amount of carbon dioxide

in the atmosphere today,

that wasn't in the atmosphere

prior to the
industrial revolution

- We're facing some
really huge problems

with our global climate system,

distorted water, nutrient,
and energy cycles.

- Oh, pig pig pig pig pig.

- But there's a growing movement

of farmers and ranchers,

working with nature,

to repair our soils

and bring these cycles
back into balance.

The solution is
right under our feet.

- It's only recently
that we understand

that soil is this living thing.

And then if we optimize
the life under the ground,

we'll optimize
life above ground.

- And this is a paradigm shift

of how we can
increase productivity

for farmers and ranchers,

but also do it in a way

that starts to
harmonize with nature.

- Does it smell like rain
on a hot summer's day?

And it does.

When soils
become healthy and alive,

it can remove a huge amount

of carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere.

The way
we grow food can right now

be a solution to climate change.

So if we get agriculture right,

it's a win, win, win
scenario for farmers,

for society, and the world.

- Come on!

Come on!

- All you gotta do is wait
for me to hook it up to there,

and then you can plug
it into the hydrator

and we'll fill the tank again.

- Okay.

- You find the calf?

- No.

- We can to find it.

Right?
- Yeah.

- This ranch has been in
our family since 1900.

We've been raising hay and
selling hay for so long.

My dad called me when I
was away at my other job,

and said, I'm tired and I don't

Why do I always get teary?

I don't want to have
to do this anymore.

And so, I got busy
thinking of a way

if we could make this work.

And part of the
impetus behind that was

not being able to hay,

not seeing the long-term gains

economically, environmentally.

People started talking
to me a lot about

rotational grazing,
holistic, planned grazing,

dung beetles, and
everything else

you could possibly think of.

It really piqued my interest,

came back, mom and dad,

and talked about
what I wanted to do.

Dad was like,

seems kind of nuts, but
why don't you try it

on a piece of the
ranch this next year?

We founded Barney Creek
Livestock in 2016.

So we've gone from raising
hay and selling hay

to raising cows and
selling grass-fed beef.

- I work with my dad
as often as possible.

We just took down this back
fence that they were just in,

and set it up for
half of a paddock,

because in this
last little triangle

we're gonna do a little bit of

high stock intensity grazing.

To help the grass regenerate,

instead of letting them just
eating bits that they like,

they're all put
into competition,

so they just eat it all evenly.

And that will help
the grass grow back

taller than it was before.

What we're really seeing

is diversity in our pasture,

different grasses
we hadn't seen,

which is directly
related to the soil.

I hope it's wet enough.

We can actually dig a hole.

Just having people like Nicole,

being willing to share
knowledge and mentoring.

She's good, and she's a great
resource and great human.

- So yeah, tell me a little bit

about what you've
been doing here.

- Trying to get what
you always talk about,

that living root,

really trying to
get it to root down.

- So this is a rhizosheath here.

So see how soil is
actually sticking to it?

We want these roots to
look like dreadlocks,

because that's
what's protecting you

against climactic extremes.

- Okay.

- Let's get massive
Rastafarian roots,

and now we've got a system
that's cooking with gas,

because that's gonna be
supporting carbon draw-down.

- So you want that
sheath to be all the way

on those longest roots, okay.

- So that when we
dig these plants up,

see that lovely, those
lovely aggregates,

and you see there's
a rhizosheath down
there, that depth.

Well, what's to stop
it being 20 feet?

There's nothing.

Yeah, but everything about soil

is really about communication,

and this communication
and exchange

is happening with carbon.

Carbon is sent out the
roots of the plant,

to feed the microbiology.

Now that carbon is then
taken by either some kinds

of bacteria or one organism

that's called mycorrhizal fungi.

It can expand that plant's
ability way beyond the roots

to access water and nutrients.

When the first pioneers
came into these grasslands

and broke them in to plant
other types of crops,

as they drove that plow
through the grassland,

it sounded like
someone had a bullwhip,

cracking it from a mile away.

So people could hear
those root systems,

just snapping and cracking.

And it was a huge,
really, really loud sound.

Those are the systems that
we've degraded and lost.

So one of the
things that we know

about getting root systems down,

is they're gonna
directly translate

to the quality of the beef
product that you're producing.

So we start to grow beef

fit for human consumption.

So a lot of the practices
of feeding grain

or using a lot of
synthetic fertilizers,

we take out that quality aspect.

Now you're gonna have
to eat this huge steak,

instead of better nutrition
in a smaller piece of meat.

Nicole always talks about

when you've concentrated
your operation on soil first,

you can taste it.

- It just has a
more rich flavor.

It tastes like it should.

- We both have second jobs.

He's gone for six
months out of the year.

He's a smoke jumper.

So he's doing that
during fire season.

So it's the kids and I that
are here with Cathy and Larry.

And we just keep things afloat.

Usually when Pete's
gone, something happens.

Sometimes I'm so
afraid to call you,

but I know that you'll
always be there to help me.

And you guys jump right in,

but it was so much fun to
watch you move those sheep.

I called Pete and I
was like, man, I mean

your mom can just
really move animals.

- So, when we started
leasing the place from you,

you know, I wanted to do

some kind of weird things.

- Non-traditional.

- Yeah.

- You wanted to improve
just like Dad improved.

And this was the way you
felt you could improve.

- And just with the cost of
equipment for haying and stuff,

and thinking about having
to replace that in 10 years.

- I go into the barn there
every now and then sit there

and cry 'cause I'm
not running it.

- And at the same time
you moaned and groaned

when you had to
do it all summer.

- When Pete first brought this
up, what were your thoughts?

'Cause that's a leap of faith.

I mean, that is a leap of faith.

- It took about a year,

just to get used to it.

- But have you
ever had a pasture

that looked like these pastures?

- No.
- Okay.

- We know that agriculture
started around 10,000 years ago,

somewhere in the
Fertile Crescent.

The earliest farmers recognized

that planting in intervals,

creating cycles of weed
control and pest control,

was a way to manage
the landscape.

They harnessed plant diversity.

Agriculture looks nothing
like that anymore.

We have become industrialized.

We've used the latest technology

to radically change the
way that we produce food.

- What we've been
doing to the land

over the long term is we've
been clearing forests.

We've been plowing
and monocropping.

And in recent decades
we've been dousing

the landscape with chemicals.

Industrial agriculture has been
a huge source of pollution,

and emissions of carbon,

because of all the
machinery, all the chemicals,

and meat production
puts cattle in feedlots,

where they then become
an environmental problem,

because these cows
are emitting methane.

In fact, over time, more CO2
has gone into the atmosphere

from faulty
agricultural practices,

compared to the burning
of fossil fuels.

