Category Ranching

08 Facebook  Twitter Last week I described how Bud and Eunice Williams got pretty nervous when I started talking about my passion for grass management. When I asked him why, Bud simply said, “Sometimes people will bring livestock back to…

These are the pastures created by the best minds in grazing management. 08 Facebook  Twitter About fifteen years ago, I was talking to Eunice Williams about my ambitions around grass management. “Did you hear that, Bud?” she said. “This one…

08 Facebook  Twitter We feel peaceful when we are in a landscape that has short green grass, some scattered trees with their branches pruned up high, and some closely hedged shrubs. We like this sort of landscape because these queues…

08 Facebook  Twitter A recent paper, “The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?” (Mayshar et al., 2022), highlights how seemingly small changes in subsistence can have vast and far-reaching implications for human well-being. In this paper, the researchers…

06 Facebook  Twitter In my last post I connected the dots between the stress I create in myself and the stress I create for my livestock. This week I will look at how this same pattern holds for the researchers…

I used to struggle and struggle to get them to go over the tide gate, an imposing concrete edifice. I thought that it looked like a steep cliff; I thought they couldn't even see where to go. Somethings off here. I share more on my blog.

Friends and Family, The three of us Chisholm-Harts are spending our Thanksgiving eve thinking about what we are grateful for. Obviously all of you are top of mind.  We are settling into our temporary digs in Petaluma, Abel is busy…