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Fundraiser / Financement Participatif
We are very excited to announce that we just started a Fundraiser for our Business! Our aim is to gain some funding to: First step (-1 years): Expand the flock: The goal is to have 350 ewes in 3-4 years. In the short term, we have the opportunity to buy 170 more ewes. A ewe…
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7 Habits of highly effective people. Habit 3: Put first things first
Now that you know that you are in control (habit 1), where you want to go (habit 2), you need to figure out how to get there (habit 3).This is the management part of things. Habit 1 and 2 are all about leadership, habit 3 is about management. It’s about prioritizing your tasks to get…
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The 7 habits of highly effective people. Habit 2: Start with the end in mind
Habit 2: start with the end in mind, is all about your goals, missions or context.If Habit 1 is to understand that you are in control, that you can shape your life how you want it. Habit 2 is shaping it. So describing how you want your life to be.A principal of life is that everything…
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The 7 habits of highly effective people. Habit 1: be proactive.
To learn the 7 habits is a journey. It’s not a quick fix to get effective from one day to the other. It takes time to deeply understand and live the 7 habits. The first three habits are personal changes, while the other 4 habits go to the outside. The approach is an inside out…
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The 7 habits of highly effective people: The balance of P and PC
I’m starting to study the book: 7habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey. He wrote that it is an even better learning experience if you teach what you learn to someone else in the next 48h . So I thought: let’s give it a try. So now I will write a post on each…
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The science behind Soil Organic Matter formation (SOM) , and how good managed grazing might be our best tool to increase it.
It has been quite some time since I didn’t write anything in the blog, so I thought I might restart with something interesting: The science behind Soil Organic Matter formation (SOM) , and how good managed grazing might be our best tool to increase it. Let’s start with some basics on the old paradigme of…
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The Parasite and the sheep
It’s been 1 month now since we bought our flock and where they are at the moment they have more food than they could handle. But even with all of that food and a good diversity in their diet, they just dont get fat. So we took a sample of their droppings for worms. The…
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Hommage à Paulette / Homage to Paulette
This blog post is a sad one. Yesterday Paulette died. Paulette was the first sheep of our Friendly Flock. We raised her as a bottle lamb, because her mother couldn’t feed her. She died at only 3 month of age.So why and how did she die you might ask?Paulette died trying to go out of…
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Business IQ from Ranching for Profit
Aujourd’hui je vais encore traduire une article de “Ranching for Profit”. Une école qui apprendre aux éleveurs de faire la gestion d’entreprise et régénérer leurs business et leurs sol. Today I’m going to translate another Ranching for Profit article. RFP is a school for ranchers who teaches ranchers how to run a business and to…
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Ecological Monitoring // Monitoring écologique
The Feedback Loop Nature is constantly changing, she can change fast or very slowly. Usually we only notice the changes that come fast. If for example a plant community in our field is slowly changing to something less desirable (like a plant species that might indicate soil degradation), we usually notice it when its already…
Friendly Flock 