Three Living Legends Discuss Living Pathways

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My grandfather used living pathways for most of his life. He died at 97. At 90 he was still putting out 300 foot of beans by hand.

Great moderation. Thank you for summarizing what the farmers are saying to help us understand better. I'd love to see more pictures of some of the stuff they're talking about while they explain.

I love the "time factor" mentioned. That's the weakest link in gardening, as I always have about 3 things to do and only time for one. What i love about video's like this, is it reassures everyone that there are a 100 different methods of gardening and each and everyone can be successful in certain locations and climates. The main thing is, just go, get your hands in the dirt, and grow.

Best Sunday morning of 2023. Super long video need to make a second cup of coffee. Thanks as always another brilliant video. Your awesome

I'm loving the shared passion

The information on cutworms and mustard covercropping was very valuable to me . Thanks to all.

This video influenced many things on the garden I started this spring, thank everyone for sharing this wonderful information

Scott hall syntropia is using “living pathways” as a source of biomass to keep beds constantly mulched (and achieve maximum photosynthesis ) using a handy jig he calls “the mulchatron” to organise the biomass. Very interesting.

I laughed out loud at the "new rule on mowing" that was 10 years old. That was a big slice of humble pie for a 4th year gardener. Its invigorating to see the tenure in the craft.

What a good and informative show! Thank you for the 3 panelists and the super host.

Thanks yall! Ever since hearing Hellen and some other shows, I bought her book and we’re trying out her strip tillage system on our farm! ❤

A stellar conversation with experience and encouragement at all levels. Much respect and gratitude to all. I enjoy your wit and passion.

More please :) thank you for the knowledge and years saved in future :)

Unfortunately, I live in a high desert where water is more scarce and precious. Living pathways will not work. I love how they look and would certainly enjoy them. I am partially Back to Eden gardening for the water preservation and earth covering benefits. I get lots of bark every year and lay it down thick.

Last year I started my permanent garden doing 5’ wide beds and 5’ wide pathways so I can use my zero turn with a bagger in between can handle wheel barrows or wagons and a water hose doesn’t hurt to be drug and turned arround in it. I hate walking in the soil and stepping on crops beds are 180’ long did 2 strips last year planning on adding another row each year for another 2-3 years love seeing others doing the same

This was a great discussion! Tons of great information. Jesse, I appreciate that you are willing to talk with three people that have a lot of experience and knowledge to add to no till practices, despite using tillage themselves. It is important that we are able to look outside the box of no till dogma to improve our farming practices.

Notes notes notes! Need I mention I took a LOT of notes. REALLY enjoyed this podcast. Living pathways sounds like a great ideo. We are now 100% some type of drip irrigation. Was a positive move forward for us. Then it has been VERY dry here. We have only received 5.06 inches of rain this year. Most of it was in the fall too. So what thrived? The oh so illustrious Bermuda Grass! We are definitely on the slow road and going No-Till as well as producing our own mulch. We have also began cover cropping in our rows as well. Needing to still do quite a bit of broadforking. VERY heavy and compacted soil where we live. Anyhow we will continue to slowly trudge forward. Seems like the more we try to simplify things the more complex it becomes. Thank You for yet another great video. We definitely look forward to them every Sunday morning!

Loved Lou's point about maintaining microbial life that can migrate back into tilled beds. Typo in my previous comment, should read "FULL bloom" not fill bloom. Also really interesting comments from Helen about how to maintain microbial life and michorrhizae in lightly tilled ground. Like many interviews I have conducted, some of the most useful info comes at the end!

Rock on! ,Most interesting video I’ve seen in along time.