{"id":2318,"date":"2015-12-20T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2015-12-20T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:22:36","slug":"why-mowing-grass-on-streambanks-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Why Mowing Grass on Streambanks Is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grass Cut Short Can’t Grow Long Roots, and Long Roots Protect Against Erosion<\/h3>\n

Dec. 20, 2015<\/p>\n

Short roots can’t hold the soil in place, let alone do their job of feeding soil microorganisms, creating a sponge to hold water, and pulling carbon from the air deep, deep into the soil where it can be sequestered.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article from On Pasture<\/em> magazine explains it all, with great photos of amazing grass roots. Though it’s written about grazing, the facts are true for mowing grass along our bayous and streams. Yes, even in parks.<\/p>\n

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Great \u201cGrass Farmers\u201d Grow Roots<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Kathy Voth<\/a>\u00a0 \/ \u00a0November 9, 2015\u00a0 \/ \u00a05 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/onpasture.com\/2015\/11\/09\/great-grass-farmers-grow-roots\/#!prettyPhoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Great “Grass Farmers” Grow Roots<\/h4>\n
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Graphic from On Pasture magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Kathy Voth. On Pasture<\/em><\/a>, Nov. 9, 2015<\/p>\n

If you go to enough workshops about grazing, you’re bound to see an illustration that shows how biting off the tops of plants impacts their roots, and how if you graze short enough the plants won’t have enough roots to rebound and produce more leafy material.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this article in On Pasture<\/strong>.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If you go\u00a0to enough\u00a0workshops about grazing, you\u2019re bound to see an illustration that shows how biting off the tops of plants impacts their roots, and how if you graze short enough, the plant won\u2019t have enough roots to rebound and produce more leafy material. In fact, if you\u2019ve been with us at On Pasture for any length of time, you\u2019ll have seen a version of that\u00a0illustration. It looks like this: – See more at: http:\/\/onpasture.com\/2015\/11\/09\/great-grass-farmers-grow-roots\/#!prettyPhoto<\/div>\n
short roots can\u2019t hold the soil in place, let alone do their job of feeding soil microorganisms, creating a sponge to hold water, and pulling carbon from the air deep, deep into the soil where it can be sequestered. – See more at: http:\/\/onpasture.com\/2015\/11\/09\/great-grass-farmers-grow-roots\/#sthash.jQYZ3qFB.dpuf<\/div>\n
short roots can\u2019t hold the soil in place, let alone do their job of feeding soil microorganisms, creating a sponge to hold water, and pulling carbon from the air deep, deep into the soil where it can be sequestered. – See more at: http:\/\/onpasture.com\/2015\/11\/09\/great-grass-farmers-grow-roots\/#sthash.jQYZ3qFB.dpuf<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grass Cut Short Can’t Grow Long Roots, and Long Roots Protect Against Erosion Dec. 20, 2015 Short roots can’t hold the soil in place, let alone do their job of feeding soil microorganisms, creating a sponge to hold water, and pulling carbon from the air deep, deep into the soil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,179,300,94,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banks-2","category-grass","category-mowing","category-parks","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}