Our sheep are available for hire! Do you have overgrowth to maintain or brush to clear from woods? Contact us to learn more about our mobile grazing services!
What We Do
We offer an array of direct services, subject matter expertise, and consulting related to integrated natural resource management and land management planning and design. We can support private landowners, municipalities or government entities, conservation and land trusts, universities, and renewable energy developers and asset managers.
Whether your goals are conservation and pollinator habitat, integration of agrivoltaics and renewable energy, natural resource protection and restoration, or agricultural economic development, we and our partnerships can assist with incorporating practices that can reduce emissions, increase soil health and carbon sequestration, support wildlife and pollinator habitats, and increase sustainable, regenerative agriculture.
We offer support, services, and our partnerships with various ecological support companies and organizations. We can help with a wide range of ecosystems and land management options for many land uses from orchards, farmlands, prairie grasslands, right-of-ways, or energy generation facilities.
Integrated resource planning for agricultural or natural resource management evaluates your goals and resources to map a comprehensive vegetation strategy and suggested best management practices. Agriculture plans can include options such as conservation grazing, hybrid brush/weed control, forage production including hay or other livestock feed, food production, specialty crops, and enhancing native plant populations. These options can be provided as services that we carry out, or we can provide support, management, and/or education/mentoring for landowners and land managers.
What is Lambscaping?
Sheep live to eat and love to eat! Simply put, we “landscape” with our sheep using regenerative agriculture concepts. In the last few years we began using the sheep to help friends, family, and acquaintances with ecological restoration and invasive species management. The flock is always excited entering a new section or jumping off the trailer to explore a new site!
Courtesy United Agrivoltaics
Solar Grazing
We are proud to work as a local farm partner with United Agrivoltaics to bring solar sheep grazing to the Michiana region!
Please contact us to learn more about what we can do for your solar project!
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
“Regenerative Agriculture” describes farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity – resulting in both carbon drawdown and improving the water cycle. - Regeneration International
We plan our grazing rotations and stocking density to meet a specific purpose such as brush clearing, killing off invasive plant species, or simply adding organic matter to soil struggling to produce well. Grazing is an affordable alternative to machinery and carbon-based mowing and trimming. It allows us to control invasive species, improves carbon sequestration and water retention in poor soils.
If you are considering “green” methods of habitat restoration or minimally invasive methods of managing your vegetation or have an upcoming big project, we would love to hear from you! Sheep grazing is complementary to appropriate pollinator habitat and we are happy to discuss native seed options and recommend some great seed mixes you can order from local businesses such as Native Connections.
Earth-friendly landscaping
Katahdin hair sheep are well-suited to perform prescribed grazing on a wide variety of landscapes. Light on their feet and not terribly picky, the Katahdins will clean up everything from brush to poison ivy to overgrown fields and forests. They've cleaned up invasive species such as multiflora rose and poison ivy, cleared brush and woodlands to open up recreational spaces, prepared and fertilized areas for native prairie development, as well as simply maintained appropriate vegetative cover for property owners who wished to avoid time-consuming and costly mechanical mowing.
Depending on stocking density and plant growth to manage, the sheep flock handles sites from less than an acre to many acres as part of a plan prescribed to suit your timeline! We use electric netting to rotate the sheep from one section to another to ensure they complete the job, and mobile water tanks and mineral tubs keep the sheep happy and healthy as they graze longer-term jobs.
Each job is a specific quote - because different locations may require more or less sheep to do the job depending on what is there, how many acres, and how many passes are needed. For some projects, multiple or ongoing “grazes” are needed in order to reach your ecological and landscaping goals.