Positive Farming

I once walked through a pasture where industrial broad acre crops had been grown for decades and while everything around me was lush and green, it didn't feel right.  I knew that chemical fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides had been used; the soil was exhausted, but it felt like there was more to it than that.  Then it hit me.  There was no life.   No millipedes, no centipedes, no worms, no bugs and grubs in the grass, there was just a single crop as far as I could see. Today out in the field I was reminded how positive farming improves the environment.  As I moved the chicken shelters I caught a glimpse of earthworms before they burrowed beneath the soil.  Then I found this little fellow hopping past me as he made his way across the grass.

The abundance of life that surrounds us with positive farming

The photo below is a good demonstration of how effective positive farming can be.  The rich emerald green grass was the track our chicken shelter traveled as it followed our herd of cows almost six weeks ago.  How lush and healthy it looks, and this is at the end of winter when the grass is still dormant waiting for spring warmth to start growing in earnest.

This is positive farming.  To grow animals in a manner that follows the patterns of nature, to regenerate land and thrive alongside native biological systems.