Past Projects and Activities
Legend: • HMI Texas events, * in
partnership with other orgs.
• HMI Texas Field Day
• HMI Texas Class
• HMI Texas Conference
• HMI Texas Special Projects
*HMI Texas collaboration in another group’s project
and
bold items link to additional information about the event.
2009 Events
FLOW = For the Love Of Water
• HMIT Board Meeting-Johnson City
• HMIT Board Meeting-Johnson City
• Lone Star Management
Club (Granger)
Betsy Ross Farms
• June-Mesquite Grove
Deep Eddy (Snyder)
HMIT Board Meeting-Snyder
Field Day
Stock Dog Workshop
HM Grazing Planning
• HMIT Board Meeting-Johnson City
• April-Giddings Deep Eddy
HM Biological Monitoring
Marek Field Day
Formation of Lone Star Management Club
• March-Spring Conference (Abilene)
Principles for Success
Opening Reception/film
Walkabout
Innovations in Land Management (HM Mainstream, Kids on the
Land, Integrating Keyline w/HM Planned Grazing)
Policy Workshop
Inheriting the Earth Conference & HMIT Board Meeting
Generating Wealth w/ HM Financial Planning
• January Board
Training
2008 Events
• March 18 - SARE research results Field Day at West Ranch, Ozona
• April 10 – HM Workshops, Elm Mott
• April 11,12 –Annual Meeting –Homestead Heritage, Elm Mott
• May 2-8, 14-15– Kids on the Land – Ozona
• June 21 – Wind Farm FD – Maryneal
• Farm and Food Leadership Policy event – August 18-19 in Austin with FARFA
• September 26-28 Roundup & Green Living Fair- Fredericksburg
• September 27 – A.R.E. Fall Retreat HM class – Hunt
• October 23-24 – HM Grazing Planning with Ian Mitchell-Innes - Bowie
• October 25-26 –HM Biological Monitoring with Ian Mitchell-Innes - Bowie
• October 27-28 - HM Land Planning with Ian Mitchell-Innes - Bowie
• October 29– Mob Grazing with Ian Mitchell-Innes – Decatur
* November 12 – Wind Energy Forum - Austin
2007 Events
• January 5-7 Board retreat and training - Wimberley
* January 24, 25 & 26 – TOFGA conference trade show - Mesquite
• February 9 – Grazing Planning workshop with Terry Gompert, Kerrville
• February 10 – Catching Raindrops - Annual Meeting, Kerrville
* April 25 – Clover Field Day and Trade Show, Iola, TX
* April 27-May 3– Kids on the Land, West Ranch, Ozona
* May 11-17 – Kids on the Land, West Ranch, Ozona
• June 2 – Puzzlewood Farm field day, Elkhart
• June 11-15 – HM Grazing Classes with Terry Gompert in Ozona
Grazing
planning
Biological
Planning
Land
Planning
* September 19-22 - Roads Class in Van Horn
* September 20-21 Farm & Food Leaders Training in Waco
* September 28-30 – Renewable Energy Fair Trade Show, Fredericksburg
• September 29 – Haney Field Day, Whitney
• October 25-27 – PLANting Seeds of Choice event at Bear Creek Ranch,
Aledo
* November 1-4 – HMI Gathering + Trade Show in Albuquerque
* November 1-3 American Grassfed Association conference + trade show,
Austin
• November 17 – Keilsel Ranch FD & Riparian Workshop, Briggs
* Nov. 27-29 – Changing Roles in Natural Resources, New Braunfels
2006 Events
* January 25-27- TOFGA’s TCOOPS conference & trade show, Kerrville
• March 23 – West Ranch Field Day, Ozona
• April 21-22 – Putting it all Together, Annual Meeting in Brenham
* May – Kids on the Land, West Ranch, Ozona
• June 2 – Seco
Valley Ranch Field Day – Tarpley/Bandera area
• August 25-26 – Ranching for Success School, Tomball
• August 27 – Low Stress Stockmanship, Tomball
• September 23 – Bear Creek Ranch FD, Aledo
• September 22 – Low Stress Stockmanship, Aledo
• October 21, 2006 – Shadow Mountain Ranch FD, Blooming Grove
2005 Events
* January 26-28 – TCOOPS by Tofga – South Padre Island
• February 11-12 – Ranching for Success – Crockett
• February 25 – Working Toward Sustainability Workshop
• February 26 – HRM Annual Meeting “Texas Water Worries”
• March 30 – Managing Resources, San Pedro Ranch FD, Carrizo Springs
• August 25-26 – Gereald Fry Genetics School, San Saba
* Sept. 23-25 – Renewable Energy Roundup trade show, Fredericksburg
• September 23 – Field Day at Treadwell Brady Ranch, Menard
• November 12 – Preserving Your Paradise FD at Peggy Cole’s, Wimberley
2004 Events
• January 27-29 – Valley conference on Sustainable Agriculture, Weslaco
• May 3-5 – Kids on the Land, West Ranch, Ozona
• May 20 – Range Health Field Day, Richards Ranch, Jacksboro
• May 21 – Workshop – How they did it – Richard Sechrist, Jacksboro
• June 12 – West Ranch Field Day, Ozona
* August 28 –Ranching for Success the talk (Malcolm & Walt) – Crockett
• September 17 – Working Towards Sustainability Workshop (Christina),
Austin
• September 18 – Betsy Ross Farm Field Day – Granger
* October 2-3 – TPWD Wildlife Expo (we had a booth) – Austin
* October 2-3 – NPAT Conference & Trade Show (HRM co-sponsors)
• October 29 – Key Insights, Peggy Sechrist workshop in Waco
• October 30 – Prairies field day at Mezynski’s & Reisel Prairies, Waco
