Low-input pasture
Mow-and-mulch since 2023 — hay stays on the ground. Targeted seeding. Livestock as disturbance, not a production line.
Western Lancaster County, Nebraska
Pasture work, done at family scale.
Between Denton and Crete, on dissected till plains and loess uplands, we tend a small regenerative pasture — shifting smooth brome toward native warm-season grasses, and watching what the ground will hold.
How we keep the land
Native grasses
Work toward big bluestem, indiangrass, little bluestem, and sideoats grama on hills that still run 7–30% slope.
Soil first
Organic matter, moisture, and compaction repair after pig paddocks. A ~1-acre silvopasture trial tests shade against forage.
Animals on the place
Pigs move through rotational paddocks every 7–10 days. After they leave, we repair with cover crops and trefoil. Chickens work from tractors — fertility follows the tracks, and the flock is still finding its feet on pasture.
Hair sheep are under consideration for buckbrush on the mid-slopes. They are not stocked yet. To the north, neighbors run row crop; to the south, cattle pasture.