Hilltop Homestead

See the darker green grass coming in? Yup, that's where the chicken tractor has been. The nitrogen in the chicken manure is great for the grass. Kinda makes me wish I could have made the lines more consistent. 🤣
This picture tells me so much about the health of our grass. Mainly that it is severely nitrogen-depleted, and could use a good dose of nitrogen applied evenly across the lawn, since there's no way the chicken tractor is going to be able to cover the whole yard by summer's end. 😂
But this is why it is so important to work with nature to restore the delicate ecosystem that exists below the grass, in the soil. I promise I won't go too in depth about how I feel about monoculture systems and the way Americans are obsessed with their lawns that are devoid of any variety of plants. 😅
But our soil is the single most important thing to capturing water runoff from rain and preventing drought, as well as capturing the carbon that everyone is so worried about.