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:
Prescribed Grazing Theory & Practice
Learn about Holistic Management practices and adaptive approaches to wildland management, including wildlife and fire ecology, soil & plant sciences and watershed systems.
We also cover the global history and current context of pastoralism and grazing with small ruminants.
Livestock & Operations
Explore the foundations of ethical and low-stress animal husbandry with goats, sheep, and cattle that uphold best practices for managing ruminants.
Learn about the logistical foundations of how to build and maintain the infrastructure required to mindfully manage ruminants.
Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Learn about leadership, entrepreneurial skill-building by taking a quadruple bottom line approach to business operations that places values first.
We focus on inspiring practitioners to see themselves, above all, as community members who recognize the potential for economic development via place-based businesses.
Understand a framework of business planning that places individual history, context, desires and passion at the center of business model development.
“GSW gave me the experience I needed to become a competent grazier and shepherd.”
- Dylan Boeken, Owner & Operator of Boek House Hearth & Husbandry
Past Programs
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