We had a very nice visit from grazing expert and consultant, Sarah Flack a couple of weeks ago. We discussed our grazing plan, forage diversity, livestock management and soil management practices with her. She was excited,” to see a new piece of land that’s just starting the process of being transformed by good grazing practices”. We spoke about abundance of “weeds” in the fields and the necessity to graze problem areas so as to eat the weeds before they go into seed or trample them to add to the organic matter in the soil. She also gave us some great ideas about how to control our fly population, by understanding their breeding cycle and how to disrupt it!
Sarah Flack
July 20, 2010 by Omar Khudari
Please take a look at PolyfaceFarms.com. Great practices to rotate the animals through the fields – timing to disrupt flies, keep the chickens growing fat, etc. A short overview about 2/3rds of the way through this video, Michael Pollan at TED: http://blog.ted.com/2008/02/07/michael_pollan/