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Jan 22, 2021
2 minutes
28 OCTOBER 1988
The winter pasture herb
33 YEARS AGO Eastern Cape farmer Dick Isted successfully used ‘old-fashioned’ sheep’s burnet (Sanguisorba minor) to supplement his winter-cereal green-feed such as rye, wheat and oats.
“Sheep’s burnet is a deep-rooted, wintergreen, perennial herb, rich in iron. It has compound leaves making a short rosette about 300mm in diameter,” he says. “Once it is
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