Transhumance is the seasonal movement of people with their livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. In montane regions (vertical transhumance), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in winter. Herders have a permanent home, typically in valleys. Generally only the herds travel, with a certain number of ...
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form of pastoralism or nomadism organized around the migration of livestock between mountain pastures in warm seasons and lower altitudes the rest ... [4 related articles]
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The practice of moving in order to make use of seasonal resources, such as the summer hill pastures, and then moving back to the lowlands in the winter.
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The traditional migration of animals to alpine pastures, where they graze on open fields of grass, and cheese is produced after each milking.
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seasonal movement of livestock to summer pastures, often upland which could also be forest (e.g. Dartmoor, Devon, and Clee Forest, Shropshire)
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Situation in which farmers with a permanent place of residence send their herds, tended by herdsmen, for long periods of time to distant grazing areas.
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transhumant, transhumance 1. The transfer of livestock from one grazing ground to another, as from lowlands to highlands, with the changing of seasons. 2. Passing grazing animals from winter to summer pastures.
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