Over 220 people converged on the historic Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, TX for the first annual Texas Hispanic Farmer and Rancher Conference. The conference brought together the Hispanic farming community, agriculture industry individuals and advocates for sustainability. The conference ... Read More
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New Texas HMI Certified Educator
HMI is excited to announce that Deborah Clark from Henrietta, Texas has recently completed four years of training to become an HMI Holistic Management Certified Educator. Deborah and her husband, Emry Birdwell, run a stocker operation of 5,000–7,000 head on the 14,000-acre Birdwell & Clark ... Read More
Texas Grassfed Sustainability Event
Join the Grassfed Sustainability Group for a day full of learning on May 20th at the Montesino Ranch near Wimberley, Texas. Learn how planned grazing can restore soils and increase plant diversity while improving the quality of your grassfed products. Presenters include long-time Holistic Management ... 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
HMI Shares the Value of Holistic Management at Austin College
At the end of February HMI’s Executive Director, Dr. Ann Adams, gave two presentations to students at Austin College. A lunch time presentation on Holistic Management was part of the Environmental Science lecture series at the college. An afternoon presentation on “The Value of Holistic Management” ... Read More
Participants Doubled the Fun at the Texas Reunion
The Texas Reunion was a grand celebration of those who have been practicing Holistic Management for many years and generously sharing their insights. The reunion began Oct. 28, 2016 at The Double T Ranch, with 50 participants, mainly long-time practitioners or Beginning Farmer and Rancher program ... Read More
West Texas Open Gate and Land Reclamation Results
A recent HMI Open Gate Ranch day at the Circle Ranch near Van Horn, Texas in the Chihuahuan high-desert grasslands was attended by 55 participants who wanted to learn about the land reclamation practices of Keyline plowing and Holistic Planned Grazing that have been applied to the ranch and to see ... Read More
New Texas HMI Certified Educator
HMI is excited to announce the certification of a new HMI Certified Educator in Texas, C.D. Pounds. After going through the HMI Beginning Women Farmers program in Texas in 2012, C.D. decided to pursue HMI’s Certified Educator Training Program and recently completed all requirements. C.D. owns ... Read More
