5x Your Pasture Productivity

HOW TO 5X YOUR PASTURE PRODUCTIVITY AND BUILD REAL WEALTH ON YOUR LAND

Simple principles that your kids can be a real part of. Make this work on an acre or less. Scale it up to hundreds of acres. 

If you want to be able to feed your animals from your own land, this is the most important thing you'll read this year. 

I want you to grow good pasture. The kind of pasture that actually makes a dent in your feed bill and keeps you going when hay is expensive or scarce. The kind of pasture that greens up a month (or more) before the neighbors’ and stays green for longer in drought and feeds your animals past the growing season. 

Please take this with all due respect, but you are tolerating really sucky pasture and paying taxes for the privilege of putting up with its suckiness. You don't know how good you could have it until you see what really good pasture can do, and you aren't seeing that around you because all of the neighbors also have really sucky pasture. So everyone just commiserates about the weather. 

It doesn't rain more at our farm. We just have 10x the amount of organic matter we had five years ago and so we can hold 10x more water when it doesn't rain. What would it be like if your pastures watered themselves every day? Things grow. Life comes alive. And then it snowballs.

We grow soil faster now than we did two years ago with less inputs and less work. Why? Because we fed our underground livestock (soil organisms) and trillions upon trillions of them are happily working while we do other things to build all of us a better life. That is possible for you, too. You just have to start feeding the ground. 

You've probably seen famous graziers do this with "mob grazing." And everyone wants to believe that such practices make sense at the scale of your pastures. But they don't scale down well.

I faithfully rotational grazed and followed with birds for twelve years. I made real improvements but I was still far from where I knew I needed to be. Deep down, you see it, too.

I dutifully moved animals twice or more a day and provided rest periods. The land got greener, but the quality of the forage didn't improve enough to reduce our feed bills.

If you have a handful of animals, especially daintier animals like dairy cows, sheep or goats, managed grazing alone isn't going to get you where you need to be to be more independent on feed. And that's what no one wants to talk about. You do not have the land base of a Joel Salatin, Greg Judy or Will Harris. And you don't likely have the same tools: a large herd of relatively low-maintenance beef animals that fertilize with their feet.  

So what do you do if you don't have 50 to 500+ heavy beef animals who can gently till your ground with their hooves and thrive on whatever you currently have growing so long as you provide them a "fresh salad bar" every day. I'm not dogging Joel. He is my friend and he's the one who sparked this curiosity in me two decades ago about feeding the ground from a single idea in Salad Bar Beef. I spent the next decade giving it legs on a small-scale. 

You don't have salad in your pastures. And you don't have four-legged weed-eaters. You have a lawn and some animals that need actual groceries. So you can buy your livestock groceries at prices that continue to go through the roof so that other people can profit from their land or you can actually grow real pasture that makes a real dent in your feed bill on your land. That's growing wealth. 

We 5xed our carrying capacity, reduced our feed bill and made our animals healthier. 

The methods I developed aren't new exactly. Gardeners use them all the time. But no one was talking about how to build soil like you do in your garden but in your pastures instead. We've five times the animals that we had when we started on the property we are on 13 years ago, and we buy less hay than we did then. Not less hay per head. Less hay, period. 

I've spent ten years refining these methods so they are simple for others to implement. And I don't understand why more people aren't doing this. The reward is huge. Yes, it's work. But so is hauling feed and working to pay for it.  

We stacked four farms' worth of soil on top of ours with mostly free inputs, things that you can find in your community that other people do not value. You'll start vacuuming up wealth that is hidden in plain sight.

You'll understand how to clear land, do it well, without lose your shirt. You'll start to see silvopastures on your farm — literally pastures in light trees that are inviting and highly productive — and know how not to do it. You'll see exactly how and why we planted trees in our pastures, what we planted and how to simply and inexpensively protect the trees from livestock. 

The basis of this bundle are two conferences we held over a total of three days and recorded them. People left wowed. Not by what we've built. They were wowed with what was actually possible on their land because for the first time they how they could do it, too. 

Every single section of these two conferences has multiple expensive lessons that you don’t have to learn the hard way. 

But the most valuable part of this bundle is the Cheatsheet. It's a 40-page guide that will clarify exactly what to do and how to do it and why it works. You could simply follow the instructions in the Cheatsheet and not even watch/listen to the conferences. There's richness there that you'd be missing, but the entire price-tag of this bundle is worth it for the Cheatsheet alone. 

