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If you have been following along on social media or if you read last week’s blog, you know that my #pastureproject this year is to identify all the plants in our pastures (or as many as I can). Along with identifying what’s already in our pastures, I’ve also been learning more about pasture plants in general. Over the years, I noticed some fields were sparse or overrun by things I was pretty sure shouldn't be there. For example, one area is practically a field of daisies, we
When I first started farming, I knew hay was dried grass and that we needed enough of it to feed our sheep through the winter. Beyond that, I didn’t know much. One of the first things I learned about hay was how variable the hay bales we are taking off the field can be. Twice a season, we take core samples of the hay and send them in to the sheep nutritionist who then formulates our pellet based on what is in the hay. We get a report and the first thing that jumped out was ho
