The soil is alive. Even though conventional agriculture seems to have forgotten that, research is developing to say just how necessary it is to keep our land healthy. In order to keep our food healthy we must try and replicate nature in our farming methods. Grass Corp. is doing this.
In this post I discuss how the farm animals, plants, and soil life all work together to survive the winter. The winter is also a healing time for the earth. Snow has the benefits of being good for Insulation and better for the water cycle.
When we graze on the farm we are managing a natural solar system. The plants have a growing cycle and when it is completed they must be grazed in order to stay young and growing. If they mature then they stop growing and collecting sunlight. The lost growth is unhealthy for the plants and the animals that rely on them.
When we graze our animals at Grass Corp. we imitate the American Bison by bunching the animals up tight and moving them daily. This animal movement gives the animals fresh grass that feeds not only themselves but the soil and plants as well.
At Grass Corp. we move our animals every day to fresh, clean, grass. We do this for more reasons than just keeping things clean or giving them the freshest food possible. I will explain in more depth in more blog posts, but in this post I lay out where the idea for this movement came from and how nature moved the animals without fences.
