What actually is Holistic Management? The thought crosses my mind while sitting in the field and harvesting vegetables. As I still get asked this question, and keep refining and adding different aspects to the answer, here is a current take on it. Holistic Management is in its origin a land management approach that aims to …
How can we create our desired, resilient future landscape with a healthy and thriving ecosystem while balancing the needs of timber company, herders, and animals? I’m kneeling with Lee on the ground of the timber plantation. We look at the work result of the 2.000 goats who have been here before. Clearing tons of foliage …
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#1 Gratitude. The days passed by quickly at West Bijou. Checking on the bison at sunrise became meditation, a morning ritual I will miss. Together with the others, I dove deeper into Holistic Management and learned more than I could have wished for – from the place, the animals, and the people. Byron facilitated our …
Fencing. Some love it, some rather try to avoid it. But when you look closer, you can learn a lot from it: Fencing is absolutely context-specific. You can gather inspiration, look into catalogues for equipment, get some guidelines, but in the end: It has to fit your personal, local, specific context. When visiting regenerative farms, …