How my horses help regenerate soil for richness in fertility & biodiversity
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2023-01-24

I was asked by an other YouTube viewer to explain my retentive farming with horses. 
Soil food - organic material- is a diversity of natural inputs & soil disturbance which feed a complex diversity of life in soil. Essential for a healthy soil biome which includes, microorganisms, insect life, bacterial life, fungal life and to create an aerated soil that oxogen can easily penetrate to feed a thriving soil community an essential element missed by many in understanding soil health & productivity. These complex elements will produce an easy accessibility to essential macronutrient & micronutrient within soil’s biome which can feed a biologically complex biodiverse plant life that herbivores & other wildlife can feed upon. 



Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm which means restoring soils health and regenerating its natural carbon and nutrient cycle with biodiversity of pasture sward with grasses, legumes, forbs and herbs. This also means we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for healthy environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, ants, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, hare, hedgehogs, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock. This mean we farm in a style of mob grazing and giving fields long rest times between grazings. We have seen a huge increase and return of wildlife including woodcock and snipe in winter months foraging for dung beetle larvae, red squirrel, wood peckers and pine martens. We also have the rare natter bat and previously thought extinct Tawny Mining bees.
We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog and her coworkers. We also sell alpaca yarn spun for our own alpaca. Our yarns are 100 percent natural, grown by our sheep which grazing our small green Irish fields. This wool is naturally sequestered carbon which you can then knit into warm environmental friendly clothing.