2011 Grazing Season

We have flocks located throughout the greater SF Bay area and are always happy to consult for your vegetation management needs.

To those of you considering grazing animals for the first time, please browse our website and contact us with your questions!

Here's a great Introduction to Targeted Grazing from the California Wool Growers Association (CWGA)

Management Standards

Trends in Ecological Fuel Management (FireSafeCouncil)

Agricultural Renaissance

Post-Modern Environmentality

Appropriating Environmentalism
Fire Mitigation / Grazing Primer
Grazing & Media Archive

Living Systems has distinguished itself for its innovative approach to land management and through a commitment to community and environment.  We are an environmentally and socially responsible business that approaches land management holistically.  Our work in the area of fire mitigation focuses on ecological fuel management in Wildland / Urban Interface areas.  In addition, we facilitate habitat restoration in riparian and other biologically sensitive areas and vegetation management of noxious and invasive weed species, including yellow star thistle, cape ivy, poison hemlock, and French & Scotch Broom.

Goats and grazing animals have been used for countless years as land management tools and are a popular alternative to the conventions of mowing, disking, and burning.  Managed Grazing takes into account multiple levels of ecology and environment including: vegetation types, soil types, watershed functions, plant recovery mechanisms, nutrient flow and energy cycling.  All can be managed, monitored and improved with proper management procedures.

                    “California Indians practiced resource management at four levels of biological organization:

the organism, the population, the plant community, and the landscape.  They used resource management techniques

at each of these levels, or scales, to promote the persistence of individual plants,  plant populations, animal populations,

plant associations, and habitat relationships in many different vegetation types in California.” 

- from M. Kat Anderson's Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge

and the Management of California's Natural Resources

    " Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in,

where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

  - John Muir