HMI is excited to announce our two newest board members, Delane Atcitty and Brian Wehlburg. Delane lives at the Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico. He is the Executive Director for the Indian Nations Conservation Alliance. He earned a M.S. in Ranch Management and Agribusiness from the King Ranch ... Read More
HMI 2019 Annual Report
Dear HMI Community, 2019 was a year of hard work that helped us build resilience for our organization. In an effort to put as much money towards programs as possible, we decided to sell our building and was able to accomplish that at the end of 2019, having all systems in place for a small rented ... Read More
Acknowledging Emotion as the Way Forward
Guest Blog by Bluesette Campbell, of B-C Ranch near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada and HMI Certified Educator Trainee. There’s no need to describe that the times we are currently living in have transformed the definition of ‘normal’ for everyone of us. For months we have been taking every ... 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
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 Conservancy is working on in ... 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 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 movement/erosion, changes in plant species and numbers of perennials. ... Read More
Learn to Adapt
What's Happening on Our Farm 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. Calving will start mid April and go until ... Read More