We may get a lot of yield

when practicing
industrialized agriculture,

but the quality suffers.

Food is actually less
nutritious than it used to be.

For every one apple
grown in the early 1900s,

you would need to
eat five apples now

to get the same nutrition.

And a huge irony is that
most of what we produce

isn't even for food.

Soy and corn are grown for
animals to fatten them up.

- We've been on a chemical
experiment for a very long time.

Now people are seeing
the consequences.

By feeding animals grain,

we're actually impacting
on human health

and in animals as well.

- But now a better
understanding about the fact

that it's all a system,

and advances in how to
use regenerative practices

allows us to move past
those technologies

to things that will work better,

like no-till farming,

farming without plowing land,

planting cover crops.

The dramatic reduction in
fertilizer and chemical usage

and putting animals on the land,

cows especially, act
like bio processors,

eating crops then putting
it back into the earth

in a way that really increases

the carbon content of the soil.

- Our soils are
tired, they're naked,

they're thirsty
and they're hungry.

They're out there
uncovered and exposed.

They're tired because they've
just been worked to death,

thirsty, because they
can't store the water

that they used to be able to.

And they're hungry
because they're no longer

getting the carbon into the soil

from growing plants
for more of the year.

So we need to fix that.

That's where cover
crops can come in.

- So these are
small-seeded favas?

- This is a new variety

that I've got some
contract production on.

- See a little bit
of a difference.

- My brother, Brian and I
farm here in Bladen, Nebraska,

south central part in Nebraska.

Is there an extra band
of nitrogen you think,

right through there?

And we own and operate
Green Cover Seed.

At Green Cover Seed, we provide

custom cover crop mixes

for customers all
across the country.

Cover crops aren't cash crops.

We plant them in between what
we call the fallow periods,

where nothing's growing,

and they're better for the
farmers and for the environment,

because we're getting
our system back

to a biologically-based system.

When our forefathers
would have come

and started farming these lands,

most of it would have been
five to 6% organic matter.

After 150 years of farming,

it's down to one and a half
percent organic matter levels.

Cover crops put organic
matter back into the soil.

Organic matter is 70% carbon.

The darker the color,

the more carbon it's
gonna have in it.

Carbon is the main food
source for the soil biology.

And so we need to
bring that back,

because high
organic matter soils

are so much more
resistant to drought,

more resistant to
insects and diseases.

That's good-looking soil.

- Yeah, you want it to
look like chocolate cake.

- Once people understand the
principles of soil health,

the only logical
conclusion is that

you have to have something
else growing out there,

and cover crops, they're just
going to be more productive.

And that's a win-win
for the farmer,

and it's gonna be a win-win
for the environment as well.

When we first started,
we went to a conference

that got us all excited
about cover crops.

We were looking
for a way to bring

some of the kids
back to the farm,

and we decided to go this route

of trying to sell
cover crop seed

rather than trying
to greatly expand

the number of acres
that we were farming.

So we started building, and
we've been building ever since.

Really what we're doing

is taking all these
raw ingredients.

What we do is try
to design the mix

that will be best
for the farmer.

We have over 120
different types of seed.

What they need for their fields
to help improve their soil,

and to have more
diverse crop rotations.

- Modern farming, we tend
to monoculture everything.

We want to do a really good
job of controlling one plant,

'cause it's very hard to
control lots of plants,

but the more diverse we
get in our rotations,

the less chemicals we
tend to have to use.

- If I'm only growing
corn and soybeans,

I can't have a
really healthy soil,

because certain crops are always

gonna be pulling the
same nutrients out.

But if I'm surrounded by plants

that have different root
systems, different needs,

they fill different niches
within that ecosystem,

and we see this huge
influx of diversity

coming into the soil.

It's like my brother and I,

we have different talents,
different interests.

You know, there's
times when we maybe

butt heads a little bit,

but mostly my strengths
will help his weaknesses,

and his strengths will
help my weaknesses.

It's the same way with plants.

I need to have
much more balance.

- That buckwheat you plant now

and that'll be harvested when?

- Right after it freezes.

- Wow, that's gonna
be ready that quick?

- When we talk about
farmers changing

the way they do things,

one of the bigger motivators is,

you know, show me the money.

- We'll walk out this way.

That's where things
really come together.

And not only for productivity,

but also for profitability,

because now, without
all the herbicides,

I don't have a lot
of the cost issues.

Then in no-till farming, I
don't have the erosion issue.

- Anytime you till the
ground, you're opening it up,

and it allows for more
evaporation, and more erosion.

By no-tilling, you're keeping
the residue on the soil,

protecting it.

The no-till drill will
slice through the residue,

plant a seed, and then
close the soil back up.

And so we keep the structure
of the soil intact.

Then you get better
infiltration.

So when it does rain, it
soaks in versus running off.

- The thing that
affects us the most

is our rainfall events
are less frequent,

but they're more intense.

I may have to catch
my rainfall in April

for what my crop needs in July.

So I need that soil
to be able to hold

as much water as
it possibly can.

I can't do that unless my
soils are really healthy.

Every time I can increase
1% of organic matter.

If I was at 1% and I went to 2%,

I can hold an additional
25,000 gallons of water

in the soil per acre.

And that's huge.

- There are 1.8 billion hectares

of cropland around the world.

And if you would convert
a lot of those areas

to these practices
of not tilling,

of planting cover crops,

more diverse crop rotations,

it would make a
meaningful change

in the level of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere.

- If we want to pull carbon
dioxide out of the atmosphere,

we really only have one
mechanism to harness,

and that is photosynthesis.

Plants left to their own devices

would do exactly what
we want them to do.

They'd pull carbon dioxide
out of the atmosphere

using chlorophyll and sunlight,
and feed life in the soil.

- And we can think
of a plant as a pump,

because it's
pumping carbon down,

and it's also bringing water up,

and that's through the
process of transpiration,

which is actually another huge

unrecognized factor in
temperature regulation.

Transpiration is a
cooling mechanism.

The more plants we
have, the more cooling.

So when people are working
to restore ecosystems,

the first thing they
do is create a scenario

where they can hold
the water on the land.

And many of the most successful
regenerative projects

have taken place in the
harshest environments.

- You'll see it's drier
than three hours ago.

For me, regenerative ranching,

first of all, is hope,

hope that things are gonna
get better for the community,

better for the owner,
by working with nature.

We are in a typical place

in the middle of the Chihuahuan
desert in northern Mexico,

very close to the southern US.

We only get rain a couple
of months the whole year.

With the rain that you get,

you have to produce enough
grass to go all over

the other 10 months.

