Learn how hedgerows play an integral role in a healthy farm ecosystem. The hedges have a very beneficial effect on the water cycle and microclimate. They slow wind and water movement and moderate temperature extremes. Walk on a very windy, rainy or hot day from an open field past a mature windbreak and you will experience immediately the sheltering effect.

Cows have been kept domesticated for about 10,000 years, mostly to provide us with food, but also as draft animals. Through many generations of breeding, our ancestors selected animals with more milk production than necessary for the raising of their own calf. All cows must give birth to a calf before they are able to produce any milk.

Learn why pasture is so much more than grass — and why its the perfect place for a cow to be!