Entries by Rich Myers

Local Food COVID Adaptations: Pearl Drive-Thru Farmer’s Market

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NCAT’s ATTRA Agriculture Specialists are producing short videos to share what they are doing on our farms and homesteads, in hopes of giving people ideas for building food security and resiliency at home and in their communities. Colin Mitchell discusses how his local farmers market in San Antonio, Texas, has adapted to a drive-thru farmers […]

Regenerative Grazing from the Ground Up

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This video highlights Greg and Forrest Stricker’s dairy herd at Spring Creek Farms in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, and their use of warm-season annuals to supplement the herd with high quality forage while building soil health. The video was taken at a Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture Field Day in the fall of 2019. This video is […]

Adaptive Grazing: Soil Evaluation, Aggregation, and Biology

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Adaptive grazing is a regenerative livestock production system that uses multiple paddocks, frequent moves of livestock with short grazing intervals, and long rest periods to provide full pasture plant recovery. It is a proven method of increasing the resiliency of pastures by building soil organic matter, increasing soil water infiltration, promoting water conservation, adding diversity, […]

Adaptive Grazing: Mycorrhizal Fungi

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Adaptive grazing is a regenerative livestock production system that uses multiple paddocks, frequent moves of livestock with short grazing intervals, and long rest periods to provide full pasture plant recovery. It is a proven method of increasing the resiliency of pastures by building soil organic matter, increasing soil water infiltration, promoting water conservation, adding diversity, […]

Adaptive Grazing. Forage Density, Paddock Size, and Animal Movement

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Adaptive grazing is a regenerative livestock production system that uses multiple paddocks, frequent moves of livestock with short grazing intervals, and long rest periods to provide full pasture plant recovery. It is a proven method of increasing the resiliency of pastures by building soil organic matter, increasing soil water infiltration, promoting water conservation, adding diversity, […]

Adaptive Grazing. Forbs and Medicinal Compounds

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Adaptive grazing is a regenerative livestock production system that uses multiple paddocks, frequent moves of livestock with short grazing intervals, and long rest periods to provide full pasture plant recovery. It is a proven method of increasing the resiliency of pastures by building soil organic matter, increasing soil water infiltration, promoting water conservation, adding diversity, […]

Adaptive Grazing. Animal Density, Nutrition, and Parasites

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Adaptive grazing is a regenerative livestock production system that uses multiple paddocks, frequent moves of livestock with short grazing intervals, and long rest periods to provide full pasture plant recovery. It is a proven method of increasing the resiliency of pastures by building soil organic matter, increasing soil water infiltration, promoting water conservation, adding diversity, […]

Adaptive Grazing. Setting Up an Adaptive Grazing System

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Adaptive grazing is a regenerative livestock production system that uses multiple paddocks, frequent moves of livestock with short grazing intervals, and long rest periods to provide full pasture plant recovery. It is a proven method of increasing the resiliency of pastures by building soil organic matter, increasing soil water infiltration, promoting water conservation, adding diversity, […]

Customer Pickup: COVID and Sustainable Ag

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NCAT’s ATTRA Agriculture Specialists are producing short videos to share what they are doing on our farms and homesteads, in hopes of giving people ideas for building food security and resiliency at home and in their communities. In this video, Devona Bell, director of sustainable agriculture and communities as well as the NCAT ATTRA sustainable […]

Spring Pasture Management. Part 2.

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In this video, the second in a two-part series, NCAT Southeast Regional Director Margo Hale takes us on a short tour of the pastures on her farm in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, as spring approaches. Margo discusses the importance of forage diversity in pastures to provide high quality forage and to build pasture health. This video […]