What we see here is
that the water cycle

is completely broken.

We have a lot of overgrazing
on the same pastures.

When we start holistic
management in my ranch,

most of the place
looked like this.

So it's sometimes hard
to believe for ranchers

that we can change this.

They think, well, this is a
desert, you cannot change it,

but we have to go
back to 400 years ago,

where this was grasslands.

The call for this
land is grasslands.

We'd be spending so many
years fighting nature

with really no results.

So I think it's very
important for us

to understand the
water cycle, the soil,

so we're just trying to
help nature, help us.

The name of my ranch is
Las Damas Cattle Ranch.

Las Damas has 30,000 acres.

After spending some time
in Mexico and the US,

working in information
technology,

my father talked
to me and he said,

you want to go back
and work on the ranch?

And I was actually
waiting for the moment.

The Carillo family
was a rancher family,

starting from my great-granddad,

and then my granddad
and then my dad.

And he asked me
to take the reins.

I told him, you know, we're
gonna try this new approach,

holistic management.

My father was a
little bit reluctant,

but he said I'm
gonna support you

because I also have
the love for the land.

- So we're to trying
fix this bare ground

with cattle that is
under certain control.

500 years ago, in
this particular place,

there were hundreds of bison,

thousands of bighorns.

They worked the soil pretty
hard, and they move on.

We concentrate the
cattle in just one spot,

mimicking the bison
patterns of many years ago.

When you put your
animals together,

there's much more
impact on the soil.

We're putting the manure
so close together.

We have these
incredible dung beetles.

You see the holes there?

66% of the manure is
gonna get into the soil,

thanks to the dung beetles.

That will help us
infiltrate more water.

That will help the grass
to get better nutrition,

and to promote new grasses.

The way we understand how
to fix the water cycle

is by having more ground cover.

The more rain we
have across the year,

the better for the micro herd,

this little herd that we have

under the ground
that we don't see.

This is nice, because you
have the ants working,

and also the termites.

If we were going to
do this herbicide,

we're gonna kill all life.

See all the fungi here?

Why trying to kill this insect,

if it is part of the
whole life cycle?

We need to understand
that better.

When we started holistic
management in my ranch,

only very few people
were practicing
regenerative ranching.

So I was very fortunate to have
these regenerative ranchers,

like Jesus Almeida, who
said it can be done.

Jesus, we're seeing a
lot of that happening

right now at the ranch.

They were my mentors.

When I got into trouble, I
just grabbed the phone and say,

Jesus, I'm seeing this.

Okay Alex, do this, this, this,

and you will solve
what can I say.

Well, he was right.

So you have been working,

getting nice results
for so many years.

- Well, the thing is
that is very difficult

for humans to
change their minds.

- How, how do you
change their minds?

- Well, I change it
because I was broke.

- Ranchers change
because they're broken.

- Yeah.

- When I moved from
IT, into the ranching,

I came with a mentality
of individualism,

of competitiveness.

But, when the first town is
40 miles from your ranch,

you have to rely
on your neighbors.

Then you start opening your
mind and your heart as well.

I think we all can
regenerate this land,

we can create a microclimate
that will really help us

with the whole water thing.

- And then in these
tough times, right now,

we're coming out of our
third year in a drought,

but we're still good.

- Imagine if we
were not doing this.

- Oh no, I can't,
I can't imagine.

- There are a few things
that are very important

in holistic management grazing.

First is the mindset.

If you have all this
conventional mindset,

you have to let it go.

So you open some
room in your mind,

and then you let the new
things coming in, then water,

because we can grow
a lot of grass,

but water has to be
ahead of the grass.

You can see, we have
this water storage,

and it has a trough
on the outside.

In this area in the
Chihuahuan desert,

we get the water from wells.

We take the water from
the well to a water tank,

then distribute the water
by gravity, to the troughs.

Our herd is over a
thousand animals.

They walk no
farther than a mile.

After they drink,

then they go back to
water on the next day.

One thing we've been focusing
a lot on these emissions,

but in reality, water regulates
almost 95% of the climate.

- I think it's really
important in this whole focus

of greenhouse gases
and water quality,

and all of these issues
that we're talking about,

is to really, to step back
and look at the big picture.

Ever since agriculture began,

we've been exporting carbon.

Either we're sending it
up into the atmosphere,

or out into the waterways.

And the biggest driver for
greenhouse gas emissions

is water vapor.

Excess water up
in the atmosphere

is creating these
catastrophic conditions.

So how do we get water back
into the soil where it belongs?

Well, when we start
to pull carbon down,

we're also pulling water down.

These grasslands are net
sinks for greenhouse gases.

- The grasslands are very
important as a landscape,

because they are vast,

around a third of our
terrestrial landmass,

and they have deep soils,
great carbon syncs,

great water regulators.

They really provide
stability to the planet.

- So we need to
be really looking

at how do we ensure that that
grassland is being managed

in a way that restores cycles.

How do we start to
build resilience into
these landscapes?

- The most massive perfect storm

is bearing down upon us.

Now, this perfect storm
that we are facing,

is the result of our
rising population,

rising towards 10
billion people,

And of course climate change.

But fossil fuels,
carbon, coal, and gas,

are by no means the only thing

that is causing climate change.

Desertification, is a fancy word

for land that is
turning to desert.

You can look at it from space,

and what you see in green
is not desertifying,

and what you see in brown is,

about two thirds of the world.

Now we know that desertification
is caused by livestock,

mostly cattle, sheep, and goats,

overgrazing, leaving
the soil bare,

and giving off methane.

In Africa, where I grew
up, I loved wildlife.

And so I grew up
hating livestock,

because of the damage
they were doing.

Well, we were once just as
certain that the world was flat.

We were wrong then,
and we are wrong again.

We've discovered we can use
much vilified livestock,

bunched and moving,

to address climate change
and desertification.

- Mara is a special place.

With the game, the
landscape, the scenery.

To me, it's a paradise.

The Maasai is a tribe
that lives in the Mara.

We cover most part
of southern Kenya,

all the way to Serengeti.

They are a welcoming community,

with a beautiful culture.

We love wildlife.

And Maasai really
love their livestock.

I've been working as a guide
in Enonkishu Conservancy

for the last seven years.

And it's been a wonderful job.

- Enonkishu is a Conservancy
that we started about 2013.

My father came to Kenya and
started farming in this area.

Then we bought 1500 acres,

right in the Mara ecosystem
if you like, on the river.

You are smarty pants.

When we were farming, things
were not going terribly well.

And we started to think we
could take a leap of faith,

and and scrap all the farmland,

and go on a massive
rewilding project,

to try and make
profits from the land,

through wildlife and tourism.

