“Since taking this course we have almost doubled our herd while cutting expenses. The land is still continuing to improve, as is our bottom line. Forget the excuses, get to this class!“ – John Flochini : HM workshop attendee Join Kirk Gadzia, the top USA Holistic Management instructor when he visits Victoria (on his first Australian tour) to stage his intensive three day Holistic Management workshop at Taranaki Farm in Nth Central Victoria (4-6th August 2010). This workshop will be conducted on Taranaki Farm; leading demonstration farm of regenerative agriculture methods. Don’t miss this special chance to learn from visiting USA trainer Kirk Gadzia.This workshop features plenty of time in the field and offers immediately useful, practical skills An intensive 3-day introduction to Holisitic Management (HM). A comprehensive system of land management that provides farmers, land managers, land consultants, landcare volunteers and professionals, permaculture practitioners and others with a proven set of practical methods for boasting fertility, increasing land carrying capacity, farm productivity and profits without sacrificing land health. Holisitic Management techniques are genuinely regenerative.

Workshop Details

Title	RegenAG Holistic Management
Venue	Taranaki Farm
Where	North Central Victoria [ 65km from Melbourne along Calder Fwy See map details further down this page ]
When	4th – 6th AUGUST 2010 3 Days
	Course Code: FRTC00740 If you are a farmer, land manager, primary producer or in the immediate family of any of these, you may be eligible for reimbursement under FarmReady. Go to our FarmReady page to learn more.
FarmReady Approved

What is Holistic Management?

When land is under Holistic Management, land managers manage the relationships between land, grazing animals, and water in ways that mimic nature. This approach of going with natural systems yields incredible results.

Holistic Resource Management was pioneered by Allan Savory to offer land stewards a way to make grazing, land management and financial decisions that positively impact land health and productivity. More than 30 million acres of land worldwide currently benefit from Holistic Management practices. Holistic Management offers a new decision-making framework that managers in a variety of enterprises, cultures, and countries are using to help ensure that the decisions they take are economically, socially, and environmentally sound, simultaneously—both short and long term.

The Holistic Management Framework considers the key role that animals play in renewing the land, and recognizes the nature and importance of four basic ecosystem processes: the water cycle, the mineral cycle, energy flow, and community dynamics (the relationship between organisms in an ecosystem). The Framework identifies eight tools for managing these ecosystem processes: human creativity, technology, rest, fire, grazing, animal impact, living organisms, and money and labor.

What is Covered?

As part of this course, you’ll learn holistic management goal setting, holistic decision making, grazing planning, financial planning and land management planning. Additionally, the workshop will cover the following topics :

	Reversing Desertification
	Holistic Management has a proven track record around the global in transforming severely degraded lands into productive environments.
	Optimal use of Water Resources
	Learn how your planning can optimised water resources. Farms can boast rainfall and stored water utilisation.
	Soil Carbon Sequestration
	Sequestered atmospheric carbon – soil carbon; becomes the furnace that drives productivity in healthy soils.
	Improving Grazing Productivity
	This workshop teaches grazing planning that radically increases pasture recovery times and productivity.
	More Biologically Active Soils
	Most farmers know the value of earthworms. This workshop offers practical ways of increasing soil biology year after year.
	Protection From Drought
	Farms that fail to plan, plan to fail. Learn how your decisions influence either fertility gains or steady desertification.
	Increasing Annual Profits
	Improving the land for it’s own sake is not enough. At the end of the day, we must see an improvement to the bottom line. HM plans for financial success.
	Enhancing Family Relationships
	The health of the land is tied to the health of the family. Learn how to improve family relationships in step with the improvement in the land.

Booking Your Place

This upcoming Holistic Management Workshop at Taranaki Farm is being staged by Fusion Farms as one in many workshops offered by a group of education providers across Australia. This workshop is therefore a part of the ‘Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series‘ or RegenAG for short.

In agreement with the RegenAG Group (of which Fusion Farms is a founder), all bookings for the workshop series (including this workshop) are made on the official RegenAG website. Payments are handled by Paypal. For alternative payment options, please contact us via email (sales@fusionfarms.com) or use out contact form.

To book your place in the upcoming Holistic Management Workshop (4-6th August 2010) @ Taranaki Farm, visit the Official RegenAG Holistic Management webpage. Full instructions for booking your place in this VICTORIA Holistic Management Workshop can be found on that page. Your booking payment (through the RegenAG website) is direct to us (via the Fusion Farms Paypal account) with RegenAG providing information on the broader workshop series.

To book your place in the VIC Holistic Management Workshop
Visit this address:
http://www.RegenAG.com/hm

We use PayPal to receive payments and take bookings for our courses. You can book your course via PayPal without creating an account by providing them with your credit card details. Your banking details are secure and will not be provided to Fusion Farms or any other third party. If you are not comfortable using PayPal please contact us via email (sales@fusionfarms.com) or use out contact form and we will arrange an alternative payment methods.

Once you’ve booked

Once you’ve booked into this course, we will contact you via email regarding food preferences, what to bring along with you, and any further info you might need or request regarding this workshop.