Brandon uses a lo-fi approach, ranging hogs and cattle to do the clearing and fertilizing for him.

It's just a psychological barrier.

Obviously, the pig, if he, if he had the wherewithal to get shocked one time, he could get out, and he could flee and never come to Grass Roots Farms ever again, right? But they get...

This is where they eat, and then psychologically, they've touched this as young...

If you saw the baby pigs, you saw that the sows, they'll learn this from the mom, th- this electric fence is, you know, and they'll touch it.

Invariably, they're gonna touch it.

If you touch that with a wet nose and your feet on the ground, it's gonna pop you.

He calls it farming the dirt.