MB Regenerative Horse Property Design & Pasture Management
Sustainable Horse keeping & Equine Permaculture
Generally, horse keeping is considered to be a costly hobby or business, especially with current price rises in living expenses and feed costs. On top of that, horse and land owners encounter the high input costs or difficulties to maintain pastures and sustain the dietary needs of horses. The need for a new approach to these challenges of horse keeping is getting more foot hold in the equine community and sport industry. To be able to make horse keeping more economically viable and productive we must develop a sustainable horse property and management plan that caters for immediate and long-term needs, your own personal goals (social, economical), your horse’s well-being and the environment. MB Equine Services provides this new approach by using Permaculture principles and Holistic Management® (HM). Our Regenerative Horse Property Design and Pasture Management consultancy services are for all horse and land owners, small and large acreage, that want to restore their land, improve soil carbon, regenerate pastures, drought proof their farm and close the input cycle of chemical based fertilisers by developing their own compost (tea) alternative and reduce supplementary feed cost. We provide specialised education and consultancy services in full main frame property (re) design, swale and dam design, Keyline Design, Regenerative Pasture Management, Holistic Grazing Planning®, horse forage systems, forage enrichment and slow feeding strategies, and compost (tea) training and supply. We have the experience to help you through your journey of restoring landscape fertility and decreasing your dependence on high cost, high input equine property management!
We offer the following services:
- Equine Pasture Management Consultancy Services
- Equine Permaculture Consultancy Services
- Equine Permaculture & Horse Property Design Services
- Permaculture & Keyline Design
Equine Permaculture & Pasture Management Consultancy services:
LAND PRE-PURCHACE:We offer pre-purchase consultations that focus on the practicality and functionality of your purchase. Once you have established an interest in purchasing a particular property for its location, we will spend time with you looking at the effects of past pasture management on the land and assist you with sustainable goal-setting for the property to provide for your future needs.
LAND OWNERS:Getting it right from the start. For new land owners and established properties we provide consultancy services to regenerate pastures, drought proof farms and set up sustainable and productive farm systems. We provide recommendations on main frame farm (re-)design by looking at water, access and structures.
PASTURE MANAGEMENT COURSES: MB Equine Services offers powerful and effective consultancy services for land and horse owners seeking Biological and Holistic Equine Pasture Management using Permaculture principles and putting them into action to regenerate properties and pastures. Overgrazing, compaction, erosion, oxidation, salinity and even horse-sick pastures are not uncommon on horse properties. If you want to turn you pastures into healthy grasslands for you horses you have to start improving your soil! The soil grows the grass the horse feeds on. Our Pasture management day courses run on your property or at a Pony/Equestrian Club, and empower horse owners to be actively involved in the care of the soil that your horse feeds from. Reducing input cost by up to 80% and working on a closed system of pasture health. See our link to articles in Horse and People magazine.
The consultation process:
1. Pre- Visit: Phone contact to establish the outcomes from the site visit and what you want to achieve with the property. We need to know the history of your land and the district you’re in. Rainfall per year. Land care issues in your area. Sending us Plans/Contour plans of the site (mail or Email preferred), Google Earth map with latitude and longitude for pin point location and further research. We offer additional service to source contour plans of your property and print them in large format.
2. Site Visit on the Property. Walk or Drive the property with you, looking at where the specific needs are of the site like Water, Access and Structures.
3. Education: Actively engaging you and teaching you the art of land observation reading. Reading what the land is doing and the lands journey to where it is today. Taking measurements and identifying parts of the property with particular potential i.e. Dam sites, Swale systems, fodder systems, paddocks.
4. Plan: An initial concept plan of the property is developed showing locations of major elements and identifying the factors that will guide you as you further develop the property.
5. Evaluation: Finally, spending time with you outlining our thoughts, answering your questions and explaining your new concept plan. The process usually takes between 4 to 6 hours, depending on the size of the property. This education introduction will become of high value to you over time, adding value to your investment and giving you the confidence to move forward to a sustainable biological system of equine management.
BROCHURES:
Equine Permaculture consultation information
Equine Pasture management consultation information
Regenerative Horse Property & Equine Permaculture Design Service:
Horse property design planning. Using Permaculture principals to design main frame layout of your property using natural systems and nutrient flows, increasing biodiversity and sustainable closed system management of your land and reducing the need for inputs from external sources, while increasing the health of your horse, soil and saving you $$ MONEY over the life of your investment.Water harvesting earthworks to passively drought proof your property.Design of access roads.Passive Solar House design, shed and stable design, site placement for comfort, productivity and abundance.Techniques for soil creation and fertility, carbon capture and storage, increase the productivity of equine systems.These services are available for properties in Australia as well as overseas. For more information see our brochure below or contact us for specific pricing for your area.
BROCHURE:
Regenerative horse property and permaculture design information
Permaculture, Keyline Design and Soil Buidling on horse properties
Keyline planning is based on the natural topography of the land. It uses the form and shape of the land to determine the layout and position of farm dams, irrigation areas, roads, fences, farm buildings and tree lines. Keyline design is another tool used in Permaculture design, and is a system of design in which great emphasis is placed on processes that regenerate and build the fertility of soils. It is about creating a soil environment that rapidly accelerates soil biological activity, and as a consequence it vastly increasing the total organic matter content within the soil. Keyline lay-outs of farm and grazing lands also incorporate design of the storage of run-off water within the farm. A good design efficiently spreads the often irregular rainfall patterns so common to Australia and various other countries all over the world, and enhances rural production even on the smallest of horse properties. Read more about Keyline Design in our equine permaculture articles.
Regeneration and tree planting on horse properties
For more information about tree planting on horse properties and PLANT PINK TREE SYSTEMTM and PLANT PINK TREE GUARDSTM click here
