Climate Beneficial™ Fiber Pool Ranches
Creating soil health, one fiber at-a-time.
The Climate Beneficial™ Fiber Pool Ranches
Growing healthy soil—its what we do.
Through implementing their Carbon Farming Plans, these ranchers
will be responsible for sequestering, at minimum,
an additional 13,000 metric tons of atmospheric Carbon per year—
the equivalent of removing 2,900 gas powered vehicles from the road.
This is the amount of carbon they are drawing down from the atmosphere and into their soils beyond ‘business as usual’ scenarios.
Bare Ranch, Warner Mountains, California — The Bare Ranch is a historic ranch in Northern California that has been raising beef cattle since the 1880s. The Estill Family purchased the ranch in 2003 and brought Rambouillet sheep to the ranch. It is now a diversified livestock operation and the Estill's raise cattle and sheep. The sheep are run in the old Basque Tradition of trailing in the range following the fresh feed. The result is grass fed lamb and a nice fine wool clip each year.
Carbon feeds all soil biology—microbes and fungi and earthworms underground. Climate Beneficial™ ranchers consider carbon as their fertilizer, as it’s what drives a healthy system.
Kaos Sheep Outfit, Lake County, California — Operated by the dynamic Irwin Family, who owns a prescribed grazing company serving Mendocino, Lake, and Colusa Counties in Northern California. By using Australian Corriedale sheep in such surprising places as vineyards, pear and nut orchards, and even on golf courses and for homeowners’ associations, the Irwins are able to run a sustainable business that focuses on the mutually beneficial relationship between plants and animals. They replace fossil-fuel driven mowers with the digestive tract of a sheep, thereby reducing pollution while at the same time fertilizing the land, increasing carbon sequestration, and producing meat and wool for the benefit and betterment of our lives. Kaos employs seven people, the majority are shepherds.
McCormack Ranch — The McCormack Ranch began in 1896 when Dan McCormack and his brother Tom settled in the Montezuma Hills of Northern California. They came from New Brunswick, Canada to join other family members who had settled in the area to farm and raise livestock. The ranch now operated by Dan’s granddaughter and her husband, is managed in the same way but with more attention to breeding and sheep healthy. We have medium to fine wool that is shorn in the spring.
Instead of relying on synthetic chemistry and tilling the soil, our ranchers enrich the earth with compost and rotate a diverse array of cover crops through the fields each season. Sheep trample the ground and return the nutrients back into the soil.
Our Fibershed Climate Beneficial™ ranching community continues to expand due to the scaffolding that the Carbon Farm Plans provide.
Sustainable, regenerative practices become more achievable with financial & directional support.
Emigh Ranch — Emigh Livestock was founded in 1877 when the Emigh family first settled in the hills near Rio Vista, California. Farming and raising sheep for nearly 100 years before Richard Emigh (3rd generation) formed a formal business in 1977. We raise a fine fiber flock and employ over 20 people in Northern California.