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Leverage Livestock for Soil Integration

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Changing our DIRT into SOIL on the farm without chemicals!

What happens here

For those with livestock, especially cows, old hay bales can be strategically rolled out onto pastures. The cows will eat the hay, but also inadvertently spread seeds and deposit manure, which further enriches the soil. Their trampling action helps press the hay and seeds into the ground, initiating the soil-building process.

Goal: If available, use cows to eat and trample the hay, distributing seeds and manure across the land. The cows' activity naturally breaks down the hay and integrates it into the soil.

Tools and materials

  • Cattle

What they say

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grass seed in it and it's got carbon in it and it's got feed in it so we have nine cows over here in this pasture and we're rolling the hay out for the cows to eat I'm letting the hay sit up on the top of the hill until it's time for the cows to go up there and they'll eat it and they'll but it and the next thing you know the hay rolls down the hill what we're talking about today is building soil so the whole goal with this spreading manure green manure as in

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