Nick Jackson of Jackson Regenerational Farm in Maine joined me to discuss the ins and outs of their food scrap collection service. We talk about the required infrastructure, the benefits to their business, as well as what it looks like at scale.
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2 comments on “Ep. 327 – Nick Jackson – Using Food Scraps”
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A friend of my son’s told me about this podcast about a year ago, but I had limited data and only recently got switched to a different plan with a little more data, so today I listened to several of the recent podcasts, including this one. It’s not what I expected. I thought it was going to be about working cows in a yoke. I trained my heifer-calf to a yoke during the winter of 2021-2022, but haven’t had her do any work yet. Now she has outgrown the yoke, but her little sister is old enough to start training.
Last winter I decided to put my bales out in the field , not knowing that it was “a thing,” until someone told me about bale grazing, which is what I wanted to try to do. It worked well. With only one cow and her heifer calf, I didn’t even need to leave the polywire up. They didn’t, and still don’t, rip into the wrapped bales. They only eat them once I open them. I had set up polywire around the bales for last winter, but when I tested them and they didn’t bother an unopened bale, I just took it all down.
My field is newly-cleared land and it really needs to be smoothed before I do too much to it. I don’t have he equipment and am not sure exactly what to do. I did scatter Redmond salt and soil conditioner on it earlier this summer.
Glad I finally tuned it, and I’m looking forward to more. 🙂
HA! The title of the podcast is a play on words for sure, but not in that way ;). Although I am not opposed to discussing that kind of “Working Cows.”
Thanks for reaching out!