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Turning Old Burnt Out Hay Fields to Grazing Pastures and Gardens

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It’s been just a couple weeks short of two years since we moved our animals on to this property. 

The Barn Property Sept 2022

When we were asked to come there and use the land and barn, the fields were mostly old and burnt out, full of invasive and toxic weeds. Two years later through the use of rotational pasturing, and regenerative farming techniques these are those fields today… 

While the original goals of the Property Owners, of “Just keep the trees from growing in, and the fields from getting over taken” with hopes of getting rid of the toxic and invasive plants. Although we wanted to help showcase the work, and help make this place even more beautiful. We’ve used Goats, Pigs, Chickens, Rabbits, and now Sheep to help improve this wonderful old property. Just look at those hay fields now! A true testament to the capabilities of these wonderful birds and animals! 

Not only have we helped keep the fields from growing in, we’ve helped to eliminate many of the weeds, both toxic and invasive. Although it’s still a work in progress! Sheep need adequate pasture grasses and forage to thrive and our shearer and others, and even the wool quality of the sheep have all testified to this being the case! It’s incredible to see the transformation that’s taken place! 

We’ve even managed to turn some of this ground into gardens!

2024 Garden at The Barn Property

Using deep bedding for our animals through the winter helps provide well composted hay and manure to help naturally grow the gardens. The whole thing is laborious and yet rewarding. We work mostly by hand, employing time honoured methods and let our animals do most of the heavy lifting! It’s a labour of love, one where we always strive to be good Stewards.

Imagine a Nova Scotian on the Cover of the Taste of Home Magazine!

Brian Hurlburt officially enters Top 15 in FavChef2024

It could happen! We are Officially in the Top 15 and currently #4 in our Group! What Group You Ask?

Glad You asked, Carla Hall’s FavChef2024 is a competition open to everyone from beginners to professionals and a few weeks ago I entered on a whim and was chosen as a Contestant! 

The Competition is really a Fundraiser for the James Beard Foundation and is based on Votes cast by the Public, that’s You, for their Favourite Chef! 

Ok, let’s face it, You and I both know I’m not Your Favourite Chef! Right? Well, so does Carla Hall, the good folks at the James Beard Foundation, and the organizers at Colossal.org for DTCare (83‑3344803), a nationally registered public charity which will grant donations to the James Beard Foundation (13‑2752108). For more information see our disclosures.

The Bottomline is it’s a great promotion and opportunity for Carla Hall and the James Beard Foundation, and lesser known Home Cooks and Chefs to get known! To get the word out there! Right?

Of course, so here’s the thing… the whole thing, the Winner, will be selected by You, and people like You, who cast Free Daily Votes for their “Favourite Chef”. Even if it’s just their “Favourite” in the Competition! So Please Click Here to Vote for Me Now!

So, You may be wondering, “What’s the Prize!?” 

Again, glad You asked! 

Winner will be featured on the cover of Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000! I think it’d be great to have a Homesteading Farmer from Nova Scotia on the cover of the Rolling Stones! If that’s not possible, then maybe, with Your Help! We can get on the Cover of the Taste of Home Magazine

Please Help by using Your Free Daily Vote, Sharing the Link, and asking others to Vote too! Here’s the Link: https://favchef.com/2024/brian-hurlburthttps://favchef.com/2024/brian-hurlburt 

 

 

Top 20 in Carla Hall’s FavChef2024 Competition

FavChef2024 Top 20

How Cool is that! 

I Never Dreamed I’d be in the Top 20 in #CarlaHall’s Favourite Chef Competition. However, thanks to You, and Your Support, here’s a photo the Organizers put together for me to promote and yes, that’s our Meal being Featured! How cool is that! Fresh Garden Greens, Woodland Pastured Pork, Green and Yellow Beans, Peas, Huckleberry Gold, German Fingerling, Kennebec, and Irish Cobbler Potatoes. All grown and raised by us, #BridenFarm. Please Vote for me as Your Favourite Chef, or at least Your Favourite in the Favourite Chef Competition.
Everyone gets a Free Daily Vote at 

https://favchef.com/2024/brian-hurlburt