Holistic Management Fundamentals

What is Holistic Management?

“Manage the relationships between land, grazing

animals, and water in ways that mimic nature”

HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL

What is Holistic
Benefits
Management?
• Enhanced profits and livelihoods Holistic Management is a
•M  ore productive rangeland or whole farm planning system
cropland that helps farmers, ranchers and land You can use livestock to improve the health
• More biologically active soils stewards better manage
of land and increase profit
•R  emoval of existing carbon dioxide agricultural resources in order to reap
from the atmosphere sustainable environmental, economic, Practitioners learn to monitor their
• L ess new carbon dioxide and social benefits. This “triple bottom progress, and when necessary adjust
production line” of benefits can be achieved by their plans to achieve the desired goal.
• Reduced costs maximizing the management of The cornerstones of managing
• Increased carrying capacity current resources. Whether land is used holistically are: financial planning,
• Maximum benefit from rainfall for ranching, food production or public grazing planning, land planning, and
• Reversal of desertification land conservation, it can be returned biological monitoring.
• Protection from drought to health and/or its productivity greatly
• Improved wildlife habitat increased without large infusions of cash, We can Teach You
• Better food security equipment or technology. Over 40 million Holistic Management International,
• Improved economic viability for acres of land worldwide currently benefit (HMI) has been teaching Holistic
organics production from Holistic Management practices. Management to agricultural producers
• Clean water and land stewards for over 25 years.
• Healthier environment We’re the experts and with the help
• Stronger family relationships What do Holistic Management
of our Holistic Management Certified
Practitioners do?
Educators, we’ve taught over 10.000
Holistic Management practitioners are
producers and pastoralists how to
trained to look at the “whole” of their
manage land sustainably for
operation and understand the relationship
generations to come.
between finances, land and the people
who work the land. They set Holistic
Visit our website or give us a call to
Goals which include defining resources,
find workshops, publications, and other
desired outcomes and the processes
resources to get you started today.
and systems needed to achieve those
outcomes. But it doesn’t stop there.
 Holistic Management Delivers
Dramatic Results

BEFORE & AFTER

Practicing Holistic Management

Make a Healthy Profit with Financial Design the Ideal Property Plan with
Planning Land Planning
• Plan for and produce a profit • Design infrastructure and land The photo to the left is taken at Big Bluff
• Determine what enterprises to run development to reduce input costs and Ranch in Tehama County, California before
• Know what to spend money on increase profit Holistic Managment practices were in place.
and when • Design a land plan that provides good The photo to the right was taken four
• Determine best investment strategies years later. The lush riparian area hosts in-
return on investment
creased species of fish, wildlife, and birds with
for business growth and resource • Integrate financial planning and improved plant health and diversity.
productivity production planning to determine the
order and timing of infrastructure
Increase Land and Animal Health & development
Productivity with Grazing Planning About HMI
• Simultaneously maximize stocking Assess Land Health & Productivity HMI is an Albuquerque-based international
rate and improve land health and with Biological Monitoring non-profit organization. Our mission is
productivity • Apply simple and effective monitoring to educate people to manage land for a
• Use livestock to improve the health of techniques sustainable future.
land and increase profit • Cultivate an awareness of the four
• Coordinate three primary land ecosystem processes We believe people count, healthy land is
management tools (rest, grazing, • Predict changes and trends on the land essential, and money matters.
animal impact) to grow more pasture so you can respond to them effectively We accomplish our mission by delivering
• M aximize the harvest of sunlight by • Monitor plant growth rates, water and a variety of programs and services
managing stocking rate, time, stock mineral cycle effectiveness, unfavorable designed to educate and support
density and herd effect use patterns farmers, ranchers and land stewards
• M ake the best plan for the season •Monitor the land’s performance along in their efforts to enhance the land
ahead to reduce your stress with animal performance through Holistic Management®, a whole
• Analyze what you see on the ground ranch/farm planning system.
• Learn criteria to monitor that will give the
earliest warnings of adverse change

Create land sustainability for generations to come Contact us to see

how we can help you
on your land

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