Take the community with us,

and regenerate the land
and wildlife around here.

- When we started the
conservation project,

it was a very different
scenario in this conservancy.

It was very much barren land.

There was very little grass
available for the cattle,

and there was very
limited wildlife habitats.

Poaching was all over the place.

People were cutting
trees down for charcoal.

- What we've managed to
do with the community

is to reverse that,

and see a huge shift from
intensive agriculture,

back to wilderness
and open range land.

- When I realized that
we could use livestock

to reverse climate change,

I found there were
planning techniques,

and from those I
developed what we call,

holistic management
and planned grazing.

- We didn't know how
to do this at all.

We stumbled across
the Savory Institute,

an organization which
promotes grass growth,

through using cattle as a tool.

- When the Savory Institute
came to Maasai Mara,

I was one of the first
conservancy members,

to attend their first training,

about the holistic management.

And we were lucky to
be trained by a legend,

the founder of Savory Institute,

Doctor Allan Savory.

- Finally, they plot the
movements of the animals.

- You want to bunch
your cattle together.

You want them to be
one moving animal.

We decided to train the
communities on that.

The way it was happening before,

is that there would be
several different herds,

and they would be racing
for the greener pastures,

and never really
leaving the land

time to recover or rejuvenate.

So we got everyone to put
their cattle into one herd.

We could then move that around

in a much more systematic way.

- A mobile boma is a corral

that you can move from
one point to another.

They put the mobile bomas
in the most degraded land.

So by the time they leave there,

already that land has
got all the requirements

for it to regenerate.

Seed from the grass,

it's got dung, which is manure.

They keep on moving
around in the bomas,

and in the end, those places
are brought back to life.

It's beautiful.

The mobile bomas,
they're predator proof.

The cows are squeezed in there,

so when the lions or
any predator comes,

the animals don't have the
space to push in there.

Nothing goes in there.

- I got a call from Michael,

from our predator
conservation program.

- Mara Training Center is
a Savory Institute hub.

It trains people on sustainable
rangeland management

using a holistic
management approach.

The herders within the Mara,

they really liked the approach,

because the approach
is just the same

as what our
grandfathers used to do.

When we started doing
the grazing in 2015,

the level of the
grass was 20% cover.

And within a year
of planned grazing,

we had a 75% cover, or more.

As soon as you have grass,

you get the best wildlife.

You get your small antelope,
you get your zebras.

Now that all
the predators have come back.

- We have a pride of lions
that have recently moved in.

We've got big
herds of elephants.

We have a resident
cheetah called Kisaro.

She's been a wonderful mum,

bringing up six cubs,

and she's come over

because of the abundance
of food in Enonkishu.

And people are coming

from all over the world
to see our animals.

It's the wildlife, which
brings the tourists.

The tourists bring the money,

the money goes to
the landowners.

The landowners look
after the wildlife.

It's a great big circle,

and it's very holistic,
and it's good.

- We're making amazing progress,

considering you've
got two new insights,

the use of livestock
being not optional,

but essential to save
civilization as we know it.

And then the second,

which is we need to
develop a holistic concept

of how we want our lives to be,

based on our deepest values.

- This looks to me
like a piece of soil.

- We had a dream.

After we got married,

raise a large family
in a rural setting.

That was our dream,

and our dream's come true.

- We went through
commercial cattle business.

Couldn't pay the
taxes with that.

And the values of
the purebred business

didn't fit our values.

We said, we've tried
so many things,

what do we do?

And at that time,
holistic management,

and grass-based agriculture
came into our experience.

We went to so many
conventions and seminars.

Our learning curve was
huge at that point,

but it was exciting.

And we quit doing the
herbicides, pesticides,

chemical fertilizers.

- Who would have
thought of such a thing,

that you can finish
animals on grass?

But you can,

and where you're
trying to build a case

for sequestering carbon,

cows'll save the world,

but it's because of grass.

- I spend probably
about three hours a day

making sure the grass grows.

Look at that.

What a toss!

While we are
growing great grass,

we're also very interested

in making sure
that we grow soil.

- And if you think
about grass-fed beef.

Here we go.

It starts with the soil.

We're gonna take
the Hereford, Dave.

- I think you can do better.

- Healthy plants give
you healthy animals.

Healthy animals, treated well,

end up being healthy people.

See that little red one.

- Yeah.

That really deep
body one right there?

- Yeah.

- Boy, it's a good one.

I know it's a
great one, but he's wild.

- My parents had five children.

We are co-owners
of the James Ranch.

My parents always invited

all of their children to return.

Well, first they kicked us out,

and told us, go away,

travel, go to
school, do whatever,

but you need to experience
what else is out there.

That way, if you return,

it would be on your own terms.

And we've all come back.

We all had to figure out a
way to make a living here,

and we decided to do
dairy, and cheese-making.

And why did we do that Becca?

- Well, it was
because of the grass.

The resource that we
have on this property

is really beautiful,
cool season grasses.

So we looked into how
do we take that resource

and convert it into something
nutritious and salable?

- I mean, I grew up here
on the beef cattle ranch,

but I had never milked
a cow or made cheese,

and Becca doesn't come from
an agricultural background.

You know, we came from Seattle
during the dot.com boom.

We had friends that were getting

ridiculously wealthy
like overnight.

But when I see my kids
tromping through the pasture

with their fishing rods over
their shoulders, you know,

that's just stuff you don't buy.

We'd take on one or two
apprentices every year.

- Lots of curd.

- Yeah.

A good batch.
- Yeah.

I just came wanting
to make cheese,

and then it evolved into this,

If you're gonna make the
cheese and milk the cows,

why not also be a steward
of the land and learn

how to care for the soil,

and also make good
food for people.

- Ricotta cheese, you
can eat it right then,

still warm, with fresh
peaches and just amazing.

- Oh, pig pig pig pig pig.

- The whey from all
of our cheese-making

goes to the pork operations.

Gunther, my nephew,
runs pastured pork.

And so he'll take
all of that whey

and give it to the very eager,
and happy to receive, pigs.

- What are you doing
out of the patch, dude?

What you doing out of the patch?

I knew I wanted to get into
farming and I said, dad,

do you have a piece of
ground that you don't graze?

And he goes, oh, oh yes I do.

It's right over there.

It's above the ditch,

and jumping my full
weight on that shovel,

got me an inch into the ground.

I couldn't even break
the soil, it was so bad.

And I think we tried

75 varieties of things
growing in there.

And we learned
that sweet potatoes

don't like 6,800 foot elevation.

