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Putting Grasslands First

Livestock, properly managed, can be used to mimic the millennia-old symbiotic relationship between the world's grasslands and herds of ruminants. By using rigorous planning and ecosystems monitoring, we can actually use livestock to improve soil health, increase carbon sequestration, and decrease desertification.

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100% Grass Fed and Finished Beef

When you purchase Lazy R Beef, you are supporting a fourth-generation ranching family dedicated to preserving and protecting our land while raising clean, healthy food  for our community.

We use cutting-edge carbon-sequestering grazing techniques to ensure that our beef is the most environmentally friendly food you can buy. We are committed to making sure that our practices are as environmentally and socially regenerative as possible.

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We are proud to be a leader in Holistically Managed livestock production. Our ranch is a learning site for Roots of Resilience.

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Abundance and instinct!!
Behold! Little Nugget, prince of the grasslands!!
I had the amazing opportunity to speak at the @eatfoundation EAT Stockholm forum last week. The focus of the conference was to share the results of a report commissioned to explore what a sustainable diet that met the minimum nutritional needs for all people on earth would be. In the circles I run in, the report was pretty controversial because it recommended a diet based heavily on grains and a very small amount of meat. (My own health journey has led me to a diet heavy in vegetables and meat, avoiding most grains and cereals unless they are slow fermented.) I was nervous about walking into a room of a thousand folks advocating a near vegan diet. I was excited to share the possibility that animals should be part of whole earth regeneration. The panel was short, I tried to share what I could, but my head was whirring for days over what I observed there. On the one hand, I felt energized to be in a room where people from all over the world were excited to take action to address climate change and food access. On the other hand, I felt very alone as the only producer in a room of nearly a thousand people talking about food policy. I didn’t hear the word “ecology” from anyone’s lips but mine. I didn’t hear about food sovereignty or any critique of how our industrialized food system has concentrated power and resources and undermined local communities’ ability to feed themselves. Replacing one industrialized linear food system with another may lead us to less harm. But what is truly needed is a paradigm shift about how we as human beings interact with all our relations on this planet. We are part of them and they are part of us. I am completely on board with the liberation of chickens from battery cages and sows from gestation crates. But energy flow requires some lives to end in order to sustain others. Yes, let’s remove the steer from the feedlot. But the idea of replacing the feedlot with the industrial soy field does not mean a reduction in suffering. It means millions of other organisms will suffer. The butterfly. The nematode. The bunchgrass and the clover. The humble and holy fungus. Where are the signs on street posts protesting their destruction?
Happy Fathers Day to these strange and wonderful men. To my dad, who is most comfortable with monosyllabic emotional expression, I say, “Grunt.” He knows what I mean by that. To my husband, the only person I’ve ever met who is weird enough to keep up with me, I say thank you for bringing my “bonus daughter” (as they say in Swedish) into my life. Figuring out how to raise this little person into the badass she is today has been the delight of my life. In 24 hours I will be back at the ranch to plant a big ol smooch on ya.
Catching the last few rays of the day. Tomorrow I’m Stockholm bound to present at the @eatfoundation EAT Stockholm forum. Not sure what the heck I am doing but will get to see some of my favorite Swedes at any rate! @m_rth @jorgen717
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Boop! That! Snoot!