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Shape Something Wild: Sculpting with the Land
Experience a hands-on sculpting workshop at Jalama Canyon Ranch and discover how patterns in the natural world become sculptural form.
Sunday, June 14 | 10am-2pm | Jalama Canyon Ranch
Join our Artist-in-Residence Kim Radochia for an artist talk and walk through the landscape, then bring what you see to life through hands-on making using materials from the ranch. No experience necessary.
Cost: Sliding scale of $75-$125
The day begins with a guided walk with Kim to observe the textures, forms, and rhythms that shape the natural world. This exploration is followed by a sculpture-making session using natural materials gathered from the ranch alongside a variety of casting techniques.
Participants will contribute to a collaborative sculptural piece and create an individual work to take home. A seasonal farm-to-table lunch will be shared as part of the experience.
This workshop is an invitation to slow down, engage your senses, and explore making as a way of connecting more deeply with the land.
About the Artist
Kim Radochia
2026 Spring Artist-in-Residence
Kim Radochia creation’s capture movement and energy to immerse viewers in the moment. Her intense process of making, exploring materials and connecting to place has led to inventive, vibrant artworks that convey fragility and strength.
“During this residency, I will explore and create in relationship with the land, deepening connection to place and community. My work is guided by li, an ancient Chinese concept centered on patterns in nature across every scale, which informs my approach to form and creative process.”
— Kim Radochia
Highlights of Radochia’s career include an invitation from the Cape Ann Museum to create a community sculpture for the opening of their Sculpture Green in 2021, titled Heart in the Haystack. In 2016 she installed A.B., a kinetic stainless steel sculpture based on molecular structures on the grounds of Cell Signaling Technology, a bioscience company in Beverly, MA. Radochia was featured in Art New England magazine in 2011 as one of three sculptors to watch in David Raymond’s article Setting the Pace. In 2010 Radochia won an open competition and was commissioned to create an atrium sculpture at Appleton Mills in Lowell, MA.
Workshop Details
Duration: 10:00 AM–2:00 PM
Format: The day includes light walking on uneven ground and collaborative sculpting sessions (transportation assistance is available).
Refreshments: A farm-to-table, seasonal lunch will be enjoyed as part of the day.
FOR INQUIRIES & QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT OUR PROGRAMS TEAM AT PROGRAMS@WHITEBUFFALOLANDTRUST.ORG
Music of the Living Landscape
We’re excited to invite you to a one-of-a-kind, immersive concert at Jalama Canyon Ranch, where the landscape itself becomes the instrument. This intimate, progressive experience unfolds across the ranch through three live performances by our Spring 2026 Artist-in-Residence, Nathan Sherwood Liang, accompanied by orchestral musicians and paired with seasonal bites by Barbareño and curated wines by Sandhi.
Reading the Land: Monitoring Soil, Water, and Biodiversity
This two-day immersive course equips land stewards, ranchers, conservation professionals, and agricultural practitioners with practical ecological monitoring tools that inform real-world decision-making. Grounded in our living laboratory at Jalama Canyon Ranch, participants will move between classroom learning and field-based practice to build confidence in measuring soil health, vegetation dynamics, water function, and biodiversity.
Working with Water: Applied Watershed Restoration for Resilient Landscapes
This two-day, immersive workshop is for land stewards, conservation and restoration professionals, students, and community members to learn low-tech, process-based restoration practices that slow water, reduce erosion, and restore ecological function.
Regional Resilience: Advancing Land Stewardship Through Prescribed Grazing
This 10-day immersive experience is designed for someone who wants to learn the whole of Holistic Management in one session. This unique framework builds your understanding of the whole you are working within and guides you in developing a context appropriate pathway to management for ecological, economic, and community health. There will be a mixture of inside course and individual work time, as well as outdoor, hands-on experience.
Holistic Management Intensive - March 2024
This 10-day immersive experience is designed for someone who wants to learn the whole of Holistic Management in one session. This unique framework builds your understanding of the whole you are working within and guides you in developing a context appropriate pathway to management for ecological, economic, and community health. There will be a mixture of inside course and individual work time, as well as outdoor, hands-on experience.
