On May 31, 2019 twenty-five people gathered at Full Heart Farm in Ledyard Connecticut to learn about regenerative agriculture. Participants, a majority of whom were young women farmers, received an introduction to a number of topics including: holistic financial planning, improving decision making, ... Read More
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Healthy Soils Help Cities Deal with Floods
A recent article on the Union for Concerned Scientists website, titled "How Healthier Soils Help Farms and Communities Downstream Deal with Floods and Droughts," was particularly timely given the recent hurricane damage that much of the southeast faced in late August and early September. It is no ... Read More
Soil Carbon Increases by over 130%
A recent blog on the Beef Magazine website highlights the research by Dr. Richard Teague of Texas A&M Agrilife and Dr. Allen Williams. Teague's research in Texas compares the soil health and function of heavily conventionally grazed, lightly conventionally grazed, and adaptive multi-paddock ... 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
Canadian Holistic Management Practitioner in the News
A recent article on the Manitoba Cooperator site was about sixth generation farmer, Harry Stoddart, who spoke at Manitoba Conservation District Association’s 40th annual conference about how practicing Holistic Management was such a good move for his farm. “From my perspective, Holistic ... Read More
HMI Open Gate at Cornelsen Ranch in Oklahoma
After a large thunderstorm drenched Major County, Oklahoma the evening before, Saturday morning October 5th dawned with an overcast sky and a cold north wind. Even so, approximately 40 hardy land managers arrived at Cornelsen Ranch to learn about holistic grazing planning and ... Read More