Guest Blog by Bluesette Campbell, of B-C Ranch near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada and HMI Certified Educator Trainee. Don, Bluesette, and Mark Campbell of B-C Ranch There’s no need to describe that the times we are currently living in have transformed the definition of ‘normal’ for ... Read More
New HMI Director of Strategic Initiatives
HMI is excited to announce our new Director of Strategic Initiatives, Wayne Knight. Wayne is an internationally-recognized rancher from South Africa as well as a Holistic Management Certified Educator and consultant since 2006. He also served on HMI’s Board of Directors from 2013-2019. In 2013 ... Read More
Collaborative Range Management is for the Birds
PC: Bird Conservancy of the Rockies In a blog post on the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies website Angela Dwyer, asked the question "What if it were possible to have your conservation cake and eat it too?" She is referring to a Collaborative Adaptive Range Management (CARM) project that the Bird ... Read More
Turning Liabilities into Opportunities with COVID-19
**Scholarships Available** There is no doubt these are challenging and uncertain times. Many producers are concerned that the slim margins they have struggled with for years will grow even more challenging with closed markets, closed meat processing plants, and challenging weather. A recent ... Read More
Holistic Soil Health Champions
Guest Blog by Christina Allday-Bondy Soil Health Workshop Photo Credit: Isabelle Jenniches One of the unifying themes of Holistic Management is care for the soil. In biological monitoring we check (among other things) the percent bare ground, evidence of animals, hints of soil ... Read More
Learn to Adapt
What's Happening on Our Farm Lydia Carpenter & Wian Prinsloo A guest blog from Lydia Carpenter at Luna Field Farm in Belmont, Manitoba and HMI Holistic Management® Certified Educator in Training Wian moved some of the young cows up to the yard to sort them for spring calving. ... Read More
Australian Holistic Management® Restoration Story
Kachana Station, March 2020 Long-time Holistic Management practitioners Chris and Jacqueline Henngeler, from Kachana Station in the Northern Territory of Australia, recently shared their Holistic Management journey in a blog titled "Natural Capitalism and an Economy Driven by Sunshine". This ... Read More
A Holistic Response to a Crisis Like COVID19
On a “normal” day people make hundreds of decisions. Because they are “routine” decisions, we don’t really think about them. They are part of our daily “policies and procedures.” It may be that we stop for a cup of coffee at a certain coffee shop or we stop at the gym in the evening. In the ... Read More
