Elizabeth Robinette
Beth Robinette is a fourth-generation rancher, facilitator, and educator based at Lazy R Ranch in the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington. She raises grass-fed beef while working at the intersection of regenerative agriculture, social justice, and community resilience. Beth is a certified Holistic Management educator, co-founder of the worker-farmer cooperative LINC Foods, and a facilitator with UVE. Her work focuses on helping land stewards and organizations navigate the complex relationship between ecological restoration, equity, belonging, and long-term stewardship. Through facilitation, education, and land-based practice, she explores how regenerative agriculture can move beyond soil health alone to cultivate more just, resilient, and inclusive human communities alongside thriving landscapes.
Plenary Panel
Repairing More than Soil: Multigenerational Producers Reckoning with Hard Histories
Multigenerational producers inherit valuable knowledge, land, and social capital within their communities. This inheritance of heritage is also often laden with complicated histories of the farm’s past not always talked about or engaged with, yet deeply interconnected to the goals of holistic management and regenerative agriculture. This session tackles this uncomfortable yet urgent complexity head on through talks by producers and engaged researchers who are working directly in their operations to reckon with their farms’ place in histories of settler colonial dispossession, enslavement, and inequitable land access. Stacie Marshall from Mountain Mama Farms in Georgia, Beth Robinette from the Lazy R Ranch in Washington, and anthropologist Sydney Giacalone from the University of Virginia will lead this session to ask: how does regenerative agriculture call farmers to take on both ecological and social repair upon these storied lands?