ExclusiveTurning a rundown Ohio bramble into a dream farm with traditional agriculture

Shawn and Beth Dougherty dreamed of cultivating a successful farm for themselves and their eight children. They didn’t have much money from Mr. Dougherty’s salary as a teacher, so all they could afford was a 16-acre rejected farm in Ohio which the state had deemed unsuitable for agriculture. They couldn’t afford the expensive equipment and chemical fertilizers which experts and even their own parents said were necessary, so they turned to pioneer methods of homesteading and farmsteading.

With the help of their eight children, their faith, and plain old hard work, the Doughertys used old-fashioned, traditional farming techniques to make the land usable. One key to their success was rotational grazing of ruminants, including the wise use of goats to clear the land so a dairy cow could graze, feeding the rest of the livestock with its milk. Drawing from this family’s example, Tiffany Brannan talks about simple ways to kill weeds without chemical herbicides in your own garden. Studies show that traditional farmers have the right idea about drawing sustenance from animal foods, since they provide essential nutrients for brain health and overall wellbeing.
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