Las Cumbres Ranch Foundation’s inaugural event will be a workshop on regenerative ranching, April 1-2 with Alejandro Carrillo, one of the foremost experts on holistic and regenerative agriculture practices.
The talk is the first in series of events hosted by the Los Alamos-based nonprofit that will bring experts in regenerative agriculture, permaculture, holistic land management, and soil health to the Central Coast to help regenerate the environment, restore the ecosystem, and provide sustainable food security.
Carrillo manages his family’s Las Damas Cattle ranch in Mexico’s Chihuahuan desert where, together with his fellow ranchers, he has helped transform over one million acres of desert into grassland by implementing holistic and regenerative agriculture practices.
The change has resulted in increased rainfall and has returned the desert land to lush grasslands.
Carrillo is a delegate to the United Nations to Combat Desertification and Land Degradation. Healthy grasslands are important worldwide because they are one of the largest sources of carbon sequestration.
In addition to the workshop, Carrillo will offer a free talk in partnership with the Santa Barbara Wine Collective, 6 p.m. April 2 in the Santa Barbara Funk Zone.
Carrillo’s talk — Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People, Healthy Planet, The Positive Impact of Regenerative Practices — will target sharing the benefits of these practices with consumers, and will highlight their impact on natural surroundings and the food people consume.
“Our family has witnessed the impact of holistic and regenerative practices firsthand on our ranch,” said Stefan Selbert, operations manager at Las Cumbres Ranch. “We are excited to learn more from someone like Alejandro who has been able to inspire so many folks to make changes in their own land from large ranches to small backyards.”
The work Carrillo does empowers consumers to better understand the impact of how the food they choose to buy is raised or farmed.
For more about the workshop in Los Alamos and to register click here. For more about the free public event in Santa Barbara and to register click here.
The Santa Barbara Wine Collective is a group of like-minded producers focusing on the unique terroir (ecosystem) of Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara Wine Collective’s tasting room offers wines from 20 different local family-owned producers,
Las Cumbres Ranch is a holistically managed cattle ranch on the Central Coast. The ranch breeds pedigree Bonsmara cattle, which are highly adaptable and can thrive in dry, brittle environments while producing top quality beef. Bonsmaras are effective at fire mitigation, are appropriate for the environment, build soil fertility, restore biodiversity and sequester carbon.
Las Cumbres Ranch Foundation is seeking like-minded organizations and individuals to partner with on this and future events to ensure they will be accessible to everyone through scholarships. Learn more at https://lascumbresranch.com/foundation/.