And the seed mixes. I've never shared them before. Because I have never wanted people to believe that our diverse pastures that grow kale, collards, radishes and turnips that we also eat — plus zinnias in the summer — was because of the right seed mixes. Every seed in our mixes has a purpose and a specific range of proportions. But the soil comes before the seed. I could only ethically share the seed mixes after I first outlined how to grow a lot of soil quickly. And broke down mistakes that cost me thousands (and more). 

Some people like to learn by watching/listening and others learn best by reading, so this bundle has both. You will have everything you need to know to start to recreate the results we've had. 

Is the 5x Your Pasture Productivity method right for you:

Will it work on sand and clay and rocks? Yes. You can build solid on anything, even driveway. What you start with will determine how hard your climb is, but it's doable. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't grow your own soil. We started with moonscape. 

We've been accused of using chemicals when people see how our pastures look. We achieved these results without a single chemical input of any kind. You don’t have to ever put a piece of steel in your soil to use our rapid-build fertility methods, either. This methods will work if you don't want to ever break up the soil. 

I can tell you without a doubt that fertile pastures are everything I hoped for and more. Real food. Land that produces more every year. Animals that are healthier on it. 

And it's easy to give up. Especially when the results don't come fast. Or worse, you seem to be going backwards. 

That's why we invite fellow stewards to come to our farm. Some things you just have to experience. 

We talk unfiltered, frank and real. Including the financial parts of it. Nothing ensures resilience in any kind of drought (weather, financial or another variety) like growing quality pasture and having healthy animals that live, getting fat, making milk and reproducing on it — all the while the pasture gets richer, deeper and more robust. That's real wealth. The kind that doesn't evaporate like digits at the whim of an economy you can't control.  

This bundle includes the 2024 Grassroots Grazing Conference recording — which we recorded in a horrible year-long drought and showed how you can grow soil even when it doesn't rain — and the 2025 Spring Conference recording. You will have the tools and knowledge to set up your pastures for grazing and up your husbandry game.

You will know how to seed pastures, design infrastructure, and regenerate infertile ground quickly, and get real-talk exposure to the unconventional paths we've taken to get there. This is real experience from real farmers. Dr. Karreman walks through basic veterinary care like tubing a calf, IVing a cow, drawing blood, putting in a nose ring and more.

We walk through our 50+ Jersey bulls and talk all things breeding, and show structurally what makes a cow last until her teens. DrK explains body condition and the travails and promise of raising calves on their dams. 

This is the real deal. We hold nothing back. This is where we talk as friends.

The Cheatsheet contains pages of methods, what not to do and things that I've never shared before on growing good pasture and the long-awaited seed mixes that helped us get there. Without foundational knowledge, all tidbits and tips are just enough rope to hang your dreams with.

My heart in these conferences and Cheatsheet is that you walk away inspired, empowered and ready to take a series of small steps that will lead to big changes. It's biology. Natural laws are immutable. They just have to be understood and followed faithfully. This information simply directs your steps on the narrow path to glorious pastures and real wealth that endures. 

My purpose is to inspire you to take care of your ground so it can start paying you back. For too long, land has only appreciated value as a real estate asset. But you are holding the most time-honored living asset of all time, and it's time to put it to work. Stop throwing your seed on rocky or weedy ground. 

There is no more empowering skill than growing soil and the animals who graze on it and make more of both. If we can bring soil organic matter from 0.5% to 6% in six years on rot-gut southern soil, and 5x our stocking rate, so can you. It took me 12 years to learn this. I've attended dozens of workshops, read hundreds of books and learned from the best.

And I still had to pioneer my own way because no one was making this work for those somewhere between a garden-sized plot and hundreds of acres and large numbers of cows. This is pasture growth for the rest of us. 

I'm confident you can get the same results with the same process, no matter where you live. Your seasons may be different but the principles that grow soils are universal.

How to access the conference replays and cheatsheet pdf:

You will receive a link to both the Grassroots Grazing Conference (2024) and the 2025 Spring Conference. Both are downloadable through a free app, Kajabi. You'll also get a 40-page pdf download: Growing Fertile Ground Cheatsheet with my restoration seed mixes and every planting tip and trick I've ever learned.