In the face of ongoing drought, ranchers across the western United States are restoring their grasslands and water cycles. But will it be enough to survive harder years ahead?
Californiaâs Wildfire Season Looms. Regenerative Agriculture Could Offer Hope.
People watch the Walbridge fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fire, from a vineyard in Healdsburg, California, on August 20, 2020.
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When Alexis Koefoedâs farm burned for the first time in 2008, she and her husband, who made a living raising pasture-grazing chickens at the time, lost 1,000 baby chicks and a brand-new barn. âI thought there could never be anything worse than this experience, until it happened three more times,â she said.