Sonoma County has a unique opportunity to support the economic development of a full-scale grazing program – from grazing cooperatives, contract grazing, and commercial grazing for commercial livestock producers. The project provides training, resources and mentorship on grazing management and business / workforce development to increase grazing enterprises. The goal or biggest objective is to build extensive, large grazing collaborative across the county for strategic, fiscally sustainable land stewardship. A holistic approach to stewarding our private landscapes and commons back to healthy fire ecosystems, while breaking down the barriers that limit this work through connecting and collaboration. 

Our solution is the shared grazing experience, a way forward that provides land access to our local agrarians and fiscally sustainable land stewardship to both private landowners and public land managers.This project creates climate-resilient communities and ecosystems, through effort that educates landowners and managers on vegetation management tool(s) to assist with fuels reduction and ecological enhancement on private and public lands, especially in the Wildlands Urban Interface (WUI).