Beef/Pork Manure Bones Broth/Stock Grass/Crops SOIL · -Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America:...
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Grass/Crops Beef/Pork Livestock Manure Bones Broth/Stock Bonechar/Compost SOIL Regenerative Farming and Ranching Callicrate Cattle Co. June, 2017 Healthy Soils – Healthy Communities!
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Regenerative Farming and RanchingCallicrate Cattle Co.
June, 2017
Healthy Soils – Healthy Communities!
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” - Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of
America: Culture and Agriculture
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Time.com – What if the worlds soil runs out? 2
Grass, Crops and Livestock
Locally Grown, Non GMO, Non-irrigated Barley
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Cattle, Hogs and Chickens
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Manure
“Our cow dung is worth more than your Wall Street Stocks.” Vandana Shiva speaking to Hillary Clinton in India.
Read “In Praise of Cow Dung“ by Vandana Shiva
Applying manure to crop land
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HC – High Density Continuous GrazingLC – Low Density Continuous GrazingAMP – Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing
Well Managed Ruminate Grazing Sequesters Carbon
Callicrate Cattle Co. Onsite Processing UnitApril 2015
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The Colorado Springs food hub provides space for meat processing, local fruit and vegetable distribution and value-added food production.
It’s not what we do that makes our meat so good, it’s what we don’t do!
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Bone Broth/Stock
The Ultimate Health Food!
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Charred bones after making bone broth and stocks
Retort for making biochar
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This diagram shows how the Biochar Cycle can change the Carbon Cycle
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Biochar comparison at West TN Ag Research Center
With and without biochar (wood source)July 19, 2018
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CH4 (Methane) production (g/kg DMI) numerically decreased 18.4% for the 0.8% biochar treatment relative to no biochar.
Evaluation of the effects of biochar on diet digestibility and methane production from growing and finishing steers Translational Animal Science, Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2019 https://doi.org/10.1093/tas/txz027Published: 26 February 2019
What if biochar was fed to ruminant animals?
Manure, slaughter waste, biochar, and other composted biomass returns to the soil.
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