(Registration Required)
October 8 & 9, 2024 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM CST
(join us for one or both days!)
Dixon Leo Ranch, 5190 County Road 398, Decatur, TX 76234
Click here for a map or here for directions.
Instructed by Casey Wade, Wayne Knight, and Jake McNamara
Take your farm, ranch, or land conservation efforts to the next level with this comprehensive training on Holistic Land Planning at the Dixon Water Foundation. Whether you’re looking to optimize an existing operation or are starting a new venture, this training offers the practical tools and insights you need to make it happen.
Effective land planning is the foundation of successful management, ensuring that every dollar spent on infrastructure—whether it’s water storage, reticulation systems, fencing, etc.—delivers maximum value. Infrastructure is costly, but when it’s tailored to your management style, considers animal behavior, and allows for flexibility, it becomes a powerful tool for driving your operation forward.
In this training, you’ll gain essential skills in planning and establishing infrastructure, from watering points to fencing, all aimed at moving you toward your long-term vision. You’ll learn how a well-considered process and thoughtful land planning are integral to your success.
Join Casey Wade, Wayne Knight, and Jake McNamara at the Dixon Water Foundation as we work through a practical case study on land planning that will give you the tools to go home and start planning!
About Dixon Water Foundation and the Leo Ranch
The Dixon Water Foundation promotes healthy watersheds through sustainable land management to ensure that future generations have the water resources they need. The Dixon Water Foundation Leo Ranch bottomlands were previously farmed and provide an excellent demonstration site for the restoration of farmland to prairie. It is also home to the Betty and Clint Josey Pavilion, a site for educational events and meetings that is the first Living Building in Texas. Dixon ranches have been honored with a Lone Star Land Steward Award and a Texas Environmental Excellence Award for Agriculture and the 2017 Leopold Conservation Award. Dixon is also an Audubon Conservation Ranch.
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Registration
Registration for this two-day workshop is FREE! But registration IS required so we can get an accurate count for our lunch caterers. Thank you!
You can register for one or both days!
Registration Deadline: October 1, 2024
Presenters
Casey Wade – President & CEO, Dixon Water Foundation
Casey is the Vice-President of Ranching Operations with the Dixon Water Foundation and manages the Foundation’s North Texas and West Texas ranches. He is a graduate of Hardin Simmons University and has spent most of his career managing hunting and wildlife operations as well as livestock ranches. Casey believes it is our job to carefully study the land and wildlife, in order to work with, rather than against, these systems. In this way, people and livestock can be part of the solution instead of contributing to the problem.
Wayne Knight – Holistic Management International Executive Director, HMI Certified Educator, and Rancher
With 27 years of ranching experience using Holistic Management, Wayne has had an identity crisis. When he joined the 11,000-acre family ranching business he called himself a cattle rancher. He changed to calling himself a grass farmer. Later still, he called himself a soil-microbe farmer, though he has always marketed beef. Privileged to work with his father, Tom Knight, who was an early adopter of Holistic Management under Allan Savory – Stan Parsons consulting, Wayne enthusiastically increased and intensified the practices HMI teaches. He became a Certified Educator in 2006 and was actively involved with the Southern African CE community organization, Community Dynamics. He has spoken at numerous conferences in Southern Africa, trained and mentored farmers, hosted open days on his property, and written about his positive results using Holistic Management.
Before joining the team at HMI Wayne served as a board member of the organization for 8 years. Through his enthusiasm for Holistic Management Wayne has traveled widely visiting farmers who practice high-density, long recovery grazing practices in Southern Africa, Australia, and the US. As a young graduate with a Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Natal, South Africa, he traveled across the US west working on ranches in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, California, and New Mexico. When not involved in Holistic Management you will find him fishing, birding, hiking, or exploring wild spaces and places with his family. An enthusiastic traveler, hunter, and photographer, he loves discovering new places and making new friends.
Jake McNamara – North Texas Ranch Manager, Dixon Water Foundation
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Adelene is a resident of Arkansas and loves exploring the state’s natural trails. Her passion for education and technology led her to earn a master’s in learning systems technology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. With her professional experience managing student/client databases and instructional design, Adelene will bring skill and understanding to her role as Office Manager & Instructional Designer at HMI. Her focus on making education more accessible to diverse communities is evident through her volunteer work as an board member for a scholarship program. Adelene is devoted to creating educational opportunities that align with HMI’s mission to promote healthy, resilient lands and thriving communities.
Seth Wilner has been a Holistic Management International Certified Educator since 2005. For 22 years he has worked as an agent educator with University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension where he specializes in farm business management with an emphasis on whole farm planning.
Dana was first introduced to Holistic Management in the 1990s while working in the Texas Hill Country. She strongly believes that Holistic Management can positively impact families that are on the land, the communities they are a part of, and larger landscape resource regeneration efforts.
Sarah Robertson grew up in Taos, New Mexico and has always been passionate about land stewardship, growing things, and nurturing others. After completing a BA in Communication from the University of New Mexico and working with local non-profits, she started her journey as a first-generation farmer. Since 2015, she has been learning and growing alongside her husband on various leased properties in Albuquerque, NM and running a small market farm with goats, chickens, and a CSA. In her role as Programs Assistant at HMI, Sarah brings her enthusiasm for regenerative agriculture, devotion to supporting others, and drive for lifelong learning and growing.
Jozua Lambrecht is from South Africa and divides his time between their home in Somerset West and their family farm in Sutherland, one of the coldest places in South Africa, where they farm with sheep. He is married to his wife Therese and they have two daughters.
Alejandro Carrillo is a fourth-generation rancher, and he is quite familiar with the challenges of running a profitable cattle ranch in the Chihuahuan desert. Because annual precipitation seldom exceeds nine inches, every drop counts when it comes to growing more grasses. Grazing year-round with only sea salt as an input, he is not willing to waste any water in such a brittle environment.
Jared L Talley was born and raised in Southwestern Idaho and now seeks to help rural communities adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Service at Boise State University, earning his PhD in Philosophy from Michigan State University and his MPA in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management from Boise State University. An environmental philosopher by training and an interdisciplinary scholar in practice, he seeks to better understand how communities relate to the land and how this relationship poses obstacles and opportunities for collaboration and governance. In doing so, he studies the role of science in collaborative policy, the role of place in environmental identity, and the role of the imagination in mediating both. Specifically, he studies grazing management and public land permitting, community-led conservation programs, rural education and entrepreneurship, place-based environmental governance, and the imaginative experience of our natural and built environments — all in the contexts of the intermountain American West.
