CHIMACUM — Doniga Markegard, owner of Markegard Family Grass-Fed, will present a free talk on regenerative ranching, tracking and permaculture Saturday after a day that includes a hiking lecture and a book-signing.
The talk will be from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Chimacum Grange, 9572 Rhody Drive.
Although it is free, registration is required at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3510000.
The lecture, “Regenerative Agriculture: Mimicking Nature to Find our Path,” will describe holistic land management as a pathway for large-scale grassland restoration while also raising healthy livestock.
She blends principles of nature and permaculture, saying that “by mimicking patterns found in nature, communities can cultivate food with greater nutrition while providing carbon sequestration and returning biodiversity and abundance to the land,” according to a press release.
Markegard draws from direct experience in stewarding 10,000 acres of rangeland in California.
Markegard and Katy Bowman — both authors — will sign books at Finnriver Farm & Cidery, 124 Center Road, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The farm also will offer cider, local food, bocce ball and a walk around the Finnriver orchard and farm collaborative to learn about organic agriculture, seed-saving, medicinal herbs and salmon restoration.
No registration is required to visit the farm or attend the book signing.
After the lecture at the grange hall, which is about a half-mile from Finnriver Farm & Cidery, free live dancing and music will be offered at the farm until 9 p.m.
The day will begin with a three-hour lecture, Wilderness Moves: Hiking Awareness! Tickets are sold out.
Markegard, who is also a wildlife tracker, Bowman, and a biomechanist, will hike with participants over varied terrain to the Tamanowas Rock Sanctuary and around Anderson Lake State Park.
During the hike, they will discuss adjustments that can increase strength and decrease pain and help hikers be more aware of the land around them as they look for animal tracks, listen for bird language and taste wild plants.
The sponsor is Olympic Peninsula Regenerative Agriculture Alliance.
