The Continuing Challenge:
Across the Centuries … A Promise for the Future

For centuries, we have witnessed the erosion of soils, the expansion of deserts, and the loss of biodiversity.  Today Texas is listed by the U.N. as one of the fastest desertifying areas in the world.  Critical watershed issues are emerging as the dominant need to the future of Texas.

For twenty years, Holistic Management International-Texas has worked to promote holistic agricultural practices that can help to heal damaged lands—thereby restoring biodiversity, restoring healthy watersheds, sequestering carbon and providing healthy food and economic prosperity for Texas.

In illuminating the vital relationship of all life forms and in demonstrating practical and effective ways to restore ecological balance and vigor, Holistic Management International-Texas offers a promise to the future that human beings can live abundantly and wisely upon this planet.

Meeting the Challenge

Since 1987 Holistic Management International-Texas has contributed to solving the problems of degraded and fragmented land, dysfunctional water cycles and declining rural economies. We have

• Promoted a simple but effective way to restore land to full health and productivity. We call it Holistic Management.
  
• Trained hundreds of ranchers, farmers and land managers in Holistic Management practices and helped them create healthy and profitable land-based enterprises to sustain their families and communities well into the future.
• Produced hundreds of experiential “Lands-on-Learning” field days and events across the state of Texas to introduce the public to the critical importance of good land stewardship.
• Grown a grassroots learning community of thousands of individuals who care about Texas land and ecosystems.
• Networked and collaborated with dozens of agricultural and environmental organizations to maximize impact.

The Texas Growth Initiative

Throughout Texas we will

• Reach 1,000 ranchers, farmers and land managers with education and training in Holistic Management. This means that over half a million acres of degraded land will be brought back to health and sustain farming and ranching families well into the future. The benefits to the overall environment extend well beyond the individual ranch/farm operations to surrounding communities:
• Improved watersheds – increased water supply
• Increased biodiversity
• Increased carbon sequestration
• Enhanced wildlife habitat

 How will we do it?

• Offer a cohesive continuum of outreach, education, support and referral offerings to address a variety of needs and geographic regions. This river of opportunities will allow people to enter the training stream at the depth that meets their current need with the ability to move deeper.
• Outreach through “Lands-on-Learning” Field Days will introduce people to Holistic Management by providing experiential learning on Holistically Managed properties while focusing on a related tool. 
• Intensive training is provided with the five Holistic Management classes taught by certified educators.  These two day classes include Principles for Success, Financial Planning, Biological Monitoring, Grazing Planning and Land Planning.
• Peer mentoring and ongoing learning are key components of the Management Clubs.  Building on relationships and learning from field days and classes, these networks are vital to provide support.
• Customized training, contracted monitoring and other consulting services are facilitated through our collaboration with Holistic Management International, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Develop a new emphasis on outreach to beginning farmers and ranchers.  This would be accompanied by the creation of a mentoring data base to link them to experienced producers compatible with their specialization.
• Hold an annual conference to foster community and continued learning.
• Hold a grazing conference to intensely focus on the needs of advanced managers.

Your Investment in the Future

We invite you to our circle of supporters to invest in the future of our planet. Your gift will help create tangible results, which will be sustained well into the future. 

• Over a million acres of healthy and productive Texas land with improved watersheds, greater carbon sequestration and increased biodiversity.
  
• Thriving rural communities with families able to make a sustainable living on their land and create the quality of life they desire for themselves and their children.
• Families and communities making decisions in a way that benefits the land under their management well into the future, maintains a vibrant social fabric, and creates financially viable enterprises for generations to come. 

Your gift will enable us to lay the vital groundwork for this growth initiative, which will result in healthier and more productive land across Texas. We have listed several contribution levels below, buy any amount will be greatly appreciated:

$10,000	$1,000
$5,000	$500
$2,500	$250

Contributions to HMI-Texas are tax-deductible and can be made online through our shopping cart or mailed to:
HMI Texas
P.O. Box 373
Johnson City, TX  78636

Thank you for your consideration.

A Message of Hope

… earlier in my life, the magnitude of problems without solutions depressed me utterly. Now, at last, I see the possibility of wonderful times ahead. Had I another stock of years to replace those I’ve spent already, I could not imagine a more exciting time to live them than now…

Allan Savory
Holistic Management:
A New Framework for Decision Making
1999