{"id":1026,"date":"2015-12-13T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/?p=674"},"modified":"2016-11-19T22:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T05:40:35","slug":"the-future-of-agriculture-mark-shepard-to-speak-at-sylvan-dale-ranch-jan-8-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Agriculture:  Mark Shepard to Speak at Sylvan Dale Ranch Jan. 8-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re at all concerned about the food we eat and how we grow it, you\u2019ll want to attend this special <a title=\"Mark Shepard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heartjcenter.org\/restoration-agriculture.html\" target=\"_blank\">workshop with Mark Shepard<\/a>, acclaimed author of <em>Restoration Agriculture<\/em>, on January 8-10 at Sylvan Dale Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is one of the world\u2019s foremost authorities on perennial eco-friendly agriculture.\u00a0 Topics include soil restoration, multi-species grazing and water management, all keys to meet the challenge of sustaining Northern Colorado\u2019s rich agricultural heritage in the face of unrelenting development pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The program includes a site visit to Sylvan Dale\u2019s Big Valley, where Mark will apply his concepts to a real-world project we\u2019re calling \u201cLiving West.\u201d It\u2019s purpose is to establish collaborative enterprises in agriculture, housing and education that contribute to the preservation and rejuvenation of a 500-acre working landscape, sustained by renewable energy, recycled waste, and water conservation.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/the-future-of-agriculture-mark-shepard-to-speak-at-sylvan-dale-ranch-jan-8-10\/image002\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-673 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/media\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"262\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workshop is sponsored by the Heart-J Center for Experiential Learning and Spring Kite Farm.\u00a0 I hope you will join us by <a title=\"Registration\" href=\"https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/eventReg?oeidk=a07ebto90r7943ebe13&amp;oseq=&amp;c=&amp;ch=\" target=\"_blank\">registering<\/a> for this exciting event.\u00a0 For the full schedule, <a title=\"Workshop Schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heartjcenter.org\/restoration-ag-workshop-schedule.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>David Jessup, Sylvan Dale Ranch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re at all concerned about the food we eat and how we grow it, you\u2019ll want to attend this special workshop with Mark Shepard, acclaimed author of Restoration Agriculture, on January 8-10 at Sylvan Dale Ranch. Mark is one of the world\u2019s foremost authorities on perennial eco-friendly agriculture.\u00a0 Topics include soil restoration, multi-species grazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[34,42,45,48,50],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cattle","tag-colorado-agridulture","tag-grass-fed-beef","tag-mark-shepard","tag-restoration-agriculture","tag-spring-kite-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}