Thanks for visiting my website. I'm Ariel. I grew up in North Carolina and began farming at 16. In college, I studied agroecology and psychology while working with community gardens and private farms.
I managed livestock in Northern California for 4 1/2 years and since 2018 I’ve been working in the intermountain west with Triangle P Cattle Company and as co-owner of Grass Nomads LLC, a land and livestock management company with my husband Sam Ryerson. We manage large groups of cattle on big landscapes. I also serve as founding board member & treasurer for Contra Viento Journal, an art & literature journal about rangelands, and served on the board of Holistic Management International.
For the past five years my work has been rotational; in the summers I managed yearlings in Montana and the rest of my time cows in northeastern New Mexico. Beginning in 2023 my husband and are staying put in New Mexico… for now!
I can be reached at ariel dot e dot greenwood at gmail dot com.
Written Work
As a rancher, I feed people while caring for the land. So why wasn’t I feeding myself? : The Counter
A Celebration of Creative Complexity : Minding Nature
The Hard Soft Skills of Regenerative Ranching : Center for Humans and Nature
"Eat Less Meat" Ignores the Role of Animals in the Ecosystem : Civil Eats
Transhumance: A Revival of Grassland Culture : Fibershed
Podcasts
Diet Doctor with Ty Beal and Ariel Greenwood - September 2022
Doomer Optimism episode 70 with Jonathan Gay and Ariel Greenwood - August 2022
Ranching Reboot - March 2021
The Ethos of a Grass Nomad - Working Cows Podcast - March 2020
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate podcast for Quivira Coalition
Eco Farm 2017 panel with Doniga Markegard
photo by Kimberley Hasselbrink
Previous speaking engagements
Society for Range Management 75th meeting (Co-facilitator and panelist, Stockmanship Symposium and panelist, Producer Forum Stockmanship Panel) : February, 2022 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Raising Meat: A New Food Economy Summit : April 1, 2019 at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas
The Grassfed Exchange : April 4 - 5, 2019 in Santa Rosa, California
Holistic Management Canada : February 1 - 3, 2019 in Russell, Manitoba
The Northern California Permaculture Convergence : September 21 in Hopland, California
Support Fiber Farmers: Sound the Alarm on Biotech Fabrics : September 17 in Oakland, California
The Society for Range Management conference : February 2018 in Sparks, Nevada
Alternatives in Agriculture, UC Davis : January 2018 in Davis, California
The North American Rewilding Conference : October 2017 in Portland, Oregon
Foundations and the Future symposium : September 2017 in Sebastopol, California
EcoFarm Conference : January 2017 in Pacific Grove, California
Bioneers : October, 2016 in San Rafael, California
SOCAP : September 14, 2016 in San Francisco, California
The Gravenstein Apple Festival : August 14, 2016 Sebastopol California
The Sustainable Enterprise Conference : April 7th, 2016 in Rohnert Park, California. (video)
The Farmer's Guild Fundraiser : September 20th, 2015 in Healdsburg, California
Carbon Farming Tour with Fibershed : September 18th, 2015 in Valley Ford, California
Carbon Farming Tour with Fibershed : May 1st, 2015 in Valley Ford, California
Raleigh City Farm bEARTHday Festival : April 17th 2015 in Raleigh, NC