So, what is Holistic Planned Grazing?
Is it Mob Grazing, is it AMP grazing? Is it rotational grazing? But it’s definitely not continuous grazing or?
The answer is yes and no. Most of the above are systems with a set of rules or guidelines that might work better or worse in your specific context.
Planning your grazing holistically means to bring all these together to plan the best grazing strategy for your land and life in this year and this season – including everything you have observed in land, animals, and personal context.
There are no fixed rules like “take 50, leave 50”, “stay 3 days maximum” or “at least 200 animal units per hectare density“. These might be helpful guidelines in your context to get started. But as soon as they become rules, we make it a system and forget about observing and switching things up.
And that’s what it’s all about. Breaking patterns. Breaking routines to stimulate our land and our minds.
It’s about making conscious decisions that are adaptive to our observations and include our context.
And continuously grazing a specific field can be a decision within.
So, what now?
Autumn is the perfect time to collect observations. To create a plan for your winter grazing. Or prepare for your next year’s planning session.
What can you observe on your land?
What has worked well in fencing and moves?
What patterns do you want to break?
Which routines do you want to switch up?
Go out and see! And have fun with it.
