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Grazing Peas, Beans and Phacelia
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<blockquote data-quote="Timbo1080" data-source="post: 3783066" data-attributes="member: 3693"><p>This is a farm that is following the Salatin/Savory/Brown methods using Mob grazing and herbal leys, followed by mobile chicken hotels behind the cattle. The field in question was due for conversion from Arable to herbal ley, but since the season has been so dry, we are looking to drill an alternative and cheaper cover now, following holistic ideals of carbon sequestration, and a more natural approach to building the soil biota, and then, when the conditions are more suitable, drilling the originally intended herbal ley. The question is whether the Phacelia will cause any problem to the cattle, as we would obviously like to be able to mob graze it before drilling the herbal ley. Cutting it would partially defeat the object, but would allow us to at least get some stages of the holistic/regen ag process started now. </p><p>Given that one definition of holistic management itself is :"a process of decision-making and planning that gives people the insights and management tools needed to understand nature", and that we are in the decision making process ref. The Phacelia, planning process wrt getting the herbal ley in, and trying to understand how the Phacelia might affect one aspect of nature - The beef cattle, I can't think how any of this is anything other than a holistic question? However, if the mods feel that it ought to be moved, I'll more than happily accept.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timbo1080, post: 3783066, member: 3693"] This is a farm that is following the Salatin/Savory/Brown methods using Mob grazing and herbal leys, followed by mobile chicken hotels behind the cattle. The field in question was due for conversion from Arable to herbal ley, but since the season has been so dry, we are looking to drill an alternative and cheaper cover now, following holistic ideals of carbon sequestration, and a more natural approach to building the soil biota, and then, when the conditions are more suitable, drilling the originally intended herbal ley. The question is whether the Phacelia will cause any problem to the cattle, as we would obviously like to be able to mob graze it before drilling the herbal ley. Cutting it would partially defeat the object, but would allow us to at least get some stages of the holistic/regen ag process started now. Given that one definition of holistic management itself is :"a process of decision-making and planning that gives people the insights and management tools needed to understand nature", and that we are in the decision making process ref. The Phacelia, planning process wrt getting the herbal ley in, and trying to understand how the Phacelia might affect one aspect of nature - The beef cattle, I can't think how any of this is anything other than a holistic question? However, if the mods feel that it ought to be moved, I'll more than happily accept. [/QUOTE]
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