Yes, You Can Grow Pasture Without ANY Machines

Are are planting your pasture? If you're asking yourself what to plant, but not how to make it grow, then you're doing it wrong.

Happy homesteading!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Pasture Now Compared To 2 Years Ago
00:39 The First Question To Ask: How To Increase Fertility
01:56 Comparison To Weeds In A Garden
02:33 Seeds Can Be Dormant Stay Dormant Until The Right Conditions
03:26 What If You Don’t Have Time To Wait?
04:29 White Clover
05:51 Silvopasture And Seeds To Plant Under Trees
07:32 Do I Need Heavy Machinery?
08:27 Our Pasture Last Summer

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Hi! I’m PJ, and my family loves the homesteading life! It’s something my wife and I have always wanted to do, but we grew up with ZERO HOMESTEADING EXPERIENCE!!!!!

We grew up in beautiful southern California, 15 minutes away from the beach. As amazing as that was, we both dreamed of a life closer to land and animals. After getting married and moving to Utah, our family slowly grew. We had become a family of four living in a townhome with a small backyard filled with potted plants.

In 2019 we dipped out feet into homesteading on 1 ¼ acre lot in Utah. In 18 months we were ready to do this for real. So in 2021 we packed everything up (including our sheep) and moved to North Carolina to 12 acres and we love every inch of our homestead!

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[PetesSnakeBiteKit]

The grass under the trees looks amazing!

[ulrichspencer]

A benefit of silvopasture like you're doing is if you have nitrogen fixing trees like speckled alder or mesquite or honey locust. Not only do they fix nitrogen in their roots, but they produce protein-rich pods that are edible for livestock (well, mesquite and honey locust do, not alder). When animals turn those pods into manure, that's free rich fertilizer whose nitrogen literally came from the atmosphere and has now been fixed into the soil.

[downbntout]

The soil scientist you mentioned was Dr. Christine Jones, a really enjoyable speaker also up on YouTube

[PaulJWong-ykuw]

read my mind buddy. im in the midst of seeding and throwing manure over our 6 acre pasture. its an old alfalfa stand with tons of bare spot so clover is the go to. i'll be doing it rather old school, not quite just throwing by hand but a push seeder or a lawnmower pull behind if i can find one cheap enough. i wish i had my old manure pile at our last place, it would really come in handy right now!

[nessav]

Something I learned about clover is that it's best if it doesn't cover more than 5% of your pasture - this is because it is a goitregenic feed when eaten. Clover also needs an inoculant (if the bacteria doesn't exist in the soil) in order to nodulate (fix nitrogen through nodules). In this way, surrounding plants benefit too. I grew lucerne without an inoculant and there were no nodules. The only benefit there was that I slashed the lucerne to add organic matter to the soil.

[travishoeffel]

Have you thought about trying to establish a native prairie with a mix of clovers, big and little bluestem, Indian grass, eastern gamagrass, and various other natives grassland plants?

[ShepherdsCreek]

We have really good pasture for our sheep thankfully, but we have long winters so it is so important for us to have good hay. I have an old abandoned garden that I plan to commit to hay harvesting. I've got Timothy and birdsfoot trefoil seeds to plant on it when the snow melts and I'll hopefully have a good hay for breeding season that doesn't have a lot of phytoestrogens.

[georgejensen]

You will make more progress faster if you till it to start.

If you till it and level it back off, you will have brought a lot of dormant native seeds closer to the surface. The rains will come and they will sprout.

A lot of the natives will have been suppressed, but as mentioned in the video, are still there. There are seeds 6" below the surface that will not sprout unless they are brought closer to the surface.

You can illustrate this with a monoculture lawn. Till it and watch the change.

Of course this is not the same for an old corn field that has been tilled twice a year for twenty years.

Till it. Plant it. Then the need for machinery is over.

You can do this without breaking the ground, but if you can, you will be better for it.

[LeoTheYuty]

Great video! Hoping for a larger property one day so I can have some pasture (my chickens would disseminate any grass that touches the yard).

[WildernessWarriors]

New subscriber here. Enjoyed your video. Very educational. Thank you !

[geraldschmidt]

Hello, would you recommend frost seeding clover towards the end of winter? I'm in zone 7 and have poor clay type soil.

[quailjailss]

Yeah that’s me, I hate annuals. Gimme the perennials

[travishoeffel]

What zone are you in that you plant the perenial rye grass? I'm in the upstate South carolina and thought about putting perennial rye grass under the trees but people were saying it doesn't do well?

[famousamos]

Hello, I plan on starting a pasture in Haiti to graze cows and goats. Do you sell seeds? If not what would you recommend as far as seeds?

[downbntout]

The top competitor of grasses here is cheatgrass. Not native but it's what grows, and won't let much else grow. Ideas?

[AnimeDreamingEcchi]

Ok all them seeds you mentioned. Where can I get these seeds without the chemical? Please show me

[pretzeltwisttwist]

Can sheep still graze on area once you seed? Id have trouble moving them entirely from area.

[quailjailss]

What kind of grass came up for you?
Sorry if you said in the video.

My sheep won’t graze any of the volunteer grass I’ve had except for crabgrass, which is an annual and some fescue, which is a cool season grass.

Trying to find some warm season perennials that they’ll actually eat!!

[duncansh]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I am trying to clear underbrush and thin out the forest around our place. I'm using some American Guinea Hogs and they are great at helping that but after moving the paddock the ground is left barren. These pigs will often use hay over winter as a food source so what I'm wondering (and maybe you don't know the answer to this) is whether I can buy hay from local folks, throw it in the paddock and the hay will both seed and be a food source through the winter. Any thoughts? What about hay that's been sprayed with herbicides?

[DarcyJusten]

Where do you get your seed? Great video