‘Fighting fire with four legs’ is the motto of Shepherdess Land & Livestock Co., a contract grazing services company based in Upper Ojai, using goats and sheep for sustainable vegetation management. They use comprehensive land stewardship practices, and holistic prescribed grazing methods for fire fuel load reduction, invasive species management, and ecosystem health enhancement.
Shepherdess Land & Livestock Co. is a woman-owned business, run by lead Shepherdess, Cole Bush. She is also the owner-operator of Shepherdess Holistic Hides, working with byproducts from the meat industry to produce luxury home goods. Prior to charting her own path, Bush ran large-scale prescribed grazing programs in the Bay Area for Star Creek Land Stewards (SCLS), a premier contract grazing operation in Los Banos, CA. Clients there included private landowners, public agencies such as CalTrans, PG&E, East Bay Regional Parks District, Santa Clara and San Mateo Parks & Recreation, and a number of land trusts throughout the greater Bay Area, CA.
Local clients include Besant Hill School at Happy Valley, Ventura Resource Conservation District, Ojai Valley Fire Safe Council.
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