Newsletter Archive 2024
Our newsletter and other email publications.
Our newsletters and other forms of electronic communication often include short articles and updates not published on the website. Here you will find links to those sources for further reading.
Our newsletter and other email publications.
Our newsletters and other forms of electronic communication often include short articles and updates not published on the website. Here you will find links to those sources for further reading.
California Northern Boa Constrictor slithering through the warm compost.
📸 by Susan Hadacek
November 2024 – 🍁 Autumn at TKR
- Gardener’s Best Friend
- What’s your beef? The Latest Nutrient Density Research on Pasture-Raised Meat
- Where are they now – Catie Mong
- In other news…
Western Toad found living under our bioreactor. Diversity comes in all shapes and sizes!
📸 by Izzy Sonnet.
October 2024 – Providing the Stone 🪨 ⛏️
- Highlights from Hosting Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative Workshop with the San Mateo Resource Conservation District
- A Tale of Two Approaches
- Ode to Goat (Meat)
- Highlights From the Team
Goats at Fifth Crow Farm grazing to increase diversity and reduce fuel loads on a field dominated by Harding grass.
📸 Photo by Kim Kitchener
September 2024 – 🌾 Golden Hues
- Grazing for Biodiversity
- Goat Butchering Workshop with Chefs
- Where Are They Now – Alex Michel
- What We’re Reading
Meet Izzy, Rosie, Isabel, and Jack – with our favorite Chef Tim Edmonds – after helping him prepare dinner.
📸 Photo by William Milliot
August 2024 – 🌞 Summer on the Ranch
- Making a “Natural Experiment” on TomKat Ranch
- A Letter from Stanford Bio 105
- Working with Nature at the Foundational Level
- What We’re Reading
Ranch Camp: ready for our summer visitors.
📸 Photo by William Milliot
June 2024 – Nature’s Language
- Walking, Reading, Interpreting, and Understanding the Land: Becoming a Land Doctor
- Watch the TKREF Equine Program In Action
- What We’re Reading
The inherent nature of curiosity—our guardian dogs, JT (touching noses) and Reba, meet one of the new kids on the block and vice versa. The kids are in good hands, er…paws.
📸 by Stephanie Pittman
May 2024 – Green up!
- An Uplifting Guide to Winning the Climate War
- Out on the Ranch: Spring 2024
- Meet Freddy
- What We’re Reading
Field walk with the whip-smart students from West Valley College, what a pleasure to host them!
📸 by Wendy Millet
April 2024 – A Call to Action for Earth Day
- Following Up: Dung Beetle Populations at TomKat Ranch 2022 & 2023
- The Real Burger of Earth Day – Grass-fed, Regenerative Beef Burger Challenge
- Presenting at the California Council of Land Trusts Annual Conference
- What We’re Reading (and Watching) Earth Day 2024
Former interns gather at the mounting block. Join us for the TKREF 2024 summer internship!
📸 by William Milliot
March 2024 – Let’s Talk
- Agscent Testing at TomKat Ranch
- The Other Thing that Water Does
- Highlighting Trends in Ag and Finance: Aging farmers, acres in transition, and a call for $300B in capital
- Regenerative Ranching 101 for Landowners and Land Managers
- We’re Hiring!
- What We’re Reading – In honor of Women’s History Month
Meet Stevie, our new breeding-buck member of the family.
📸 by William Milliot
- Our Sam McDonald Moment
- Allensworth Progressive Association – Fostering Resiliency
- Ode to Insect
- So Many Reasons To Like Dung Beetles
- What We’re Reading, Watching, & Listening To
Did you know that rainbows are always full circles, but you can rarely see the whole thing? Rainbows, just like ecosystems, are more than meets the eye.
📸 by Susan Hadacek
January 2024 – Complexity, what does it mean to you?
- Annual Christmas Bird Count
- California Association of Resource Conservation Districts Conference
- The Power of Principles
- Hello and Farewells
- Peter Byck’s Roots So Deep
- What We’re Reading
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