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Sometimes it’s easier to talk with a coach when the going gets tough. Do you have a person in your life that you can turn to?
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Riding the dragon

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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
Regeneratively grazing recycles nutrients to the soil.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

It ain’t pretty

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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
When you have a lot of standing water on land you can bet you’ll have a lot of mosquitoes, and it’s hard to find a better control for these blood-sucking pests than the dragonfly.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Building biodiversity on agricultural lands

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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, Livestock

Winter water for livestock

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” – Aristotle.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Mind-blowing moments

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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
Farmers are the quintessential ‘jack of all trades,’ but continually adding more to your plate can create chaos if it becomes too much to manage.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Mental capacity

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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
We need a breakthrough that is a completely new idea from our current production practices.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Rearranging chairs on the Titanic

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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
Steve Kenyon has five principles he follows that make up his regenerative grazing strategy.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Regenerating grain land

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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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

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