Mob grazing vs. Voisin grazing
If you've read my lunchtime
series on Voisin
grazing as well as
this one on mob
grazing,
you might be wondering which method is better. I suspect the
answer depends on what kind of animal you're trying to feed, and on how
healthy your pasture is to start with.
Mob grazing has two
major benefits --- it heals the soil quickly, and
it also allows you to keep ruminants on pasture all winter without
feeding hay. On the other hand, Voisin grazing's tender grasses
and copious clover make this method more appropriate to non-ruminants
(like pigs and chickens), and to dairy animals that require high
quality feed.
Can you mix and match
the two systems to suit your own needs? I'm
not positive, but I suspect you could treat different paddocks in
different ways, stockpiling winter forage in one while grazing another
one close and often to promote the growth of clovers.
I'd be very curious to
hear from those of you who have tried either
system. What did you like about it? What problems did you
run into?
This post is part of our Mob Grazing lunchtime series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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