Long-time Holistic Management rancher Grady Grissom won the 2017 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award for his work on the Rancho Largo near Walsenburg, Colorado. This 14,000-acre ranch is in mixed short-grass prairie and Grady has been focused on how to improve grazing management to increase ... Read More
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Land Management Training in Paicines, California helps Farmers and Ranchers Create the Life They Want
The Paicines Ranch in California graciously hosted HMI’s series of Whole Farm/Ranch Land Management workshops for those interested in learning how to manage land, people, and money, holistically. Training took place starting in March through April of 2017. The 15 Participants included a diverse ... Read More
A Few Simple Steps to a Cleaner Tomorrow
The health of the environment remains a cause for concern, both here and abroad. But each day, we can make the choice to conserve precious resources, to actually improve water, air, and soil quality. Here are just a few simple ways we can make a difference, for ourselves, for the next generation, ... Read More
Free Ohio Low-Stress Livestock Event
HMI is proud to partner with Greenacres, a holistically managed educational farm near Cincinnati, Ohio through our sponsorship of their free low-stress livestock event on May 25, 2017. Greenacres is hosting well known Animal Behavior Expert and author of Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals ... Read More
Calving in Sync With Nature Pays Off
A recent article on the Alberta Farm Express website chronicles the experience of Holistic Management practitioner Jim Bauer and his journey of changing his calving date to later in the year (May to be exact), so that the calves are born when there is fresh green grass for the mother cows to eat and ... Read More
The Ethics of Land Stewardship–Texas Style
Selah: Water from Stone from Fin & Fur Films on Vimeo. HMI was pleased to learn there is a new short video out that shares the good work of the long-time Holistic Management practitioners of Bamberger Ranch. This journey began almost 50 years ago when David Bamberger, ex-CEO of Church's ... Read More
Holistic Grazing Planning Saves Canadian Farm Family $100,000
A recent article on the Canadian Cattlemen Beef Magazine website highlights the success of the Nerbas family who ranch in the Assiniboine River Valley in Manitoba, Canada. Long-time Holistic Management practitioners, the Nerbas also won the Manitoba Environmental Stewardship Award this year for ... Read More
Animal Agriculture is Regenerative Agriculture
It was disappointing to read in a recent web article at Civil Eats that Marin County supervisors are getting resistance from some factions of the local food advocate groups for allowing local processing facilities. Marin County, California is known as a hotbed of local and organic foods, so I was ... Read More
