Pasture-food plotting

I've recently come up with an idea to take the work from Colin Seis from Australia on growing annual crops in a perennial pasture called pasture-cropping and applying it to food-plotting for deer and other wildlife. I call it pasture-food plotting!

If anyone is interested I talk about my idea on a blog post here: https://hunterseden.blogspot.com/2022/03/pasture-food-plotting.html?m=1

Also if you haven't heard of Colin Seis I strongly reccomend looking up his work on Pasture-cropping. I've watched a lot of good videos on YouTube about him so I would search there if you're interested.

That sounds like something I'm trying to transition to. I'm aiming towards no till & perennial/self seeding plants in open fields rather than fenced in pastures. Basically low maintenance with year round critter food. The plant species list on your blog has several of the same things as my list. Didn't notice buckwheat on yours so that might be another one you could add for deer & birds. Chuffa for turkeys. Never heard of Colin but I'll look his channel up. Would prefer to discuss it here on permies though.

My thoughts were... which is the money-making crop? The plants or the deer?

Colin Seis is into regenerative agriculture which is good and he does his work with drought.

Mr. Google said Pasture Cropping—The Innovative No-kill, No-till System sounds good to me.

I haven't watched his youtube so I am not sure which plants he recommends.  What is best for wildlife is alright by me.

I've been trying a lot of food plot experiments over the past few years and for this one to work in my climate I think I'd need to establish a warm season perennial food plot and then when that went dormant in the fall I'd plant a cool season annual food plot over it. That way the species are growing at different times of the year and are not completing for the same resources.  I chose to do annuals for the cool season and perennials for the warm season because according to colin you want to grow the perennials during the harsher season because they have roots that can reach moisture deep underground when it hasn't rained very much. And annuals have much shallower roots so they need pretty good growing conditions and relatively high moisture. In my area we have wet winters and relatively dry summers so I would want to use perennials during the summer. Buckwheat is a warm season annual so that's why I didn't include it in my list but otherwise I agree it would be a good option for a different climate.  

And I wouldn't have a money making crop. The deer would be the wealth I'm trying to generate as it would fill my freezer and provide food for my family so we wouldn't need to buy meat from the store as much. But yeah I think Colin is pretty brilliant and I'd highly recommend people check out his presentations if you're interested in this kind of stuff.