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Wayne Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1154 total appearances

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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Or did you take years

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

to get your pastures ready.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

It's back to the, when you buy something, don't just buy something.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Is it set up for you to get the pastures ready so that the forage can feed your animals so you're not having to put a bunch of money into it?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And if you have animals that are forage-based, they're smarter.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

They understand there's nothing on the road for me.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

need to be here so i don't need to hop the fence let me stay here but move them nobody wants to live and eat their own right move them don't just sit on there because you now have a farm move them you don't want to sit in that nobody wants to live in squalor nobody wants to eat that so we move our cows and right now we're bale grazing and and the smart thing to do is to use everything that comes from that animal so that manure is fuel

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So if you structure your farm so that your animals are tight in an area, let them fertilize it for you.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Let them chop it up.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

We call it the Buffalo principle, right?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So what the buffaloes did, they ran through, they chopped up everything.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Dropped a bunch of manure down.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

The turkeys, the songbirds, everything scratched through the manure, spread it out.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

It's a great system.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Dung beetles come up.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

They get it.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

You got fertilizer under there.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

You just have to be patient enough to let it work.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And when I'm consulting people, I ask them, I said, well, how arrogant are you to think you can improve God's design?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Crazy.