philosophy, technique, supplies for making grass last all summer
Everyone here at Saltmarsh Ranch, animals and shepherds alike, heaves a sigh of relief each spring when the sheep and their guardian llamas first move out of their winter hay feeding areas and onto pasture grass. To be sure, the sheep cannot help but gorge themselves, creating havoc with their excretory functions but putting huge smiles on their faces and ours. […]
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 […]