A field walk comparing how water moves through living grass, dead grass, and bare ground. Living grass lets water soak deep into soil. Bare ground next to a mesquite bush sheds water instead. More grass cover means you need less water for maintenance because plants use and store more rain.
Okay, we got a little rain in this area a few days ago. Not sure how much, but you can see that hoofprint right there. There isn't a whole heck of a lot of moisture in there. It's dry. Let me come up here and you can see it's dry. That oxidized grass looks like it's got a little bit of moisture in it. Then we come around here and look what happens as soon as you hit grass. Look how much moisture is in that grass because the biological material in there opens up the ground enough to where that water can soak in. And then you go— And then you go Right here to the other side of the grass where nothing's growing on it. And you can see that area just this side of that mesquite bush. You can tell the water ran through there, but it didn't go into the ground. And then on the other side where there's grass, well, it goes back into the ground. The more grass you have, the less water you need to maintain it because you utilize all of the water.
