Ariel Greenwood is a land and livestock manager and occasional painter. She has farmed and ranched in North Carolina, California, and Montana. With her husband, Sam, she now operates a large leased commercial ranch in northeastern New Mexico.
Listen to their stories below:
A high-tensile fence can be a game-changer for farmers due to its durability and low maintenance upkeep. But when you run a big ranch, you need a lot of fence. In this segment, rancher Ariel Greenwood of Triangle P ranch near Wagon Mound, New Mexico, shares how an Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) grant helped fund a fencing project that was better for her cows, as well as the surrounding wildlife.
The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and it offers financial support for farmers and ranchers who commit to ecosystem-friendly practices in their operations over time. In this segment, rancher Ariel Greenwood drives out onto leased rangelands in northeastern New Mexico, where she does ongoing rangeland monitoring as a part of the program.
In this segment, rancher Ariel Greenwood shows us an innovative project to keep water on the landscape longer: one-rock dams. Many rocks wide (but only one-rock high, hence the name), the construction of these dams was funded by an Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) grant, a valuable resource to farmers and ranchers like Greenwood.