More than just a Movement?

Allan Savory moved managed grazing into popular view in his 2013 TED talk on “how to green the desert.” With quiet passion, Savory argued from his experience in Africa that livestock grazing could reverse desertification. And even more, livestock could slow climate change. The secret in the sauce was rotational grazing and holistic management.

Savory was dismissed by some as passing commitment as science, by some as incorrectly generalizing from buffalo behavior to cattle, by some as arguing from an African experience that was unique.

It is handy, then, that we have on the ground evidence sourced a few miles south of Walla Walla. Andrea Malmberg can show us. In black and white, and in color. She is our guest for this gathering.

Don Schwerin, Ag & Rural Caucus, Washington State Democrats