https://desertalive.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://desertalive.com/blog/regenerative-grazing monthly 0.5 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/794ba0a6-9ec4-412d-81cd-95ec3c70fc8c/image%285%29.jpg Blog - Regenerative Grazing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/634fff16-db36-42ee-9356-2d8a43f75d68/image%284%29.copy.jpeg Blog - Regenerative Grazing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/5996ca52-4cc7-4945-9002-cf056e3d8a41/image%283%29.copy.jpg Blog - Regenerative Grazing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/e7c883b8-fad7-4d0f-abf6-4bb4860833ae/image.copy.jpeg Blog - Regenerative Grazing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/afc867b2-9195-444a-92cb-28dbf860172d/image%282%29.copy.jpeg Blog - Regenerative Grazing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://desertalive.com/blog/the-animals monthly 0.5 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/0632a3cd-95c9-4e4e-84ff-9e9e1ad96794/IMG-20211214-WA0002.jpg Blog - The Animals - The fence was complete. And thorn bushes had been placed at the base around the entire perimeter - both inside and out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/f3651ee4-6aad-4036-94ab-7e117cef422e/IMG-20221216-WA0014.jpg Blog - The Animals - The berked (water cistern) was dug, built and had partially filled with water - filling up completely in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/4e7aafee-39b2-49b0-a1b6-adf30a59f4a8/20230111_080414.jpg Blog - The Animals - Six months later, we have completed our first run through the 99 paddocks… but more on that later. For now, we were glad to finally have animals munching happily on our land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/115f1121-4a8e-4d67-a9af-99aa8ca567fd/Screenshot_20230118-110246_Explore.jpg Blog - The Animals - Using satellite images of our farm, we divided our land into 101 plots, or paddocks, as we call them, with each paddock averaging slightly more than 0.9 hectares (2 ¼ acres). With one paddock occupied by our berked and one by our camp and livestock corrals, 99 paddocks were left for grazing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/8c2ac3eb-27e2-4367-be65-f8d9f249bd85/1661980221496_20220626_114833.jpg Blog - The Animals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/d1a03f1f-98b4-4c9a-b6b6-29a77a0c25ba/grazing+plan+snip.PNG Blog - The Animals - And besides the physical preparations, we had been developing our grazing plan and praying for the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/f6e1ca95-7063-4106-955c-e55165b113d5/IMG-20221212-WA0006.jpg Blog - The Animals - The nighttime corrals for the cows and for the goats and sheep were finished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/68c0cb63-5425-49d6-8ab6-920797bc0fe7/1661980374645_20220707_124938edit.jpg Blog - The Animals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/36c8217b-e5a8-4932-8eba-583247590e37/1661980364136_20220705_114724edit.jpg Blog - The Animals - Our portable electric fence had been purchased and imported - a whole story in itself! This portable fence allows us to keep the animals where they need to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/8f51af1f-7368-4ae4-9476-e574021dcfa9/20221210_083416.jpg Blog - The Animals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://desertalive.com/blog/the-berked monthly 0.5 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/967b97db-0635-4c46-a323-88d0074e11a8/1661979624074_20211020_094723.jpg Blog - The Berked - The next step was to excavate the site we had selected for the berked. We contracted an excavator to dig out the soil and rock from the site. This took about a month to do. After this, we hired day laborers from the area to level the floor and straighten out the walls, which also took about a month. When they were done, we had a big square hole in the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/36643903-af3a-4a25-9ab3-7d9d40e7fe39/1661979966511_20220315_101441.jpg Blog - The Berked https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dd496332ea6d239c773729/1a551a54-cf71-4edd-8db8-8e6cd0f29c6a/1661980536010_20220824_112710.jpg Blog - The Berked - We had our first rain just as the berked was being completed - filling it a third full. Not long later, a second rain would fill it the rest of the way. 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The increasing droughts and changing landscape means that what used to work for raising livestock no longer does. And in a region where livestock form the backbone of the economy (and hold a special place in people’s hearts!) that is bad news for rural families: In some areas, droughts in recent years have killed up to 80% of livestock. 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