Rotational Grazing and Cover Crop Integration Virtual Q&A

The BC Climate Agri-Solutions Fund (CAF) provides funding to help farmers tackle climate change by adopting beneficial managing practices (BMPs) in three specific areas: Nitrogen Management, Cover Cropping and Rotational Grazing. CAF is funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the On-Farm Climate Action Fund and delivered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC.

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A collaborative event between Small-Scale Meat Producers Association and FarmFolk CityFolk.

Join us for an evening about integrated beneficial management practices you can use on your farm. Cover cropping and rotational grazing can help to build soil, sequester carbon, improve pastures and animal health, increase crop yields and create a diversified ecosystem where plants and animals can thrive.Cover cropping is a sustainable agricultural practice that involves planting crops specifically to improve soil health, increase climate adaptability and promote climate mitigation. Cover crops are grown primarily for the benefits they provide to the soil and the ecosystem and, when carefully chosen and managed, can be hugely beneficial to farmers. Benefits include protecting the soil from erosion, suppressing weeds, reducing soil compaction, increasing soil organic matter, improving soil structure, increasing soil water-holding capacity, and enhancing nutrient cycling. In addition, cover crops can provide a habitat for beneficial insects, such as pollinators and predators of pests.Rotational grazing is a set of techniques used to control the time aspect of grazing that typically leads to overgrazing in a continuous grazing system. Livestock are moved into a defined area, typically called a paddock, where they have access to graze the plants in that area. They are then rotated to a new paddock while grazed plants have a chance to recover. The livestock are not moved back to that paddock again until the plants there have fully recovered.We invite farmers to join us online, watch a virtual tour of Whiskey Creek Ranch and participate in a Q&amp;A with our farm host, Michelle Schaeffer, and Executive Director of the Small-Scale Meat Producers Association, Julia Smith. <h3>About the Farm</h3><a href="https://whiskeycreekranch.ca/" title="https://whiskeycreekranch.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Whiskey Creek Ranch</a> is a first-generation, family-run farm, located in Rose Prairie. They produce pastured poultry and pork, grass-fed, grass-finished beef, honey, and various agri-food products. Whiskey Creek Ranch uses rotational grazing practices and sustainable farming techniques, which results in lower environmental impact and a higher quality product. <h3>Guest Speakers and Q&amp;A</h3>Michelle SchaefferMaking Dane-zaa (Treaty 8) Territory near Fort St. John, BC her home since 2006, Michelle is a proud mom, farmer, natural resource environmental specialist, Professional Agrologist, and a certified grazing mentor with the Canadian Forage and Grasslands Association and the Farmers for Climate Solution's Farm Resilience Mentorship (FaRM) Program. She is also a Director for the Peace River Forage Association of BC (PRFA) and Executive for the Small-Scale Meat Producers Association. Having always had her fingers in the pot when it comes to where her food comes from, Michelle, along with her husband, jumped head first into producing food for their community in 2015. Michelle is an eternal optimist, doer, and dreamer about how sustainable, nourishing food and thriving small farms fill a critical role in our collective futures.Julia SmithJulia is a grazing mentor with the Farmers for Climate Solution's Farm Resilience Mentorship (FaRM) Program. She has been raising a wide range of livestock including cattle, sheep, poultry and pigs over the past 12 years. Range riding, grazing sheep and working to preserve critically endangered Red Wattle hogs keep her busy these days at Blue Sky Ranch in Nlaka'pamux Territory near Merritt, BC. She is a founding member and past president of the Small-Scale Meat Producers Association, where she now serves as Executive Director. Julia is on the Board of Directors of Farmers for Climate Solutions and was Vice-President of the National Farmers Union, where she continues to be active on the livestock committee.Nadia Mori Nadia Mori earned her Master of Science at the University of Saskatchewan. She has been a forage extension specialist for over 10 years working with the Saskatchewan and BC provincial government. More recently, Nadia has taken on the coordinator role with the Peace River Forage Association of BC and the extension coordination for the Peace Region Living Lab, a five-year producer-led research project. When Nadia wears a farmer hat, she produces microgreens and fresh vegetables at Squiggly Things to bring local and nutritious food to northern communities.

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