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.
Come join us at REGENERATE 2024, where you will engage with ranchers, farmers, conservationists, land managers, scientists, and thought leaders as we come together to share ideas and strengthen our network of innovative thinkers and doers. We look forward to hearing from those who are experimenting and gathering data to share and support conservation, regeneration, and community-building. We invite you to offer your experiences and join in the collective task of creating knowledge and wisdom to build a resilient future. Hosted by Holistic Management International, Quivira Coalition, and American Grassfed Association.
FREE Lunchtime Learning & Special Speaker Series Webinars
Our Lunchtime Learning Series is a FREE monthly webinar series featuring a different Holistic Management practitioner or educator speaking about a topic of their choice. These webinars are a place to learn, discuss, meet, build community, get inspired, connect with old friends, make new friends and ask any questions you may have about the topic presented or any of our upcoming training opportunities!
New Webinars Coming Soon!
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.
Financial Planning*
Nov 5 – Dec 17, 2024
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 Management® Foundation
Jan 7 – Feb 18, 2025
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.
Grazing Planning
Jan 22 – March 5, 2025
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.
Cropping Planning
Jan 30 – March 13, 2025
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.
Business & Marketing Planning
Feb 5 – Mar 19, 2025
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.
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.
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.
Regen Ag School
Sept 30 – Oct 5, 2024
Dixon Water Foundation’s Leo Ranch, Decatur, TX
Don’t miss this rare opportunity at the award-winning Dixon Water Foundation Leo Ranch to gain comprehensive knowledge in Holistic Management® and learn how to practically plan for adaptive grazing to help create more land health and farm/ranch financial success.
This school is for you if you’re interested in farming, ranching, land conservation, or urban agriculture and want to improve your decision-making, profitability, water use, and soil health. Large- and small-scale producers are all invited!
FREE Workshop: Making the Most of Your Ranch with Creative Infrastructure & Regenerative Land Planning
Oct 8 & 9, 2024
Dixon Water Foundation’s Leo Ranch, Decatur, TX
In this training, you’ll gain essential skills in planning and establishing infrastructure, from watering points to fencing, all aimed at moving you toward your long-term vision. You’ll learn how a well-considered process and thoughtful land planning are integral to your success. Whether you’re looking to optimize an existing operation or are starting a new venture, this training offers the practical tools and insights you need to make it happen. Join Casey Wade, Wayne Knight, and Jake McNamara at the Dixon Water Foundation as we work through a practical case study on land planning that will give you the tools to go home and start planning! Register for one or both days!
Seasonal Grazing Strategies: Fall & Winter Planning
Oct 25 – 26, 2024
The Regen Ranch, Oakwood, TX
Join Small Producers Initiative (SPI), Holistic Management International (HMI) & The Regen Ranch in a two-day experiential workshop. This workshop is part-two of a series of Grazing School Workshops led by instructors at SPI, HMI and The Regen Ranch. It will continue to explore practicing holistic and regenerative management practices to build soil health and agro-ecosystem resilience! Let’s maximize winter grazing & minimize feed costs!
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
• Developing a fall/winter grazing plan using The Regen Ranch as a case study
• Conducting forage assessments to determine available feed
• Calculating animal feed requirements and forage allocation strategies
• Planning for winter grazing without purchasing supplemental hay
GAIN PRACTICAL SKILLS TO:
• Assess your land’s forage potential
• Match animal needs with available resources
• Reduce winter feeding costs through strategic planning
Thriving People, Lands & Livestock: Hands-On Regenerative Grazing & Drought-Proof Profitability (in conjunction with the 2024 REGENERATE Conference)
Nov 6, 2024 9:00AM-12:00PM MDT
CSU Spur Campus, Denver, CO
This engaging and hands-on workshop aims to provide participants with practical skills in regenerative grazing and sustainable drought planning. The goal is to enhance profitability, improve quality of life, and foster thriving landscapes through quick, easy, and accurate forage assessments.
Prioritizing YOUR Next Steps – Holistic Succession/Transfer Planning
(in conjunction with the 2024 REGENERATE Conference)
Nov 6, 2024 1:00PM-5:00PM MDT
CSU Spur Campus, Denver, CO
Join us for a half-day workshop led by Holistic Management Certified Educator Kelly Sidoryk, designed to help you craft a tailored transition plan for your unique operation and family. In this interactive session, you’ll learn strategies to build a comprehensive succession plan, working in small groups to develop communication and decision-making skills necessary for a successful transition.
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 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.
