Name
Regenerative Agriculture 2.0: The Pie Ranch Model - Renewing Ecosystems, Rebuilding Communities, and Healing Historical Harms
Date & Time
Friday, May 13, 2022, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Leonard Diggs Jered Lawson Valentin Lopez Arty Mangan Nancy Vail
Description

In this session we will hear about the inspiring model of Pie Ranch, an exemplary socially and eco-conscious enterprise that incorporates: cutting-edge land management; working with disenfranchised urban youth; recruiting BIPOC farmers (historically most often left out of equity-building in agriculture); becoming a distribution hub for local farmers to feed farmworker and other food insecure communities during the pandemic; and building reciprocal relationships with the Amah Mutsun tribe, drawing on its long-lived land stewardship and regeneration prowess to repair some of the ranch’s ecosystems damaged by recent fires. With: Jered Lawson, co-founder, Pie Ranch; Valentine Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band; Nancy Vail, co-founder, Pie Ranch; Leonard Diggs, Pie Ranch Director of Operations and Farming Education. Moderated by Arty Mangan, Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Director.

Session Type
Panel Session 2
Session Visibility
In-Person
Location
Chestnut Room