Bringing ReGen Home

Holistic management is about managing complexity.

“HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION-MAKING – ROOTED IN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES – AND WITH A SUITE OF PLANNING PROCEDURES THAT INCLUDE PLANNED GRAZING, LAND PLANNING, FINANCIAL PLANNING, AND ECOLOGICAL MONITORING.”

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At Taurio, our mission is to help family farmers regenerate Mother Earth — and we’re starting from the ground up. For Jo, this mission truly hits home. As a long-time climate enthusiast and Southwest Wisconsin native, Jo grew up in a rural farming and dairy community seeing the hard work farmers put into our food every day. Year after year, she also saw how the land degradation made an already laborious job more and more challenging. Knowing that small things make big things happen, she decided that first and foremost, we must help these land stewards heal their land with confidence and effortless ease.

But how?

As a ferocious learner and graduate student in Carbon Management at Colorado State University, the method became clear — a transition to regenerative agriculture and holistic management.

With experts like Savory Institute at the helm, she realized our combined superpowers could lend a hand in helping farmers truly succeed in their journey. We’d focus first on grassroots data collection by creating an effortless method of continuous ecological monitoring to help farmers optimize their planned grazing. That way, we can help farmers fine-tune their grazing plans and recovery times to improve forage quality and quantity, sequester more carbon and catch leading indicators of degeneration early to act quickly in remedying them. So we enlisted some of the best in the biz to help us design an intuitive application that puts the farmer first and captures the wisdom they already observe in the field each day. And what better way to field test our own creation, than to roll up our sleeves, don our Muck Boots and learn by doing it ourselves.

Enter Taurio Farms at GiGis!

If the complexities of nature and farming aren’t challenging enough, her family farm, a nearly 8 acre plot owned by Jo’s fearless grandma GiGi, is located over 1,000 miles away back in her hometown in WI. Nonetheless, Jo set to work on a plan to help her family transition away from conventional grazing and toward a path of regeneration.

Though early in our journey, she enrolled in Savory’s Holistic Management Courses and enlisted the help of our close friends at the Robinia Institute, a Mid-Atlantic Savory Institute Hub, to assist in planning our first ever grazing season. There is still much to learn, but with the help of close family and friends, we hope to be testing the Taurio application in the field in an upcoming season!

Stay tuned!