Meet Jo Robinson

Jo Robinson, an investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling writer, is the author of the book, Pasture Perfect, and the principal researcher and writer for the eatwild.com web site. Jo has spent the last nine years researching the many benefits of raising animals on pasture. Her interest grew out of a previous book, The Omega Diet, co-authored with Dr. Artemis Simopoulos, that explores the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. While researching the book, Jo learned that meat from pasture-raised animals is very similar to meat from wild game and that both promote optimal health.

Starting with this insight, she began an exhaustive search of the scientific literature from the 1960s to the present. To date, she has identified hundreds of peer-reviewed studies showing that raising animals on pasture is good for the animals, the environment, farm families, and the health of consumers. She gives talks to ranchers, government agencies, sustainable agricultural groups, and the general public around the country. Jo has been interviewed by scores of journalists and reporters about the benefits of raising animals on pasture.

Jo's book, When Your Body Gets the Blues, extended her interest in natural health to human psychology. Working with Dr. Marie-Annette Brown from the University of Washington, she developed a clinically proven, all-natural program that boosts women's mood and energy level and tames their appetite. (The book was featured in an hour-long special on PBS throughout the summer of 2003.)

Jo's Talks & Presentations

Following is a list of Jo's past talks and presentations. Unfortunately, work on her upcoming book prevents her from giving workshops and lectures until the Fall of 2011.

• "From Soil to Oil,"Politics of Food Conference,North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2008
• "GRAZING AMERICA TEXAS, Building a Bridge Between the Farm and the Table."
  4th Annual American Grassfed Association Conference, Austin, Texas, November, 2007
• Municipal Arts Center, sponsored by Sustainable Table and the Glynwood Center, New York City, 2006
• “Go Grass, the Hudson Valley’s Obvious—and Most Overlooked—Opportunity," sponsored by the Glynwood Center. http://www.glynwood.org/, Cold Spring, New York, 2006  
• The University of Montana-Western's Fourth Annual Ag Conference and Expo, 2005
• The Stockman Grass Farmer’s Purple Cow West: A Marketing Conference on Living
      Rural While Selling Urban, Sacramento, CA, 2005.
• Northwest Highland Cattle Association Spring Meeting, Maple K Farms, Washington, 2005
• Why Grassfed is Best, Nanaimo Forage Seminar, keynote speaker, Canada, 2004
• Ranching in Nature’s Image, Plenary Session, Quivera Coalition, New Mexico, 2004
• American Grassfed Association, Kansas, 2004
• Colorado Holistic Management, Colorado, 2004
• 25th Anniversary OEFFA Conference, Plenary Session, Ohio, 2004
• GrazeFest, Plenary Session, Alabama, 2004
• Fall Farm Workshop, keynote speaker, Stanwood, Washington, 2004
• The Missouri Forage and Grassland Council, 2004 Annual Conference, keynote
    speaker, Missouri, 2004
• The Salmon Summit on Sustainable Fisheries. Bellingham, Washington, 2004
• The Quivira Coalition: Ranching at the Crossroads, New Mexico, Banquet Speaker, 2003
• Farming for the Future, PASA, Pennsylvania, Plenary Session, 2003
• Stockman GrassFarmer’ Second Annual Conference, Georgia, 2001
• WSU Grassfarmer’s Cooperative, Spokane, WA, 2001
• Safe Farms, Safe Food, Safe Futures, New York, 2001
• Island Grown Farmers Cooperative, Washington, 2001
• Where’s the Grassfed Beef?, New York, 2001
• Nebraska Sustainable Agricultural Society, Nebraska, 2001
• Beyond Business as Usual, PASA, Pennsylvania, 2001
• Granger Field Day, Washington, Keynote Speaker, 2000
• 5th Annual Mealani Forage Field Day, Hawaii, Keynote Speaker, 2000
• Grasstravaganza 2000, New York, Keynote Speaker
• Association of Pastured Poultry Producers, New York, 2000
• The Stockman Grassfarmer Conference, Texas, Plenary Speaker, 1999