Promote and Rebuild Healthy Living Soil

Keeping soils covered with diverse living plants is key to building healthy soils and microbial communities necessary to regenerate farm ecosystems.  As a result, we use no-till practices to plant cover crops right into our perennial pastures to build plant diversity and provide cool season forages for our animals.

Raise Healthy/Strong Plants and Animals

Encouraging the growth of microbial life is one of the most crucial parts of raising healthy plants and animals. Planting living roots in the soil feeds the soil's microbial life. That in turn feeds essential nutrients to the plants, ensuring that our fields are never bare. We use cool season cover crops planted into perennial warm season pastures to keep living roots in the soil year round. This allows us to rotationally graze our animals non-stop, ensuring they are fed the most nutritious diet possible. Our soil then further benefits from the animal "doing their business" before moving onto fresh pasture.

Improve Water Cycling and Retention in Soil

Grazing various types of livestock on our pastures adds valuable nutrients to the soil, keeping the plants in a healthy state and eliminating the need for fertilizers. Doing so also builds life and organic matter in the soil, which then captures large amounts of carbon, allowing rainwater to infiltrate and be retained in the soil. This reduces runoff from our farm, retaining the valuable resources needed in our ecosystem.

Encourage and Promote Diversity

Diversity is an essential component in regenerating farm ecosystems and building healthy soils that retain water and nutrients on the land. Planting diverse cover crops, integrating farm animals and rotational grazing them, supporting wildlife and actively restricting the use of chemicals all push towards a thriving ecosystem that includes you and me. We live healthy lives when we interact in an ecosystem that is good. Our bodies work better when our source of food is good.