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Beth Dougherty

Homesteader and co-author of One-Cow Revolution and The Independent Farmstead, farming with husband Shawn Dougherty in eastern Ohio.

Oct 2, 2026

12:01
Yeah.
12:02
An ecosystem doesn't export.
12:04
A natural eco- system doesn't export, and that's why it is so self-contained and self-fertile.
12:11
When we farm for money and we're exporting a lot of biomass- We are necessarily gonna deplete our ecosystem, our farm- Yeah ... and we're gonna need to bring in stuff.
12:22
But if we monitor what leaves the farm, 'cause it is possible.
12:27
Nature is very generous.
12:28
Very generous.

10 MINS LATER

22:50
But we really have written it with our 40 years of experience, and then 25 to 30 years of milking experience, and we were milking goats before that.

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