Another of my country neighbors had a dirt conversion kit dropped off at his property. A dirt conversion kit consists of bundles posts and poles for fencing in a few acres.
My neighbor
intends to fence in a small part of his property and toss a couple horses
inside.
Ours is a dry
and fragile landscape consisting of shortgrass prairie with occasional patches
of bunchgrass. Digging down, you find a
thin layer of soil overtop sand and stone.
“This ain’t horse
country,” anyone from my hometown of East Helena will inform you.
Horses, if confined
to paddock here, will require no more than a few days to graze every thread of
grass down to bare dirt.
I drive by
several such squares of bare ground (populated with hay-fed horses) on my way home from
town. Soon, I will have a patch of bare
dirt next to me.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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