Sweetbriarcrest

Pasture Rotations for Herds

Who raises this herd, how each calf is cared for, and what the ranch stands for.

A small desk of maps, prints and open notebooks
Why we started ranching

Silage and Hayfield Care Notes

We kept writing the same notes to each other after every morning feeding the Bullock and checking the Heifer in the east pasture, and eventually stopped pretending that was not a journal. The first issue went out to eleven neighboring ranchers before the cows even started their Moo.

A writer reading proofs by a window
How a calf gets raised

Raising Heifer and Steer on the Homestead

Every entry starts out in the barn or out in the pasture, never at a desk, and gets checked by someone who has actually worked the herd that day. A claim about a Steer's weight or a fence line that cannot survive someone walking out to check it a second time simply does not make it into print.

How we run the ranch

Three rules we ranch by

01

Calves in the Stable

Nothing about the Bovine herd gets described unless one of us stood right there and watched it.

02

Hayfield at Sunrise

The mornings when the Silage runs out stay in. They're usually the most useful part.

03

Dairy Farm and Pastures

Mistakes about herd counts or Manure records get fixed on the page, with a note on what changed.

From Pasture to Plate: Ranching

One long dispatch from the Farmstead and one short field note, sent the morning they go out.

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