Research from the pasture

Students at Ridgedale learning about Pasture Monitoring during a Holistic Management training, 2014

One thing missing in the sphere of Permaculture & Regenerative Ag. is useful quantifiable documentation.  Be it financials, results of actions on the actual land; this movement suffers from the promulgation of ideas & concepts that are not necessarily tried and tested in the experience of the advocate.  It's a problem we seek to address in general by documenting & sharing all that happens at the farm, both successful & unsuccessful.  We initiated research that will grow and continue in the following years.  As a demonstration site we put pressure on ourselves to actually demonstrate the results of what we are talking about & doing and we are intent on following that up.

Below you will find some of the initial survey work began by our awesome farm manager from 2014,  Kate. This work will continue and broaden in this and following years.  We use a weather station installed at the farm to allow us to monitor and somewhat account for the circumstantial evidence that perhaps debases so many claims of "observed" results.

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