Spring Yard Work Using Cows Continued….
I’m so excited to inspect my newly trampled and fertilized lawn. There is poop everywhere! I can’t step 2 feet without finding a pile. (That’s what they would technically call an even manure distribution.) The hay has been eaten, and what was not eaten was...Regenerative Grazing Part 3: How We Are Implementing the Natural Model
In a nutshell, we use a small strand of poly wire to keep our animals together in a herd as they would be in the wild. We move them frequently in order to give the land the benefit of even fertilizer distribution and maximum trample, referred to as animal impact....
Regenerative Grazing: A Closer Look
“Regenerative Grazing, Part 1” Left us with a beautiful pastoral scene that most have been conditioned to to use as the benchmark of proper grazing techniques. This highly managed plan has resulted in cow that will not eat most plants, has lost the...
Spring Yard Work Using Cows?
It’s early March and everything is brown, except for these tiny little green clumps that keep popping up in my lawn. They get worse each year. Since my day job and the farm consume most of my time, there is little left to go around for general lawn detail. If it’s...
Walking With Cows
If you were raised, live, work, or frequently travel through a rural area, you have most likely encountered escaped livestock at sometime in your life. If you have livestock, especially cattle, it’s not if they get out, it’s when. As responsible producers,...