Joel Salatin

And we actually found 100-year-old fence posts buried 10 feet under silt. Can you truck that? Yes, yes. And what trucks and what front-end loaders? Yeah, a track loader, you know, and a couple dump trucks. I mean, you're just running it, whatever, you know, 200 yards. I mean, it's close. Boom, boom, boom. So you're flattening everything back out. So we're filling in those gullies.

You just fill it in with the material you're digging to build a pond. I see. So you're just digging out.

You just fill it in with the material you're digging to build a pond. I see. So you're just digging out.

You just fill it in with the material you're digging to build a pond. I see. So you're just digging out.

Well, we hired an excavator. Yeah. Yeah. But that wasn't done early. That was done much, much later. We just started moving animals around. On the land you had. And the choreography of moving them around itself was a tremendous healer. And I watched over my lifetime these big quarter-acre saucers of bare rock, just like a scab on your hand,

Well, we hired an excavator. Yeah. Yeah. But that wasn't done early. That was done much, much later. We just started moving animals around. On the land you had. And the choreography of moving them around itself was a tremendous healer. And I watched over my lifetime these big quarter-acre saucers of bare rock, just like a scab on your hand,

Well, we hired an excavator. Yeah. Yeah. But that wasn't done early. That was done much, much later. We just started moving animals around. On the land you had. And the choreography of moving them around itself was a tremendous healer. And I watched over my lifetime these big quarter-acre saucers of bare rock, just like a scab on your hand,

You know, it heals from the outside in, doesn't heal from the inside out. It heals from the outside in. You know, it gets smaller and smaller, and finally that last little, you know, and you pull it off and you have new skin. That's exactly the way the soil was on these barren places.

You know, it heals from the outside in, doesn't heal from the inside out. It heals from the outside in. You know, it gets smaller and smaller, and finally that last little, you know, and you pull it off and you have new skin. That's exactly the way the soil was on these barren places.

You know, it heals from the outside in, doesn't heal from the inside out. It heals from the outside in. You know, it gets smaller and smaller, and finally that last little, you know, and you pull it off and you have new skin. That's exactly the way the soil was on these barren places.

Every year, you know, 18 inches, the soil would come up on the edge, 18 inches, 18 inches, till eventually the rocks weren't out there today. And so why did it come back exactly? Because vegetation... If you can get enough decomposing vegetation, that builds soil. Right, right. That's how you build soil. So blow up, like the dead leaves blow along the edges and collect.

Every year, you know, 18 inches, the soil would come up on the edge, 18 inches, 18 inches, till eventually the rocks weren't out there today. And so why did it come back exactly? Because vegetation... If you can get enough decomposing vegetation, that builds soil. Right, right. That's how you build soil. So blow up, like the dead leaves blow along the edges and collect.

Every year, you know, 18 inches, the soil would come up on the edge, 18 inches, 18 inches, till eventually the rocks weren't out there today. And so why did it come back exactly? Because vegetation... If you can get enough decomposing vegetation, that builds soil. Right, right. That's how you build soil. So blow up, like the dead leaves blow along the edges and collect.

And so by letting the grass grow to this second point where we're getting this, you know, more manure from the animals themselves. So the plants will colonize the rocks, essentially. Yes, the plants, absolutely. And so today, all those areas that when I was a kid, you know, it was bare rock, today has, you know, 16 inches of soil on it.

And so by letting the grass grow to this second point where we're getting this, you know, more manure from the animals themselves. So the plants will colonize the rocks, essentially. Yes, the plants, absolutely. And so today, all those areas that when I was a kid, you know, it was bare rock, today has, you know, 16 inches of soil on it.

And so by letting the grass grow to this second point where we're getting this, you know, more manure from the animals themselves. So the plants will colonize the rocks, essentially. Yes, the plants, absolutely. And so today, all those areas that when I was a kid, you know, it was bare rock, today has, you know, 16 inches of soil on it.

Yes, absolutely.

Yes, absolutely.

Yes, absolutely.

Right. In fact, when we look at that, in 1961, the first soil test that we took, we averaged about 1% organic matter. Organic matter is a kissing cousin to carbon. Organic matter is something is— Right, because carbon is life-based. Life-based. Life is carbon-based. Yeah, right, right, right.