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EOV: Ecological Outcome Verification
Across our Cévennes pastures, we use holistic grazing and measure our results each year through EOV – Ecological Outcome Verification, an independent scientific protocol developed by the Savory Institute. What is EOV:EOV tracks real outcomes in the field — soil cover, biodiversity, water infiltration, and stability — to verify whether our land is truly regenerating.…
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Première années dans les Cévennes: nos apprentissages
Cela fait un an que Friendly Flock a été enregistré en tant qu’EARL (entreprise à responsabilité limitée en agriculture) dans les Cévennes. Je me suis donc dit que j’allais écrire sur ce que nous avons réalisé en termes de notre pâturage régénératif et sur ce qui n’a pas encore fonctionné aussi bien. It’s been a…
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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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How to regenerate land with grazing animals
A year back I stumbled across “Holistic Management” by Allan Savory and got hooked right away. I signed up quite quickly for a course in England (via https://3lm.network/) to learn more about this “new approach” of managing your land and it completely changed my way of seeing the World. It’s a way of managing the…
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