An Age-Old Process
Holistic grazing restores grasslands. Healthy grasslands lead to carbon sequestration, drought resilience, food security and financially viable communities.
Tradition With A Touch of Modern
Holistic Grazing...what's this all about?
Holistic grazing embraces and honors the complexity of nature, and uses nature’s models of wild herds crossing the plains, pushed by predators, to bring practical approaches to land management, and restoration. Especially the use of different herds and animal species brings a multitude of advantages from naturally balanced parasite control to all plant species being eaten and a variety of nutrients entering the ground. We implement this planned grazing system with our herds of cows and our ‘state of the art’ chicken grazing system.
It takes a tractor to raise a farm
Ok, so we’re not completely old school, nor are we silly. We use machinery when required, in a way that compliments and maintains the ethics of the farm and what we have set out to acheive.
It's all about what you put in
This type of grazing management is now considered to be the single most beneficial technique for restoring the land and creating biodiversity.
Bit By Bit
We're builders...soil builders
The art of soil building is finding the right chemical balance between clay, water, air, organic material and micro organisms while adding large amounts of bio mass. After integrating the water retention systems, we have to bring more life back into the soil by a process called mineral cycling. This supports plant growth which will bring back organic materials into the ground..
The Food Web
Healthy soils are a result of a healthy, intact soil food web (microbiology) and are the foundation for all life. It’s what connects everything that exists above ground to what exists below. An incredible diversity of organisms make up the soil food web. As these organisms eat, grow, and move through the soil, they make it possible to have clean water, clean air, healthy plants, and moderated water flow.
A System We Believe In
Regenerative is a system that is always improving. Improving from an ecological perspective is increasing in diversity, complexity of interactions or moving from simple to complex. In our case soil is being built, biomass is increasing which in turn is sequestering more carbon and improving the soil biology. Bare soil moving to a forested state is behaving regeneratively.