But we also learned
that sugar snap peas

have become our little farm's

favorite thing to grow.

Our local community recognizes

that each one of those pods

is picked personally,
by these little fingers.

And so, and his little fingers.

- Yeah, just trying to
keep the body limber.

We do a lot of
pea yoga out here.

- Hang in there, back.

And we now have the reputation

of being the people who grow

the best sugar snap
peas in Colorado.

- It starts with
quality of life.

That's the first thing.

- That's the why.

- That's the why.

And then you say, okay,

how are we gonna
create this lifestyle

that we really,
really, really want?

And then you say, okay, well
we could raise chickens.

- I got involved
with the chickens

mostly through indentured
servitude to my mom.

So my mom started
the chicken business,

probably 20 years ago now.

Right now we just have
about 300 chickens

that we have year round.

Sorry.

- Even though we each
have our own businesses,

if there's anything that
impacts the land as a whole,

then that has to go
before the whole family

and be decided upon by everyone.

- And this meeting
process is so wonderful

as a way to give
everyone responsibility,

because we looked around,
we said, look at our kids.

They're all really
bright people.

Why can't they just
go ahead and run it?

- My parents for so many years

felt that heavy decision-making.

I think it was such a release

that they could invite
their adult children

to come and help
make those decisions.

- We respect each
other's viewpoints,

don't always agree,
but we respect them.

- We work really hard on
communication around here.

We live and work on a ranch
with five different families,

and we all have
our own businesses.

We have a restaurant that takes

all of the food that we produce,

and people can come
and enjoy a meal.

- The restaurant is our baby.

We were the last to return,

and everybody had all
these amazing products.

You know, my brother's cheese,
my sister's vegetables,

that had such great flavor,

because the soil has
been tended and loved,

and my parents' beef.

And we didn't know
what we were gonna do

when we came back.

We didn't have any agriculture-

- Or restaurant.

- Or restaurant background,

but then we're like, oh
we need a restaurant here.

And they're like, great.

Go for it.

This is the ciabatta roll
that they're gonna make

in a better shape for me,

but just tell me what you
think of the ratio with bread.

- That's a beauty.

- I was born and raised
in Newfoundland, Canada.

All I ever wanted to
be was a fishermen.

You know, they have the pride
of feeding their community,

and feeding the country.

I dropped out of high
school when I was 14,

and headed out to sea,

and I fished on the east
coast doing lobster, tuna.

And then I headed to the
Bering Sea in Alaska,

and fished cod and crab.

But then the cod stocks crashed.

In the 60s, 70s, and 80s,

the harvestable northern
cod dropped 82%.

- And it is amazing to see an
economy devastated overnight,

because of ecological collapse.

30,000 people laid off.

Boats beached,
canneries emptied.

And then the salmon farming

was supposed to be
the great answer

to overfishing, it's
gonna employ everybody.

But instead it took
all of the bad things

that were happening on land,

and industrial agriculture,

and moved them out into the sea.

Using pesticides, antibiotics.

You know, I was working
at the height of

one of the most
destructive forms

of food harvesting
on the planet,

and producing some of the most
unhealthy food on the planet.

And that's when you
begin realizing,

if we don't protect the oceans,

there aren't gonna be any jobs.

There's no jobs, no
food on a dead planet.

Over time, I picked myself up,

and started trying to figure out

what would it look like to do
agriculture under the ocean?

And I started
diversifying the crops,

growing both shellfish
and seaweeds together,

in this sort of 3-D
underwater garden,

for the kelp, oysters,
mussels, clams, and scallops.

A lot of what we do is
really taking the lessons

from regenerative
land-based agriculture,

and bringing them
out into the ocean.

Like year round growth
and polyculture.

And so one of the things we do

is just find a species
for each season.

Kelp is a winter crop,

so it's harvest season.

This is when we're just
up lifting the kelp

out of the water.

Beautiful, huh?

It's amazing to see these
walls of vegetables come out.

Cut it there and
that's harvested.

We're cutting it off,
put it in barrels,

and then it was off
to the processor.

This year we're drying
everything in old tobacco farms.

- We're just trying to thin it.

The outside will
dry very nicely,

but then the inside
will kind of,

the moisture will get locked in.

So, when we're done
with separating it,

it'll be just much more
likely to fully dry.

- Kelp is this incredible
crop because it is delicious.

Cook it up for about
30 seconds here.

You can turn it into noodles,

and plant-based burgers,
all sorts of things.

And I can hand it to a chef,

and they make
beautiful kelp cuisine.

But it also is a climate crop,

in that it soaks up
carbon, nitrogen,

and it creates this
whole canopy underwater,

where fish and different
organisms come and thrive.

The way we seed
kelp is we go out

and we get a couple blades
of kelp that's reproductive.

We bring it back
to our hatchery,

and we release those
spores into fish tanks,

and in there is string,

and the kelp's little
seed sticks to the string.

Give me this one.

And then we wrap it
around our ropes.

There's a seed spool there.

And it's that simple.

The kelp then transfers from
the string to the ropes,

and grows vertically downwards.

And it grows incredibly fast,

one of the fastest growing
plants on the earth.

There are a couple
of reasons why

regenerative ocean
farming is important now

during the climate crisis.

One is our crops capture

a huge amount of
carbon and nitrogen.

Think of them as the
sequoia of the sea.

I think one journalist called it

the culinary equivalent
of the electric car,

and the impact is significant.

According to the World Bank,

if you farm 5% of US waters,

you can sequester 135
million tons of carbon.

All with zero inputs.

That means no fresh water,
no fertilizer, no feed.

A percentage of our crop goes
to fertilizer and compost.

- The nutrients from the kelp

will transfer over to the water.

And then regenerative
land-based farmers

put that into the soil.

There are 1.5 billion
cattle on the planet.

If we feed them a
small percentage

of their feed in seaweeds,

we can reduce their
methane output by 60%.

And in sheep, we can
reduce it by 80%.

And then we can
also take our kelp,

and turn it into compostable
plastic alternatives,

like straws, packaging.

And that is stunning.

Petroleum-based
plastics are the things

that are just ruining
our oceans, right?

So here's this amazing loop,

where I'm growing the seaweed

it's being turned into plastics,

and the pollution stops.

But the most important
piece is that

it only takes 20,000
dollars to start a farm,

20 acres and a boat,
that's all you need.

And this is the secret
to fast replication,

minimal capital requirements.

And that just lets farms
sprout up all over the place.

Too much thinking stops
at the water's edge.

That's why our collaboration
with land-based farmers

is where all the possibility is.

It's not really about
seafood and fishing.

It's really about,

how do we think of
ourselves as farmers,

and weave these two
industries fully together?

