The Savory Meal: Eating well for a whole world Join the Jefferson Center for a regenerative ranching dining experience on October 22, 2017. It showcases regeneratively produced food and features national speakers who are leaders in the regenerative movement. We are thrilled and honored to work with Chef Tu David Phu, a 2017 San Francisco
Spencer and I were honored to meet Julie Ann Fineman on June 24 at the Soul Food Farm dinner we hosted with owner Alexis Koefoed. Julie started a website called PeakPlate.com. This website “connects food lovers to peak-of-the-season foods.” Julie and the team at PeakPlate.com are passionate about good food–by which we mean nutrient-dense, free
The Jefferson Center for Holistic Management is offering a four-day Holistic Land Planning and Ecological Monitoring course, July 6 through 9 at the Smith Family ranch and learning site, Springs Ranch in Fort Bidwell, California. Participants will learn how to make a long-term land plan for their property and how to work toward this each year
Jefferson Center webinar series We are starting a monthly webinar series! We never have enough time to chat with all our friends at conferences, workshops and other events. There are so many questions to answer and topics to discuss regarding Holistic Management, the Savory Institute, regenerative agriculture, etc. The fourth Tuesday of each month at 5
Welcome to Kansas: home of the (mostly) former perennial Tallgrass prairie and current corn, wheat and soybean crops I arrived in Kansas on a foggy January day. Driving from Kansas City to Salina, Kansas provided an introduction to the Eastern Kansas economy and landscape. I learned first of the Civil War —Kansas entering the Union
Kiss the Ground We are excited to announce that Kiss the Ground is sponsoring- Build Soil, Build Wealth. This collaboration will bring a regenerative agriculture course to Shone Farm, in Santa Rosa California. Kiss the Ground has been active in this space for a while and is a California-based 501(c)(3) environmental non-profit telling a new
How your land can produce a living for you and your family You can make a living off the land. Though your management, create an agriculture business that produces more, earns more, while saving the planet in the process, and the market will reward you for it. Consumers and manufacturers are calling for products that
Gathering of leaders in regenerative agriculture The big, concrete, warehouse-like pavilion at the Chico State University Farm served as a blank slate where the leaders in the regenerative agriculture movement gathered to create the first sketches of a new marketplace for regenerative products. Sponsors, speakers and attendees shared a vision for a new marketplace–one that
There is no place like home. Spencer Smith, a Savory Field Professional, spent most of April in Texas and Georgia with leaders from the Savory Global Network. He trained in the new Ecological Outcomes Verification process that is part of the Savory Land to Market program. This new program is a market-based program that
Looking around Cole Hall at the University of California San Francisco Medical School, I realized how familiar I’d become with a very non-mainstream crowd. I asked my dear friend sitting in the lecture hall beside me, how comfortable she felt in a room of mainly very strong, fit, vibrant people sporting tattoos, barefoot shoes, caring Kleen Kanteen
