Grazing on Marginal Land: Agroforestry and Building Pasture
Do you have a few acres of marginal, overgrown land and are wondering, “what’s next?” At Spring Pastures Farm, farmers Brooke and Tom are converting rocky, semi-wooded terrain into thriving pastureland for their herd of Devon beef cattle. Utilizing rotational grazing and a low-input approach, their Middletown Valley farm boasts a mix of pastures: some partially wooded, some full of native plants, some seeded with mixtures of nutritional grasses. At this field day, we’ll do a walking farm tour, view and discuss the farmers’ methods for converting previously continually grazed land, mono-crop tilled land, and rocky and overgrown land into pastures, and participate in a HayBeGone demo. Please pre-register.
Spring Pasture’s Farm is also enrolled in the Soil Health Benchmark Study. Learn more here. Join the Million Acre Challenge here.
Questions? Please contact Caroline Selle at caroline@futureharvest.org
This material is based upon work made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service through grant AM180100XXXXG072. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.