Grazing For Vineyard Health And Fire Resilience Field Day

Sheep grazing offers numerous benefits in the vineyard when implemented properly. Join us for a field day in partnership with Napa Green to discuss how to best utilize sheep grazing to achieve your goals in the vineyard, as well as how to employ grazing animals to manage woodlands for fire fuel reduction or post-fire recovery.

speakers

Sarah Keiser | Wild Oat Hollow

Sarah is a community organizer and grazing advocate, combining grazing ruminants and her experience to do regenerative land stewardship & vegetation management in Sonoma County, CA. She is an innovative community builder facilitating the development of community grazing cooperatives and collaborative land stewardship projects through her consulting service, The Holistic Herder.

Christian CainPerennial Grazing

Christian Cain and Shannon Waldron of Perennial Grazing are California shepherds, traveling locally with their sheep to provide grazing services for farms, wineries, parks, and private lands.

Jaime Irwin | Kaos Grazing

Run by the dynamic family team of Robert, Jaime, Claire, and Augustus Irwin, Kaos Sheep Outfit is a target grazing company serving Mendocino, Lake, and Colusa Counties in Northern California.  By using Australian Corriedale sheep in such surprising places as vineyards, pear and nut orchards, and even on golf courses and for homeowners’ associations, the Irwins are able to run a sustainable business that focuses on the mutually beneficial relationship between plants and animals.  They replace fossil-fuel driven mowers with the digestive tract of a sheep, thereby reducing pollution while at the same time fertilizing the land, increasing carbon sequestration, and producing meat and wool for the benefit and betterment of our lives.

Tommy FensterUC Davis, Gaudin Lab

Tommy Fenster is a PhD student (Hort&Ag, Ecdydis Foundation) quantifying multifunctionality of sheep grazing in California’s vineyards.