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Genevieve Slocum

Genevieve provides forage and cover crop research and marketing support for King's AgriSeeds Inc. in Lancaster County, PA. She has also worked on organic vegetable farms and as an intern in agricultural field trials at the Rodale Institute.

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2 Comments

1. Jess Jackson Jr says:

   April 26, 2017 at 3:12 pm

   Great article. Ensure fences will keep the livestock in – feral pigs are a huge problem and everything eats goats and sheep.

2. Curt Gesch says:

   April 25, 2017 at 10:35 am

   ACRES USA has just published two articles about trees and goat browsing/grazing using coppicing and pollarding. Pretty complicated for this amateur!