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[insects chirping]
[gentle piano music]
- Inga: So what I do here on the farm
is called intensive grazing.
During the grazing season,
I move the cows twice a day, every 12 hours,
after their morning milking and after their evening milking.
I put them in a nice, beautiful paddock,
and that way, they can harvest their own feed.
And what they're doing
is they're sort of revitalizing the soil out here.
This is my poorest pasture.
This pasture was kind of always farmed with crops,
soybeans, corn, soybeans, corn,
and it needed some extra inputs to make it fertile again.
The cows have actually done that on their own.
Through grazing, they're grazing down
those taller species of grasses
so that the clovers can come out,
and this field is full of beautiful clovers.
And they're also fertilizing the ground,
so that we're getting some really good organic matter
into the ground
because healthy cows start with healthy soil.
Healthy soil is really the foundation
for all healthy foods.
And I find that grazing is a great way to accomplish that.
The other thing I really love about grazing
is that when we're out here in the pastures,
we're actually also creating habitat
for all kinds of different species,
for birds, for bees, for insects.
[bee buzzing]
These pastures are just alive
with different buzzings of noises and sounds,
and it's so exciting, like,
there's such a great relationship
that the cows have with the land,
and the land has with all of these different pollinators.
[cows chewing]
We can't have healthy people without healthy soil.
The soil is really where it all begins.
And by having the cows out here grazing that soil,
we're building that foundation.
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