About 12 of our 32+ acres are heavily wooded....great for privacy, but not ideal for pastured animals. For the past two years, we have been slowly working on turning the woods into a silvopasture environment......ideally, healthy mature trees, well spaced, with plenty of grass in between. The pigs from last year were very helpful in clearing the underbrush and turning the soil, and the cows have spent most of this winter in the woods, helping to clear as well. Of course, with all these scrub trees coming down, either by animal or chainsaw, we have gathered quite a pile. So, for the third time since starting the farm, we had to partake in possibly our least favorite activity: woodchipping. This time wasn't quite as bad as we got smart and did it in the winter. All said, it wasn't too bad, and now we have plenty of wood chips to use for composting, gardening, the chicken coop, etc. And we are another step closer to growing grass in the woods.
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