WELCOME TO THE LSLM 2013 GRAZING SEASON!

Whether you'd like to rent a goat or a flock of sheep, we're interested in hearing about your project! Whether grazing for fire control or habitat restoration, our animals can meet your needs. Our service extends through-out the San Francisco Greater Bay Area. 

Thank you to all our dedicated clients for coming back to Living Systems year after year!  And for those of you new to grazing service, we still have some space in our 2013 season - browse our site and contact us. We'd love to hear about your project!

Living Systems has distinguished itself for its innovative approach to land management and through a commitment to community and environment.  We are an environmentally and socially responsible business that approaches land management holistically.  Our work in the area of fire mitigation focuses on ecological fuel management in Wildland / Urban Interface areas.  In addition, we facilitate habitat restoration in riparian and other biologically sensitive areas and vegetation management of noxious and invasive weeds, including yellow star thistle, cape ivy, poison hemlock, and French & Scotch Broom.

Goats and grazing animals have been used for countless years as land management tools and are a popular alternative to the conventions of mowing, disking, and burning.  Managed Grazing takes into account multiple levels of ecology and environment including: vegetation types, soil types, watershed functions, plant recovery mechanisms, nutrient flow and energy cycling.  All can be managed, monitored and improved with proper management procedures.

      “California Indians practiced resource management at four levels of biological organization:

the organism, the population, the plant community, and the landscape. 

They used resource management techniques at each of these levels, or scales,

to promote the persistence of individual plants,  plant populations, animal populations,

plant associations, and habitat relationships in many different vegetation types in California.” 

- from M. Kat Anderson's Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge

and the Management of California's Natural Resources