In this episode, Christine Martin shared her journey from homesteading to operating the Regen Ranch in East Texas. She discusses how her health issues led her to clean up her diet and start producing her own food. Christine also talks about holistic management, which helped her shift from homesteading to running a profitable ranch. She shares her experience with managing livestock, parasite loads, and proper infrastructure, as well as using turkeys to mitigate parasite load in sheep. In addition, Christine discusses direct-to-consumer marketing strategies for selling sheep and turkey products, focusing on farmers’ markets and online shipping. She also touched on the concept of planned grazing, which allows for better recovery and management of the land.
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In this episode of The Grazing Grass Podcast, Cal talks with John Simmons of EZ Yoke Ranch! EZ Yoke Ranch is regenerative cow-calf operation. In addition to John’s journey and operation, we go on a couple tangents and discuss causal rotational grazing.
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In this episode of The Grazing Grass Podcast, Cal talks with Grace, “the Shepherdess” at Harmony Farms. Grace runs a Dorper Sheep Farm in Texas and is a Youtuber and the host of the Shepherdess Podcast. Today she shares her journey with Dorper sheep, what she is doing on her farm, and her marketing strategy.
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In this episode of The Grazing Grass Podcast, Cal talks with Ross Mathison of Out Home Farm. Ross, with his partner Kate runs the farm in Central Texas. They run an operation of Pastured Heritage Pork, Grass-fed and Grass-finished Beef. In the overgrazing section, they take a deeper dive into his hogs and pasture. In today’s episode, Cal also answers a question posted by a listener.
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In this episode of The Grazing Grass podcast, Cal talks with Chuck Trowbridge from Prairie Farmstead about his journey, running stockers, watering systems, and no-till. From New York to Wisconsin to Texas, Chuck describes his journey from books to raising stockers.
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In this episode of The Grazing Grass podcast, Cal talks with Jim Elizondo of Real Wealth Ranching about his ranches in Mexico and the United States. Jim is an American citizen born in Mexico and is an Agronomy Engineer. He has over 30 years of experience in regenerating land.
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Ben Habig of Habig Livestock discusses an innovative approach to obtaining land for grazing goats as well as management of his goats.
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