Turning Weeds Into Pasture Without Heavy Machinery: Regenerative | Permaculture

Turning Weeds Into Pasture Without Heavy Machinery: Regenerative | Permaculture

Today we are sharing our journey of converting 2 acres of overgrown weeds and saplings into lush pasture without the use of heavy machinery. We do not have access to a tractor so this pasture restoration was achieved by utilizing equipment and tools that most people and homesteaders have available to them.

A little bit about us: We are new to being homesteaders on YouTube and we started our family homestead from scratch. We recently moved into this 100+ year old farmhouse with a little less than 4 acres, a couple barns, and a whole lot of potential. After being inspired by other homesteading channels, we decided to start our own to document our journey as a homesteading family.

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[hubertdaugherty]

Documenting your journey helps others starting theirs. Thanks

[rhettcrandall]

I’m also curious about your method for seeding and how you got good seed to soil contact. Very nice looking pasture.

[Homesteadturcke]

I get it. I've been doing this on my Costa Rica farm for 7 years, now. It's made a huge impact. But, there is significant rainfall there.
Here in North Georgia and the southeast in general, severe drought is becoming the norm.

[JScottAudio]

Would you comment on the method you used to reseed the Pasture?

[stephaniedagenais]

Beautiful pasture!! Can’t wait to get ours looking like that!!

[lauralee]

you can eliminate all machinery - all you needed were a few cows for a few days to trample all of that matter and seed it the same time

[JScottAudio]

How did you overseed? did you bring in a Seed Drill? or did you hand spread it? and if you Hand Spread it...how did you create contact of the seed with the Soil?

[finallyfriday.]

Those saplings would make a great woven fence. Cut the thickest to post length and the rest weave back and forth thru those posts. A little shrub growth and new tree saplings and you have a living hedgerow.

[voluntaryist]

"Controlled Grazing" builds pasture best because that is how nature does it, as you noted. Find a neighbor who is feeding his stock, loan your pasture, then after 4 days, turn chickens loose.

[sabbaticusfarm]

What a fantastic video. I'm in the same spot with our pastures and am in need of a low impact permaculture approach. Thank you for this!!

[BombsAwayLP]

Im in the exact same boat just moved onto a property and it looks just like that, but i do have a tractor

[BrendaGillam]

Love this, awesome job guys! We are in the Indy area as well (Tipton) and have some areas like this as well. While we are seeming to get it converted to pasture slowly, I’ll have to show my husband this and see what we can use for the next patch of land :] thanks for sharing

[Tacticalredneckequipment]

I'm using pretty much the same approach minus the reseeding. I'm on a neighbors old 16 acer cow pasture, it was probably overgrazed, then abandoned for a decade. It's big, so parts are still over grown, but you can tell where I've done the most work.

[woodlandacres]

wow, nice results and very informative!

[Hayley-sllm]

Hopefully you left some goldenrod somewhere else on your property, it is a very beneficial native for pollinators. Sounds like you're interested in native grass though, that's cool! And looks like you have a vid on making a prairie so you guys prob know what's up

[LaraGration]

Great work. Would love to know how you seeded the paddock without machinery.

[tink]

Hi, great work! How did you sow the seeds?

[TexasLiberTea]

Amazing results! How did you seed the pasture? Did you just broadcast it or was there a specific tool you used? I'm needing to seed an existing pasture but I don't want to till it or strip it first.

[rongrey]

What type of seeds did you use? I have loblolly pine on my acreage would I have to treat the soil first for the correct PH ?

[nancybirkenstock]

I realized you used what resources you had and timing as far as blocking the reseeding process. Awesome!
General question from anyone. Would goats have worked for this condition?