Buffalo used to roam the Southwest of the US in tight, ever moving herds
They moved across the landscape, never tarrying in one place to long
Unfenced and unbound they followed the smell of fresh grasses and fewer predators
Turning grass into rich dung and urine
Pushing seeds into the rich co-created dirt beneath their feet
giving back as much or more then they took
Now the cows are many and locked into fragmented fields
they do not move, and in their hunger they eat and eat of the same brittle patches of grass
they are creating a desert, where little can grow and no herds can survive
the soil beneath them is slowly turning to dust
our fragmentation is causing them to self destruct and along with them we go
what if they moved again together in regenerative circles that intertwine
a dance across the landscape
can we see past our fences of understanding
can we allow the herds to roam once again?
we propose a new kind of seeing take place
the great South West becoming a pattern to weave
herds enriching then moving enriching then moving
regenerating the soil beneath
they can be our helpers, giving of there flesh as well as there physiology
and what can we give them in return?
green open pastures, with tender grass and the occasional flower
we can give the gift of moving together through the world
following their own evolutionary nature
a new design can be rendered with herds weaving in and out across the landscape
in rhythm in time with what it takes to rebound
and regift the soils abundance once again
it does not need to be all or nothing, it can be all and everything
a system not a herd or field
a cycle not a a fenced and fragmented puzzle