Nate Pontius

I'm trying to figure out where I'm going with this, but I guess to...

To say the property was not in great shape.

It has become in great shape over the years just through these regenerative principles of using all these diverse animal species on the land and like letting them all give and take and give and take.

We've got some of the best forage on our pastures around us right now because of it.

And it's taken years to do that.

Was it intimidating when you first took over the property?

intimidating i wouldn't say intimidating i mean around us there are a lot of pretty like old school like old school ranchers and you know i'm this grungy tattooed la dude showing up like trying to be a farmer um

I didn't start out thinking I wanted to be a regenerative farmer.

I started out just wanting to raise some food and I came to find that the best way to keep animals alive and healthy was to do it in this regenerative fashion and move them around and plant new forages behind them so that they had good fresh salad bars to eat.

That's all.

These are things that I didn't actually think that people would find interesting.

But yeah, I guess the way that I try to simply explain it is like if you look at like the African Sahara and like all of the different diversity of animals that are grazing and moving and pooping and everything across that.

you don't see all these animals just turning up and dying from these parasites in the grass that they're eating.

And why is that?

It's because there's such a diverse array of all these animals that are neutralizing all of these different things.

So in the natural world, you have like, you know, turkeys and deer and bison and all of these things that are interacting.

In farming world, you use chicken, cattle, equine, sheep,

Hogs, they all give and take something differently from the soil, from the land to benefit it and keep it in this cycle.

So, like, there are certain parasites that if you just continually graze...

I always say mother nature abhors uniformity.