- I own and run Harborview
Farms with my family.

We're typical, large-scale
corn, wheat, soybean producers,

but we have a strong
focus on sustainability.

We're on the larger side.

We're a little
over 10,000 acres,

scattered out over
about 45 miles.

One thing we've
looked at as a farm,

is how do we grow
corn and beans,

but not do it in a
conventional manner?

How do we add
diversity to the mix,

and still be able
to make a living?

20 years ago,

I was probably just getting
out of school, coming home.

The farm looked
very much the same.

We grew corn,
soybeans, and wheat,

so that part hasn't
changed at all.

A lot of it was
still being plowed.

We didn't do any cover crops,
we didn't believe in them.

So the fields that we planted
into were always brown.

So our farm's located right
on the Chesapeake Bay.

Living here, it's
very personal to me,

because my family and I,
we fish, we water ski,

we swim in the
rivers and the bays.

But years ago, we
had a huge fish kill,

that was caused
by a toxic algae.

They were blaming farmers for
all the pollutants in the Bay.

So there was a lot of animosity.

That wasn't my goal, to work
with the environmentalists.

I thought that was crazy.

But as I started working
with them, saw their passion,

saw their desire to
have cleaner water,

and wanting to be
part of that solution,

rather than part of the problem,

it really opened my mind up,

and convinced me that I needed
to change the way I farm.

So over the years
we've transitioned.

So now we plant these cover
crops as soon as we harvest.

So those plants
are always growing.

And then in April and May,

when we begin to
plant our cash crops,

the corn and the soybeans,

we plant directly into those
fields that are still green,

often have flowers.

They're pretty.

So you're going from this
completely brown field

that's been tilled,

to now planting into
what appears to be chaos,

you know, in stuff
up to my chest,

seven, eight, tons
of this green matter.

You still have your
mono crop in the summer,

which is your food production,

but all through the fall
and winter after harvest,

you build this diversity.

You get the diversity
of insects up,

you get the diversity
of microbes up,

and that gives us all
kinds of benefits.

See the corn coming up?

- No.

- You don't see it yet?

I talk to my kids about farming.

What do you think it is?

- I don't know.

- They're not exceptionally
passionate about it now.

Look at all the bugs.

You see 'em all?

There's a little spider.

But what we do talk
about is climate change.

We talk about solving the
problems of the world.

This one's purple
top turnip pods.

It tastes like turnips.

Tastes awful right now.

As the talk about
climate change grew,

we started to realize
that what we were doing

was sequestering carbon,

and putting it into our soils.

I got in touch with a company

that was trying to
start a carbon market

to solve climate change.

They found that
the best solution

was to get farmers to practice
regenerative agriculture.

The easiest way to get farmers

to change to this
style of farming

was through getting them paid.

So I jumped on board.

We sent all the data
from our fields,

harvest dates, lack of tillage,

nutrients, all these
different things.

And then it spits
out how much carbon

we would have
sequestered this year.

This is some of the fun
stuff we're getting into.

Got the rapeseed
flowers, radish.

Last year, we made
over 100,000 dollars

selling carbon credits.

Obviously barley.

With margins as
tight as they are,

that's a lot of money.

I'm not sure what
the purple one is.

- This whole idea that the
environment and the economy

are at odds, is not true.

If you look through all
the scientific literature

it doesn't stack up.

It's when we work with the
environment, and the economy,

that actually now we're
really making some money.

- At Indigo, our goal
is to help farmers

be more profitable, and
produce healthier food.

It seems reasonable that
if we're gonna ask farmers

to perform this societal benefit

of pulling carbon dioxide
out of the atmosphere,

we should be willing
to pay them to do so.

- This is probably
around 30 days.

- But carbon credit represents
one ton carbon of dioxide

that has either
not been emitted,

or has been sequestered.

So farmers represent
the supply side of this.

They create the carbon credits

by storing carbon in the ground.

Companies create
demand for those.

- There's a lot of industries,
including parts of mine,

where you have to
burn fossil fuels,

in order to survive,

like an airline.

To run the airplanes pretty
much you have to burn jet fuel.

So I think that in time we
can improve the way we farm.

I can start to
sequester more carbon,

and that may be an
offset for someone else

that's forced to burn it in
order to run their businesses.

- Emissions reductions
are necessary

for a long-term solution,

but it's not sufficient,

because we also have
to undo the damage

that we've already done.

Today, as we realize the
urgency of the problem,

we just need to do everything,

but changing agriculture,

arguably the most important
industry in the world,

is a really important component
in fixing our problems.

Not everybody we talk to

believes in human-caused
climate change,

and we find that's
not necessary.

Farmers may speak a
different language,

but they're the most
sustainability-focused
people I know.

And so the fact that
more carbon in the soil,

means healthier soil,

and that means increased
value on the farm.

That's something we
can all talk about.

- Over the last decade,

we've realized just how
important the management

of agriculture and fresh water
is to our overall mission.

The use of water is
increasing around the world.

Agriculture is the largest use
of fresh water in the world.

We're now looking
at several parts

of east Africa and
southern Africa,

working to establish
water funds.

We work with a city

to raise funds to go upstream,

where the source
water is impaired.

Whether it's from pollution,

or overuse of the water,

we found the return on
investment is better

when we put those
dollars upstream

and let nature do the work.

- This is my farm.

I live here with my husband.

I have a few livestock,

two cows which I milk.

I have goats, chickens.

In my shamba,
which is not very big,

it's just an acre,

I planted some bananas,
some green vegetables.

I do the crop rotation.

They came along to
teaching the farmers,

and I started developing
this mixed farming.

- The Nature Conservancy

work with farmers in Upper Tana,

on how they can practice
sustainable agriculture.

Upper Tana River is one of
the largest rivers in Kenya.

This river supplies 95% of
the water to Nairobi City.

Nairobi has a population of
over five million Kenyans.

They've been able to
conserve this river,

helping the farmers improve
on rainwater storage

and minimize pumping of
the water from the river.

- The Water Fund
targets every farm

that needs to make
some improvement to
reduce soil erosion.

And our target is to
reach 50,000 farmers.

- This one is needier.
- It's the large one.

We were able
to design some nice, simple,

rainwater harvesting pans

that each farmer would have.

- The farm has a lot
of water from the roof.

So I collected the
water from the roof

and put them in some water pans.

So I use that to water.

- And whenever they
need water to irrigate

they would use the
water in this pan

to irrigate the crops.

- Is this another water pan?

- I'm not very near the river,

would not survive
without the rain.

So the water pans, they
have helped me a lot.

Before, you could just plant
it and then you see it whither.

