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The Richos Way
Holistic Management - Every part of our farm working together
Holistic Planned Grazing
Healthy soil is where it all starts — get that right, and everything else follows.
We move our livestock to fresh pasture every 24 hours, so the grass never gets overgrazed. This keeps carbon levels up, which naturally fertilises the soil and builds stronger root systems — no synthetic inputs needed.
Keeping the animals in a smaller area for a short time also means they graze on everything growing there, not just the tasty bits — giving our cattle a balanced diet while making the biggest impact on that patch of ground.
It's more work for us, sure, but it means our animals get to live the way nature intended — happily foraging on fresh, pesticide-free grass every single day
The Pig Powered Land Reset
Our pigs do all the hard work for us. Their natural urge to dig, wallow and root around has completely turned around the scrub and overgrowth in the timbered parts of the property. Weeds get wiped out, soil gets fertilised, and ground gets turned over — all without a single machine. While they're at it, our pigs munch on locally milled, low-GMO grain and graze freely across our pastures all day long.
Once the pigs move on, we follow up with a multi-species cover crop — a mix of grasses, legumes, forbs, brassicas and flowers, chosen specifically to suit whatever patch of land they've just worked over. Once that crop's established, the cows come through next, grazing it down and continuing the cycle of regeneration across the property
Chickens,
Nature's Fertiliser Crew
We skip chemical fertiliser altogether by bringing in nature's best — our meat chickens.
We move them to fresh ground every day, keeping them clean, happy and healthy — and getting the most out of their poop while we're at it!
Chicken manure naturally adds nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium to our soils, plus trace elements like zinc, copper and magnesium. Meanwhile, the chickens hoover up every bug in sight, so there's no need for pesticides either.
Even their bedding doesn't go to waste — we use local wood shavings in the brooders, then repurpose the used bedding to build contour banks across our hills. These slow down water movement, boost how much water our soil holds onto, and help drought- and flood-proof the whole property
Safe to Fail, Our First Garlic Crop
This season we're planting our first ever crop of garlic — a "safe to fail" trial. Rather than betting the farm on it, we're starting small, learning what works for our soil and climate, and building from there.
The bed it's going into is built from our own homemade compost — made right here using chicken bedding, bones, and scraps we'd otherwise have no use for. Nothing bought in, just good soil grown from what our animals already give us.
Our plan is to keep and replant garlic from this crop each year, slowly building our own seed stock and reducing our reliance on outside suppliers. True to how we run the rest of the farm, we're leaning on our chickens and cattle to build fertile soil rather than reaching for synthetic inputs — regenerative agriculture in action.
This garlic is one more step in adding diversity to our land and to what we can offer you. Stay tuned as this first crop grows!