Marcus Gray, CWB®

Join me on @myVPM as we discuss #butterfly gardening & conservation with #VirginiaHomeGrown! pbs.org/video/attracti… @PBS #PBS #RVA @WMHTPubMedia #butterflies #bflies #rvagardentrail #Virginia

@sovernTranch Or fescue, or broom straw…it doesn’t matter. Ha

@GrayFeist lol Correct Set stock on Bermuda

Put them on tall grass and pull them before they eat it all Eat a 1/3, leave a 1/3 and stomp a 1/3

@USDA Until they get moved back in the next administration.

🚨 USDA's Forest Service will move its headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah, and begin a sweeping restructuring of the agency to move leadership closer to the forests and communities it serves, a structural reset and a common-sense approach to improve mission delivery. 🔗 usda.gov/about-usda/new…

Some of my thoughts on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/wldlfr_t… #solargrazing

America’s sheep deficit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wuSC7…

@stationmum101 Tried to send this earlier but didn’t have service…the thing about these hair/shedding breeds is their twinning ability. Helps build flocks quickly.

@GrayFeist We’re lucky enough to have the scale & productivity to rebuild quickly if required though.

We are not a #hobbyfarm, we are full-time ranchers. Why do part-time farmers/ranchers feel the need to tell others what to do? Having an operation support your family without non-farm income is getting pretty rare. You can do it too, if you’re willing to try new things.

Oh, LORD, what would we DO without cities?! Bull. You can raise/gather/hunt in the country. You can build a house. Elitist urban garbage. This guy would rather be a mooch in a city than live a subsistence lifestyle. facebook.com/share/v/1CPJ86…

@DriverXag We have a 1981. :)

@GrayFeist My new tractor is 26 years old. 😂

New farmers love shiny things. You don’t need all that metal in Year 1. Over time, get stuff, sure but don’t get overextended blowing money on equipment payments.

@HowThingsWork_ Smudge pots

Before dawn in the south of France, cherry farmers rise to beat the frost that threatens to erase an entire season in a single night. They move quietly but quickly through their orchards, lighting small fires beneath the blossoming trees to warm the freezing air.

@GGunthorp Or the 500-house subdivisions, strip malls. The US has lost half of its cattle operations in our lifetime. Sheep & hogs are worse, as you’re aware.

Where were these guys when we lost the independent family farm? #solar #ethanol #dairyindustrytakeover #resilientgrid #farmbureautalkingpoints #deeperconversationneeded #ruralamericaghettos facebook.com/reel/894298968…

@BNA_Wolfie @SamaHoole Try ours. parsonscreeksteak.com/store/lamb

@SamaHoole Nah, I’m out! Lamb tastes like sheep smell.

Lamb is called land salmon. Not officially. Not in any restaurant menu or butcher's window. But among the people who know what they're talking about, this is the comparison: lamb, like wild salmon, is a seasonal, landscape-specific, highly nutritious, once-revered protein that the modern food system has managed to commodify into something faintly apologetic. The nutritional comparison holds. Both are rich in omega-3 fatty acids relative to their commercial alternatives. A grass-fed lamb raised on flower-rich upland pasture has a fatty acid profile that reflects the diverse plant community it grazed: CLA, omega-3s, fat-soluble vitamins from the herbs and clovers. Both are tied to specific landscapes. The flavour of Herdwick lamb from the Lake District is not the flavour of Welsh Mountain lamb from the Brecon Beacons. The terroir is real and it comes through in the meat. Both were once culturally central and are now nutritionally undervalued. The salmon had a moment: farm to fork, sustainable, wild-caught, artisan, that the lamb has not yet had. The lamb deserves the moment. The lamb has been maintaining the landscape that the rewilding movement now wishes to restore. The lamb has been producing nutrient-dense protein from terrain no other food system can access. The lamb grazed the uplands before the wellness industry discovered the concept of eating with the seasons. The salmon gets the celebration. The lamb is waiting.

@SamaHoole @Recipe4wellnes

@SamaHoole Click -> #EatLamb

Where are all the #solar #influencers at? The sector needs cool people to help spread the word about benefits to #farmers & #communities. #influencer #agrivoltaics #agpv #solargrazing #agrisolar #energy #renewables #climate #carbon #localfood #lamb

@sovernTranch @partygoatsla Some sites are tricky to turn things like that around.

Been looking at livestock trailers Then I found @partygoatsla This is elite level marketing… And buses are CHEAP Digging the logo on a red and black school bus

Whatever happened to the, “if you don’t have anything nice to say,” thing? linkedin.com/posts/wldlfr_s…

I like #chickens, I do, but they’re victims. #Geese & #Turkeys are so much better at taking care of themselves.

We’ve been at this 400+ years. Learn something from history!

@stationmum101 Imagine tripling our lamb imports…

@GrayFeist My husband’s great grandfather used to say the same thing about wool & China. He said ‘you only need to sell each Chinaman 1 sock - not even a pair - & it would revolutionise the Australian wool industry’