Soil comparison before and after goats....

Chadwick Holmes wrote:, one and a half years, three angoras on a 50 x 50 ft area, I grow and cut hay off pasture for them, all hand harvest hand dried and baled. We also stopped mowing in there,

I wonder how the plant cover is doing in that 50 x 50 area. Have they trampled it to nothing, or are there plants and a flourishing soil food web beneath?

I have just finished my second year of goat grazing/browsing. I am trying pasture development, and moving the goats around. I did hav eto leave them in an enclosure for too long this fall. I am waiting to see if next spring the alfalfa comes back. I hope so.

In 2013 I had Peter Donovan of the soil carbon coalition come test my soil, a base line test. I hope he is coming this way in 2016, because I am very excited about getting the increased soil organic carbon documented.