Greening the Ranch and Feeding the People: Regenerative Agriculture at the Ted Chamberlin Ranch
A Bluedot Living article by Jim Miller profiling Russell Chamberlin and Mary Heyden, who co-manage the Ted Chamberlin Ranch, describing their incremental adoption of regenerative agriculture practices — including more frequent rotational grazing, compost application, prescribed burns, and direct-to-consumer beef sales — and the environmental and economic tradeoffs involved in transitioning an 8,000-acre cattle ranch […]
Ted Chamberlin Ranch: Regenerative Rangeland Management and Carbon Farming in the Santa Ynez Valley
A Kiss the Ground farmer feature profiling Russell Chamberlin and the Ted Chamberlin Ranch, describing the family’s transition to planned/holistic grazing and compost application through California’s Healthy Soils Program, the resulting improvements in rangeland health, biodiversity, soil water-holding capacity, and carbon sequestration, and the ranch’s participation in NRCS programs (CSP and EQIP) and educational workshops […]
Burroughs Family Farms: Daily Care of Pastured Poultry
A video in which Rosie Burroughs introduces her grandson Jed and walks through the daily care practices for pastured poultry at Burroughs Family Farms, showing how chickens are managed as part of the farm’s diversified, multigenerational regenerative operation
Burroughs Family Farms: Pioneering Regenerative Organic Certified Almond Farming
A Q&A-style article featuring Benina Burroughs Montes, managing partner of Burroughs Family Orchards, describing how the fifth-generation family farm became the first Regenerative Organic Certified almond operation in the country, and how their practices — including cover cropping, planned sheep grazing, hedgerows, whole orchard recycling, and a catch-frame harvest system — improve soil health, water […]
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.
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 […]