Women's Culture Jill

W O M E N ' S C U L T U R E 39 work with her not against her, to use the animals to do the work instead of a tractor, or a farmer who wants to use fertilizers and sprays… back where farms were 100 years ago” So how do people go about that? Communities need to support small local farmers. Farmers doing the right thing by the land. Farmers practicing holistic management. Holistic management means using a variety of animals to improve land over large scale commercial machinery and chemical fertilisers. Each animal has so many benefits : All grazing animals eat from different parts of the vegetation and using strip grazing ensures all Our food system needs to change… Not that long ago we wanted to be totally organic, then people wanted to be sustainable now sustainable is not good enough, we need to be regenerating the landscape chef2farmer_atlittleeden vegetation to be eaten and then rested to regenerate. Cows eat the pasture, crush down old vegetation and open up new paddocks for new grass lands. Their manure acts as a huge fertiliser system especially when adding some dung bettles to break down and take down the manure deep into the soil. Chickens then go through scattering manure, scratch the soils surface and poop the most amazing product! Pigs turn everything over, uprooting plants, crushing down old vegetation and once they have worked their magic, just scatter some perineal and native grass seeds to regenerate the pasture. We also scatter turnips, kale, chickory and cow pea seeds to add diversity to the pasture.