Scholarships Provide More Training in Regenerative Agriculture
We are all part of the solution for healthy land, healthy food, and healthy lives. We are dedicated to providing the best quality training programs to farmers and ranchers interested in learning Holistic Management. While we keep our course fees as low as possible, we know some folks need a little more financial support to help them get started on the path to regenerative farming and ranching.
HMI has received funding from the L&L Nippert Charitable Foundation which provides scholarships to young and beginning farmers and ranchers or those producers transitioning to regenerative agricultural practices for in-depth Holistic Management training.
Meet Some of our Scholarship Recipients
“I love HMI’s graphic planning tools. Also, I found a great group of people! People from all over the country who are at different stages of development. Now I know more people going through the same process! It’s great to know that I have people to talk to when I am want support or advice. I am already helping a couple friends with their operations, sharing this process and creating a little community around these principles. Thank you so much Julie and HMI!” – Nick Livermont, South Dakota, USA
“I work as a specialist in integrated international development and climate change adaptation in the rural highlands of Central America. My team works to bring innovative solutions to pressing problems of watershed degradation, food insecurity, poverty, and crop loss related to a combination of human and climate factors. Our integrated approach includes necessary elements of generating adequate income and viable agricultural production; improving management of environmental resources; respecting local culture and participatory voice; and ensuring human well-being indices. We have determined that holistic practices have great potential application for five key problem areas related to water, soil, terrain, agriculture, and forest management in fragile, stressed environments. The course helped me learn vocabulary useful for talking to others about improving practices. The basics will be used to 1) generate a small demonstration plot showing the ability to optimize use of very small spaces; 2) design pilot projects in each of the five areas identified, among the first of their kind on all of Central America; 3) further my own studies into economic valuation of soils and biodiversity in community decision-making, and 4) we hope, start the process for bringing a research and practice hub formally to Guatemala to serve Central America.” – Rachael Shenyo, Guatemala
“Knowledge is power and changes lives. Thanks to your scholarship I was able to take this course. Would like you all to know, you are indirectly impacting communities, improving lives, creating a better world and ultimately saving our planet.” – Jude Tatabod, Massachusetts, USA
“Walking through the comprehensive introduction course with Craig was completely eye opening. I thought that I had a good base when considering the big picture of Holistic Management. However, there was so much practical application passed on through this course that I realized that I had quite a few pieces missing when it came to putting it into practice. I’d recommend the comprehensive intro course to any prospective educators as Julie and team are top notch!” – Michael Come, Texas, USA
“This training has helped to reinvigorate our Holistic Management practices, and enabled us to check in and see where we’re at—as a family and as a business. We redid our holistic context (goal). This is something that always helps. Even if Holistic Management practitioners have read the books and done the courses, it’s always helpful to revisit these.
“I am a big fan of HMI courses; they have really helped us and our business. We like to go through and relearn/review everything, in order to really, truly be living the life we want to live, according to our values. I recommend this to any farmer/rancher. Even if they learned Holistic Management 30 years ago, it’s helpful to every once in a while do a review. We are always changing, and there is always more to learn.” – Doniga Markegard, California, USA
HMI’s Scholarships
The scholarship fund we raise is for training farmers and ranchers currently practicing Holistic Management or who plan to do so in the near future.
Scholarships are both need-based and merit-based and may be full or partial funding. By offering scholarships, we hope to achieve greater diversity in the community we serve (age, race, sex, geographic location, etc). We are very proud to announce we have scholarships that have been set aside specifically for people of color. We encourage interested applicants to apply. We award approximately $10,000 worth of scholarships to farmers and ranchers each year.
Scholarships can be applied to any of the following HMI training programs:
- Interactive Online Learning Courses
- 1-on-1
- plus more
Application Process
If you would like to be considered for a scholarship, fill out the Scholarship Application Form by the program scholarship deadline. We will let you know whether you are awarded the scholarship the day after the scholarship deadline. Be sure to note which training program you are applying for on the application form. Please be detailed in your answers.
You will receive a confirmation to let you know we received your scholarship application.
If you do not receive the confirmation, please contact us at [email protected].
Preferred Criteria:
- Prior farming and/or ranching experience
- Past leadership experience
- Successful completion of a previous training or educational program
- Some previous knowledge of Holistic Management
- Willingness and ability to share what you have learned with others in your community
HMI Women’s Agricultural Leadership Scholarships
At HMI we believe that the regenerative agriculture movement is an equal opportunity employer because we are all working to create local sustainable food systems that feed our families and communities. Nature has shown that diversity is a critical piece for a healthy functioning environment. The need for more women to take a leadership role on our farms and ranches as well as in our communities has never been greater.
So HMI has made a commitment to support the growth of women’s leadership in the agricultural industry. Whether you are a female farmer/rancher, land owner, or government agency/NGO personnel and you want to increase your knowledge about a holistic approach to regenerative agriculture, we have resources to help you develop your leadership and management skills.
If you want to improve your leadership skills, we encourage you to learn more about how HMI has worked with hundreds of women farmers, ranchers, and agricultural educators to help diversify the regenerative agriculture community. If you need assistance to participate in one of HMI’s programs below, we encourage you to apply for a Women’s Agricultural Leadership Scholarship to attend one of our training programs:
HMI has many female Certified Educators trained to work with female agricultural producers and educators, to facilitate Holistic Management and help grow the new diversified workforce for 21st century agriculture.
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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.
