2025 Newsletter Archive

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.

JT, one of our livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) keeps all the babies safe. Photo by Kim Kitchener

JT, one of our livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) keeps all the babies safe. Photo by Kim Kitchener

June 2025 – Learning Lessons from Nature

  • Are you really eating a balanced, nutritious diet?
  • Regenerative Ranching 101: Growing Knowledge and Inspiring Action
  • Where Restoration Meets Management
  • Highlights from the Team – Noble Institute and Society for Rangeland Management
TomKat Impact Report - A letter from Wendy Millet, Ranch Director

TKREF Impact Report: A letter from Ranch Director, Wendy Millet.

May 2025 –  Impact Report

  • Where Restoration Meets Management
  • The third installment of Regen Ranching By The Numbers
  • Ag Day at the Capitol
  • Highlights from the Team – Susan Hadacek’s favorite gardening books
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) by Kim Kitchener.

Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria).

📸 by Kim Kitchener

April 2025 –  Spring in a Mediterranean Climate

  • Meet and Greet: CA Wheat Commission and the Beef2Institution
  • Mycelium Magic
  • Where are they now? Ford Smith, 2018 Intern
  • Highlights From the Team
A pasture on TomKat Ranch. The section on the left has had time to rest. The section on the right was recently grazed and is ready for some rest.

Grazed compared to rested. Read more about it in the Regen Ag by the Numbers.

📸 by WIlliam Milliot

March 2025 –  A Chance to Share

  • Regenerative Ranching by the Numbers, Article 2
  • Where are they now? Leif Gonzalez-Kramer
  • Highlights From the Team
TomKat Ranch staff stand around a tree with the sun shinning through it as part of the ongoing soil learning sessions with Wendell Gilgert

Picture of the Month: Staff ‘reading the land’ with Wendell Gilgert while discussing leader-follower/multi-species grazing.

📸 by Stephanie Pittman

February 2025 –  All Hands On Deck!

  • Regenerative Ranching by the Numbers – Article 1
  • Cultivating Change: A Recap of the Recent California Regional Regenerative Meat Summit
  • Badgers and Burrowing Owls
  • Highlights From the Team
Cattle standing in a pasture on TomKat Ranch as the sun sets behind them

Winter cattle on TKR

📸 by William Milliot

January 2025 –  With a new year comes a new chance

  • Regenerate 2024 – Innovating for a Resilient Future
  • Regenerative Agriculture: An Argentinian Perspective
  • We’re live! The Coastside Local Food Hub’s Website Is Ready for Action
  • Where Are They Now: Anna Brown

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