Interview with Molly Taylor on Cover Crops
A blog interview with PT Ranch manager Molly Taylor covering the ranch’s adoption of cover crops starting in 2020, including the specific species used (turnips, clovers, collard greens, oats, rye), their no-till approach, integration with cattle grazing, benefits to soil health and drought resilience, and how California’s Healthy Soils Incentive Program and carbon credit markets […]
5 with a Farmer: Molly Taylor of PT Ranch
A short-form video in Kiss the Ground’s “5 with a Farmer” series, featuring five rapid-fire questions with PT Ranch manager Molly Taylor about regenerative farming, her philosophy on soil health, and what she hopes future generations understand about working with nature rather than against it.
Diversified Drought-Tolerant Silvopasture in Oak Savanna Rangeland: PT Ranch Producer Case Study
A producer case study profiling PT Ranch in Ione, CA, documenting how ranch manager Molly Taylor implemented four silvopasture systems — a fruit orchard, pig fodder bank, olive orchard, and irrigated pasture hedgerows — to restore native oak savanna, sequester carbon, and diversify farm income through integrated tree-livestock systems.
Burroughs Family Farms: Integrating Pastured Poultry with Dairy, Almonds, and Olives
A video in which Ward Burroughs describes the integration (“stacking”) of pastured chickens with the farm’s other enterprises — chickens following cows in dairy pastures and grazing in almond and olive orchards during winter — illustrating how enterprise stacking enhances soil fertility and overall farm resilience
Rosie Burroughs — Abundant Year-Round Habitat at Burroughs Family Farm
A Wild Farm Alliance farmer success story featuring Rosie Burroughs, who discusses her farm’s approach to providing year-round wildlife habitat through hedgerows, native plants, and intentional stewardship of farm vegetation in all seasons — supporting pollinators, beneficial insects, and birds alongside organic almond, dairy, and livestock production.
Sustainable Agriculture Leaders: Rosie & Ward Burroughs
A video profile of Rosie and Ward Burroughs, who farm organic almonds and operate an organic pasture-based dairy near Merced in California’s Central Valley, discussing their approach to regenerative and sustainable agriculture.
Rosie & Ward Burroughs: Farmer Heroes Building Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Farms in California’s Central Valley
A Farm Aid Farmer Heroes profile of Rosie and Ward Burroughs, who own and operate sustainable organic farms in California’s Central Valley, detailing their commitment to soil health, management intensive grazing, on-farm composting, solar energy, French drain water management systems, and their advocacy for climate-friendly farming through organizations such as CalCAN and WODPA
Know Your Farmer: Full Belly Farm — Soil Health and the Principles of True Organic
A farmer profile featuring video and transcript interviews with the Full Belly Farm partners — Paul Muller, Judith Redmond, Dru Rivers, and Hannah Muller — discussing the farm’s focus on biodiversity, soil health, cover cropping for on-farm fertility, multi-generational ownership, and the importance of maintaining strong organic standards.
Jalama Canyon Ranch
At Jalama Canyon Ranch, our farming philosophy is rooted in the belief that ecological health, agricultural productivity, and community resilience are interdependent. We steward this 1,000-acre landscape—situated just eight miles from Point Conception, at the crest of the Santa Ynez watershed and bordering the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve—as a living laboratory dedicated to the […]
Moon + Oaks Farm
At Moon + Oaks Farm, we are committed to cultivating a lush, biodiverse landscape where humans participate as stewards within the ecosystem-woven into it, not apart from it. Inspired by the Chumash name for Ojai, which is derived from the Ventureño Chumash word ʼawhaý, meaning “moon” and oaks, which are keystone species in the Ojai […]