{"id":6202,"date":"2020-05-13T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2020-11-08T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:29:42","slug":"an-excellent-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/an-excellent-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent explanation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;of just what holistic grazing is all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About seven years ago we were introduced to the concepts of Alan Savory and even hosted a session here with Michael Mitchell-Innes.&nbsp; It was a milestone in the history of the farm, particularly for Wooz, who had grown up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In sum, holistic grazing puts the land into the perspective of the entire ecosystem.&nbsp; It can be pretty heavy stuff so I was delighted to come across this short video&#8230;just three minutes&#8230;by Blaine Hitzfield of Seven Sons Farm in Indiana.&nbsp; In everyday terms Blaine describes what it has meant for their farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bFE6Q6Qxr4o\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The experience Blaine describes&#8230;raising organic matter from two percent to as high as six per cent&#8230;exactly mirrors our experience at Thistle Hill.&nbsp; Even places with desert-like conditions have seen incredible regeneration using holistic grazing practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of just what holistic grazing is all about. About seven years ago we were introduced to the concepts of Alan Savory and even hosted a session here with Michael Mitchell-Innes.&nbsp; It was a milestone in the history of the farm, particularly for Wooz, who had grown up here. In sum, holistic grazing puts the land into the perspective of the entire ecosystem.&nbsp; It can be pretty heavy stuff so I was delighted to come across this short video&#8230;just three minutes&#8230;by Blaine Hitzfield of Seven Sons Farm in Indiana.&nbsp; In everyday terms Blaine describes what it has meant for their farm. The experience Blaine describes&#8230;raising organic matter from two percent to as high as six per cent&#8230;exactly mirrors our experience at Thistle Hill.&nbsp; Even places with desert-like conditions have seen incredible regeneration using holistic grazing practices. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-environment","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}