At Summer Roads we try to convert as much farmland as possible to well managed pasture.  ​

1. Our pastured also capture carbon, through the practice of intensive rotational grazing and bale grazing, plants are able to maximized the carbon they can take out of the air and convert into exudates which they release into the soil.  This captures but also stores the carbon into the soil of the pasture, where it will stay unless disturbed through practices like tillage.  

2. Great pasture lands have a wide variety of plants in them.  Forbes, grasses, sedges, legumes, shrubs, and trees, create a diverse habitat for mammals, birds, insects, spider, amphibians, and reptiles.  With pastures under our management you often can't walk through them without coming across wildlife making their home there.

3. This pasture land also feeds all of our livestock.  Our sheep and chickens rotate throughout their lives on our pastures foraging for food and enjoy the day.  Our sheep our 100% grass fed, so all though they are fed hay in the winter, it is cut from our pastures in the summer and stored for them to eat throughout the winter when the grass is dormant.

4. Because we intensively rotationally graze our livestock, the plants in the pasture are never over grazed.  They are grazed and then given plenty of time to regrow.  This creates a dense healthy pasture which builds the soil through the addition of organic matter from the manure and trampled plant matter.  It also cleans and stores water as the water soaks into the soil and is filter through the soil rather than running off.