3 Springs Land and Livestock was established to be a demonstration ranch. Come with questions, curiosity and your friends! The tour lasts two hours and will introduce you to holistic and regenerative agriculture, reading the land, and what a cattle and chicken operation looks like and how it is beenficial to the environment and our community.
ABOUT OUR RANCH
We value the experience of being on the land and knowing our decisions will impact it positively or negatively. We value the well being of ourselves, our community, and our animals. We try our utmost to recreate nature in our agricultural practice. We raise pasture finished beef and poultry.
Our practices are derived from the Holistic Management Framework pioneered by Allan Savory and the thousands of ranchers who have applied and refined what it means to Manage Holistically over the last 60 years. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
For our cow herd and beef operation we frequently move our animals in a tight herd to mimic the ancient pattern grazing animals with the presence of pack hunting predators. This created the animals to bunch together for safety. This meant they trampled and churned the ground with their hooves which is the best tool to affect change ecologically in brittle environments. This also meant the grazing animals would soil where they were with their own dung and urine which would force them to move on.
We use Holistic Planned Grazing, which has been termed by others as, rotational grazing, intensive grazing, mob grazing, adaptive grazing to mimic this ancient pattern that created the Lucious grasslands in the Midwest of the US. This encourages dramatic biodiversity of plants which gives our animals the highest possible nutrition to our animals. We lab test our meat annually to check its level of Omega 6 and Omega 3 fatty acids and the level of different phytonutrients in the beef.
For our chickens, we attempt to create the secondary benefit of what the cattle would create. Lots of manure=lots of bugs. We have our chickens follow our cattle in protective structures, as large flocks of birds followed the massive herds of North America and Africa foraging for insects. This makes our chicken’s health and flavor more robust than your average factory raised chicken.
