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Pasture Walk in Windsor County
October 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
The pasture walk will be through pastures which use the crowd method of rotational grazing. The high lights will include: identifying the pH of our soils by looking at the plants, a discussion of the challenges with parasite control and how rotational crowd grazing attempts to address these issues and various pasture renovations methods including complete sub-soiling with reseeding and over seeding with the use of Suffolk horses. (or over seeding with a little help from our friends Sara and Betsy (Suffolk horses). Accompanying the walk will be Debbie Zink, who was a member of William C. Campbell’s 2015 Nobel Prize winning team for medicine that discovered Ivermectin.
RSVP: smokeshire@vermontel.net (Smokeshire Hill Top Farm)
or call (802) 875-4916
Free to members; $5 for non-members
Please wear clean footwear.