Grazing Grass

Podcast and resources for grass-based livestock production utilizing regenerative practices.

About Grazing Grass

Grazing Grass helps graziers think clearly about soil, grass, livestock, and decisions.

What started as a simple podcast in 2020 has grown into a home for farmers and ranchers who care about regenerative grazing and want to learn from people working in the real world, not in theory.

Every week, we share conversations with graziers who are improving their land, managing livestock with intention, and building operations that actually work. These stories come from beef producers, dairy graziers, sheep and goat folks, homesteaders, first generation farmers, multi generation operations, and everyone in between. If they are listening to their grass, we want to learn from them.

Grazing Grass was founded by Cal Hardage, a grazier from Northeast Oklahoma who moved from dairy cows to beef cattle, hair sheep, meat goats, and honey bees. Cal has spent years experimenting with regenerative practices on family land at Hardage Farms and his own operation at Hedge Apple Acres. The podcast grew out of a desire to learn, to ask better questions, and to create a place where farmers could share what is working without judgment or ego.

What you will find here

Grazing Grass includes:

  • The Grazing Grass Podcast, weekly conversations with real producers
  • Ready, Set, Graze, a weekly newsletter with practical ideas and updates
  • The Famous Four Vault, a searchable archive of producer answers to four signature questions
  • Tools and resources, created by and for graziers over time
  • Grazing Grass Insiders, a simple way to support the work and stay closer to the process

We are also building toward the Grazing Grass Masterclass Lab, a future learning space focused on how good graziers think. It is not open yet, and updates will be shared through the newsletter and Insiders as it develops.

At its core, Grazing Grass is a simple idea:

Listen to the grass.
Listen to each other.
Keep getting better.

As Grazing Grass has grown, a few related projects have taken shape to support graziers and grass-based producers beyond the podcast.

One of those projects is Grass Based Genetics — a curated directory of breeders raising livestock on grass, with intention and stewardship in mind. It exists to make it easier to find cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, and other livestock from operations aligned with grass-based and regenerative systems.

Grass Based Genetics is not a marketplace built on ads or volume. It is designed to be a durable, long-term resource that connects producers and buyers who care about how animals are raised.

You can explore the directory here:
👉 grassbasedgenetics.com

More tools and resources will be added over time as the work continues.

Thanks for being here. Whether you manage 15 acres or 1,500, and whether you are seasoned or just getting started, you are welcome in this community of graziers who want to do right by their land, their livestock, and their families.

If you want to stay in the loop, join the Ready, Set, Graze newsletter. It is the best way to follow along with new episodes, updates, and practical grazing ideas you can use on your farm this week.