Regenerative agriculture is our solution
Regenerative agriculture is the science, art, or occupation concerned with providing ample, nutritious food; improving local economies equitably; building soil fertility; restoring biodiversity, water cycling, and water quality; and using natural processes to achieve climate stability by restoring carbon and other nutrients to the soil.
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“We have the imperative and obligation to engage in a form of agriculture that restores and nurtures rural communities as well as the lands and natural cycles on which we all depend.”
Kat Taylor
Founder of TomKat Ranch
Our Method
We optimize for water, climate stability, economic livelihoods, biodiversity, human health, animal welfare, and healthy ample food by employing these practices:
Ranch-wide Planning
Monitoring
Managed Grazing
Rest and Recovery
Biodiversity Stewardship
Building Healthy Soil
What We Do
Regenerative Ranching
TomKat Ranch demonstrates the practices and benefits of regenerative rangeland management and supports the tools that speed its adoption.
Fork to Farm
Our Fork to Farm partnerships influence the way society eats in order to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture.
Gathering for Action
TomKat Ranch brings people together for meaningful conversations that catalyze the transition to a regenerative agriculture system.
Photo Credit: Gabrielle Tigan
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Picture of the Month in our August-September newsletter.
"TomKat Ranch Apprentice, Stephanie Pittman's crew watches and waits for her command. Photo by Stephanie Pittman"
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In June, we cut the Harding grass in one of our pastures. This opened it up for more plant biodiversity and encouraged perennial plants to continue to grow and carry on with the photosynthetic process helping to draw carbon from the atmosphere. We refer to it as, Swath Grazing in a Mediterranean climate - cutting forage while still nutritious, leaving it in the field, and intensively grazing later in summer when feed value is normally diminished. This improves multiple ecological functions besides providing livestock with a better quality feed.
Ranch Manager Mark Biaggi describes #regenerativegrazing results to @tomkat_ranch pastures as part of our learning exchange between our interns and apprentices and @swantonpacificranch interns @calpoly students.
Meet the summer garden interns at
TomKat Ranch! This summer, three interns are working behind the scenes in the garden, kitchen, and office.
Susan Hadacek, our garden instructor, is teaching the interns about the principles of regenerative agriculture and how they are implemented at TomKat Ranch. Starting as an experimental garden 3 years ago, the regenerative practices of no-till soil management, rich compost applications, and crop rotations have improved the soil fertility and enabled the production of nutrient rich food.
#regenerativeagriculture #notillgardening
#soilfertility
#nutritiousfood
#foodsecurity 🥕🥦🥒🌶🌱🌿🌾