Great coverage of how Beaverdam Fresh Farms is setting the bar high for local food! Mississippi, both our local communities and state legislators, must recognize and support the hard-work and commitment to sustainability that farms like this represent! Their chickens live on a grass-fed beef farm, High Hope Farm, and are in a moveable open-air pen. Cattle farmer Johnny Wray moves his cattle into a new pasture every day to provide the grazers with new grass while Pinion and Fratesi move their chickens into the most recently grazed cattle pasture. “They have a symbiotic relationship,” Fratesi said. “The chickens scratch up the cow patties and allow the soil to metabolize the manure more quickly. They eat the fly larva out of the manure so we don’t have to worm our cows. It makes a healthier ecosystem for the cows and chickens and then the grass grows better because the soil is more fertile.”djournal/news/young-farmers-plight-state-regulations-hinder-sustainable-chicken-farms-sales/
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:00:35 +0000
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