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In our first Horses for Future podcast Jane Myers (MSc Equine Grazing Behaviour) describes The Equicentral System. Pastures which are overgrazed or have turned to mud can be restored. Healthy pastures contribute to healthy horses and a healthier planet.

In our second Horses for Future podcast Jane Myers continues to describe The Equicentral System and how it works in a variety of different climates and soil types. She talks about the benefits of biodiversity. When your horse is turned out, do you want him to walk more? Jane explains why a biodiverse pasture is more important than the actual size of the pasture.

How do you manage farm ponds so they don't become an algae-filled mess? How do you improve your soil health? How do you encourage wildlife corridors? How do you manage invasive species? How do you manage your manure piles? What role can chickens and other farm animals play in good pasture management?

All these questions and many more are addressed in this podcast.

Today, Jec interviews Jane Myers. Jane runs the educational website www.equiculture.net - Equiculture with her husband, Stuart. The couple, based in England but also having spent many years in Australia, offer advice on everything from riding to getting along with your horse to horse keeping practices. As for the latter, we are happy to report that Jane aligns quite well with Alayne Blickle, the Best Horse Practices Summit presenter and owner of www.horsesforcleanwater.com - Horses for Clean Water. At the last Summit, Alayne presented on horse keeping and climate change.

In this interview, Jane talks about how change in horse keeping can have an enormously beneficial impact on horse welfare and behavior. So, here in Colorado, most of us keep horses on acreage and with buddies. There aren't a lot of isolated or stalled horses. In much of the world, though, that's not the case. Whether it's a cultural thing or an urban or suburban space limitation thing, it's a problem that has behavioral, physical, digestive, physiological and other fallouts. What's to be done? Well, if you didn't know already, you're gonna learn.

In this episode I speak with Jane Myers from Equiculture. Jane and her husband Stuart created The Equicentral Ssystem of managing horse properties in a sustainable way out of Stuarts constant questing of why things are done a certain way. Why do we have to take the hay out to the horse, why can’t they walk back for it? In the coming years they have refined and are continually adding new information to this amazing system. We talk about so many of my favourite topics, soil, regenerative farming methods, manure and dung beetles, mulch and how you too can make a huge difference to your horse property. 

I’ve been an organic gardener for over 10 years now so I was a kid in a candy store in this conversation but the best part for me was that in the course of this conversation Jane converted my entire mindset from horses are bad for the land and environment to horses are great for the environment, bad management makes them look bad but they are not. I hope you get some great insights and tips from this interview as I did.