Designing a Silvopasture Polyculture for Hogs: Mark Shepard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2018
- For more than 20 years Mark Shepard has been raising grass-fed and chestnut finished hogs in a diverse polyculture system that includes perennial forages available from May to October. From currants, mulberries and cherries, to hazelnuts, apples, and hearty finish on chestnuts.
Funding for this video was provided by the USDA North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Service (www.northcentralsare.org/).
Learn more about agroforestry and perennial agriculture at www.savannainstitute.org. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I bought the Restoration agriculture book about 6 years ago. 1 of the BEST books I've ever bought.😁
It is. Every public library should have a copy as well. The book is revolutionary.
Thank you. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Love his practicality.
(Mark mechanically harvesting on his property at 24:20.)
Why are so many critical videos like this one only seen by a few people? I LOVE THIS. Thank you!
Because you aren't sharing this video with EVERYBODY.
Mark may have stumbled on the number one reason the average age of farmers continues to increase, approaching 60 years old in the US.
“The problem that you will encounter as a farmer, whether old or young, is that you will be required some days to get up before dawn. You will be required some days to work when its freezing rain and you have holes in your boots. You will be required some days to stay out passed midnight with a flashlight on your head trying to find that calf that is down before the coyotes get them. It’s allot of work, allot of seasonally crazy work, and the pay sucks… That is what you can expect on the job.[1:07:40]” Mark Shepard
Thank you for having this talk by Mark Shepard. Very practical solid good advice.
Very informative. Thanks!
So inspired by my namesake! Rock on!
thank you for all your effort
thank you i throughly enjoyed this vid loaded with all kinds of info
Great channel! So happy to subscribe.
did you graft for earlier harvests?
Mark selects for earlier production and overall productivity, as well as using the STUN method.
If the plant/planting process is fussy he considers it problematic and opts for something else to grow instead.
Can someone share the name he mentions around 1:05? Dr Kevin Wolves...?
what is the minimum size acreage you'd need to create a polyculture with 25 pigs, 5-10 cows, & 500 pasture chickens? are your chickens raised for meat, or are they older females?
@Knight Beast depends where u are. 25 acres for 25 pigs is generous for the east half of N.America I'd say
Depends on the state of the property/(rain)water supply/quality of your management. Read his book as that has a lot more info than the video.
This is something I have wanted for decades but had no idea how to do it, or what even to call it.
did you buy your trees from Wisconson state?
Believe he got stuff deemed many sources and also used seeds.
are all your animals seasonal or just the pigs?
Read the book,.
How do you keep pigs and deer from browsing on and breaking trees and shrubs when the plants are small and from eating perennials added later? Right now I just have some 2-year-old fruit trees planted with fence around them to keep the deer from eating the leaves and the pigs from rubbing against them in my sloped pasture but would like to do more
Read his book, but honestly he does use push-in posts and electric fencing, among other things.
I saw a video at a California pecan nut tree operation. They cut five foot long lengths of five foot high woven wire. They put this around the trees and pound in a T post to hold it.
@@markpiersall9815 This is exactly what I’ve done, except two t-posts lol
How do you deal with unwanted weeds and invasive plants?
Part of it is the plant selection process. He grows plants that typically grow well there in that biome. If it does poorly he plants something else and tests that instead. This helps ensure what he wants to grow outcompetes less desirable plants. Diversified livestock also provide management. What's often toxic to one animal is okay for another (with caveats). Weeds often provide 'medicine' for the livestock because of their individual properties and added diversity...
If the river systems still hosted freshwater oysters, selenium would not be a problem, likewise with really any sea arthropod.
Working on my PDC here on the West coast and hoping to soak it all up.
You like cheap pigs but up to purchase they were raise contrary to your overall mission. Cheap pigs are cheap because the owners feed them trashy gmo whole corn, they didn’t have names, they probably didn’t get any sun or fresh air. Just weird that you would say cheap.
They still have a better life and they can detox just like we can.
Why bother with any of it then? Why try to change something you support? Why spend more on organic if you can really just eat trashy franken corn and detox it?