Our world has been turned upside down by COVID. Everything changed for most people in March 2020. It didn’t affect my life that much back then. I was just finishing my winter conference season and the rest of 2020 was quite normal for me for the most part. As an introvert, I quite enjoy my […] Read more
Greener pastures for Wednesday Night Networking
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
Riding the dragon
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
That sounds tough. All fire and brimstone, a knight in shining armour riding a beast into battle to rescue the princess. You can’t get more manly than that, right? I am that tough guy and I am proud to say that I have ridden “the dragon” many times. Let me explain. I grew up with […] Read more
It ain’t pretty
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
You may have heard me say this before. A monoculture is ugly, no matter how pretty it looks. This constant drive to manage monoculture cropping has us in a downward spiral of dead soils and added inputs. It is costing us dearly. Nature rarely relies on only one species in an environment. Even a hay […] Read more
Building biodiversity on agricultural lands
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
Nature works in whole systems. There are millions of symbiotic relationships that coexist in a single ecosystem. Yet every ecosystem also interacts and relies on the other ecosystems around it. The aquatic ecosystem has a dynamic interaction with the riparian area ecosystem which interacts with the uplands ecosystem which relates to the woodland ecosystem. We […] Read more
Winter water for livestock
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
We have our fair share of drastic weather here in Alberta. In our environment, we can have temperature swings of about 85 C between winter and summer. I have seen a 45-degree shift in a single day. It went from 10 C and dropped to -35 C overnight. These temperature swings are a lot harder […] Read more
Mind-blowing moments
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
I have been asked numerous times, “Where did you get your education from?” My response is always, “Academia does not have a monopoly on knowledge.” Just to clear the air, I do not have a university degree, but here I am, teaching about agriculture. My working knowledge on regenerative agriculture has come from the hundreds […] Read more
The power of a gross margin in cattle production
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
It was 2001. I was a young man starting my farm from scratch. I was just starting a family, running a small herd of cattle and working way too many hours on and off the farm. Have you heard the saying that a farmer works eight hours a day to feed your family, then he […] Read more
Mental capacity
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
Are you a “glass half-full” or “half-empty” kind of person? Or maybe your cup runneth over like me? That is me if you were to look inside my mind. It is always overflowing. I only have so much mental capacity. I think we all do to a point. My mind can only hold so much […] Read more
Rearranging chairs on the Titanic
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
Every once in a while, I feel the need to put something out there that I know will offend people. In today’s world, it is easy to offend, so this should be easy. There is a lot of controversy over climate change and every organization is trying to climb aboard this sinking ship to make […] Read more
Regenerating grain land
From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon
I am not a grain farmer, and as many of you know, I do not like monocultures. I also don’t like tillage, or the use of synthetic fertilizer, or the overuse of chemicals. Some say that I am against grain farming. I would like to set the record straight. Our mission statement at Greener Pastures […] Read more
Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field
