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October Grazing Event – The Ian Intensives
5 intensive events over 9 days
Holistic Management Texas and HM Planned, High Density
(Mob) Grazing with South African Grazing Guru, Ian Mitchell-Innes.
Day 1 – October 8, 10am to 4pm – Mob Grazing
At the Richards
Ranch (location),
Jacksboro, Texas, where Brent Hackley is using mob grazing to grow forage you
have to see to believe. Ian will teach you all about it in the classroom, then
take you outside for some Lands-on Learning on this multi-award winning ranch.
$120 ($100 for HMI Texas members), catered lunch provided. Limited attendance
to ensure better education for all. ($100 HMI Texas members /
$120 non-members)
Day 2 -4 – October 9, 10, 11 – Short Course
on Holistic Management At the Richards
Ranch (location),
Jacksboro, TX. Ian Mitchell-Innes will teach you what you need
to know to get started practicing Holistic Management. This comprehensive
class includes:
1) wholes/goals/testing decisions,
2) ecosystem processes
3) generating wealth
4) grazing planning
5) monitoring animals, plants and land
6) land planning.
Bring the Holistic Management Textbook and Handbook to class.
9-5 each day with catered lunch provided. $850 ($800 for HMI Texas members). Limited
to 30 students – sign up today.
Day 5 – October 12 – Ranch Consulting Tour of
Bear Creek Ranch, Aledo, Texas - with Ian Mitchell-Innes.
10am to 4pm. Tour the ranch with its managers and Ian. Owned by the
Dixon Water Foundation, this ranch is managed primarily for grazing
and doubles as an educational site for children and adults. The website
is: www.dixonwaterfoundation.org (location).
Ranch managers say Mob Grazing has made a difference in the health
of the land. Listen to the consulting questions and answers. Ask
your own questions and learn form the land as well as the people – Lands-on
Learning at its finest. $60 ($50 for HMI Texas members) Catered
lunch provided. Limited attendance to ensure better education for
all.
Day 6 – October 13 - Ranch Consulting Tour of Addison Ranch, Marietta, Oklahoma -
with Ian Mitchell-Innes. 10am to 4pm. Tour the ranch with owner,
Brett Addison and Ian. Brett does some Mob Grazing, hunting and fishing.
Check it out here: www.addisonranch.com (location) Listen
to the consulting questions and answers. Ask your own questions and
learn form the land as well as the people – Lands-on Learning
at its finest. $60 ($50 for HMI Texas members) Catered lunch
provided. Limited attendance to ensure better education for all.
Days 7-9 – October 14, 15, 16 – Advanced Training in Holistic
Management with Ian Mitchell-Innes – At
Richards Ranch, Jacksboro, TX.
This training will be limited to 30 ranchers. Each day a different 10 of the
ranchers will be “the ones” who can bring forward their individual
questions and challenges for consultation with Ian while the other 20 ranchers
watch and learn, participating in brainstorming and discussions. This is your
chance for individual attention and custom consulting. Starting points
for discussion are:
1) Achieving animal performance, while improving soils
2) Economics of Holistic Management Planned Grazing and getting it in Sync with
Energy Cycles in Nature
3) Fencing and Watering Strategies to maximize the benefits of High Density Grazing
4) Understanding the Brittleness Scale and the effects of animal impact
9-5 each day with catered lunch provided. $850 ($800 for HMI Texas members). Limited
to 30 students – sign up today. This is your
chance for individual attention and custom consulting. ($800 members / $850
non-members)
Here are some of the comments from folks attending the 08 October Intensives
in Bowie, Texas:
“best job of putting hmi teachings into practice. Learned how to
use different configurations in rotational grazing to accomplish different
results. Ian was great! thank you for bringing him to us.”
—Betsy
Ross
“I learned more from Ian than any other educator because he
had done it himself and had learned to go slowly to avoid pitfalls and be
able to make adjustments. In particular he mentioned animal performance,
which is of vital importance and is under-emphasized by most educators. He
has developed a particularly effective and flexible way of using electric
fencing and many other practical tips one learns from a successful rancher
who has done it himself. I have always learned most from successful rancher
practitioners and I think we need to build on this to keep putting on effective
programs.”
—Dr.
Richard Teague
“We learned much more than we have time to write.
Some key things.
1. In the Biological monitoring class for the first time I actually
learned to see what I was looking at. Litter 1, Litter 2, worm castings,
etc.
2. I had actually been through Dick Divens class and knew
that it made since to calve in the summer, but could not figure out what
to do with the calves after that. I got the answer at this school.
3. I learned how to work with weaning date, calving date,
and breeding date without sacrificing the health and body condition of
my animals.
4. I learned the thinking process of temporary fencing and
ways that we could use them to achieve things that are important to us.
We have already combined our cow herd and our yearling herd, thus
increasing our stock density. We have sold our older bulls and have an
order for bull calves as a stop-gap until we can use our own. We will
be moving our calving and breeding dates this year to better match our
correct biological calendar.
This was the best and most motivating Holistic Management school
I have ever attended. I have received lots of information at other schools,
but Ian is practicing HM in the trenches of ranching. That made a big
difference to me.
I'm ready for another one.”
—Jerry
Addison
Register online or
call Peggy at 512-847-3822 (peggy@hmitexas.org).
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