Saint Brigid Farm

05/02/2026

Quiet moments with Christina #2 - April 2026

Quiet Moments with Christina - April 2026

04/30/2026

The Trinity Bed Herbal Garden - Saint Brigid Farm

Herb Garden - Saint Brigid Farm

04/29/2026

This is the second year of our Dahlia Tuber Venture!!!

Dahlia Tuber Business Venture - Saint Brigid's Farm

04/28/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=608yOUx3Emk

Most people think you need dozens of acres to become self-sufficient. You don't. You need the RIGHT animals — nine specific species that work together as a c...

04/28/2026

Introduction to our newly planted Permaculture Orchard!

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04/27/2026

Great ideas but AI produced.

04/27/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTh698d3HHA

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04/27/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpk_UgLJsg

1.3K likes, 70 comments. "Building Pastures from Scratch (Farming/Homesteading)"

04/27/2026

A pasture grazed by cattle alone is a good pasture.

A pasture grazed by cattle and sheep, together, is something else entirely.

The cattle take the long grass, the coarse stems, the rougher patches. The sheep follow behind and clean up what the cattle ignored: the shorter regrowth, the wildflowers, the species the cattle wouldn't touch. The pasture gets grazed at two heights, by two different mouths, on two different patterns. Twice the use. Twice the work. None of the waste.

Add a goat and the bramble line goes. Add a pig on the woodland edge and the parasite cycles break. Add a few geese and the weeds you didn't even know you had quietly disappear.

The result is consistently the highest-biodiversity, highest-productivity, lowest-input agricultural system on earth. Higher protein per acre than arable. More carbon in the soil. More birds. More wildflowers. Less disease. Less input. Each species breaks the parasite cycle of the others. Each one prefers the plants the others avoid. The system tunes itself.

This is not innovative. It is what almost every functional agricultural society on earth has done forever. Roman estates. Medieval manors. Mongolian camps. Welsh hill farms.

The single-species, single-field, single-product model that replaced it is about a hundred years old and is running out of steam on every metric you can measure.

The fix is older than the problem. It is a Welsh farm with cattle on the lower pasture, sheep on the upper, a goat on the bramble line, and a couple of geese in the orchard.

The farmer would explain it in four minutes if you asked.

The policy paper has not asked.

https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2048650041498157334

04/22/2026

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A few states are throwing in the towel on CWD! Now, if you are serious about re-taking control over how deer are managed, you MUST do YOUR part, especially if you are a landowner! If they have it in your state, sign up for DMAP! If they don’t demand it! It’s all about proper harvest! We must move toward “natural” deer herds! We need to harvest the appropriate number of does each year! God meant for deer to have a 1:1.5 to 1:2 s*x ratio! That does not mean that we have to slaughter does; as there certainly are places where populations are in trouble! Let’s focus our management on recruitment rates! Find out what it is for your herd, then, if it is beneath 40-50%, let’s find out why? Is it nutrition? Is it predation? Is it too many deer? Get involved as a “citizen scientist” finding out what you have and what are the limiting factors in your herd. “Many a beautiful theory has been murdered by a ruthless gang of facts!” Quit blaming it on the other guy, the other landowner! Form cooperatives and work together; and don’t tell me you can’t or it won’t work! Lastly, DEMAND help from your agency! Get politically involved!