Examples of Grassland Restoration - Excerpt from Talk by Allan Savory at Tufts University

Summary of the method for those confused by the video, it "mimics nature" like the million animal herds of the Serengeti but with livestock. Because of the amount of manure & trampling in such big herds, the animals keep moving. This system moves the animals daily, but keeps them in as small an area as possible while giving enough food for the day. That means as much manure as possible & as much liquid as possible in the form of livestock urine. After one day's grazing, the fertiliser is allowed to do it's thing & stimulate plant growth. The animals only return to that ground once the plants are fully grown & therefore at maximum nutritional value - imagine eating wheatgrass v fully grown wheat plants, complete with wheat grain. Most farms let the animals graze at will, creating a wheatgrass situation, this system allows the plants to grow beyond baby stage & produce heavy duty food! (and root length matches plant height, which means an end to erosion & water run off too). On ground with NOTHING growing, they lock the animals onto that ground each night, as tightly backed as possible for a week or so, then move them out to better land for food each morning. The nightly urine & manure means a thick slurry of microbial life, breaking of the surface crust & lots of moisture to stimulate any seeds in the ground & manure into germinating. That new grass is allowed to fully mature before the animals return to eat it & refertiliser

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Show this to the world!!

Note -in America’s Prairie land—they are Restoring beavers—to re-establish watershed habitats ..by building long lost dams & ponds—for fish and wildlife & it’s working.

Bravo!!!! Wonderful work. So generous sharing this specially in Africa. God bless you!!!

Thank you for hosting Allan for this talk! This is an incredibly important topic.

Amazing work, growing grass in barren lands. Saving earth and restoring ecosystem.. ❤

More people need to see this!

California’s grasslands are now 99% invasive non-native grasses (mostly annuals) which was caused by the introduction of livestock by Europeans. These annual grasses are one of the reasons why California has so many fires. I’m curious to see if this approach would help restore native perennial grasslands or if this is used more to restore barren landscapes.

The American government should pay to do that in Colorado

Thank you for your service ❤️🙏🏿🌍

This is Just Great work

Also see videos of Peter Andrews “leaky weirs” in Australia

UPDATES?! INSPIRATIONAL GENIUS

Great stuff

Nature is always weird that way. So conterintuitive. But the good book says look to nature and you will see his ways. You are doing excellent work and I too want to see America green as ever. I too to do this and just smoosh my cover crops and weeds. Here in AZ it get hot and the dried stocks are easy to snap.

Impressive.

How do you feed so many animals on bare soil? How do you manage the transition?

Quite brilliant. it can be reversed. requires a few simple techniques, discipline and patience.

still confused how you get the grasses to grow back when there is nothing for them to eat in the beginning. what do they eat