Ecological Outcome Verification™ (EOV™) Course
Ecological Outcome Verification Training Course with Jackie Eshelman of UVE
April 12-16, 2023 | The Center for Regenerative Agriculture at Jalama Canyon Ranch, CA
THIS COURSE IS PART OF THE ACCREDITATION REQUIREMENTS FOR BECOMING AN EOV MONITOR AS PART OF THE SAVORY INSTITUTE.
Join us for this 5-day training at the beautiful Jalama Canyon Ranch on monitoring ecological outcomes as part of the EOV platform through the Savory Institute and become an accredited monitor. Monitors are in high demand across the US!
Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) is the “science inside” Savory Institute’s Land to Market program. Land to Market (L2M) is a unique sourcing solution that connects conscientious buyers, brands and retailers directly to farms and ranches that are verified to be regenerating their land. EOV is the protocol used to verify farms and ranches so that they are eligible for the L2M program.
DETAILS
Cost: $1,500 USD (Includes 3 locally sourced, delicious meals a day, instruction, and materials)
Upon registration, a non-refundable deposit of $500 will be collected to secure your spot in the course.
Lodging: Tent and car camping is available onsite for $25/night, and shared cabin stays are available on site for $75/night. The shared cabin stays are on a first-come, first-serve basis. If onsite cabins fill up, we do have a partner with offsite cabins that can be reserved for a different cost per night.
The Course
This course will cover:
Creating a monitoring plan
Conducting short-term monitoring
Establishing and reading long-term monitoring
Plant ID and recording
Photo documentation
Data entry and report writing.
In the past year, there have been significant updates and improvements to the monitoring protocol that create a more robust body of data. Some of the changes include a random, stratified soil sampling methodology. These changes have also shifted planning procedures and the number of monitoring sites per land base. Whether you have had some monitor training in the past or you are new to the EOV monitoring protocol, anyone who is interested in providing EOV monitoring services must take an accredited EOV monitor training course.
Finalizing Your Accreditation
After the 5-day training, and in order to become an accredited EOV monitor, you will need to assist in the installation of 2 additional baseline monitoring events, enter the data and photos into the EOV platform, and create reports for the land stewards. There will be plenty of opportunities to install baseline EOV with the instructor in various places across California, Oregon, and Washington. For those that are interested in taking that step, we will organize the schedule during the training event.
This 1:1 Field Training is a separate cost from the EOV training course and can be taken care of directly through the instructor and the UVE Savory hub. The Cost for this is $450 and you will be invoiced by UVE for this.
Facilitators
Lead Facilitator:
Jackie Eshelman is a Savory Accredited Educator, EOV™ Hub Verifier, and EOV Program Lead at UVE Hub in Northern California. Jackie became an Accredited Professional Educator with the Savory Institute in 2019. Through her work in EOV, she finds herself in the privileged position of traveling the western US visiting with farmers and ranchers, monitoring a vast range of landscapes and ecoregions. Relationship, empathy, and care are at the core of her work. Jackie strives to meet land stewards where they are, in any stage of their regenerative journey, to work together to make holistic management decisions at the soil surface.
Support Facilitator:
Jesse Smith is the Director of Land Stewardship of White Buffalo Land Trust and is guiding the development of the flagship farm, as well as working with the team, contractors, and partners to grow the land under our management, and the impact in our community. Jesse brings years of experience in landscape design and basemap development, as well as visual communications design.
FOR INQUIRIES & QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT OUR PROGRAMS TEAM AT PROGRAMS@WHITEBUFFALOLANDTRUST.ORG
Holistic Management Intensive - January 2023
This 10-day immersive experience is designed for someone who wants to learn the whole of Holistic Management in one session. This unique framework builds your understanding of the whole you are working within and guides you in developing a context appropriate pathway to management for ecological, economic, and community health. There will be a mixture of inside course and individual work time, as well as outdoor, hands-on experience.