How my horses help regenerate soil for richness in fertility & biodiversity
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- I was asked by an other UA-cam viewer to explain my retentive farming with horses.
Soil food - organic material- is a diversity of natural inputs & soil disturbance which feed a complex diversity of life in soil. Essential for a healthy soil biome which includes, microorganisms, insect life, bacterial life, fungal life and to create an aerated soil that oxogen can easily penetrate to feed a thriving soil community an essential element missed by many in understanding soil health & productivity. These complex elements will produce an easy accessibility to essential macronutrient & micronutrient within soil’s biome which can feed a biologically complex biodiverse plant life that herbivores & other wildlife can feed upon.
Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm which means restoring soils health and regenerating its natural carbon and nutrient cycle with biodiversity of pasture sward with grasses, legumes, forbs and herbs. This also means we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for healthy environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, ants, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, hare, hedgehogs, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock. This mean we farm in a style of mob grazing and giving fields long rest times between grazings. We have seen a huge increase and return of wildlife including woodcock and snipe in winter months foraging for dung beetle larvae, red squirrel, wood peckers and pine martens. We also have the rare natter bat and previously thought extinct Tawny Mining bees.
We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog and her coworkers. We also sell alpaca yarn spun for our own alpaca. Our yarns are 100 percent natural, grown by our sheep which grazing our small green Irish fields. This wool is naturally sequestered carbon which you can then knit into warm environmental friendly clothing. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
Such an interesting video packed with information. Thank you very much. 😊
Fascinating explanation of regenerative smaller holding northern hemisphere farming. Old school blending with new technology.
Great information Thank-you 👍 👌
Muy buen video
Brilliant!! I wish more people applied regenerative farming methods.
Thank you, very clear explanation.
V good video
Thank you
Great video. Do you know if this works for subsequent horse grazing rather than sheep? Ie horses usually avoid lush growth around their dung areas in open grazing systems, potential parasite probs etc. etc.
In my system by the time horses are back on ground they previously grazed months have past so no evidence of manure. during summer months they’re moved regularly as there’s no set grazing which is when problems occur
@@SuzannaCramptonIreland Thank you x
What is the average recovery time for decomposition and new growth in each area? With the exception of a drought slowing or completely stopping the process, what else might affect recovery?
freezing also slows down the process
What about parasites? :)
Dung beetles have small mites which hop off when landing on the dung. they eat fly eggs and their larvae and also parasitic worms and their eggs and larvae. Also in our fields are a broad selection of plant species which have tannins in them which kill internal worms by preventing them from shedding their skins when they grow. So they essentially starve to death inside their host animal. More dung beetles less parasites and those animals that carry a worm burdens don’t keep their genetics on the farm as sheep, goats, cattle all can inherit weaknesses be they conformation or health related.