ABOUT STACY
Stacy Pulice, Ph.D. is a regenerative farmer in Santa Barbara, CA with an extensive background in psychology and education research. Having spent over 20 years advocating for a more humanistic approach to education systems, she’s since shifted her focus towards healing the land, healing our humanity, and healing society.
Stacy’s work explores the parallel factors that contribute to a thriving community whether in the soil, in our souls, or in our civic systems. She finds that greater diversity, good communication, resource sharing and strong connections, all make for happier plants, people, and planet. Recognizing and encouraging nature’s ecosystems can create a thriving soil, healthy food system, physical wellbeing, and even help to reverse climate change.
It is her firm belief that all healing begins as an inside job, which starts with listening to our inner voice, cultivating a sense of balance in all aspects of our lives, and practicing kindness. To achieve collective thriving, each of us must learn to follow nature’s patterns, and to give back more than we take. These are the fundamental themes for her podcast, Regenerative Mindset, which features inspiring conversations with a broad range of experts who reveal how we too may create the kinds of healthy ecosystems that support a better future.
Among numerous other projects, Stacy is the founder of Wisdom of the Fool, a 501C3 aiming to nurture the physical and emotional wholeness of educators and students. She is the educational consultant on the board of AHA!, a non-profit providing social and emotional learning programs for at-risk teens. Stacy’s published book, Listen to the Children, shows how children thrive when educated from a life- and soul-affirming perspective. She also speaks at climate advocacy events, including Lotusland’s Sustainability Symposiums, and a recent Planetary Call to Action for Climate Change Resilience event held in partnership with Pope Francis, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Ramanathan of Scripps Institute at UC San Diego.
REGENERATIVE • MINDSET •
REGENERATIVE • MINDSET •
PODCAST
I interview some of my personal heroes and essential teachers from a diverse range of fields – agriculture, spirituality, public policy, and beyond. All of these experts have inspired me with their regenerative approaches to their lives and work, and I’m excited to learn from them, with you.
My goal is to create a place where it’s safe for all of us to explore and experiment, to make mistakes, and to ask new questions. Let’s get curious together and cultivate the regenerative mindset that’s so essential to our individual and collective healing.
ON THE REGENERATIVE MINDSET PODCAST
PROJECTS
ELLWOOD CANYON RANCH
Farmer + Owner-Operator
My husband Ron and I live full-time at this 300-acre avocado ranch and citrus farm, located west of Santa Barbara in the rolling hills just before the Gaviota coastline.
We’re focused on introducing a wide range of regenerative farming practices that I see as integrally aligned with the spiritual practices of Taoism, focused on values of simplicity, patience, and compassion. So far, we’ve planted cover crops and interspersed our avocados with pomegranate trees to increase biodiversity; introduced sheep that we rotationally graze, moving them around the farm to mimic wild patterns of migration; started cultivating a worm farm; and more.
GREENLAB AT SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL
Sponsor + Co-Creator
Functioning as an outdoor classroom, this decades-old garden helps teach small-scale food production, biodynamic soil enhancement, and nutrition to the school and greater Santa Barbara community.
WISDOM OF THE FOOL
Founder
I created this 501C3 with the aim to nurture the physical and emotional wholeness of educators and students, encouraging innovative practices to cultivate a collective passion for lifelong learning. We work in collaboration with local schools like Santa Barbara High School’s Multimedia Art & Design (MAD) Academy.