OUR IMPACT
FIGURE ATE x WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST
Every Bite Funds This.
Figure Ate is a food brand — and it's also a funding engine for something bigger — White Buffalo Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that's been demonstrating and teaching regenerative agriculture since 2018. When you buy biltong or persimmon vinegar, you're buying into a food system built to regenerate the soil, train the next generation of farmers, and bring real food into the marketplace.
100%
of Figure Ate proceeds fund nonprofit regenerative work.
Every dollar you spend on biltong or persimmon vinegar funds on-the-ground nonprofit work by White Buffalo Land Trust to implement, study and expand regenerative agriculture. Our team focuses on land stewardship, farmer training, ecological research— turning what we learn into a food system built to last.
FOUR PILLARS. ONE SYSTEM.
White Buffalo Land Trust focuses on four things, each one reinforcing the others. Land informs training. Training improves land. Research validates both. And what grows on that land reaches the marketplace through brands like Figure Ate, supporting fellow regenerative ranches and letting customers fund the work with every purchase.
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Jalama Canyon Ranch is a 1,000-acre working Center for Regenerative Agriculture on the Central California coast. WBLT uses it as both a living laboratory and a demonstration site, practicing cover cropping, riparian restoration, and holistic land management in real time. The results show up in the diversity of wildlife, the health of the watershed, and the quality of what grows here.
Decisions made here get evaluated against ecological outcomes, refined, and taught to the farmers and ranchers who come through our training programs.
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How do you know if the land is actually getting healthier? You measure it.
At Jalama Canyon Ranch, we treat the land like a science classroom. We test the soil, count the wildlife, and track the water — year after year — to see what's really working. That way, we're not just guessing. We know.
We also open the ranch up to scientists. Universities send researchers to JCR to run their own studies and learn alongside us.
What we learn here spreads far beyond our fences. Farmers, scientists, brands, and policymakers all use what we find to grow food in ways that are better for the land.
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The biggest barrier to regenerative agriculture is awareness and knowledge. WBLT closes that gap with a set of programs that range from 10-day intensives for working ranchers to community field days where anyone can walk the land and see regenerative systems in action.
Field Days bring the community onto the ranch for guided walks, and an Artist in Residence program invites creative work inspired by the land. For working farmers, we provide immersive courses and hands-on workshops built around holistic land planning, adaptive grazing, plant propagation, and mushroom cultivation — all geared toward understanding your land base and applying practices that create better outcomes for soil, water, biodiversity, and human health.
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Regenerative agriculture will only scale if it makes sense economically. WBLT builds pathways in the market for regeneratively raised products: our own food brand, partnerships with aligned producers, and collaborations that bring this kind of food to more people.
When the marketplace priortizes foods from regenerative agriculture, land stewardship gets funded. Figure Ate is that mechanism.
Rangelands Restoration
Native perennial grass cover has doubled.
Rotational grazing followed by intentional rest periods gave plants with deep permanent roots the room to come back — roots that build soil and hold water year-round.
2,500 feet of streams — restored.
JCR's headwater streams were eroded and dry. By slowing water down and letting it sink back into the ground rather than run off the land, WBLT has jump-started nature's own healing, restoring more than 2,500 feet of streams on the ranch — with another 2,500 feet already underway.
30,000 more gallons of water held per acre.
We've seen a 2% increase in soil organic matter, adding roughly 30,000 gallons of water-holding capacity per acre in the vineyard. More water is sinking into the ground. Less is running off the land.
Join Us In Changing How We Eat
The easiest way to support the mission of White Buffalo Land Trust is to stock your pantry with food that funds it. Grab biltong for the trail, vinegar for the kitchen, or a bundle for someone who deserves to know where their food comes from.
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