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Holistic Management Courses, Mudgee NSW

Locality: Mudgee, New South Wales

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25.01.2022 There's quite a lot in this article but here are a few paragraphs that resonated with me. 'A single spinach leaf has over 800 different species of bacteria that it gets from the soil and the environment' ...once in our intestines, these microbes can fortify the human gut microbiome." "'Mineral deficiency is estimated to afflict more than a third of humanity, causing health problems in both developed and developing countries...[and] are essential for hundreds of critical enz...yme reactions, and inadequate levels have been implicated in a wide range of maladies.' These include cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, anemia, increased risk of infection, and depression." "The biology at play isn’t entirely understood, but studies have shown that people who live and work in farming and rural communities, where they have regular contact with dirt and the microbes it contains are more resistant to allergies and asthma..." https://www.agriculture.com//soil-health-means-better-huma

23.01.2022 "The question is with the many crises we are facing today, are we finally ready for new ideas that will create better outcomes, drastically reduce failure and conflict and bring greater success to our lives and work." - Allan Savory

23.01.2022 "It’s not enough to sustain the current degraded state of our ecosystems; we really need to build resilience back into them." Steve Rosenzweig, soil scientist This very thoughtful piece is sponsored by General Mills Foods which is interesting. Large food manufacturers getting behind regenerative agriculture suggests that mainstream acceptance is growing and when that happens there is hope for all of us and the planet.... The piece is also worth reading just for the great graphics. https://www.theguardian.com//regenerative-agriculture-revi

21.01.2022 Great 3 minute video explaining how overgrazing affects root depth and its follow on effects by the wonderful Dr Christine Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch

20.01.2022 If you think you're doing it tough, check out this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch

20.01.2022 Informative and wide ranging article on the blind alley of industrialised agriculture and fake meat. Yes, it's another American article and I know we don't have quite the same issues in Australia, however, substitute waters of the Great Barrier Reef for America's Rivers. https://johnroulac.medium.com/making-americas-rivers-blue-a

19.01.2022 Another great movie courtesey of the Carbon8 Film Festival - the highly acclaimed, The Real Dirt on Farmer John.

19.01.2022 An interesting conversation with rangeland ecologist Richard Teague, PhD, analyzing the role that adaptive multi-paddock cattle grazing plays in sequestering carbon. https://rodaleinstitute.org//cattle-are-part-of-the-clim/

18.01.2022 One of the most powerful images from the movie, Kiss the Ground - if you haven't seen it yet it's only US$1 from Vimeo on Demand, so go watch it - is this model of carbon dioxide moving around the globe. Firstly, it shows how much CO2 moves but it also shows how mcuh is lost to the atmosphere when the Northern Hemisphere cropping season starts. https://www.nasa.gov//nasa-computer-model-provides-a-new-/

18.01.2022 Yet another example of how everything is connected. Clearing of trees with hollows has reduced numbers of barn owls, a major predator of mice. A great season and the otherwise excellent management practice of no-till/minimum till has led to an explosion of mouse numbers. As John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, said, "When you pull on a thread you find it is connected to the universe." https://www.abc.net.au//could-barn-owls-predict-o/13129214

18.01.2022 "Fake food, suitably green-washed, has friends in high places. "If it hasn’t already, this we’ll tell you what to eat technocratic push will soon impinge on all our lives."

17.01.2022 We've been hearing about this movie for a while but finally - here it is. It is a pity that it's only on Netflix at the moment but the trailer does look great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-V1j-zMZw&feature=emb_logo

16.01.2022 Technical but interesting piece on how soil biology evolves in response to changing conditions. https://www.knowablemagazine.org//climate-changes-so-does-

15.01.2022 One of the many things that holistic managers get excited about is livestock manure. Does it show dung beetle activity is something I always look for but, as this post shows, cowpats can tell you a lot about a cow's health and what it has been eating.

