Little Bulls with a Large Impact
Lessons from a small-scale prescriptive grazing project.
Ethical Eating at the Zapata Lodge
The dining room at the Zapata Lodge is a place to learn about how to eat intentionally, responsibly, and ethically.
Regenerative Ranching: Old Mojo in a New Age
What do we mean when we use the term “regenerative agriculture”? In our view, it is a coalescing of people who care and are actively doing something about the ecological problems we face.
Monitoring our Impact on the Land
There is more than one way to know a place. There is more than one way to see a landscape. There is more than one way to understand land health. And there is more than one way to sense if a landscape is healthy.
Beefmasters: The Fertile Cow
Of all the diverse classes of cattle we have on the Chico, our mother cows work the hardest.
Beefmasters: The Bull
The Beefmaster bull is a symbol of strength and resilience in a herd that is built for production, endurance, and efficiency.
Beefmasters: A Philosophy Embodied
A Beefmaster cow is more that an animal; she is a management philosophy embodied – a flesh-and-blood way of living with the land that represents how humans and their animals might do better to live in harmony with the indigenous patterns of the natural world than to try to fight them.
Spring Musings
I was thinking today about how different spring times can be from one year to the next.
Rock Climbers on the MP
Foraging up on rocky slopes is unusual for normal cows, but not surprising for our Beefmasters cows.
The Bison and the Rancher
How ranchers and the bison they manage might save each other from extinction.