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Healthy Cows Eat Dirt
There is actually a term for eating the earth, geophagia (geo = earth; phagia = eating). So what are the health benefits? Minerals Clay absorbs toxins This article from Answers covers more topics than geophagia, scroll down to the section “Eating Dirt” for a little further reading….
Pasture Poultry
Prior to our start with cattle, we practiced pasture animal production using poultry. Specifically chickens known as “broilers”, birds bred and raised for their meat, not eggs. Pasture poultry production is a fairly easy process. Day old chicks arrive in the mail. Their first…
Beginning Farmer Award – 2012
Our farm is located in the tall grass prairie region of eastern Nebraska. A rare remnant of this tall grass prairie exists within our pastures yet today. Most people are familiar that historically a key component of the grassland ecosystem involved large roaming herds of grazing bison. When we arrived in 1997,…
Welcome to our new blog!
Here we will share our experience on a small “grass based farm”. Maybe you are interested in some of the same things we are? Enjoyment and health benefits of grass based animal products Local foods Environmental harmony of grass and animal production Tall grass prairies, soil, water…