15.01.2022 The more we discover about natural systems the more I am convinced that there are very few true deserts in the world - most deserts are man made. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6519/925.1

15.01.2022 Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture Early in July we extended an invitation to Allan Savory, founder of the Savory Institute and its holistic management initiative, ...to deliver this year's Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture. While it would have been ideal to have Allan deliver it in person at Mulloon Creek, with the current COVID situation we've decided to deliver it as a virtual event. We were delighted to receive Allan's enthusiastic acceptance and his response that he would make the lecture 'truly meaningful for Australia and globally' and 'a game changing talk'. Details about how to book will be released in the next week or so, meanwhile please save the date in your calendar. What: Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture, presented by Allan Savory When: Wednesday 16 September 2020 Time: 7.30 - 8.30pm

14.01.2022 Many Holistic Management practitioners find that once they start planning their grazing, high value native grasses that haven't been seen in the paddock for years start to reappear. While exotic 'improved' pastures have their place, native perennial pastures help build resilience because they've evolved over millions of years in our landscape. As a result Australian Native Grasses are drought tolerant, heat tolerant and respond rapidly to even small rainfall events. North East CMA, a Soils For Life Case Study, have a range of fantastic resources. This video, Considering Native Pastures, provides information on managing native pastures for production and environmental protection. It also provides information on fire as a management tool. To learn more, watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDYHF_FfZLg

14.01.2022 Wonderful interview with James Lovelock, scientist who invented the Gaia theory and like Allan Savory, a critic of reductive science. https://www.theguardian.com//james-lovelock-the-biosphere-

13.01.2022 This exciting initiative from Harris Farm is putting regen ag front and centre. Regenerative Agriculture (a.k.a. Regen), works with nature rather than against it. ‘Regen’ is all about leaving the land better than you found it. Regen is the future: a collection of highly adaptable practices, that when performed together, make for healthier, happy soil, food, humans, farmers and planet.... https://www.harrisfarm.com.au//campa/regenerative-farming

13.01.2022 This free Online Film Festival of Regenerative (Ag) Films starts this Friday. When you click on the link it will say 30 October... don't be deterred, click it anyway and you'll see all the films screening each week starting Friday 2nd. And do consider leaving a donation to thank these wonderful folk for organising such a great line up of flicks.

12.01.2022 Whether you're well along the way of your regenerative agriculture journey, just starting or still yet to start. Today is a day to celebrate agriculture. Happy National Ag Day.

12.01.2022 Cattle are being scapegoated for what fossil fuels are doing. Eliminating beef from our food system is not going to "save the planet" or our health. Visit www.sacredcow.info/book to learn more.

11.01.2022 When it comes to making change, stories are incredibly powerful. Books like these that tell the stories of people on a regenerative agriculture journey are inspirational and a useful learning tool.

10.01.2022 Some interesting observations about cultural burning from someone also familiar with Allan Savory's work.

09.01.2022 Interesting perspective from Dave Pratt, a highly experienced regenerative agriculture educator. He argues that if you're going to make a change, such as move to different calving/lambing time, don't mess around with incremental changes, go all in. I agree with his assertion that the hardest part of change is the transition and that even if the old way is not optimal, it's comfortable. All of that is true. Nevertheless, I believe that a more considered way to make the chang...e would be to: a) run it through the Holistic Management decision matrix; b) if it 'passes' the decision making process go all in with the change for PART of your herd, cropping country etc., what is known as a safe to fail trial; c) monitor your results using the Holistic Management feedback loop - Plan (assume you're wrong) | Monitor | Control | Replan. If this process shows the change is beneficial then go for it! If not, then you've only compromised a portion of your resource base. https://www.youtube.com/watch

08.01.2022 One of the great things about Regenerative Ag is the number of intelligent, energetic women involved in the movement. So to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we're highlighting some of the amazing leaders in the Savory Network around the globe. Happy International Women's Day!

08.01.2022 Thoughtful call to action from Lorraine Gordon. https://www.theland.com.au//the-role-of-grazing-animals-i/

07.01.2022 FrogID Week is Australia’s Biggest Frog Count, held annually for Australians to help record frog calls through the free FrogID app, as a measurement of frog health and distribution around the nation. FrogID Week aims to monitor frog distributions over time, helping us to understand how frogs and their ecosystems are responding to a changing planet. This annual event provides an ‘audio snapshot’ of frogs calling across Australia. To get involved, simply record frogs each day or night during FrogID Week using the FrogID app. Every call counts! For more information visit: www.frogid.net.au/frog-id-week

07.01.2022 Do you want to start your journey in regenerative agriculture? Do you want to start working with nature rather than against it? Do you want to run a livestock operation that builds on both your financial and biological capital?... If answered yes to any of these questions, the next step is to sign up for one of Holistic Mudgee's Holistic Management Practitioner courses commencing in April 2020 at Bathurst and Mudgee. To reserve your place or for more information, email [email protected].

