Coming in behind the livestock…

Coming in behind the livestock…
Originally uploaded by gaikokujinkyofusho.

Coming in behind the livestock and harvesting what they don’t eat that’s the name of the game here.

Since this area has almost no trees the only remaining fuel is either dried cow patties or bundles of grass and here they prefer grass bundles. If you look in an over grazed pasture with most “grass eaters” (cows, horses, goats, etc) you will see that the grass is eaten down to a nub and there are perfect weeds left standing. Livestock are going to eat the plants they prefer first and if they can help it avoid the plants they don’t like (and they are pretty good at this). The point is, people here quite often come in behind where their livestock have grazed and "harvest" the weeds their livestock have avoided and stack them in small piles to bundle up later and use as fuel for fire.