TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, OKLAHOMA
Think Big, Take Small Guided Steps and Implement the Regenerative Ag Future You Want!
RAMP up your practice in 2024!
APPLICATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
Overview
This mentor program has been designed by HMI for individuals or businesses ready to implement and ramp up their practice of regenerative agriculture. Participants will expand their Holistic Management knowledge and be required to take action in a guided, step-by-step process over one year. We will work together to increase confidence, effectiveness, and performance. An HMI Certified Educator guides the progress and provides the tools and support to achieve RESULTS.
We know that change can be intimidating, but we can help you REDUCE THE RISK and REAP THE REWARDS. In this newly revised format of the 2022 RAMP program, it is time to put theory and discussion into practice as you solidify skills and become more purposeful.
Who Should Join
- Individuals who want to get things done.
- Farmers or ranchers who are dedicated to improving profit, land health, productivity, and their family’s quality of life.
- Participants who wish to be part of a regional peer group of facilitated meetings that will help harness the power of teamwork to optimize members’ progress.
Benefits
At the end of the program, you will have
- developed practical skills,
- gained access to and used useful toolkits for building and running your regenerative ag business,
- improved your knowledge and understanding of regenerative ag principles and practices,
- developed a personal road map for the next steps in your regenerative ag journey, and
- built relationships with a cohort of peers to support you as continue your regen ag journey into the future.
Key Focus Areas
This program will offer you the opportunity to implement skills that will assist participants with:
- improved profitability
- improved land health
- improved productivity
- benefit the family quality of life
Please take note that there will be activities prescribed during the year that RAMP members will be required to complete between meetings and report on.
Bonuses
- Free subscription to HMI’s IN PRACTICE journal featuring innovative agricultural producers
- 50% discount for HMI Interactive Online Courses for continuing education (Grazing Planning, Financial Planning, and Cropping Planning)
- The opportunity to become an HMI Learning Site to promote your farm or ranch
Limited space is available and dependent on enough interest in a local area. If you would like to be considered to be part of a mentor group and click here to complete your application. Don’t forget to share this with others who might be interested!
ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING AND SUCCESS WITH RAMP!
Schedule and Process
An average of 2 hours per week can change the trajectory of your ranch or farm! New schedule coming soon!
Cost
| Pay in Full Option | $1850 | Due at registration |
| Payment Plan Option | $2000 | Due in installments shown below |
| Deposit | $600 | Due at registration |
| Quarter 2 | $470 | Depends on program |
| Quarter 3 | $470 | Depends on program |
| Quarter 4 | $460 | Depends on program |
Learn more about scholarships here. HMI stands behind our training programs. If you participate fully in this program by attending all sessions and if you are not completely satisfied within 10 days of program completion, we will refund your registration fees.
Money-Back Guarantee
HMI stands behind our training programs. If you participate fully in this training program by attending all sessions and completing all assignments satisfactorily, and if you are not completely satisfied within 10 days of program completion, we will refund your registration fees.
Inquiries and FAQ
For inquiries, please contact Marie at [email protected].
“This has been great for us. We have really enjoyed the bond we have felt with all the members and also with you all as leadership. I really feel it will help move more operations from theory to the reality of getting positive change started.“
“It is certainly rare to find people that care enough to spend time to visit, especially people that can be candid and really care. It is really good to have a group of folks to visit with and look towards the future to try to make everything better for everybody.”
“I’m not sure where else you would find a group of people concerned about helping each other, concerned about everyone doing well, finding goals, taking care of family, taking care of the land, and being profitable. Most agricultural people find themselves on their own, so this is an outstanding opportunity to seek support and strive for the future.“
“We liked the inquiry process and think the action plans are pivotal. It’s one thing to develop an action plan and a completely different animal to accomplish and complete them.“
Thank you to our Funders
Scholarship funding support comes from the L&L Nippert Charitable Foundation.
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.
