Does it feel like you don’t have enough time, money, or energy to make your farm or ranch a fulfilling business? We’ll provide you with the integrated management tools that help you work with nature to develop a profitable business, reduce your stress, and increase land health and productivity.
Interactive Online Classes
Learn from anywhere in a live classroom with like-minded peers while receiving personal feedback from our instructors. Live classes are also recorded for later viewing. These courses are great options for those who enjoy learning in groups. Scholarships are available.
Holistic Business & Marketing Planning
Sept 7 – Oct 19, 2023
This course steps you through the basics of using the Holistic Management decision-making framework to guide your marketing and business planning. You will have the opportunity to develop your business model and explore marketing options so that you can more effectively create your marketing and business plan outlines. You will also identify key action steps to begin implementation of those plans as part of the strategic development of your farm or ranch.
Holistic Financial Planning
Oct 17 – Nov 21, 2023
Learn how to work on your business, not just in your business. This step-by-step financial planning approach will help you understand the big picture view, plan for profit, control costs, and make critical production decisions based on a clear analysis of your different enterprises. You will develop a financial plan for improved financial decisions on both annual budgets and long-term investments. This course is six weeks long and you should plan on about 2 – 4 hours each week to participate in the webinars and complete the assignments.
Holistic Grazing Planning
Jan 23 – Mar 5, 2024
In this course, you will learn the key grazing planning principles and practices for improving land health and productivity. You will learn the steps to this simple approach to grazing planning so that you can better analyze and address critical grazing considerations, as well as determine forage inventory, animal needs, and grazing and recovery periods. Once you have clarity about these parameters you will learn how to develop and communicate to others a written grazing plan. This course is six weeks long and you should plan on about 2 – 4 hours each week to participate in the webinars and complete the assignments.
Holistic Management® Foundation
Jan 10 – Feb 21, 2024
Learn how to more effectively manage your farm or ranch for the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial sustainability). Improve your ability to observe and understand relationships on your operation. Make decisions and monitor results to avoid unintended consequences and reach your goals more quickly with fewer resources.
Holistic Cropping Planning
January 2024 dates coming soon!
If you are excited about Regenerative Agriculture and raise crops, HMI’s Holistic Cropping Planning Course will give you the tools to grow healthy crops, healthy soil, and healthy profits.In this course you will learn how to effectively manage your cropland and cropping practices to increase soil fertility and resilience as well as increase production and profitability from your cropping practices. Learn how to complete crop production planning all in the context of regenerative and conservation agriculture.
1-on-1 Learning
A full 1-on-1 technical assistance program in Holistic Management with a Certified Educator. We help you address your most pressing business management issues as outlined in the module you select. Courses can be purchased individually or as a discounted package. Scholarships are available.
Holistic Management® Foundation
Learn how to more effectively manage your farm or ranch for the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial sustainability). Improve your ability to observe and understand relationships on your operation. Make decisions and monitor results to avoid unintended consequences and reach your goals more quickly with fewer resources.
Financial Planning*
Learn how to work on your business, not just in your business. This step-by-step financial planning approach will help you understand the big picture view, plan for profit, control costs, and make critical production decisions based on a clear analysis of your different enterprises. You will develop a financial plan for improved financial decisions on both annual budgets and long-term investments.
Grazing Planning*
Learn the key grazing planning principles and practices for improving land and soil health and animal productivity. Understand the relationships between forage and livestock, how to better monitor livestock health, and how to address critical grazing considerations. Learn how to determine available forage, monitor livestock health, and create a step-by-step grazing plan that allows sufficient range recovery and promotes long-term productivity.
Cropping Planning
Learn how to effectively manage your cropland to increase soil fertility and resilience as well as increase profitability. Learn the latest regenerative cropping practices and a step-by-step planning process to improve crop health and production in the context of regenerative and conservation agriculture.
Marketing / Business Planning
Learn key business model and planning concepts while exploring pricing, marketing channels, opportunities, and challenges. Create your own business plan while determining viable markets for your farm or ranch.
Biological Monitoring
Develop skills to “read the land” so you can evaluate ecosystem health on a daily basis and better understand the impact of your land and livestock management practices. Learn simple monitoring techniques to annually measure changes over time and determine which monitoring techniques will give you the information to increase productivity and build long-term biodiversity and resilience.
Land Planning
Develop a land plan that optimizes your farm or ranch infrastructure to fit your environment and supports your long-term production plans. Analyze strengths and weaknesses of your current infrastructure, and prioritize implementation of infrastructure changes for financial payback.
