For the past week, we have been fencing off the entire Blood Orange grove. This included the area surrounding the farm house. The horses now have a new pasture to graze in. Fact is, the happy critters were let into this grove just a few hours ago. Oh yeah...fresh green grass!
Horses will not eat the citrus trees. They may rub against the trees, but I see that of not being a issue. To say again...I am doubling and tripling the land use here at The Natomas Farm. Another green pasture to enlarge our rotation system of the grazing areas. Over use of any pasture will simply be a environmental and monetary blunder.
So here's what I create at the Blood Orange grove.....no more labor of mowing of the orchard, savings on horse feed, savings on fuel cost, and we'll still get a juicy crop of Blood Oranges! Now....what else can I get in there to use the land even more intensely? :-)
As with all the grazing pastures, monitoring of the soil compactness and plant damage will be done weekly......and routine movement of horse to pasture to pasture....will have good results.
