Posts about intensive grazing and grazing strategies.
Picture this: You wake up to birds chirping, step outside to your ownpatch of earth, and tend to veggies that you’ll sell fresh at the localmarket. No more rush-hour traffic or desk jobs—just you, the soil, and ashot at real freedom. But can a small spread of land, say a few acres, reallypay the bills […]
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High tensile electric fence. You either love it or hate it. In my opinion, I believe that those who are oppose to high tensile electric fence feel the way they do because they think it’s unreliable or overly complicated. In this post I’ll go over a hand full of ways you can trouble shoot your
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In our last post (Small-Scale Farming: A Profitable, Sustainable Farming Model) we went over some of the basics of small-scale farming, in terms of setting goals and expectations, as well as some of the animals that you might consider raising. In this post (Part 2) I’m going to cover small scale farm infrastructure, increasing income
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Droughts are part of farming and in my neck of the woods, the saying is that we’re only ever two weeks away from a drought. Things can change quickly, leaving even the most diligent unprepared. Last year we had a decent spring, a hot dry summer, and a really good fall. During the summer, many
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Intensive grazing is not necessarily about trying to get the cattle to intensively graze an area. It’s actually management intensive grazing, so the management is the intensive part. Like a lot of people, I also refer to it as intensive grazing. The idea is to get the livestock to eat everything in the pasture, then
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