• October 30 – World Hunger Relief Field Day, Elm Mott
2003 Events
• January 30-February 1 - Valley Conference
• May 3 Field day at Manahans
• May 21 - Improving Rangeland Economics & Health – Ford Ranch, Brady
• June 14 Field Day - David West Station for Holistic Management
• July 22 - A mourning of Dung Beetles – Austin
• September 26-28 – Rendezvous International Celebration – LO Ranch, Leo
• December 6 - Civic Environmentalism
2002 Events
• Jan 23-27 - Texans focus on Quail
• Jan 24th-26 - Valley Conference Edinburg
• Feb 28-March 2 - AM Kerrville
• Sept 28 - David West Ranch field day
• October 18-19 - Bud Williams Stockmanship
• NFWF grant is approved to help pay expenses on Reed Ranch improvements,
Annual Symposium, Ecosystem Education for urban 6th graders at Hornsby Bend
Biosolids facility, the HRM newsletters, website, resource directory and brochure.
• January 24-26, the HRM of TX Valley Conference in Edinburg
• February 28-March 2 annual conference, Managing Texas Ecosystems for the Next Generation held in Kerrville
• March booth at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association Convention
• May field day at the Reed Ranch
• Quarterly newsletters
• 1 Board meeting and several committee meetings
2001 Events
• March Annual Conference, Systems in Agriculture and Land
Management in Fort Worth
• March booth at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association Convention
• October field day with Elaine Ingham on soil biology
• October symposium on what comes after brush control, Reversing
Desertification on Rangelands
• November booth at the annual Conference for the Advancement
of Science Teaching in Austin
• Ongoing projects, La Copita Ranch near Alice and the Mitchell
Lake sewage waste wetlands near San Antonio.
Individual members are busy hosting clinics in holistic management,
livestock handling and grazing for profit. They are forming grazing
clubs and growing clubs to support one another in the practice of holistic
management. Jim & Judy Reed were awarded the Lone Star Stewardship
Award. Several members are involved in the youth education at Hornsby
Bend.
2000 Events
• The March Annual Meeting "Managing for Drier
Times" in Waco
• May PlanIt Texas field day at the Red Corral Ranch near
Wimberley, produced by the PlanIt Texas coalition, an HRM of TX project
• May ranchers symposium in Midland, hosted by the HRM of
TX Advisory Board specifically for managers of large tracts
• An extensive membership survey of evaluation and desired
direction and services
• June workshop in Fredericksburg on the principles of Holistic
Management
• June field day at Clymer Meadows
• June field day at the Gifford Ranch
• July Prairies & Savannas Conference HRM as co-sponsor,
several members speaking
• September animal handling seminar at the Maddox Ranch near
Colorado City
• September workshop on "The Basics of Holistic Management" in
San Angelo
• October seminar on sheep and goat research at the Sonora
Agricultural Research Station, co-sponsored by TAES
• Quarterly Newsletters and board meetings
In addition, members stepped out on their own to form management clubs
by phone (Guy Glosson), Malcolm Beck continued to keep his speaking
calendar full, Peggy and Richard Sechrist were invited to speak in
many venues, Dr. Wayne Hanselka was extremely active with the Society
for Range Management, Clint Josey takes an active role in Native Prairies
Association, John & Linda Heaton are active in Native Plant Society.
The Sechrists are active in Texas Organic Growers Assn., Drs. Dick
and Pat Richardson teach children Ecosystem appreciation and research
methods at Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Facility.
1999 Events
• March, the HRM of TX Annual Meeting in San Marcos with
focus on the management tools.
• April tour of the Rosewood Ranch in Ennis, TX
• May tour to a hunting ranch in Mexico that manages for
wildlife using grazing as a tool.
• May field day at the Bamberger Ranch in Johnson City produced
by the PlanIt Texas coalition
• May "How To" course in Holistic Resource Management
in Brady at the Ford Ranch.
• September seminar on grading and processing beef, co-sponsored
by Tarleton State University
• Quarterly issues of the Newsletter
• Quarterly board meetings and additional committee meetings.
In addition, HRM leaders traveled far and wide to carry our message to others:
• In July, Drs. Dick & Pat
Richardson traveled to New Mexico to teach a 5 day course " Holistic Management
in the Classroom" for educators, sponsored by the Savory Center for Holistic
Management.
• Peggy and Richard
Sechrist traveled to Southern SAWG, SARE and TOGA conferences
• Panhandle members
put on Promised Land Network symposiums every year