Mind Body Soil | Episode 3 with Colin Seis

Colin Seis is a farmer, innovator and the co-creator of a revolutionary cropping method called Pasture Cropping. Joel Salatin has stated that Colin may be as iconic as Allan Savory one day, and that Colin has done for annuals what electric fencing has done for grazing. Colin has traveled the world teaching other farmers how to pasture crop with great success. There is now estimated to be over 3 million acres pasture cropped in the world with thousands of farmers seeing the benefit in this simple yet transformative cropping practice. 

Colin talks about building a ‘farm ecosystem’ and by doing so is able to drastically reduce the need for artificial chemical inputs and animal interventions. He is seeing a rapid increase in soil organic carbon which leads to much better water holding capacity, and greater resilience through tougher times. Not only that, but he is also increasing the organic stores of all soil minerals without applying the myriad of artificial nutrients needed to grow a crop on most farms today. Colin has been awarded the Bob Hawke landcare farmer of the year, as well as many other prestigious accolades over the years. 

As the world goes through this shift into uncertain and unprecedented territory it is imperative that we move towards a more resilient food production system as soon as possible. Colin has done the hard yards and proved that Pasture Cropping works extremely well in healing landscape degradation, while keeping farms profitable in the meantime. Also worth mentioning is Colin’s pioneering work with Native perennial grasses which the First Nations people used for tens of thousands of years to sustain a thriving population. Colin has figured out a way to create the conditions for these grasses to return, and how to harvest, clean, and market these seeds at scale. 

We hope you enjoy this riveting conversation with the one and only Colin Seis. If you would like to learn more about Pasture Cropping, head to www.smartsoiledu.com.au to see the online course Smartsoil have built with Colin to amplify this movement. Thanks for listening