In this nutshell talk, Jesse Smith discusses the Watershed Restoration Program at the White Buffalo Land Trust - a nonprofit land trust in Santa Barbara County, California. Jesse is the Director of Land Stewardship at White Buffalo Land Trust, where part of his work includes guiding the development of the Jalama Canyon Ranch, a 1,000-acre ranch that the Land Trust is stewarding and restoring.

In this nutshell talk, Alaina Ring provides a high-level overview of herbalism basics, including information on how to harvest, dry, process, and market herbs in California. She highlights key species and their medicinal applications, discusses value-added processing best practices, and provides an overview of the regulatory landscape for herbal products in the U.S. Alaina is a research fellow with the USDA National Agroforestry Center where she addresses plant production c