Sublime Pastures

12/01/2025

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There's nothing quite like pulling a legume out of the ground and seeing it just loaded with nodules. 🌱

Those small bumps on legume roots are where rhizobia bacteria colonize and get to work.

Inside these nodules, the bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, a form plants can actually use. In return, the legumes supply the bacteria with energy from photosynthesis.

This partnership means legumes can grow without pulling nitrogen from your soil.

Instead, they add it back.

When those cover crops break down, that fixed nitrogen becomes available for your next cash crop.

Healthy nodules should be pink or reddish inside. That's the active nitrogen fixation. If they're white or green, the process isn't happening effectively.

Want to make sure your legumes are fixing nitrogen? Check those roots. The nodules don't lie!

Thanks to Glen Massoth for the great photo!

11/22/2025

Flako has his best smile on excited to see everyone tomorrow hope you can make do this fun event!

09/06/2025

We go a special kind of crop…El Flaco it is very exotic flower that comes from Turkey 🇹🇷😂😂😂

06/11/2025

This girl does not do sand bags or anything heavy…:
Shout out to Arizona Bag Company for getting my ditch checks by freight cheaper and faster than local.

03/16/2025

Last Fall I decided to experiment with Sainfoin( is an introduced non-bloat causing legume) on my finishing pasture. Also great for the 🐝 & pollinators!!! I no-tilled it with winter wheat and it’s coming up all over my pasture. 🌱🌱🌱

03/08/2025

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02/25/2025

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02/22/2025

Frfr tho

Real world examples help SO much!

01/20/2025

Do your research pigs are not cows… FYI📢

I’ll apologize in advance, I’m gonna rant here.

People are sharing this post, messaging farms asking if this is how they raise pigs, aspiring homesteaders or small scale farmers are taking this as gospel, because if it’s in the internet and you see if enough this must be true.

Pigs are not cows, they do not have the stomach to convert forages into energy/weight gain. Pigs are omnivores, with single chambered stomachs that are designed by nature to eat a variety of items to meet their nutritional needs.

Can a pig be raised solely on grass and forages? Probably, is it what’s best for the pig, the flavor or the meat, and the farmers bottom line? Absolutely not. Pork is supposed to be fatty, it’s a nutritionally dense food that has multiple applications, and when we as consumers decides to mess with that, we compromised flavor and that nutritional density.

These pigs will in the long run wind up being skinny, take longer to finish, over graze and subsequently cause significant damage to the environment unless managed on a four season pasture rotation with 90% of the US is not going to be able to provide.

I for one promise you that we will never raise a pig like the one on the left, I wouldn’t serve that to my worst enemy in the world. That’s the pork of sadness I keep warning you all about.

01/14/2025

My pigs are in the middle of this healthy pasture raised pero also give grain
Pigs are omnivores not herbivores

Stop sharing this.

Right off the bat, the "credit" is given to an account that doesn't exist on any social media platform that I can find. I looked, hoping to uncover more answers.

Secondly, you can raise pigs from the same litter, identically, and end up with genetic anomalies that lead to the fat variations seen below. In this years batch of pigs, we had 3 pigs from the same litter where 2 hung over 200lbs and the third at only 136, despite being born on the same day and getting the same feed.

Third, pigs aren't ruminants and cannot gain a sustainable amount of nutrition from grazing grasses alone. While a curated pasture with large amounts of legumes and high protein forage could sustain life, it won't achieve acceptable growth. Not to mention that the amount of inputs needed to grow and maintain that forage, and the huge amount of rotations needed to preserve it, would place a huge burden on the farmer. The costs associated with that pork would be sky high.

The bottom line is that the image below, along with the "story" associated with it, add up to nothing more than an image that is shocking on the surface to the uninitiated, but nothing more than a farce to gain clicks and traffic to the site of whatever farm page is sharing it.

If we are taking the post at it's word, the hog on the left can only be described as malnourished, and the hog on the right as overfed. Somewhere in the middle ground is where we strive to be as pastured hog producers.