When I lay out the benefits of silvopasture to a producer, I like to highlight four key goals: Shade, shelter (windbreak), summer fodder and winter feed. There are other benefits of course, like nitrogen fixation, cycling of nutrients from deep underground, increased...
If you plant trees in a pasture, you can kiss your sweet, lush, beautiful forages goodbye. Or so the fear goes. When talking about trees and pastures (which I tend to do a lot), there is one main hesitation that comes up again and again: “Won’t that hurt my forage...
Don’t you sometimes wish it was spring year-round? I’m a fan of rollercoasters, but only at an amusement park. Not when it comes to business. Photo from Jessica A. Williams, Penn State. As I write this, snow is coming down towards the tail-end of February, and...
You and I are privy to an important yet little-known fact: well-managed ruminants can do wonders for soils and ecosystems. Yet the group of people that understands this simple truth is much, much too small. It seems regenerative grazing has a PR problem. There are...
When you think of Italian food, what pictures come to mind? Scrumptious spaghetti. Luscious lasagna. Perfect pizzas. What do they all have in common, other than the ability to send you into a carb-induced coma after a heavy lunch on a hot day? Tomatoes. They all use...
