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White Buffalo Land Trust practices, promotes, and develops systems of Regenerative Agriculture for local, regional, and global impact.

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. A global hub for regenerative land stewardship, ecological monitoring & research, education, training, and enterprise development. Our mission is to practice, promote, and develop systems of regenerative agriculture for local, regional, and global impact. We are committed to the evolution of land stewardship and reimagining our food system to address the c

limate, biodiversity, public health, and food security challenges we face today. Our unique approach is circular; weaving regenerative land stewardship with the education of our community and the training of current and aspiring farmers and ranchers. Innovative monitoring and data collection measure and support scientific research which improves our land stewardship, learning, and teaching. All of this work brings regenerative products into the marketplace and catalyzes the forces of supply and demand.

03/16/2026

We were honored to be back at the Beer Garden event this past weekend — their biggest fundraiser of the year, and this time part of their 100th birthday celebration!

Hundreds of guests, 5.5 miles of trails, native plants everywhere you look, and acoustic music drifting through the canyon.

+ were proud to table again, serving beef biltong and two botanical hydration drinks featuring yerba buena from the Garden and our persimmon vinegar. (Every vendor incorporates a native plant from the grounds — we love that detail.)

Ten years ago, Jesse Smith, Director of Land Stewardship at , first showed up to Beer Garden as an attendee. Today, he serves on the event committee — helping shape the food + beverage experience and bring together the community that makes this event so special.

➡️ Honored to be part of it. Swipe through for photos from the day 🌿

03/09/2026

5 pastures ➔ 15 paddocks.
195 acres ➔ 41 acres (avg. per unit).

At Jalama Canyon Ranch, we’ve shifted the math on our landscape. Subdividing large, static pastures into smaller paddocks allows us to manage grazing with more precision.

Why 15 smaller paddocks beat 5 large ones:
󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Uniform Impact: No more "patch grazing" where cattle pick favorites.
󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Extended Rest: While 1 paddock is grazed, 14 are recovering.
󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Soil Health: High-density grazing for shorter periods builds organic matter.
󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Targeted Protection: We can now easily fence off sensitive restoration zones.

The result? Stronger ground cover and a more resilient ecosystem.

Funding Opportunity: We funded this infrastructure through the NRCS EQIP program. If you're looking to upgrade your fencing or water systems, check out their resources. Link in Bio.

02/25/2026

Art becomes something deeper when it’s created with community.

Julia Forrest’s culminating exhibition brought together the many hands and voices that shaped her Artist-in-Residence at Jalama Canyon Ranch — the women featured in her portraits, the community who showed up in support, and the land itself, which served as both collaborator and guide.

This residency reflects the heart of our program — building community through art and ecology, using creative practice as a bridge between people and place, and cultivating connection, care, and a shared sense of stewardship across Santa Barbara County.

We’re deeply grateful to our partners at and for helping make this gathering possible with a beautiful venue, generous support, and delicious food.

Our next artist joins us in April!

Want to experience the land that inspired the art?

Join us for our Spring Field Day at Jalama Canyon Ranch — an interactive walking tour on Saturday, April 25. RSVP via the link in bio.

02/17/2026

Behind the scenes with our Artist-in-Residence Julia Forrest ✨

From teaching cyanotype photography to students at Lompoc High School to capturing images across the hills of Jalama Canyon Ranch, Julia’s residency has been shaped by light, land, and collaboration.

“One of the most memorable moments was taking long hikes through the landscape at dusk, when the shifting light transformed the hills into something both intimate and vast. The quiet stillness and raw presence of the environment created a powerful sense of connection and reflection. I always managed to make it back right as it turned dark, usually with a handful of wildflowers and a bag of chanterelles.”

Through film photography in the field and hands-on workshops in the classroom, this work invites us to slow down and experience the land more attentively.

Join us for the exhibition and experience the full body of work in person.

🗓 Thursday, February 19
⏰ 6–8pm
📍 , downtown Santa Barbara

Last chance to RSVP. Link in bio.

02/07/2026

🍄 Wild Mushroom Foraging Workshop 🌿

Our coastal oak woodlands are alive with fungi—seasonal delicacies, hidden healers, and the underground engineers of our ecosystems. This one-day workshop invites you to explore their world through hands-on learning and responsible foraging.

Join land stewards, foragers, chefs, educators, and curious neighbors to learn mushroom ecology, identification, and intentional harvesting. Discover how fungi support soil health, water dynamics, biodiversity, and regenerative land stewardship.

Guided by Matt Nevitt of .foragers , you’ll learn practical foraging skills and the traditions of gathering and cooking wild foods—shared with Matt’s joyful, grounded approach.

📍 The Center for Regenerative Agriculture at Jalama Canyon Ranch
🗓 Sun, Feb 22, 2026 | 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
👉 Register via the link in our bio

Come deepen your relationship with the land—and the life beneath your feet.

02/04/2026

📸🎞️Exciting news! We’re thrilled to welcome Brooklyn-based photographer Julia Forrest ( ) as our next Artist-in-Residence at Jalama Canyon Ranch.

Julia’s analog, process-driven practice explores the relationship between women, landscape, and power. Using mirrors, reflections, and forced perspective, her work creates illusionary images that position women as active agents within the landscape and its ecology.

Over the next month, Julia will:

✨Create a new photo series of on-location portraits highlighting women across Santa Barbara County whose leadership, work, and presence shape the region.

📚Visit a Lompoc High classroom to share her creative process and teach the photographic printing process of cyanotype printing using natural materials from the ranch and the sun.

