Holistic Management: Ranching Can Regenerate Grassland

The fact that ranching heals the earth and if done properly can regenerate grasslands and watersheds — to us, thats not news, but its exciting that other people are catching on to that and that cattle in particular are not being blamed or though of as the cause of global warming but actually a solution [...]

Holistic Management: You have look at the whole; you can’t separate land, people, and livestock

You can never separate people from their land: you can never talk about livestock without talking about the land and the people; you can never separate biodiversity laws and desertification — when you look at the ecosystem, look at it as a whole … if you try to “split” things, you will never really get [...]

Holistic Management: Regenerate Grasslands

http://www.holisticmanagement.org Holistic Management: excerpts from the PBS Video “Healing the Earth: The First Millimeter”. Far from being the problem, grazing animals can offer a way out of global warming, desertification, erosion, and other vexing environmental problems. Duration : 0:2:30 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonneutralaustralia.com%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-management%2Fholistic-management-regenerate-grasslands’; addthis_title = ‘Holistic+Management%3A+Regenerate+Grasslands’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: Australia, Carbon Dioxide, carbon sequestration, [...]

Allan Savory and Huggins Mantanga on Holistic Management

My friends Allan Savory, Founder of Holistic Management, and Huggins Matanga, Executive Director of the Africa Center for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe briefly explain some of the benefits of Holistic Management in reversing desertification and restoring ecological function. Duration : 0:2:50 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonneutralaustralia.com%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-management%2Fallan-savory-and-huggins-mantanga-on-holistic-management’; addthis_title = ‘Allan+Savory+and+Huggins+Mantanga+on+Holistic+Management’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: Allan Savory, Holistic [...]

Holistic Management: Insects mean Fertile Soils and New Growth

We havent used any insecticides in our livestock since 1986. If you pour on insecticides you wont have these insects doing the job of recycling and decomposing, completing the cycle. We need the insects, the decomposers, breaking down fiber that wasnt broken down by the cows. Insects continue the decomposition, in order to complete the [...]

Holistic Management: “I was surprised at the speed at which the land changed…”

http://www.holisticmanagement.org The question was, does changing the grazing management change the species diversity and the ground cover, and what happens to the functioning of that landscape? The study was three years and came out with some pretty spectacular results. I was mostly surprised at the speed at which the land changed… once you start to [...]

Holistic Management: The Soil Surface

http://www.holisticmanagement.org “What am I talking about when I say ‘healing the land”? I’m talking about the soil surface… the interface between the earth and the air…” – Bruce Ward, HMI Certified Educator, Australia Duration : 0:1:25 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonneutralaustralia.com%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-management%2Fholistic-management-the-soil-surface’; addthis_title = ‘Holistic+Management%3A+The+Soil+Surface’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: Australia, Carbon Dioxide, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, co2, [...]

Holistic Management: Livestock are the best tool we have for improving water cycles

http://www.holisticmanagement.org The funny thing is that so many people still dont know that livestock are the best tool we have to manage these range lands for really well functioning water cycles. weve seen riverbank areas on every single ranch grow in health as measured by vegetation cover, the cleanliness of the water, perennial plants…we changed [...]

Intro to Holistic Management

http://www.holisticmanagement.org/ A short introduction to the benefits of Holistic Management planned grazing- healthier. more profitable, and a highly effective way to sequester CO2. Duration : 0:2:31 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carbonneutralaustralia.com%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-management%2Fintro-to-holistic-management’; addthis_title = ‘Intro+to+Holistic+Management’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: carbon, Carbon Dioxide, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, co2, desertification, ecological services, Environment, environmental services, erosion, farming, farming profitably, [...]

Holistic Management: Grazing plans let plants regenerate

http://www.holisticmanagement.org “The grazing chart is planning the movements of the animals to benefit the land, to regenerate the land, protect the grass plants that are growing daily, or by the minute, because theyre living things and we need to protect them so we need to just have restricted time that animals are in the company [...]