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
Abbey Smith serves the Savory Network as their network coordinator. She is also owner and operator of the Jefferson Center for Holistic Management with her husband, Spencer. The Jefferson Center is an organic cattle ranch and Savory Network Hub in Fort Bidwell, California. She spent two months in South Africa living with families on holistically
Spencer Smith is owner and operator of the Jefferson Center for Holistic Management with his wife, Abbey. He is a certified Holistic Management educator with the Savory Institute. He travels throughout Northern California and Nevada (and as needed to other regions) conducting Holistic Management workshops, courses, events and consultations. With a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness
Dr. Cynthia A. Daley completed her BS in animal science at the University of Illinois and her PhD at the University of California, Davis in 1997. Aside from her duties in the classroom, committee work and advising, Dr. Daley created the Organic Dairy program located at the Agriculture Teaching and Research Center for the purposes
Richard’s professional career with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service includes 36 years of experience as a rangeland specialist, ecologist, and biologist. His work included training co-workers and assisting landowners with restoration or enhancement of rangelands, wetlands, cropland, chaparral, forests, woodlands, and stream corridors in northern Arizona, northwestern Nevada, and throughout northern California before retiring
Chris Kerston has been grazing cattle for over a decade. With a longstanding passion for alternative agricultural models, Chris has dedicated much of his life to helping connect ranchers with consumers in ways that create real value for both parties. With formal training and instinctive talent, Chris utilizes social media in concert with traditional marketing
Robb is a former research biochemist and the New York Times Best Selling author of The Paleo Solution – The Original Human Diet. A student of Prof. Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast, book and seminars. Robb has functioned
William Burnidge is the Grasslands Program Director for the The Nature Conservancy. William leads the work of the Conservancy’s Colorado Chapter to develop and disseminate comprehensive land management planning tools designed to assist livestock managers to improve outcomes across the triple bottom line of “people, profit, and planet.” In addition, he works with farmers in
James Komar holds a bachelor’s degree in Forest Resources Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a master’s degree in Forest Soils, with an emphasis on water quality, from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Texas A&M University. Jim brings a diverse set of experiences in the natural resources field from across the U.S.,
Grazing for Change Speaker Videos
Conference Speaker Videos Allan Savory – Grazing in Nature’s Image Tony Malmberg – How to run more livestock on public land Bill Burrows – Livestock’s place in the healthy forest ecosystem Dr. Christine Jones – An Australian Perspective on managing rangelands for drought Spencer and Abbey Smith – Key to managing complexity:
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