07.01.2022 This is interesting for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it's interesting because it's yet another example of representatives of the industrial farming establishment feeling the need to attack regenerative agriculture. Obviously Regen Ag is making enough of a difference that industrial ag feels the need to attack it. The progression of any out of the box idea goes 1) It's ridiculed; 2) It's attacked; 3) It's accepted as a self-evident truth. Another reason that it's interesting ...is the comment, "Drs Moot and Scott believed the regenerative agriculture system lacked credibility and contained many aspects that were scientifically untenable. "We believe it is our statutory duty as academics to provide some warning about the fallibility of these systems." They supported several aspects of conventional agriculture that were promoted within regenerative agriculture. Practices such as rotational grazing, high-quality leafy-legume-based pastures, direct drilling, overcoming nutrient deficiencies and landscape farming to provide ecosystem services all had a sound scientific basis and were not new. They were already well researched and validated, they said." I don't know enough about New Zealand but my experience in NSW is mixed. I did Certs 2,3,4 and Diploma in Ag at TAFEs in NSW. The TAFE where I did the Certs 2,3 and 4, didn't mentioned paddock rotation, landscape farming etc. at all. It was very, very conventional. At the TAFE where I did my Diploma of Agriculture, there was a lot of talk about the need to retain ground cover, rotatiing stock, feed budgeting, matching stocking rates to carrying capacity etc. This variation between institutions carrys over to what is happening in the field. Just to give two examples, in the Central Tablelands of NSW, I still see too many farms running too many animals, in way too many mobs and keeping livestock in the one spot for way too long. I also see farmers ploughing up hill country with no thought whatsoever to contours, slope etc. So Drs Moot and Scott may say that such and such a method is best practice etc. etc. but it doesn't mean that it is being widely practiced in the real world. https://www.odt.co.nz//experts-call-review-regenerative-fa

06.01.2022 "Planting the rain, before planting the crop." Excellent short video on teaching the principles of permaculture to rural villagers in Uganda. https://www.youtube.com/watch

05.01.2022 Today is World Soil Day and to celebrate I thought it might be worth getting back to basics with this article from Dr Christine Jones - Five Key Principles to Restore Soil Health Soil restoration is the process of improving the structure, microbial life, nutrient density, and overall carbon levels of soil. Many human endeavors conventional farming chief among them have depleted the Earth to the extent that nutrient levels in almost every kind of food have fallen by between 10 and 100 percent in the past 70 years. Soil quality can improve dramatically, though, when farmers and gardeners maintain constant ground cover, increase microbe populations, encourage biological diversity, reduce the use of agricultural chemicals, and avoid tillage. https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com//soil-restoration-5-core/

05.01.2022 Bruce Pascoe's book, Dark Emu, is one of the most thought provoking books I've read in some time. If the mark of a great book is that it changes the way you see the world, then this is a great book. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au//bolt-p/15750324009163

05.01.2022 "Planting trees and forest management should not be a concern for nature enthusiasts only, but for all us regardless of political inclination who enjoy eating. Understanding the past is not simply about learning from our ancestors’ mistakes so we do not repeat them, but freeing ourselves from their grip so new paths unfold ahead of us." Take your first step on a new path. Enrol in Holistic Mudgee's Holistic Management Practitioner course commencing 22 April 2021. https://theconversation.com/trees-the-ancient-macedonians-a

05.01.2022 Allan Savory's Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture Allan Savory examines some of the key challenges of our time desertification, mega fires and climate change and how changing land management practices can help address some of these using a more holistic decision making process. https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/

04.01.2022 Sadly, another article where action is taken before the true cause of something is understood. One of the reasons why question two of the Holistic Management decision making model is - Cause and Effect: Does this action address the root cause of the problem? Another aspect of the HM model is the feeback loop: Plan (assume you're wrong) - Monitor - Control - Replan - Plan etc. I can't help but feel that if the scientists who advocated for the wolf cull and/or the government p...ersonnel who carried it out had used the HM model, resources would not have been wasted on a failed program. https://www.theguardian.com//wolf-culls-do-not-protect-car

03.01.2022 Interesting conference scheduled for 18 May in Dubbo.

03.01.2022 From REP Provisions: Stop fighting nature and embrace its genius. Support farmers and ranchers that come alongside nature using a regenerative holistic approach to agriculture.

02.01.2022 The story of Tina and Orion Weldon Luck Ranch, the 500 acre ranch of Willie and Annie Nelson. https://farmersfootprint.us/tina-orion-weldon