PROGRAMS
The Grazing School of the West offers a wide range of courses in agricultural education through the lens of Prescribed Grazing (PG), a framework that uses cattle and/or small ruminants to effect specific ecological goals on varied landscapes, adapting to the needs of our changing climate. We combine highly technical training with a deep grounding in social values supporting personal empowerment and community care.
Open for Enrollment
What We Teach
Our programs are designed to provide education, vocational training, informed public policy making, and research. We focus on three pillars of learning:
Grazing History & Theory
Learn about the global history of pastoralism and grazing with small ruminants in addition to holistic management practices that include adaptive approaches to wildland management, incorporating wildlife and fire ecology, and soil & plant sciences and watershed systems
Livestock & Operations
Explore the foundations of ethical and low-stress animal husbandry with goats, sheep, and cattle that uphold best practices for managing ruminants, and learn about the logistics for how to build, manage and fix the infrastructure required to run ruminants.
Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Learn how to cultivate a culture of care within your work - the connection between humans & animals, animals & land, and land & humans - by taking a quadruple bottom line approach to business operations (e.g., evaluating the ‘success’ of a business based on its positive/negative impact on planet, profit, people and progress)
Dylan Boeken, Owner & Operator of Boek House Hearth & Husbandry
“GSW gave me the experience I needed to become a competent grazier and shepherd.”
Past Programs
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