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Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part… I lost track.

For most people, water flows downhill, but on our ranch I make it flow uphill. Twice a day. Ok, fine, I don’t know how much I have to do with it. But water does flow uphill twice a day. This is because even though we are a full twenty miles from the ocean, our ranch […]

Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part V

In order to successfully to mimic nature, we need to look to nature. But not just any old nature, a really natural nature. That is why we are continuing our look at the grazing ecosystem of the Serengeti. That is what comes naturally to me. What does not come naturally to me is a discussion […]

Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part IV

It is Newton’s laws that have changed history more than the ideas of any other person. At least, that’s what I ‘m going to say this week. I might say something different next week. No one seems to argue with me so maybe next week I will say that it was Jon Bon Jovi’s ideas […]

Serengeti grazing lessons Part III

As a rule, so far in our history, when we humans try to do natural, we end up doing a different kind of artificial. For us ranchers that can break down a few different ways. Sometimes when we set out to do something natural as time goes on we find out we are back to […]

Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part II

Modern problems are the result of complex ideas. The solutions to modern problems will come largely from simple ideas. I was in middle school when I came across the simple idea, forwarded mostly by Allan Savory, that we can solve several problems at once by mimicking the way native grazing animals impact the landscape. I’m […]

Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part I

You only know that you are on the path to truth, god, reality, or whatever you want to call it, when your ideas are challenged. In this age of political polarization, whether left or right, there are a hundred people trying to tell the world how it should be for every one that is trying […]