• Shepherds Journal: art of herding part 1

    Shepherds Journal: art of herding part 1

    This is the first video about the art of herding, enjoy: In the head image you can see the herding plan. https://youtu.be/Og5NOzD6b5U

  • Shepherds Journal: Community Dynamics

    Shepherds Journal: Community Dynamics

    Here the new Video: https://youtu.be/NWsDC0EOc5Q Me and Alberto assessing the community dynamics!

  • Holistic Planned Herding

    Holistic Planned Herding

    Most people think that Holistic Planned Grazing (HPG) is a fixed system, like mob grazing or just another rotational grazing variation. But its more than that. In rotational grazing you follow fixed patterns. You have your fields and you move your animals in a fixed rotation through those paddocks, regardless the growth rate . You…

  • Shepherds Journal:energy flow

    Shepherds Journal:energy flow

    This weeks Journal is about the energy flow and I’m proud to present: Alberto Lepep who will be working with me from now on! Energy flow

  • Shepherds Journal: Mineral Cycle

    Shepherds Journal: Mineral Cycle

    This weeks journal is about the minera cycle and how the microbes keep the wheel turning. Mineral Cycle

  • The shepherds Journal: the water cycle

    The shepherds Journal: the water cycle

    Today is about the water cycle. Enjoy: https://youtu.be/RoQN9uHqj08

  • Shepherds Journal: looking at the soil

    Shepherds Journal: looking at the soil

    Here another episode of the shepherds journal. Hope you enjoy! Sorry for the bad English I hope you get what I try to explain. Shepherds Journal episode: 2

  • Shepherds Journal

    Shepherds Journal

    On this post I will upload a little video of a day of shepherding. I will update this journal every week with a new day of shepherding. Share if you like it. Sur cette page je vais faire une journal de berger. Tout le semaine je vais upload une petit vidéo sur une jour de…

  • Grazing Cells

    Grazing Cells

    In order to not overgraze and to meet the sheeps demand to explore a bit, I’m herding the sheep in “cells”. Every 2-3 days I will let the sheep move further left or right to the old grazing cell. Because the sheep usually like to graze the fresh grass, I only need to watch the…

  • Keeping them together.

    Keeping them together.

    This is my first experiment in keeping the sheep in one place for a day with herding. I chose an old lavender field with some forest areas (about 3ha). The sheep are not used to stay in one place for the day, they like to keep moving. I documented it on video. The conclusion is:…