Healthy Soil and Healthy Animals:
The Natural Way
ProbioticS Plus
LLC
N-ZYME Proven in the fields and pastures for more than 30 years at a cost of
$10.95 per acre
Pasture-based poultry operation wants to share more than eggs and meat with customers
Jason Villines • Seligman, MO 479-270-3822 Patrick Graves • Clifty, AR 479-737-5078
Before - 2018
N-ZYME is a compilation of ingredients designed to give nutrients and energy to existing soil and microbial population. We have applied one quart per acre in spring and one in fall on our pastures for many years. Earthworms are very active in those pastures today.
After - 2021 The onions are from the same Arkansas garden the same day. The big one was grown on soil treated with N-ZYME.
N-ZYME can be picked up at your nearest Probiotics Plus distributor or delivered to you. Five-gallons costs $219 (plus freight when applicable) and treats 20 acres with added water.
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Sharing With Others
By Julie Turner-Crawford
LARRY SUTTON 918-261-7704 or 800-443-0960 proenergyfeeds@yahoo.com
We put in a mailbox in 2018 at our home. I dug a posthole and put all the dirt in a bucket; many years of chemicals had taken much life from the soil. Nothing but weeds could grow But after three years of aggressively treating with N-ZYME I dug another posthole within 6 inches of the first one. We had a full 12 inches of topsoil! Today our yard is the talk of the neighborhood.
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Growing up outside of Fair Grove, Mo., Ian Gehris was sent on many errands to the farm across the road, where he would pick up tomatoes, cantaloupe and other items grown by Don and Betty Fesperman. As the saying goes, time marches on. Ian went to college, got married, started a family, and settled on 3 acres in the Marshfield, Mo., area, where they raised a few chickens.
the added land by incorporating multi-species in their operation, focusing primarily on pasture-raised poultry. “We wanted to take control of our food that was economically viable and something we could handle,” Ian said. “Like most people, the gateway animal is always a couple of egg layers.” “If told me we needed 20 chickens, then 40 it is,” Ariel added with a laugh.
Ian and Ariel Gehris have a pasture-based poultry operation at their farm near Fair Grove, Mo., Pictured with couple are their children Thomas and Phoebe.
Photo by Julie Turner-Crawford
After Don and Betty passed away, the farm There are several parts to the poultry side went up for auction. Ian and his of the farm. wife Ariel decided to try to buy “Ariel has her goals with her flock and it, never expecting they would her funny chickens,” Ian explained. be the highest bidder. “I’m more of a data and numbers When the gavel fell, however, the guy, and also how I can best manGehrises were the new owners of age it. I think Joel Salatin said if the 35-acre farm and the beginning you are going out to feed 10 Fair Grove, Mo. of Gehris Farms. — Continued on Page 20 The family is making the most of
Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com
MARCH 21, 2022
