A recent case study about the Johnson family, who own and manage the 25,000-acre Flying Diamond Ranch near Kit Carson, Colorado, shows that good land stewardship pays financial dividends. This case study was written by Kevin Alexander Watt for the TomKat Ranch website. TomKat Ranch is an 1,800 acre ... Read More
HMI 2017 Annual Report
Dear HMI Community, 2017 was another busy year for HMI as we collaborated with over 100 organizations around the globe to deliver 105 days of programming in 13 countries. To provide in-depth training in Holistic Management, we held 13 Open Gates and six Whole Farm/Ranch Business Planning or Land ... Read More
A Conservation Ranching Perspective for Birds and Beef
Guest Blog By Nancy Ranney Land health has been my foremost interest from a childhood on a horse to work in environmental planning to assuming the management of our family ranch in New Mexico in 2002. I was initially intrigued by the Audubon Conservation Ranching Program for its dual potential to ... Read More
Kansas Rancher uses Holistic Management for Fire Recovery
Our friends at PastureMap, recently shared an interview with Brian Alexander. Brian manages the 7,000 acre Alexander Ranch in South Central Kansas, using holistic planned grazing. In 2016, their operation was completely burned in the Anderson Creek Wildfires. Brian had almost 4,000 pounds of ... Read More
HMI Collaborates on $5 Million Conservation Initiative
The Hill Country Conservancy (HCC) and 18 of its partners, including a new collaborative group called the Texas Hill Country Conservation Network (the Network), recently received a $5.15 million pledge from the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), part of the USDA’s Natural Resources ... Read More
Increasing Farm Profit by 85%
HMI Beginning Farmer Program Makes a Difference— Guest Blog By C.D. Pounds The 2013-14 Beginning Women Farmer program in Texas was the beginning of an empowering journey for myself and my family. I was excited to find that HMI was a community of like-minded folks from all over the world. When ... Read More
Greenacres Regenerative Agriculture Scholarship Fund
HMI is excited to announce that we recently received funding from the Greenacres Foundation for the Greenacres Regenerative Agriculture Scholarship Fund. This fund provides scholarships to young and beginning farmers and ranchers or those producers transitioning to regenerative agricultural ... Read More
Can We Scale Holistic Grazing Practices?
A recent article on the GreenBiz website titled "Can McDonald's Solve Climate Change?" references the $4.5 million that McDonald's has provided for the research and education project developed by Peter Byck of "Carbon Cowboys" fame. In 2014 Byck created a short video focusing on the innovative ... Read More
