Newsletter Archive

February 2023 – Ready, set, go 2023

• Atmospheric Rivers and Building Hydrological Resiliency Through Regenerative Land Management
• Reflections from our Chef and Garden Fellow
• What We’re Reading

Fall 2022 – News from TomKat Ranch – Shifting Paradigms

• Celebrating Climate-Smart Investments on our Journey to a Regenerative Food System
• Black Food Summit at TomKat Ranch
• Sharing the Value of Regenerative Management with the Land Trust Community
• Collaborative Action in the Soil Health Tech Stack

August-September 2022 – News from TomKat Ranch – Transitions

• Goodbye Note from Kevin
• Swath Grazing Trial 2022
• Culinary Skills Training with LHPUSD Food Service Staff
• Point Blue Summer Gathering at TomKat Ranch

July 2022 – News from TomKat Ranch – Summer of Soil

• Farm to Table Features: Kristyn Leach of Namu Farm
• Soil Health Tech Stack Invite
• Biostimulants, goat grazing, and prescribed fire: An ecological monitoring update for TomKat Ranch Trials

May 2022 – News from TomKat Ranch – Commitment

• The Remarkable Benefits of Riparian Areas
• The TomKat Ranch Grazing Plan Goes Multispecies – Welcome Goats!
• EcoFarm 2022: Two Field Days Focusing on Regenerative Ranching and Indigenous Foodways!

March 2022 – News from TomKat Ranch – Women in Ranching: The Story

• Guide to Regenerative Grazing Leases: Opportunities for Resilience
• How we monitor land systems change after prescribed fires
• Bar-C Update – We’re In Business!
• A Note From Our First Ever Chef-Garden Fellow

January 2022 – News from TomKat Ranch – Caring for People and Land

• Rain and Regenerative Management
• Growing Perspectives: Understanding Water’s Role in Varied Ecosystems from Coast to Coast
• Regenerative Ranching Toolkit
• Three New Apprentices (and their dogs) Join Our Team

Year End 2021 – TomKat Ranch – Letter for a Regenerative Future

• Regenerative Ranching
• Fork to Farm
• Gathering for Action

November 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – A Century of Regeneration

• School Food Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities
• Apprentice Alex Michel’s Reflections on a Prescribed Burn Training Exchange (TREX)
• Hidden Villa Apprentice Visit
• What We’re Reading – A Synthesis of Ranch-Level Sustainability Indicators for Land Managers and to Communicate Across the US Beef Supply Chain

October 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Social Regeneration

• Fire-resilience on Working Landscapes
• EcoFarm 2022: Pre-conference Field Day – Weaving Together Our Past, Present, and Future
• What We’re Reading- Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

September 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Levers for Change

• Swath Grazing Harding Grass
• Conducting Science to Inform Regenerative Stewardship: A Decade in Review
• School Meals for All Update!
• Follow Up to Last Month’s Regen Ranching Data Round Up

August 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – New Curriculum

• Travel Journal of Regenerative Agriculture in the North East of the United States
• The Regen Ranching Data Round Up
• Growing the Table Update!
• Defending Beef – Revised and Expanded Addition

July 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Growing Education

• Upcoming Workshop with Nicole Masters at TomKat Ranch
• What We’re Reading: Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation
• BAR-C Update and Ribbon Cutting
• Gathering for Action Anew!
• Helpful Resources in Case of an Emergency in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond

June 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Regeneration is the Status Quo

• Bale Grazing – Stewardship During Drought to Grow Soil Health
• Joining the Savory EOV Program and Moving Towards Regeneration Verification
• Artist Day at the Ranch – “Get Your Goat”
• Parting is Such Sweet… Oh, Grasshopper Sparrow! A Farewell to Mel!

April 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – The Serengeti Symphony

• Goats to the Rescue – Goatapelli at TomKat Ranch for Fire Fuel Reduction
• ‘No-Dig’ Gardening at TomKat Ranch
• An Interview with Goatapelli Foundation’s Lani Malmberg
• Aspen Global Change Institute Invited Review on Soil Carbon Science for Policy and Practice
• Notes from the Field: Managing Rangelands for Secondary Cavity Nesting Birds

March 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Grass Springs Eternal

• Transformative Investment in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Deep Dive and Introduction
• Digging Deeper On A Pasture Soils Trial: A Question and Answer Session with Ranch Manager Mark Biaggi
• Bar-C, the Why and How: A Focus On Rural Food Security
• Interview with Local Radio Host (KPDO) About Series on Prescribed Burn

February 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Policy Matters

• Update: Soil Health Trials at TomKat Ranch
• Virtual Sunday Brunch with the Sundance Institute
• Community in the Time of Covid
• Meet Our 2021 Apprentices

January 2021 – News from TomKat Ranch – Executive Order

• Sacramento’s Vulnerable Communities Get 5-Star Meals
• Progress 2021

December 2020 – News from TomKat Ranch – Growing Understanding

• Climate Underground 2020 at Caney Fork Farms
• Good Meat Breakdown
• My Thoughts On Regenerative Fire Mitigation – Part 2
• What We’re Reading: “Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food,” by Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle

October 2020 – News from TomKat Ranch – Success in a Hard Year

• BAR-C: Breaking the Bottleneck
• Groundwork – A Virtual Summer Pilot Program and Learning Opportunity
• How to Assess Soil Health in the Field – A Video Series
• My Thoughts On Regenerative Fire Mitigation – Part 1
• Local Food Security: Coops, Veggies, and Meat

September 2020 – News from TomKat Ranch – Rising from the Ashes

• Profiles in Land and Management – Missouri Department of Conservation
• Regenerative Ranching Circle NORCAL
• What We’re Reading – Point Blue Issue Brief: Methane Emissions from Livestock
• Growing the Table – Shifting Demand Towards a Regenerative and Equity-based Food System
• Living with the Aftermath of Fire

Op-Ed 2020 – When There is Justice for All

August 2020 – August Lightning Fire Complex