Since 2011, the Wallace Center has been working to advance regenerative grazing and grass-fed value chains in the Upper Midwest as a scalable, market-driven solution for building healthy soil, viable farms, and resilient communities. This initiative is called the Pasture Project, and has included discrete, place-based projects like the Tainter Creek Farmer-led Water Quality Project and broader education and advocacy efforts to build understanding and support for regenerative grazing through webinars, field days, technical service provider trainings, video series, white papers, financial calculators, and more.
Pasture Project’s education and advocacy resources are aggregated in a library on the Pasture Project website, and we’ve included several example resources below.
Years Active: 2011 – present
Beyond the Pasture Podcast >>
In the first season of Beyond the Pasture, a new podcast developed by the Wallace Center team, we spoke with an amazing group of regenerative grazing practitioners and advocates about how they’re utilizing regenerative grazing to build culturally relevant food value chains, improve environmental outcomes of agriculture, and support Black, Indigenous, and Farmers of Color and communities.
Regenerative Grazing, Carbon, and Climate >>
This white paper, co-developed by the Wallace Center team and Drs. Jasmine Dillon and Megan Machmuller, provides an overview of carbon cycling, climate change, and the potential for regenerative agriculture to contribute to climate mitigation efforts.
Grazing Planners Speak >>
Grazing Planners Speak is an eleven part series of informative, on-farm videos featuring experienced grazing planners. The series is designed to provide current and would-be grazing technical service providers with a comprehensive overview of the in-field components of grazing planning. Videos cover everything from grazing infrastructure to pasture layout to animal handling.
Accelerating regenerative grazing to tackle farm, environmental, and societal challenges in the upper Midwest >>
This paper, written collaboratively by the Pasture Project team and partners in the Upper Midwest and published in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation in January 2021, provides an overview of opportunities to increase regenerative grazing in the Upper Midwest of the United States, specifically in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB).