Star Thistle. It’s everywhere this year in the back pasture of the Grange Farm School. We curse it as it pierces our legs and remains unpalatable to livestock once it goes to flower. Even with a crew of 8 digging the plant out, we make slow progress against the vast brambles of thistle. But on…
Pictures and Captions by Sarah Brady : June 2015 Practicum Student Grazing Cattle: Cattle grazing in the field between our sleeping and studying quarters and the grange crop/grazing field. Annual grasses (now dry having set seed already) include wild out (Avena fatua), ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus), hedgehog dogtail grass (Cynosurus echinatus), and some soft chess/brome (Bromus hordeaceus)….
Creating Secure Land Tenure Agreements: Lease Clinic & Potluck DATE: July 14, 2015, TIME: 4:30-6:30 Workshop; 6:30 Potluck/Mixer LOCATION: Howard House, Ridgewood Ranch, 16200 N. Hwy 101, Willits, CA (map) Are you a farmer or rancher looking to lease land in the North Coast region? Are you already leasing but wish to learn more about…
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Written by Rosie Gilchrist: June 2015 Practicum Student Mine is not a new story, not an uncommon story, not at all unique, yet despite this it seems necessary to tell it, to find space for my retelling. For it is a journey many are embarking on. Young, idealistic, enthusiastic, often theoretically educated, overwhelmed individuals are…
The incredible accumulation of energy inputted into the 12 acres of Grange Farm School programming and growth finally culminated in a LAUNCH on June 1, 2015! One very short month has zipped by since welcoming of the new class of students; and boy have we been busy! In the first week we covered Ecology,…
Hello from Tim Ward! In the six months since I first stepped foot onto Ridgewood Ranch, where the Grange Farm School claims its happy home, I’ve had a strong feeling that I am in the right place at the right time. It was a very similar feeling when I landed in 2006 in a position…
Hi, my name’s James. James Edmondson. I was born in LA but thankfully moved up north to spend my childhood in Santa Rosa; a tantalizing compromise of progressive thinking and pseudo-city living. There I remained until January 2015 when a blooming interest in regenerative living brought me a few hours north to the fertile lands…
Ruthie King here, Director of Operations and Livestock Manager at the Grange Farm School, pleased resident on the Ridgewood Ranch in Mendocino County, Representative of the Mendocino Farmer’s Guild, Overseer of the Little Lake Grange, Founder of “Be on time Mendocino” campaign, the list goes on. When I first read the job description posted for…
