Grazing for Change 2018: 3rd Western Regional Grazing Conference
Event Information
Description
Let's take back our food system
Producers, graziers, innovative agriculturalists: gain valuable knowledge about viable market opportunities and production techniques that are not based on consolidation and commoditization.
Learn from speaker presentations, a discussion panel and a social hour with refreshments. Network with regional and national producers, and leaders in regenerative agriculture. Enjoy a meal of locally produced meats, grains, vegetables and other products.
Featuring:
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Will Harris, White Oak Pastures: Making the break from commodity agriculture as a self-reliant, diversified farming operation, that builds soil for future generations.
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Dan Kittredge, Bio Nutrient Food Association - Understanding the connection between regenerative farming/grazing practices and nutrient dense food. How to make informed choices about the food we eat.
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Dr. Sina McCullough, Author “Hands Off My Food!”: How commoditizing our food system has caused the current health crisis in our nation. The truth behind “what’s in our food”, how it got there, and who’s responsible.
Event Speakers & Sponsors:
Abbey & Spencer Smith work to empower communities through ecological regeneration. They grew up on commercial cattle ranches in Northern California. Their daughter, Maezy Smith, is a seventh generation Northern Californian. Read More.
Dr. Sina McCullough has a doctoral degree in Nutritional Science and a bachelor's degree in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, both from the University of California at Davis. Dr. McCullough taught Biochemistry and Bioenergetics at UC Davis. She was also the Director of Research and Development for a supplement company. Read More.
Will Harris is a fourth generation cattleman, who tends the same land that his great-grandfather settled in 1866. Born and raised at White Oak Pastures, Will left home to attend the University of Georgia's School of Agriculture, where he was trained in the industrial farming methods that had taken hold after World War II. Read More.
Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years, and is the founder and executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association, an 8-year old non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “increase quality in the food supply”. Read More.
Dr. Cynthia Daley is a Professor within the College of Agriculture at California State University Chico where she supervises and directs the Organic Dairy Program (ODP) for the College of Agriculture, a program she founded in 2006. Read More.
Fallon Turner Stover is the driving force behind Regenerating Rangelands. She grew up on a cattle ranch in a small town in Northern California, which cultivated a strong love for livestock and the land. Read More.
Alexandre Eco Dairy is a grass-based organic dairy producing organic milk in Crescent City, Eureka, Ferndale, and Smith River, California. Read More.
Paicines Ranch is a completely restored ranch that includes 25 buildings and is quietly nestled an hour south of San Jose and about an hour inland from the Monterey Bay region. Read More.
TomKat Ranch is all about connecting people to healthy food. Whether that’s through partnerships with producers and scientists or the sale of their grass-fed beef through their label LeftCoast GrassFed.Read More.
Open Range Meats aims at providing a wholesale distribution model that thrives off of a smaller-framed cow is no small task. However, it’s one that Hunter and Sarah, the husband and wife duo behind Open Range Meats and Provisions, is excited to tackle. Read More.
Organizer Jefferson Center for Holistic Management, Fibershed, & Stemple Creek Ranch
Organizer of Grazing for Change 2018: 3rd Western Regional Grazing Conference
The Jefferson Center is a Savory Global Network Hub serving Northern California and Nevada. Husband and wife team, Spencer and Abbey Smith, work to empower communities through ecological regeneration. They grew up on commercial cattle ranches in Northern California. Their daughter, Maezy Smith, is a seventh generation Northern Californian. They practice and teach Holistic Management so that the land and lifestyle they love will be here for seven more generations.
Fibershed develops regional and regenerative fiber systems on behalf of independent working producers, by expanding opportunities to implement carbon farming, forming catalytic foundations to rebuild regional manufacturing, and through connecting end-users to farms and ranches through public education.
Stemple Creek Ranch is nestled in the coastal hills of Northern California near the town of Tomales. It has been home to the Poncia family for four generations. Their strategy is aimed at creating a sustainable future for the fifth generation of their family. They actively preserve sensitive wildlife habitat, maintain and restore natural watershed areas, utilize cutting edge solar and gravity flow technology, and practice an intensive schedule of rotational grazing.
