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Holistic Management International Be sure and read the U.S. Interior Secretary's speech at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
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Four centuries ago, half a world away, my ancestors settled near the banks of the Rio Grande River, at a place they called Santa Fe – the City of Holy Faith.
Holistic Management International PBS Video excerpt: One of the best reclamation tools that we have found are the hoofs and the mouths of our domestic animals...The changes have been quite dramatic ...from seeing almost completely bare land, that didn’t have any ground cover before, and now it’s covered almost completely. If we put this into numbers, w...e’re talking about going from five to ten percent groundcover to 80 to 85 percent groundcover.
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Here's a family farm on the front lines of conservation. Using methods like planned grazing management, he's protecting the natural resources he depends upon while at the same time helping to improve the quality of the entire watershed.
American Farmland Trust: Steward of the Land - Winners - 2006www.farmland.org"My dad... came back from World War II glad to be alive, glad to be here on our farm. Dad loved the land. That’s ingrained in me: appreciation for the land. He drove that importance of taking care of the land into me from the time I was old enough to ride with him on the tractor."
Holistic Management International "The Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust’s report shows there is huge potential for all farmers in pastoral agriculture to increase returns through pasture renewal..."
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The release of the Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust commissioned BERL study, “An Economic Analysis of the Value of Pasture”, highlights not just the value of pasture to the New Zealand economy, but the ...
Holistic Management International The First Millimeter: Healing the Earth will be screened at The Santa Fe Film Festival at 10:00 AM on Friday, December 4th. The screening will be at the Santa Fe College Campus at The Screen. Hope to see you there!
Tracy Favre Folks! You ought to come to the Grasslands conference in Reno, Dec 13-16. it will be a chance to hear the newest info about management of private grasslands. HMI will be giving 2 presentations, and there will somewhere around 7 presentations on Holistic Management. Visit www.glci.org for more info.
Tracy Favre There are some great photos of Guy Glosson's low-stress livestock handling workshop on my facebook page.
Holistic Management International Livestock Grazing Works!
Livestock Can Help Rangelands Recover from Fires / September 30, 2009 / News from the USDA Agricultu
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USDA Announces $17 Million in Grants to Train Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
The USDA today announced the award of more than $17 million in grants to 29 institutions to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers and enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of U.S. agriculture. HMI was awarded $639,301.
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ELGIN, Minn, Nov. 3, 2009 - The USDA today announced the award of more than $17 million in grants to 29 institutions to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers and enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of U.S. agriculture.
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An article from The Moderate Voice website, citing some really compelling research from North Dakota State University, Kansas State University and others:
"properly timed cattle grazing can increase vegetation by as much as 45 percent..."
"...perennial pastures used for grazing can decrease soil erosion by 80 percent a...nd markedly improve water quality, Minnesota’s Land Stewardship Project research has found."
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Jonathan Safran Foer (and Michael Pollan) notwithstanding, Nicolette Hahn Niman argues it's factory farming, not meat eating, that wreaks environmental
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A good article on Holistic Planned Grazing, for both beef and dairy cows, featured in Acres Magazine, October 2009. http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints
Kelly Does any of my Holistic Management friends know where a good source for solar well pumps is. We are needing one for stockwater.
Holistic Management International Holistic Management International receives USDA grant!
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Holistic Mgmt. grant to help women farmers
Holistic Management International 'The First Millimeter: Healing the Earth' has been accepted at both The Virginia Film Festival and The Santa Fe Film Festival.
Holistic Management International from Yale Environment 360
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As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use. With agricultural practices already causing ...
