Sarah is a community organizer and grazing advocate, combining grazing ruminants and her experience to do regenerative land stewardship & vegetation management in Sonoma County, CA. She is an innovative community builder facilitating the development of community grazing cooperatives and collaborative land stewardship projects through her consulting service, The Holistic Herder.

These community-based, sustainable land stewarding concepts empower private landowners and public entities with the skills and support to use grazing ruminants, planned burns and community education to steward their land and commons to a healthy fire ecosystem.

Sarah brings neighbors, fire marshals, indigenous fire ecologists, arborists, and media together to develop strong community alliances for fire safety and to practice regenerative land stewardship. She created the Penngrove Grazing Project, a community-based, sustainable, land-stewardship concept working to improve the health and aesthetics of the land while increasing atmospheric carbon sequestration into the soil.

There are now 12 grazing co-operatives in neighborhoods around Sonoma County. These grazing cooperatives create and enhance community connection in a very personal manner and facilitate the stewarding of these neighborhoods back to healthy fire ecosystems.