Gregs intern Airel climbs steep creek bank like a mountain sheep!

Ajouté : 2026-05-23

[00:00:03]Good day, folks. This is Greg Judy at Greenpastures Farm. Today, we are putting in a limited skirt where we can just keep them on part of the creek for half a day.

[00:00:14]And then they'll be moved into the next section.

[00:00:17]Um we got plenty of water. The beaver have dammed up this creek.

[00:00:23]And we actually got fish in them.

[00:00:25]We saw some fish go swimming, but look at them.

[00:00:29]You see them in the sunlight down there.

[00:00:32]They zoom in on them. See them?

[00:00:36]They're minnows.

[00:00:38]There's a minnow there by that tree right on top of the water there.

[00:00:42]That water is deep.

[00:00:46]Ariel and Ephraim had to go up to that sandbar to get across cuz that way right there where those fish are, that water's about waist-deep.

[00:00:56]But there's beaver cuttings all down through here, and then there's a beaver dam right around the corner coming this way.

[00:01:02]So, we'll be bringing 94 head of bulls and steers in here.

[00:01:06]And man, have we got the forage. Look at this.

[00:01:10]Oh, look.

[00:01:13]That's wild. That's some wild rye in here.

[00:01:17]All kinds of forbs they love cuz they're tender.

[00:01:21]Um we can establish a graze line in here, or you call it a browse line.

[00:01:25]They're going to eat a lot of these leaves.

[00:01:28]Just about every kind of tree you can ever imagine growing in here.

[00:01:32]Including the nasties, the multiflora bushes, but they'll trim up on them some.

[00:01:39]And uh yeah.

[00:01:42]I mean, look at this.

[00:01:45]So, we're hooking on cold behind me here. Ouch.

[00:01:48]And uh we're getting ready to make a pass and go up through here and hook in hot on the fence that we just built last week, and then I mulched.

[00:01:58]I was over last week in the rain. I mulched all day long. I put in I think it was 8 hours on the mulcher, and I mean, I hammered them.

[00:02:08]I absolutely hammered the mul- the autumn olive.

[00:02:13]Autumn olives, multiflora rose bushes, thorn trees, a few cedars, but probably 98% of it was autumn olives, and they they were so thick in there that they'd actually killed the killed the soil.

[00:02:28]Um there was no there wasn't any sunlight getting to the the ground floor.

[00:02:34]So, yeah.

[00:02:37]I can see this one is going to This little water is going to take my head off.

[00:02:45]Let me zero out. I'm sorry, guys, ladies. Let me get you that. There.

[00:02:49]That's a little better.

[00:02:53]I always bring my trusty loppers.

[00:02:56]It's a little bit of a trick to cut that with one hand. Let me >> [laughter] >> There.

[00:03:04]Okay.

[00:03:05]So, I'm going to go out through there. We had an open hay field, and we're going to be taking it across that hay field and hooking in hot.

[00:03:20]After an aerial aerial ouch.

[00:03:23]They look like a bunch of billy goats.

[00:03:30]I saw movement over there a while ago. I know they're coming this way.

[00:03:35]Did y'all find the fence?

[00:03:37]Yeah, we did.

[00:03:40]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, we did.

[00:03:43]Folks, we had an awesome grazing school.

[00:03:47]We ended up with uh counting our crew and then our attendees. I think we were around 80 80 folks for 3 days.

[00:03:58]And I had some really valuable feedback.

[00:04:01]Uh just people that were very satisfied with what we taught and showed in the pasture walks and the friendship that was made that day the 3 days with all the other attendees and people went home with new acquaintances and we're going to do a repeat this coming weekend.

[00:04:21]the beginners grazing school is on Friday, Saturday. So, it's a 2-day.

[00:04:25]But anyway, that's coming up and um it's always nice to kind of go see how other people do things.

[00:04:33]The one comment I got was you know, you all teach at a at a level that's not above our heads.

[00:04:40]That's what we're trying to do. We're just trying to show people what we're doing.

[00:04:43]And uh we don't want to keep any secrets.

[00:04:47]It doesn't do us any good to keep all that hidden. But you know, the tricks and tips we've picked up over the years, we want to share that with our attendees.

[00:04:55]So, when they go home, they have a a chest full of wisdom that they can apply on their own farm.

[00:05:01]So, anyway, I'm going to get out of here. They're coming across the creek now, it looks like.

[00:05:06]And uh they're going to be sticking that reel on my holder here my hand is.

[00:05:14]And I'm going to be taking off. I've already got my post laid here ready to go.

[00:05:21]And I'll be s- I'll be throwing out posts.

[00:05:31]It's just a beautiful setting down here, you know.

[00:05:35]There's Ariel giving us a hand wave.

[00:05:41]I got to get on there. Y'all better play like billy goats coming up that bank.

[00:05:45]Yeah.

[00:05:47]I'm going to keep this running cuz I'm going A farmer's height. If Ariel trips and falls into that creek, I want it on film.

[00:05:54]You what? If Ariel trips and falls in the creek, I want it on video. Oh, yeah.

[00:06:00]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> No, they're not going to do that.

[00:06:11]Oh, she is but now hold on.

[00:06:15]Ah, they'll be all right. I'm not going to film that.

[00:06:17]>> [laughter] >> Folks, y'all have a good one and we'll see y'all down river.