PT Ranch
500-acre livestock operation in Ione, California, managed by 3rd-generation rancher Molly Taylor uses silvopasture to adapt and expand revenue streams
Molly Taylor walks us through a recently planted, four-part silvopasture system designed to support and integrate the ranch's pastured-raised sheep, pigs, and poultry with olive oil, lavender, honey, and fruit production. The four systems include a fruit orchard, pig fodder bank, olive orchard, and irrigated pasture hedgerows. With an average annual rainfall of 21 inches/year, Taylor discusses how she is approaching planting perennials in a drying landscape.