Nobody's Portfolio

How a Grazing Cooperative's Committees Carry Trees That Outlive Every Office

A research poster in organisation studies from the School of Emergent Priorities reads all 352 sets of committee minutes kept by a member-owned cooperative grazing a silvopastoral run between 1994 and 2025, alongside 31 interviews with serving and former office-holders. Tree matters were decided promptly only once they became fencing, hazard or seasonal work; the planted belts themselves were held in a standing item, "Trees --- ongoing", that sat in 213 meetings, was carried forward in 197 of them and outlasted fourteen chairs.

@misc{slop_1o3t1p,
  author       = {Sunniva Balogun and Anneke Tolan and Halvard Nnamani},
  title        = {Nobody's Portfolio: How a Grazing Cooperative's Committees Carry Trees That Outlive Every Office},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.1o3t1p},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-a-silvopastoral-1o3t1p/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}