- Now, Grace is able to
do different field crops.

- We have planted, all this
Napier grass, all over.

- So she's able to
feed her livestock

from these cover crops
and at the same time

control soil erosion
within her farm.

- What used to happen, is
that all the water raining,

most of it would just wash off.

And we used to have big floods.

There was a lot of landslides.

But with more people doing
conservation in their farms,

the water doesn't just run off.

There's much more infiltration.

- You can see these trees,

the water has really helped us.

- Very healthy crop there.

- We're planting
millions of trees

in the river riparian areas.

Avocado, macadamia,
and other trees

ensuring that there
isn't too much

run off when it's raining.

So we're seeing much
more water flowing.

That means there's more water
flowing to the city every day.

So what we're seeing in
the city of Nairobi now,

they we're getting
good quality water

all through the rainy season.

And when it is not raining,
they're getting much more.

Some of the people actually
never got water in their taps.

And they were having
to rely on water

that is ferried with jerrycans.

The price of buying
water from jerrycans

is 20 times more than
it would have been

if you had water from
the city water company.

Now, many households
are able to get water

direct from their taps.

And they can have a clean house,

they can have a
bath and be fresh

and they can bathe
their children.

Seven years ago, some
big companies in Nairobi

were projecting
that within 10 years

they would actually
leave Nairobi

just because they are
too much water dependent

and the amount of water
supply was going down.

So it's interesting to
see that within five years

after developing the Water Fund

and they're now getting much
more stable supply of water,

they are no longer thinking
about moving out of the city.

It's good for jobs, and is
good for Kenyan economy.

And that water is only
being made possible

by the conservation effort
happening in the watershed.

- From the time I started
saving that water,

my soil has improved.

Bananas, I used to harvest
very few and smaller ones.

These days I harvest
these big ones,

which help me to get
something in my pocket.

I'm always having food
to feed my family.

And at the same time, I sell.

And we're
seeing many, many farmers

who are now getting
much more income.

And we've seen that
transform people's lives.

- We're all sharing
the same atmosphere.

We all have an equal interest

in pulling carbon out
of the atmosphere,

and it doesn't really matter
where it's pulled out of.

About 70% of the
calories in the world

are created by
small holder farmers

who are growing food
primarily for their families.

But those farmers
are equally capable

in participating in
carbon sequestration.

It may actually represent

the most interesting cash crop

for a small holder farmer.

And so that represents

a significant potential
around the world.

- What I love about
this place is we are

in the greater Yellowstone area,

is the second most
bio-diverse grassland,

after the Serengeti,
in the world.

So we have 30 to
40 grizzly bears

that will actually come
through this property.

There are packs of wolves.

We have antelope and elk.

I mean, you look around
and the diversity here

is just extraordinary,

and that is being fostered

by good management practices
by ranchers out here

that really are committed to,

how do we work with landscapes?

And how do we work with animals,
including your wildlife?

See how how tight that is?

That's what the caraway
is trying to open up.

- So this is the caraway.

- The bears eat this.

- So he ate that down, right?

- He ate it down.

So the bears come out at
specific times of the year?

- Yep, they come out in
mid-August to mid-September.

I grew up
conventionally ranching.

We had a cow calf operation.

We ran sheep.

We had horses.

My family's ranch, historically,
it was my grandparents'.

My dad has four brothers,

so there's a lot of masculine
energy on this ranch.

But over the years,
it's shifted.

And here I am now
with my husband

and our two little
girls, helping manage it.

Because of the changes
in the ecosystem,

and the grizzly bears
came down further,

we were having challenges
with our cattle.

We worked with Nicole
for the last few years.

She's helped us tremendously

with information
on the landscape.

Now we're looking
at what it means

that the caraway has
come into the soil,

and why the bears are here,

so that we can keep the
conflict at a minimum,

so that we can all enjoy it.

- The cattle are actually
safer in a lot of ways,

because there's this really,
really rich food source.

Now the bears can eat this,
and then go and hibernate,

instead of eating your
cows to hibernate.

- Yeah, exactly.

One of the things that
we are experimenting with

on the ranch right now is
our range riding program.

People out there who are very
good horsewomen and horsemen,

you know, if you have vulnerable
cattle that are scattered,

the horse and the rider
are coming up on the edges,

making it part of the cattle's
choice to come together.

And then we just
sit there for awhile

so that then they take it
on as their own behavior.

- Animals actually moving
together as a unit,

is not just predator protection,

you're really getting
this massaging process.

You're really getting
those soils enlivened up,

and we're building that
structure through that process.

I mean, it's how
grasslands evolved.

We need to have livestock
with grasslands.

You can't have a grassland
without livestock.

One of our strengths as ranchers

is that we can share
our discoveries.

- The other day we
were at the ranch,

and we found a bunch of worms.

I'd never seen them
like that, never.

That means that we're
improving the land a lot.

- One of the most
important indicators

of the health of
your grasslands,

is the diversity
of your wildlife.

The day we decided
to work with nature,

I would say it in just
one word, abundance.

We were excited this year
to find the golden eagle,

because the golden eagle
represents top of the chain.

You have this pristine
free-of-toxins environment.

For me, holistic management
was the perfect fit,

to do the cattle ranching
business that I love,

and also to protect and to grow

this wildlife that
I really love.

- The Savory Institute,

we have currently around
50 hubs in all continents.

It's very exciting.

We believe that by
influencing the management,

little by little,

the new emergent
science points to

an increasing carbon
sequestration in
grassland soils.

But it's not just the carbon,
it's your healing land,

you're supporting more
biological diversity,
more wildlife.

- In the Mara,

we are already seeing
the fruits of it.

Because our cows are healthy,

and we have grass
throughout the year.

We started with 357 cows,

and now we headed to 700 cows.

- Enonkishu Conservancy
has been a very good model.

We have around 16
conservancies in Mara.

Most the conservancies

are really interested
with our approach.

- I come from Lemek Conservancy,

which is a nearby
bigger conservancy.

The Lemek members
have been going

to the Mara Training
Center to get training,

on how to implement the
holistic management.

- And we sit down
with the herders.

Well you can just teach
even under the tree.

You just go step by step

on how to do the
planned grazing.

Now they are doing the
block grazing plan.

So we had a very
fruitful lesson.

They really like it.

Thank you very much.

And I have trained
around 700 landowners

and around 300 herders as well.

The people understand
it's not about

the number of animals.

It's not about the land.

It's not about climate change.

It is about how management
is being done on the land.

The numbers of the wildlife is
increasing on a daily basis.

What they have come
to prove is that

wildlife and livestock
can graze together

without any problems.

