I'm nearly there (pic)

[topside1]

Just want to say that five years ago this field was a nutritional disaster. Actually all my fields needed CPR. After five years of goats browsing back the weeds the grasses took hold. Years ago finding orchard grass, timothy, cheat, and clover would never have been found. Today I'm happy to say that the premier grasses are making a powerful comeback....I guess spreading hundreds of manure barrow loads may have also helped too. Just wanted to share something thats heading in a positive direction…Topside

[kabri]

Wow, that is gorgeous! Congrats and thanks for the inspiration!!!!!

[farmmaid]

Very nice. Land will never "come back" fully unless there are animals as part of the process..................

[agmantoo]

Looks terrific! The view makes it all worthwhile doesn't it?

[Jcran]

HOLY Buckets! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEYOOOOOOOOOOOOTEEEEEEEEEEEEEFUUUUULLL !

We are officially over 72" of rain for the year, 3.88 since June 1st. Things are green here, but RANK and muddy, and I'm growing a bumper crop of "nutritional disaster" and mud. I've got two pigs in one of our "pasture-ettes" and God willing I'll find one or two nano-seconds Sunday night to move goats over and pigs into a new pasture-ette so I can seed the churned one. Over the past 11 years, invasives slowly took over 3 of the 4 pens...the only one that looked gorgeous this year was the one that pigs were in two years ago. The pigs got rid of every single weed (and blade of grass, too) that had invaded. I'm hoping they'll do the same in the next pen for me afore they go to freezer camp in July.

[springvalley]

Where`s the cup and the flag? Looks like a golf course. Keep up the good work TOP.>Thanks Marc

[francismilker]

ditto on what Marc said! looks like a golfcourse. Great job Topside!

[MollyK]

that looks amazing!! Great job. I wish our pastures on 'the other side' of our land looked like that. it needs to be burned off again for sure.
looks great topside!

[francismilker]

MollyK,
I learned this year after many years of performing early Spring controlled burns on my place that some of my soil in not condusive to burning. Although the grass greens after I burn and the ticks and other critters slack off a bit the folks at the soil conservation office looked at the soil chart informed me that parts of my property's soil type says to "not burn". Just a thought.......

[topside1]

Almost forgot the project leaders "Dung Beetles". Got to say they do work hard and without complaint......thanks everyone for the comments.....Topside

[hippygirl]

Beautiful!

Makes me want to kick off my shoes and just run through it!

I'll stop now before I break into song....

[Trisha in WA]

Thanks topside for the motivation! That is spectacular! I hope to get our compost pile going good this year (we just moved here 2 weeks ago) and get it on my fields later this summer or next spring. I am convinced that doing that along with MIG we will have nice lush fields here too.