Yes, you can spread your manure over your pastures and create fertile soil. But if you’re thinking of diversifying what you produce, perhaps you want to collect a little for your own use, and turn it into vanilla!

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Kathy Voth

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Kathy worked with the Bureau of Land Management for 12 years before founding Livestock for Landscapes in 2004. Her twelve years at the agency allowed her to pursue her goal of helping communities find ways to live profitably AND sustainably in their environment. She has been researching and working with livestock as a land management tool for over a decade. When she's not helping farmers, ranchers and land managers on-site, she writes articles, and books, and edits videos to help others turn their livestock into landscape managers.

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3 Comments

1. Sally Silvia says:

   April 3, 2014 at 11:36 am

   Okay, tell me…..is this an April Fool’s? Please say it is 🙂

   • Kathy Voth says:

     April 3, 2014 at 11:52 am

     Sorry, this is REAL! 🙂

2. Rachel Gilker says:

   April 2, 2014 at 7:58 am

   Our aunt sent us vanilla extract she made from vanilla beans. It’s great in cookies and granola and everything else! I’ll stick to that, thank you.