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After attending the 2017 soil health conference in Edmonton, Scott became more and more interested in soil health and grass management. We got introduced to regnerative agriculture. We were hooked.On our 4.2 acres we started to rotaionally graze the horses we had in training to increase our holding capacity. We added a few chickens, a couple pigs, more pigs, three sheep. We moved them around our pastures, following each other to increase manure diversity and maximize the use of our grasses. It worked. Scott started seeding cover crops in a garden bed. We started looking into no till gardening and increased our garden. We had a huge chamomile wreck after we tilled down one of our pastures. Instead of spraying it, we cut it down, we put pigs on it, we re-seeded it with a diverse mix, pulled what we could and it came back beautifully, wit hardly any chamomile left. The more we did, the more we realized we were going to outgrow our place fast and we strted talking about finding more land. Then covid hit.
We knew we wanted to leave our 4 acres, but covid land prices increased and there was a rush from the city the country. One day in February 2021 we pulled the plug, listed our house and found a property that we were able to afford. We had talked about buying a nice house wehre we wouldn't have to do a whole bunch of renovating, so we found the smallest trailer we could. The land was incredible though. It hadn't been touched by sprays or too much tillage, a blank canvas for us to experiment with. We sold and moved in June 2021.
