🐑 Curious about targeted grazing?
Join Conservation Works and Guest Speaker Sarah Keiser of Wild Oat Hollow for a free community workshop in Elk and learn how targeted grazing can support wildfire resilience, manage vegetation, and create new opportunities in Coastal Mendocino County.
Whether you’re a landowner, a local grazier, or a young person curious about grazing as a career or business, come learn what’s possible and connect with others in the community.
🌿 Learn about targeted grazing
🔥 Explore its role in wildfire resilience
🌱 Discover career and business opportunities
☕ Meet neighbors, ask questions, and enjoy refreshments
Saturday, October 24 | 10 AM–1 PM
Greenwood Community Center | Elk, CA
Free and open to the community. Registration recommended, but not required.
🔗 Register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998902999681?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Sarah Keiser is a community organizer and grazing advocate working at the intersection of regenerative land stewardship, vegetation management, and wildfire resilience in California. Through her consulting practice, The Holistic Herder, she helps landowners, municipalities, and rural residential communities implement grazing-based solutions that restore ecosystems while reducing fire risk.
Sarah specializes in building collaborative, community-driven stewardship models. Her work brings together neighbors, local governments, fire marshals, indigenous fire practitioners, arborists, and media to develop practical, place-based approaches to land care. These efforts integrate grazing livestock, prescribed fire, and community education to support healthier, more resilient landscapes.
She is the founder of community grazing cooperatives, a community-scale initiative that empowers rural residential communities with the skill and support to manage their vegetation management needs as well as enhancing local aesthetics, and increases atmospheric carbon sequestration into the soil. The model has since supported the creation of 20 community grazing cooperatives across Sonoma, Solano, Yolo and Butte Counties.
In 2025, she launched Grazing the Commons, a model that enables municipalities, public agencies, Fire Safe Councils, and Resource Conservation Districts to plan and implement grazing programs that are fiscally sustainable, socially supported, and operationally realistic.
Sarah is currently developing a Grazing Master Plan for Sustainable Vegetation Management and Ecological Regeneration for the City of Petaluma. This work includes creating a replicable toolkit for municipalities and land managers to adopt prescribed grazing as an equitable, climate-adaptive solution, with plans to expand into 3–4 new cities annually beginning in 2027.
