For eleven months of the year, I watch with glee as our sheep search and destroy the wild Himalayan blackberry vines that are the curse of fields and streams here in Oregon and throughout the Pacific Northwest. Each year we are amazed at our animals’ ability to forestall the re-infestation of our fenced pastures. Nary has […]
Loyal readers, I must apologize. It has been suggested that what I described in my last post was not, technically speaking, pasture rotation, but rather something with the intriguing label of “strip grazing.” I don’t know about you, but visions of a major thoroughfare in Las Vegas featuring a bevy of either restaurants or another […]
As we approach the autumnal equinox, we begin our annual fretting about how long the pasture grass will last and when we have to convert to pricey hay feeding for the winter. The worry meter reads particularly high this year because much of the Pacific Northwest got far too little rain, so the demand for hay […]