Let's say you start raising chickens on grass, pastured poultry. You're rotating the chickens around your land and as you do that the chickens leave behind nitrogen rich fertilizer packets at every stop. Something that the grass will respond to but growing, a lot... The more that you do this, the more grass that you grow. Now you are stuck with a lot of grass, and it's getting to the point where the grass is too tall for the chickens... You have a grass problem. How do you manage that grass? You can mow it. That's one solution. Not everyone's favorite solution, but an effective solution that for sure works. But mowing grass is a cost tat the end of the day. You can't mow it and sell the mower. You burn fuel and need to put new fuel in it next time. It's simple a tool that you put inputs into to manage pasture. On a long term resiliency and fragility scale a mower based system is fragile, it's a problem. What if you take that problem, a too much grass problem and turn it into a solution. Maybe, or you get an animal to mow it for you... specifically a ruminant like a cow. Today Darby lays out the basics of what raising on cattle on grass is really like. He discusses his cattle operation, how he selected his breeds, what advice he would suggest for beginners, and how much land you actually need to raise cattle. And it may surprise you, because it's probably not as much as you think. Let's start at the beginning and talk about how Darby got started with cattle in the first place.

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