In two days' time,
Lemek Conservancy

will start their holistic
grass management plan,

by allowing 1,000
or so number of cows

to come in to graze
in the conservancy.

This gives the Mara
a bright future.

- The way climate
change has been framed,

is that it's a
problem of emissions,

and the ordinary person
has nothing to do there.

It's always been kind of
leave it to the experts,

and that has left
people feeling helpless,

and kind of tuned out.

How do we encourage
people to shift

not only how they do things,
but how they see things.

The very first thing is to know

that healing
ecosystems is possible.

Your backyard, your
lawn, is an ecosystem.

Just imagine if
everybody who has a lawn,

took a little piece of that,

and grew some
vegetables and herbs.

Wow, the artichoke
looks more artichokey.

Then you get your
connection to the land,

and you're actually
relating to all land

in a different way, because
you see it differently.

What it really is about, is
how people feel connected.

- Green Cover Seed, it started
out with just our kids,

but as we grew that business,

eventually we ran out of kids.

Then we had to start
bringing in outside people.

The blessing with that is,

we're able to support
close to 30 families,

- With the rate that
we're going right now,

we'll probably cover
a million acres

with the cover
crops that we sell.

I think our customer list now

is 11,000 different
customers in all 50 States.

- I'll be quality control.

A lot of corn.

- We want to help
farmers and ranchers

regenerate God's creation,
specifically the soil,

but we also look at
that as people as well.

One of the reasons
the average age

of the American farmer is
older than it should be,

is because there
were a lot of kids

that were discouraged at
coming back to the farm,

because it was tough
to make a go of it.

And we have customers
all the time that say,

boy, doing this type of farming,

it's just made it fun again.

- What do you think, Boscer?

- Not only are you producing
something that's healthier,

but I can see now that I'm
building my soils back up,

and there's something
just really freeing

about knowing I'm building
something for the future.

- Now what's the best
thing we can do, Bug?

- Push them forward?

- Wait.

All right, put
your fence up, Bug.

We're into our third
year of earnestly

doing everything
we wanted to do.

I can't imagine doing
anything different.

- It's what you've always
wanted to do, Peter.

And I'm watching these two,
too, and how they're growing up.

Maloi, with her coloring book.

And that's pretty neat
for 12 year old girl,

to have her own ISBN number.

- My coloring book is
called, Don't Call It Dirt.

Barney McQuack, he's
telling all the little kids

the story of
regenerative agriculture.

This page is
specifically about how

I'm the fifth generation
of our ranching.

This is about the healthy grass.

There's a quote from Gabe Brown,

"Nature does not function
without animals."

I started out with a 4-H
project in Veterinarian Science.

They said, the way you graze
and the way you do things,

doesn't have to really do
with the animals' health.

I was like, I'm gonna
prove them wrong, so,

I emailed Nicole,

Joel Salatin and Gabe Brown.

Then Nicole called me and
she's like, you're right,

we're gonna teach them.

This is the last page.

- You know, Pete always says,

we want to put more into
the land than we take,

really sharing that with people,

and that what we're doing
and what they're getting

starts with the soil, and is
going to end up in their food,

and they're eating it
for a really good reason.

They're taking part in
this whole movement.

When you buy from someone
local, it has more meaning.

These farmers and ranchers
who are trying to work

with the land, and do
right by their soil,

do need our support.

- So hop aboard.

You can just hook
in right back there.

I decided that it was
time to take fishermen

like me and begin
transitioning all of us

from wild harvesters
to regenerative.

- So when you harvest, you
can actually keep growing.

- So I created a
Green Wave to train

that next generation
of ocean farmers.

And they come from
all walks of life.

They're land-based farmers
who can't afford land,

indigenous communities,
former fishermen.

What's interesting is
the majority are women.

It's a big surprise.

I thought it was all gonna
be crusty fishermen like me,

but oddly women seem to
be stepping into this.

Maybe they're the ones
that'll figure out

how to build a different,
more cooperative system.

For us at Green Wave,

we think that climate change
and inequality are linked.

We can create an army of
people making a living

solving the biggest
crisis of our time.

What I hope to see is sort
of these blue carbon reefs,

up and down our coast
and all around the world.

The seas are rising,
which I know is scary,

but we can either build
seawalls and flee our coasts,

or we can look at the ocean

as a place to do
climate solutions.

We can build something
completely new,

something creative
and beautiful.

- 32 years ago
that we start this,

it's amazing how many
ranchers and cattlemen

start looking at it, and
they believe that this works.

- Jesus, you recently
attended a workshop

right here in Chihuahua,

where more than 500
people, you said?

- More than 500
people attended, yeah.

- 30 years ago, how many people

you were able to get into this?

- We were just five of us.

- Five.

- Well you have
to pay them to go.

You have to give them
the food and everything.

- We can definitely bring
back any former grassland

or any desert.

The beauty of what we're
doing is when you go

to a workshop or
seminar in Chihuahua,

you see a lot of young people.

- We need to regenerate,

not just agriculture,
but our communities,

our institutions.

Only when enough people in
society say it makes sense,

can our institutions change.

So we've got to get the
young people to demand

that policies be developed

in national and global
holistic context.

Then the right things
will flow to the top.

They're not condemning anybody.

You get beyond the conflicts.

And then they'll have hope.

- The piece for me that
is the most important

with holistic management, is
honoring everybody's voice.

Every grandchild, no
matter how old they are,

are invited to family
meetings, and they come.

- Let us not love in
word, neither in tongue,

but in deed, and in truth, amen.

- Regenerative in an
agricultural sense,

we understand that.

What's the consensus
guys on the barbecue?

But it all starts
with the foundation,

and what are the roots?

Roots, when you're
dealing with soil,

you have to keep nurturing it.

But in this case, it's
the roots of our family,

and just instilling that
harmony is the only way

to accomplish anything
as a group of people,

whether it's a
family, or a country.

- They have become of one mind

to manage the land,

and preserve their quality
of life, successfully.

This is what we've been able
to achieve with our family.

- My favorite part
is watching something

come from the grass,

to the cow,

to this beautiful
piece of cheese.

- This is beautiful.

- Isn't that pretty?

- I would like to
continue learning this
method of dairying,

and one day have
this for myself.

- What I'm seeing with
regenerative agriculture,

is this is a train that's
just not gonna stop rolling.

You know, everything about
it just makes so much sense.

To see the young
people coming through,

and being really engaged
with what is possible.

How can we get good, better?

How do we really put nutrition
back into the system,

and feel really passionate
and excited about it?

Change is happening, and
happening quite quickly.

We really are seeing the
transformation of agriculture.