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Grazing Ambassadors

Connecting Wisconsin farmers with communities to build understanding about the practice and benefits of managed grazing.

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Ambassadors Spread Awareness of Grazing

Grazing Ambassadors teach the public how rotational managed grazing systems work, and what sets them apart from other livestock agricultural practices. Audiences learn that managed grazing supports perennial landscapes, good environmental stewardship, wildlife habitat, animal welfare and human nutrition. Through the Ambassador, they gain insight into Wisconsin’s grazing community’s values, the economics of grass-based farming, and how consumers plan a vital role in advancing this resilient method

Calling Wisconsin Graziers

Grazing Ambassadors are Wisconsin graziers (grass-based farmers) or grazing experts trained to speak broadly on managed grazing and other specific topics of their interest. 

If you have experience grazing or are an expert in the topic of grazing, become a Grazing Ambassador and spread the word about this important practice.

The session lasts roughly 60 minutes, including audience Q & A, but can be shortened or lengthened as needed. 

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Maggie Strebig presenting to the New London FFA

Support for Ambassadors

Ambassadors want to get out there and educate the community, GrassWorks wants to make that as easy as possible. To support Ambassadors, GrassWorks provides the following:

  • A stipend for each presentation delivered
  • Templates for reaching out to hosts
  • A full presentation that Ambassadors can personalize
  • Video walk through of the Grazing Ambassadors presentation from Thelma Heidel Baker
  • Marketing support for presentations

Audiences of All Kinds

A truly diverse range of groups benefit from participating in the this project. Example audiences include: civic groups, natural resource conservationists, prairie enthusiasts, wildlife advocates, food policy councils and consumers.

Through our common need to eat, Ambassadors facilitate conversations between wide ranging groups in order to make the connections between environmental stewardship, animal welfare, human health, economic opportunity and community development.

Craig Meier presenting to audience at Riveredge Nature Center

Past Hosts Include

New London High School (New London)

Twin Creek Cattle Company (Tomahawk)

Olbrich Botanical Gardens (Madison)

UW-Stevens Point Treehaven Walks (Stevens Point)

Coulee Region Chapter of the Sierra Club (La Crosse)

Random Lake Conservation Fair (Random Lake)

UW-Green Bay (Green Bay)

Sustain Jefferson (Johnson’s Creek)

Baraboo Range Preservation Association (Baraboo)

NE Wisconsin Beef Association (Kelly Lake)

Blue Spring Lake Management District (Palmyra)

The Fort Atkinson Club (Fort Atkinson)

Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum (Fond du Lac)

Dodge County UWEX (Jefferson)

Cedarburg Public Library (Cedarburg)

Willy Street Coop (Madison)

Arboretum Co-Housing (Madison)

Riveredge Nature Center (Newburg)

Audubon Society (Waterloo)

Aldo Leopold Foundation (Baraboo)

Jefferson County (Fort Atkinson)

MKE Talks Green-Outpost Natural Foods (Milwaukee)

Norsk Family Farm Day (Lena)

Godman Community Center (Madison)

Treasures of Oz (Port Washington)

Fox Valley Food Camp (Menasha)

Urban Ecology Center (Milwaukee)

Oneida Nation (Seymour)

Green Lands Blue Waters Conference (Decatur)

Southwest Badger RC&D (Waterloo)

WI Bird Conservation (Chippewa Falls)

WI DNR Endangered Resources Tour (Prairie du Sac)

UW-Madison Animal Welfare Judging Team (Jefferson)

UW-Whitewater SAGE (Whitewater)

Madison Area Permaculture Guild (Madison)

Cituzo & Cisheke (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Dwight Foster Public Library (Fort Atkinson)

Lions Club (Shell Lake)

Nandi Dairy Co-op (Kenya)

Women’s Club (Amery)

Alicia Ashman Library (Madison)

Dorothy Carnes County (Fort Atkinson)

St. Lawrence Eager Beavers 4-H Club (Jefferson)

Marathon Co. Farmers Union (Wausau)

Funding for this program is generously provided by the Clif Bar Family Foundation