Fields to Plate grows vegetables and Red Cliffs Ranch grows grass.  We are a perfect marriage, because, the bottom line is about building soil, both for the growth of vegetables, and grass, but also for the environment.  In order to grow healthy vegetables and grass you must first have healthy nutrient rich soil.  Water and sun alone won’t be enough.  There are only two options to enrich soil.  The most common is to buy chemical or natural fertilizer that will be trucked from hundreds if not thousands of miles away and then spread onto the soil.  This fertilizer will not be native to the soil and therefore will have some impact on the biosphere of the soil.  The second option is to graze animals on the grass, which will improve the soil by the stimulation of hooves and the defecation of the animals. 

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We must have the animals rotating on the ranch to continually grow grass and vegetables in the same soil, without importing fertilizer of any kind.  So Fields to Plate, Red Cliffs Ranch, the soil, and the grazing animals need each other.  There is no other way.