Have been using the cell grazing, crop rotation, pasture building as part of a holistic grazing plan for 3 yrs. now. We live on your typical
permaculture homestead property (too poor for grazing or agriculture). In this time I have put grass where there was only sand and cactus, taken the ruminants off storebought supplements (other than mineral lick and applecider vinergar)more because of GMO than anything, and raise fodder crops (to get there head in a
bucket when we
milk, supplement the
chickens,pigs etc.). I have sold the
tractor, we weren't using it. Haven't started the tiller in over a year. Producing more food than we ever have with less inputs (labor included). I do the same cell grazing w/
chickens in my zone 1. This system and the food forest is what brought me to
permaculture. Now I am a function stacking fool, consciously aware of and on the look out for the relationships between things, and constantly figuring out how to do things with what I have i.e. pig swaling. Never going back,
permaculture takes all the senses and sensations I have gotten from hunting and wildcrafting my whole life, and brings them home.