Time & Location
Dates: September 7 & 8, 2025
Time:
September 7, 2025 11:00AM - 4:30PM
September 8, 2025 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Scholarship Deadline: September 1, 2025
Registration Deadline: September 4, 2025
Cost:
September 7, 2025 Free & Open to the Public
September 8, 2025 $125 for Producers & Land Stewards
Location:
Lazy M Ranch, Angel Fire, New Mexico
Join us for a two-day immersive event exploring how regenerative ranching practices can revitalize high desert landscapes and strengthen rural livelihoods. Attend one or both days—each offers a unique experience for different audiences.
Day 1 – Free & Open to the Public - September 7, 2025:
Exploring the Benefits of Cattle in the DesertCome hear directly from land stewards, local environmental agencies, and regenerative ranchers about the transformative power of integrating cattle and other livestock into desert ecosystems. Learn how holistic grazing and regenerative ranching practices can restore soil health, support biodiversity, and bring life back to arid landscapes. This community-focused day offers a unique opportunity to see the land in action, engage in conversation, and discover practical solutions for ecological and cultural resilience.
Day 2 – $125 | For Producers & Land Stewards - September 8, 2025
Hands-On Training in Holistic Grazing PlanningDesigned for ranchers, land managers, and aspiring producers, this hands-on workshop dives deeper into holistic grazing planning in the high desert context. Learn how to assess ecological function, plan adaptive grazing strategies, and apply holistic decision-making on your land. Gain tools to increase forage productivity, drought resilience, and long-term viability.
Whether you're a curious community member or a working land steward, this event offers insight, inspiration, and practical tools to regenerate the land and support thriving rural economies.
Your Presenter(s):
Owen Hablutzel has been working with people and organizations stewarding broad-acre working-landscapes since 2007. Through regenerative ranch/farm design, consulting, workshops/courses and large group-facilitation, Owen’s core work has focused on designing and growing multi-functional agro-ecosystems while improving capacity to manage these systems successfully, at both ranch-property and catchment-landscape scales. His current regenerative venture with partners is Landscape Function Management, at LFMRANCHING.COM.
Gabrielle Kretschmer is an Outreach Coordinator at the Taos County Economic Development Corporation (TCEDC) with a background in environmental science and a focus on restoration ecology. Based in Arroyo Seco, she helps coordinate programs and events that support local farmers, ranchers, and food producers. Gabrielle is especially grateful for the opportunity to learn from those with deep knowledge of the land and regenerative practices.
Abby Warman comes to Taos County Economic Development Corporation after years of working for small organic vegetable farms around the country, including several in and around Taos. She is excited to support food producers with her work at TCEDC by connecting them to resources, funding and educational opportunities. Abby is passionate about increasing access to regeneratively grown local food and working towards a world where all food producers earn a living wage.