08/28/2025
I stopped in at the steer pasture the other night to check on its recovery (still less than a month since the last steers left).
There’s a message regenerative grazing gives me almost every time I go for a look around the pastures: big, ugly, uncomfortable impact followed by a season of rest is transformative. You see those big, happy, thriving Graza radish? That was the high traffic “feed me” hang out zone that the steers practically had turned completely to dust not too long ago. I try to remember these visuals whenever I feel like I’m getting turned to dust, too.
I also got to witness an incredible unintended benefit of planting this patch: relay blooms to support the pollinators. The sunflowers are pretty well done blooming and filling their seed, which the birds will soon be enjoying. BUT the Berseem clover is just starting to bloom! The honey bees and especially the bumbles (we LOVE to see them around) are thriving. For context, all of the seed production fields of clover have long since bloomed. Even the red clover, which is considered late, is being combined right now. The Berseem seed production fields would have bloomed about two months ago, but by spring planting this patch, then grazing it in July, I’ve delayed the bloom and provided bee food when it’s quite a bit more scarce. Yay! I wonder what other beneficials are having a great time out there!
