This engaging and hands-on workshop aims to provide participants with practical skills in regenerative grazing and sustainable drought planning. The goal is to enhance profitability, improve quality of life, and foster thriving landscapes through quick, easy, and accurate forage assessments.
What You’ll Learn:
- Regenerative Grazing Techniques: Innovative grazing strategies that promote soil health, increase biodiversity, and improve livestock productivity.
- Forage Assessment: Methods for quick and accurate assessment of forage availability and quality to ensure optimal grazing practices.
- Drought Planning: Effective drought mitigation plans that sustain both profitability and the health of the land during challenging conditions.
- Sustainable Profitability: Techniques for balancing economic goals with environmental stewardship for long-term success.
- Improving Quality of Life: Understanding how regenerative practices can reduce stress, enhance lifestyle, and build a resilient agricultural community.
- Creating Thriving Landscapes: Insights into practices that contribute to robust ecosystems, promoting a harmonious relationship between agriculture and nature.
Whether you are a seasoned farmer, a rancher, or new to the concept of regenerative agriculture, this workshop offers valuable insights and practical knowledge to help you achieve sustainable success. Join us to enhance your skills, improve your land, and contribute to a thriving future for all.
Speakers:
Linda Pechin-Long, Owner/Operator at Graze the Prairie, HMI Certified Educator
Linda Pechin-Long is an HMI Certified Educator with extensive experience in ranching, particularly in raising cattle and sheep. She is a dedicated facilitator, working with individuals across multiple states to promote sustainable grazing practices and holistic management techniques.
Linda will be assisted by Rebekah Napier of Buckeye Ranch.
Registration
$75 – Register soon, as we have limited space available.
Scholarship Deadline: October 22, 2024
Registration Deadline: October 27, 2024
Financial Assistance Available! (If you are in need of financial assistance please apply for a scholarship below.)
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.