*FSA approved in several USA states.
REGENERATE 2023
Microbes * Markets * Climate
Each year, the Quivira Coalition, Holistic Management International, and the American Grassfed Association collaborate to convene ranchers, farmers, conservationists, land managers, scientists, and thought leaders to share knowledge, build community, and create a culture of resilience and regeneration.
Join us this year to explore regenerative agriculture at every scale — from microbial soil communities, to social relationships and markets, to our changing climate, and everything in between. Learn more here.
FREE Webinar: October 2023 Lunchtime Learning Series COMING SOON!
Workshops & Field Days
Our workshops are pack-filled days with boots-on-the-ground learning at Holistically Managed farms and ranches. Come learn together with like-minded peers, ask questions, and make connections.
Guardian Dogs, Small Ruminants, and Profitability: A Holistic Perspective
2-Day Workshop
October 5-6, 2023
Graze the Prairie, Winfield, Kansas
One of the biggest challenges to livestock farming or ranching is protecting your animals from predators. Here’s your chance to learn how to use livestock guardian dogs with sheep or other small ruminants! Bill Costanzo, Livestock Guardian Dog Research Specialist II at Texas A&M, will bring his years of experience and research to our 2-day workshop. We’ll discuss how to protect your livestock, the benefits of multispecies grazing, practical insights into raising animals on small acreages, animal and land monitoring, parasite control, animal nutrition, and so much more. We’ll also enjoy special locally-sourced lunches by “Chef to the Music” Gerard Rodriguez.
Small Scale Success in Regenerative Agriculture Field Day (Vegetable Production & Creating a Holistic Goal)
October 11, 2023
Taos, New Mexico
Join Certified Educator Christine Martin in a field day focused on the intersection of soil health, human health and financial health! This event is tailored towards small producers. Besides learning the basics of Holistic Cropping Planning, participants will create a Holistic Goal and experiment with testing decisions for improved management and social, environmental and financial success!
Ranching to Improve Land Resiliency & Increase Profits
2-Day Workshop
October 17-18, 2023
Brett Gray Ranch, Eastern Colorado
This two-day workshop will be filled with interactive sessions facilitated by HMI Certified Educator and Executive Director Wayne Knight and real-life examples and learnings of experienced and successful Colorado rancher, Louis Martin.
Ranching for Resilience: Linking Management Practices to Soil and Rangeland Health
Oct 21, 2023
Award-Winning Leo Ranch of Decatur, Texas
- Learn observation skills to recognize the impact that management practices have on soil and land health.
- Observe first-hand the differences between continuous (set stock) grazing versus Holistic planned grazing on the land.
- Participate in hands-on practical activities to help you realize better resiliency for your ranch!
Leaving a Lasting Legacy – How to Transfer Farm/Ranch Management & Assets Successfully
Half-Day Workshop
Nov 1, 2023
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This half day workshop, led by Holistic Management Certified Educator Kelly Sidoryk, will explore the strategies to build a transition plan that is tailored to your own unique operation and family. You will also hear from guest speakers and co-facilitators about their experience with succession planning and management and asset transfer challenges. We will examine the initial steps of the succession planning process; creating a shared vision; communication and decision making; roles and responsibilities; important members of the succession planning team; contingency plans and intergenerational dialogue. You will have access to an online resource library of succession planning materials and templates to support you after this workshop. Whether taking the first steps or continuing the path of transferring to the next generation, this workshop will be valuable to all families in business.
Certified Educator Training Program
Join our community of professional HMI Certified Educators and be a force for regenerative agriculture in the world! Graduates of our 1-on-1 learning courses have the opportunity to apply for our Certified Educator Training Program.
Not Sure Where to Start?
We will work with you on the best path forward for your farm or ranch operation. Complete our Holistic Help form for a free 30-minute phone consultation. No pressure, no strings attached!
Training with Results
- Participants who are motivated to change management practices after training: 89%
- A majority of trainees increased net profit an average of 39%
- Participants who had increased forage: 59%
- Participants who had improved herd health: 71%
- Increased water infiltration by as much as 800%
- Increased organic matter from 1% to 6%
- Participants who extended their grazing season: 59%
Scholarship funding support comes from the L&L Nippert Charitable Foundation.
Adelene is a native 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 executive director for a scholarship program and as a member of the student affairs committee. Adelene is devoted to creating educational opportunities that align with HMI’s mission to promote healthy, resilient lands and thriving communities.
