A Return to Silvopasture: From Pasture to Two-Story Agriculture
My 4 children, wife, and I returned to our 10th generation farm (circa 1773) in 2009 after my 1st overseas deployment with the Air National Guard. My Great-Grandfather was the last Holsinger to live on the property in the early 1970s, but the family continued to farm the property in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Back then, the farm was part of a 70 head cow/calf operation, fenced as a single 72-acre tract, with cattle drinking from the ponds, stream, and house spring. We spent 2 weeks a year making tons of hay, and the rest of the year we fed that hay 2-3 days a week along with silage trucked from another farm 20 miles away.
That was then…This is now.
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- Written by Buck Holsinger, Holsinger Homeplace Farms, Virginia
- Parent Category: 2021 Volume 27
- Category: Volume 27 No. 1 Spring 2021