Prioritize Long-Term Soil Health

[Music] all right folks we've got the man the myth the legend here greg judy we're on the judy farm right now uh greg thanks a lot for putting on the grazing school yeah it's been a pretty good time this is the day after the grazing school and i kind of wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about what this is about like what what the grazing school uh is is hoping to accomplish for both new farmers old farmers experienced farmers uh i mean there was just a broad array of different age groups it was um so we have people in their 20s up to people in their 70s yeah and people are wanting to learn how to how to farm regeneratively there was people there that had no land no animals yep they were just wanting to get started learning yep the most interesting question i heard was how many times does a cow poop a day yeah and uh we didn't have an answer yeah the vet had an answer yeah yeah that's right so there's a lot of people especially now in this pandemic thing they're getting more and more concerned about their security of their food and even being safe you know and get out in the country and get you a place set up and you can raise your own food and it is secure it's a nice feeling you can go in the freezer and get you something to eat that's it that's it and it's good food josh it's not that stuff that you it's real food or out of a box right right nutrient dense food that's what it's all about and and doing the right thing for the land so greg talking about the grazing school why would someone want to come out to green pastures farm for your grazing school and you and you do this twice a year here on the farm at the moment yep we do a spring grazing school it's always the first weekend of the month in may and then we usually do one in september it's usually around the first uh 10 days of september somewhere um and we host it right here at our farm jan and i we've been doing this now for 14 years and we normally have a guest speaker come in and help me with the school and this year because the lockdowns is a little bit harder to get in there's a guy from africa used to come over yep and anyway uh so this is the first one that jan and i did solo just me speaking the interns helped some uh but i just couldn't do it without jan i mean she really puts a lot of the planning together and getting all everybody you know signed up and it takes well you saw yesterday oh there's some work it's quite an undertaking we had a hundred right at 100 people show up from i…