🖼️ Exhibit work from her residency at an intimate community gathering on Thursday, February 19th, from 6–8pm in downtown Santa Barbara.

RSVP for Julia’s culminating reception via the link in our bio. Join us for this free event to experience one-of-a-kind photographs, enjoy lite bites, sip fine wines and refreshments, and connect with our artist community.

12/22/2025

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate Angelina LaPointe () at her culminating reception as the Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence at Jalama Canyon Ranch!

Guests gathered in the warm, welcoming setting of to experience an evening of community and creativity that included:

• Prints, drawings, and sketches created during Angelina’s residency
• A guided conversation with Angelina about her time on the land and creative process
• A hands-on bookmark printing activity, giving guests a personal keepsake to take home
• Delicious light bites and seasonal desserts from , along with fine wines

Don’t miss the next chapter—save the date for “Form and Variation”, an exhibition of Angelina’s completed blockprints and drawings inspired by California’s diverse plant and animal life.

🗓️ February 7 | 2–5 PM

📍 Grossman Gallery, at Lompoc, CA

Keep up with Angelina for the latest on upcoming classes, exhibitions, and events!

12/18/2025

Registration is OPEN!

Join us at Jalama Canyon Ranch for our 10-day Holistic Management Intensive, March 11–21, 2026—an immersive, place-based course designed to support land stewards, industry professionals, and community members.

Over ten days, you’ll learn alongside peers and practitioners while developing practical tools you can take home and apply immediately, including:

🌾 A Holistic Grazing Plan grounded in your land and goals

🌾 A values-aligned Financial Plan to support long-term viability

🌾 An Ecological Monitoring Plan to track soil, water, and ecosystem health over time

Held at our 1,000-acre living laboratory, this course brings learning out of the classroom and onto the land—through observation, dialogue, and hands-on experience.

The Holistic Management Intensive is a –accredited course and fulfills the educational requirements to pursue Savory Institute Accredited Professional status.

11/26/2025

📣 White Buffalo Land Trust just landed at ＃5️⃣7️⃣ on ’s Top 100 Wines of 2025! 📣

The honored bottle — Sandhi’s 2023 WBLT JCR Vineyard Pinot Noir — was grown on our ranch using regenerative practices that make this wine feel thoughtful, place-driven, and award-winningly delicious 😉.

🍷 Look for it in Wine Enthusiast’s “Best of Year” issue, where it stands out with bright red berries, bark spices, and a mezcal-like finish unique to hyper-coastal Pinot Noir. It’s a beautiful example of what’s possible when great winemaking meets healthy soil.

Planning for holiday gatherings, cozy winter meals, or meaningful gifts? This is a bottle worth sharing.

📦 Shop it at sandhiwines.com, link in bio. Through the end of the year:
🚚 Flat rate $25 shipping → on 6-11 bottles
🚚 Complimentary shipping → 12+ bottles

11/25/2025

If you’ve spent time in Santa Barbara’s food scene, you already know that good things tend to happen at . And this season, one of those good things happens to be a stunning persimmon dish made with persimmon vinegar.

Julian and the Barbareño team have been friends for over a decade now with Jesse, cofounder of and Director of Land Stewardship at — back when Jesse was farming at Casitas Valley, and Julian was already dreaming up dishes with ingredients grown a few miles down the road. Over the years, that friendship turned into a shared commitment to supporting the local food ecosystem—and a lot of delicious experiments along the way.

Julian first used Figure Ate vinegar back in 2020 in a duck confit agnolotti (a dish we still think about), and it’s made repeat appearances since. This year’s version is a seasonal Persimmons & Stracciatella dish with roasted fuyus, pistachio, treviso, and a Figure Ate vinaigrette that ties the whole thing together.

It’s bright. It’s creamy. It’s salty-sweet. It’s the kind of dish that tastes like SB in the fall, and it’ll only be around through January—aka the end of persimmon season.

📌 Stop by Barbareño to try it IRL, and find the full recipe on the Figure Ate blog (link in bio) so you can make it at home too.

11/10/2025

🎨✨Big news! We’re thrilled to welcome Angelina LaPointe () as our first Artist-in-Residence at Jalama Canyon Ranch this fall.

Angelina’s hand-carved blockprints and community art projects explore story, place, and belonging — how we mark, and are marked by, the landscapes we call home.

Over the next two months, she’ll:

🖋️Create a new series of prints inspired by the oak woodlands, grasslands, and waterways of Jalama Canyon Ranch — and the people who care for them.
📚Visit local classrooms to share her creative process and explore how art can connect community and ecology.
📸 Share behind-the-scenes glimpses of her residency and creative process.

Stay tuned for an invitation to join us this December for a community reception celebrating her work and the stories it carries.

10/22/2025

🌿💧 Hands-On Watershed Restoration Workshop!

We’re hosting a new two-day workshop, Working with Water: Applied Watershed Restoration for Resilient Landscapes, on Nov 1 & 2 at Jalama Canyon Ranch. Learn low-tech, nature-based techniques that help rehydrate working lands and expand wildlife habitat.

👉 Register via the link in our bio
📍 Jalama Canyon Ranch, Lompoc, California
📅 November 1 & 2

This workshop is part of an 80-acre watershed restoration project supported by — a living model of how slowing, spreading, and sinking water transforms California’s Central Coast landscapes.

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1212 Mission Canyon Road
Santa Barbara, CA
93105

Website

https://www.whitebuffalolandtrust.org/

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