January 22, 2010 Raising grass-fed cattle to save the planet – Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch are building a barn and plan on adding livestock to their Four Season Farm…because they care.
“Once he[Coleman] and Damrosch have brought in their livestock, they’ll “be able to use the manure to feed the plants, and the plant waste to feed the animals,” he says. “And even though we can’t eat the grass, we’ll be turning it into something we can.”
Grass-fed beef mirrors nature as it was intended: the cattle feed on the grasses in the fields and leave their droppings; the hungry micro-organisms living beneath the surface feed on the manure, and in turn they enrich soil; as the cattle turn to ‘greener’ pastures, the nibbled plants, living in naturally healthy soils, grow strong (again) – thus providing a new meal to eventually returning cattle.
