Rancher to Rancher – Carrizo Ranch

Welcome to Rancher-to-Rancher Central Coast!

The Central Coast Soil Hub invites you to join the Rancher-to-Rancher team at the Carrizo Ranch to connect with fellow ranchers and land managers, discuss challenges and opportunities of ranching, and engage in soil health demonstrations. We’ll focus discussion on the practical elements of putting together a useful monitoring plan: what should you monitor and how should you measure it? How do you use monitoring as a tool to improve your management and increase profit? How do the Principles of Soil Health provide the foundation for an effective monitoring plan?

We welcome participants from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and neighboring counties.

YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH AND A LAWN CHAIR. We will plan to eat together while out in the field, and there are no dining options near the ranch. Coffee, snacks, and water will be provided – please bring a resusable water bottle.

Plan to arrive promptly – we will be in the field for most of the day, and since there is little to no cell service on the ranch you may not be able to find us once we leave the ranch headquarters! We recommend arriving at 8:30 so you can be sure not to miss us.

After the event concludes, there will be an optional dinner from 4:00-6:00, provided by our partners at the Cal Poly Initiative for Climate Leadership and Resilience (funded by the UC-RGPO) and the Cachuma Resource Conservation District. This will be a great chance to get to know your fellow ranchers and discuss questions and lessons learned from earlier in the day. Please let us know on your registration form if you plan to attend this optional dinner.

We plan to be outside as much as possible, so plan accordingly and please bring a camp chair / folding chair.

This event is FREE, but registration is required.

About the Organizers

The Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District serves ranchers, farmers, and other land managers in the southern coastal portion of San Luis Obispo County, with a mission to protect and enhance natural resources through education, restoration, conservation, and collaboration with local stakeholders.

Together with our partners at the Upper Salinas-Las Tablas RCD (serving inland/northern SLO County), the Cachuma RCD (serving Santa Barbara County), and the Ventura County RCD we form the Central Coast Soil Hub. This regional partnership is dedicated to supporting the management and stewardship goals of Central Coast ranchers and farmers by providing financial assistance and technical guidance.

Rancher-to-Rancher is a project of the Soil Carbon Coalition. The R2R team helps land managers, citizens, and communities combine social, economic, and technical assets toward what they need and want on working landscapes, and toward a shared intelligence on the immense power and potential of the circle of life. The team has considerable exposure to Allan Savory’s holistic management framework, as well as to various flavors of regenerative agriculture and grazing management.They are not consultants or advocates for branded systems or branded “”best management practices,” but are advocates and practitioners of self-education and participatory learning based on observation and evidence, as well as understanding basic ecosystem functions.

The Cal Poly Initiative for Climate Leadership and Resilience was created to train the next generation of climate leaders for emergent careers, increase regional resilience on the Central Coast, and make Cal Poly a recognized climate leader in higher education. ICLR exists to facilitate collaboration, and we appreciate the support they are providing through their UC-RGPO funded project.