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Please send along useful orchard management insights that you feel should be shared with other community orchardists contact Michael. Part of the fun of having written Apple Grower and Holistic Orchard is serving as a clearinghouse of information that helps all of us to grow the good fruit.

He currently serves on the board of directors for The Grassfed Exchange. Ariel Greenwood lives in New Mexico in the winter and Montana in the summer. She studied psychology and agroecology in college, and started farming as a teenager in North Carolina and began working with livestock in California. For the past five years she has worked with pigs, goats, and sheep, but primarily has managed and raised beef cattle in operations ranging from small herds with locally marketed grassfed beef to managing multi-thousand head of yearling stocker cattle.

They sometimes consult other operators and landowners as well as practice holistic planned grazing. Their work is generally on large, rougher country where they utilize dogs, horses, and aim for relatively short grazing periods. Ariel writes for such websites as Civil Eats , Humans and Nature , and Fibershed , as well as her own blog, and regularly speaks to media about the issues and complexity surrounding grazing.

She feels fortunate to have entered livestock agriculture largely motivated by the principles inherent to Holistic Management and with a lot of support from other practitioners and teachers.

Walter became acquainted to Holistic Management after winning a Holistic Management class in a drawing. He has a passion for healthy soil and sees Holistic Management as a way all land stewards can regenerate degraded land.

Walter has been a HMI Board member since He and his wife have worked in community development since in Namibia in the establishment of communal conservancies and worked to facilitate that organized rural communities receive equitable benefits from the wildlife and tourism assets they manage. Since , he has worked within conservancies to support improved management of the degrading communal rangelands in Namibia.

This has involved a series of projects under NGOs and development contracts and they have established that communities are willing to organize themselves to apply Planned Grazing and Combined Herding in all communal areas of Namibia. Colin is currently rounding up a project working with the Ministry of Agriculture and the three Namibian Farmers Unions. He is also looking into mechanisms to upscale learning and support to farmers in the 60 million hectares that are in need of regenerative practices.

The document highlights practical best practices that include more than 12 regenerative best practices, five of which are based on Holistic Management. Danny holds the John T. Owens Conference. Danny began attending HMI workshops in preparation for teaching a course in Environmental Economics and these helped enforce his understanding of sustainable land management.

He hopes to erect effective and formal programs that help aid younger generations in better understanding sustainable and holistic resource use. She runs a small cattle and sheep operation based in Tehama County, California utilizing mostly leased private and public lands.

She recently started working with the California State University—Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems , along with working the last few years with a ranching-conservation collaborative called Working Circle Proactive Stewardship that developed as a result of wolves expanding their range to Northern California.

She is motivated by a love for the agriculture industry…for the people, land and livestock that are a part of it. She is inspired by the current conversations and opportunities in highlighting the linkages between the agriculture and conservation communities. Breanna was first introduced to Holistic Management when working for her family in high school and college on a cattle and sheep ranch on the big island of Hawaii.

She was also introduced again during courses through the Western Center for Integrated Resource Management at Fort Collins, and more recently through a series of Holistic Management workshops with the Jefferson Center for Holistic Management a Savory Institute hub as part of the Ecological Outcome Verification program. Breanna believes that the Holistic Management framework has critical value in supporting people, communities, and industries in decision-making and management at all scales and within all contexts.

When Brad was in college he came across a video of Gabe Brown on YouTube, thus starting his obsession. During college, he was fortunate to work for Dr. He has traveled around the United States and Canada, working with producers to help change and adapt their practices. Brad is looking forward to sharing his experiences and failures as a young producer interested in regenerative agriculture and Holistic Management.

Like Dr. Beck always says, we need to be forward-thinking years into the future. In my short tenure of that years, I hope I can help make a difference any way I can.

He steps off from the board after completing his board term. Jim became interested in Holistic Management in the late s after reading about how Holistic Management was being used in the Southwest. Shortly after, he took a Holistic Management course and has since been integrating the HM principles into his own operation. Jim firmly believes that as HMI moves forward with its educational offerings that we will be able to provide a positive impact on landscapes and the people and families that are on the land.

Kelly and her husband, Mike, live near Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada where they operate a family ranch running owned and custom yearling cattle with a small cow herd. They also have another ranch near Debden, Saskatchewan. Kelly has been involved with Holistic Management for close to 25 years. As the Sustainable Grazing Lands Program Director for Colorado, his work involves building and testing tools to improve conservation, business and quality of life conditions on commercial cattle ranches.

William also strives to define and improve incentives that advance sustainable practices. Integral to his job, William collaborates with NGO, agency and beef value chain partners to share and support proven tools and approaches that advance sustainable grazing goals. He is providing much-need insight and technical guidance to promote the use of conservation planning among key players in the beef supply chain to achieve significant environmental, social and economic benefits.

Prior to joining the Conservancy in Colorado in , William worked in consulting and with the U. Business Council for Sustainable Development to advance large corporate sustainable development projects.

It is also very accessible, interesting, and well organized. The Real Deal. This is the BEST book on holistic orcharding out there. While it's accessible, Phillips isn't afraid to get down in the dirt and go for technical biological details.

A huge amount of information, but this didn't leave me wondering where to begin- he takes care of that by stepping you through the timeline and process. As soon as I'd finished reading, I started over and read it again. We all have areas that are more difficult for us than others, and some chapters will require me to study them carefully before I master the detail.

I know I'll be referring to it frequently, and as my knowledge and understanding builds, I'm certain that I'll continue to gain insights from it through the years to come. This book has heft and value! Apples are listed as one of the dirtiest conventionally produced crops. When I started researching how to care for fruit trees it was a tough slog.

I respect organic farmers deeply, but for many the basic bias is the same as conventional ag, just using less toxic chemicals. The problem is that if it were as simple as substituting less toxic chemicals EVERYONE would be doing it - no farmer really wants that crap around his home and family. Spraying isn't only a chore, but a hated one.

When you need to wear protective clothing it's hard to feel good about you're doing, instead it encourages a war zone mentality. We war against insects, we war against disease. After studying organic, permaculture and biodynamic farming for 5 years, I finally stumbled across Elaine Ingham's work on soil microbiology, and became convinced that the key is maximizing the health of the biological critters in the soil, and finding ways to support them correctly so that they can support my apple trees.

But this is all pretty new, cutting edge science, and figuring out how to progress from that understanding to an actual maintenance and treatment program was beyond me.

I had bits and pieces of the puzzle. I renamed my sprayer the "Lunch Wagon" and began spraying enhanced compost teas and raw milk, preferentially feeding the "good guys" to allow them to get the upper hand. This book goes way beyond that. Michael Phillips pulls all of the disciplines together in a comprehensive approach.

He's a real farmer who needs results, not an academic or an acolyte limited by a biased preference for one system or the other. An organic farmer for many years, he's willing and able to pull from biodynamic and permaculture principals to promote the biological content of the soil. Best, he does it with an orchardists' wisdom and understanding. We all want to understand our trees, the essential understory and the microflora and fauna that make up the ecology of the orchard; but practical advice for dealing with real life problems is critical.

Phillips supplies both the understanding and the practical steps to take to achieve results. If you're committed to farming sustainably or if you just want a few fruit trees without poisoning your kids and pets with spray residues, take time to give this a thoughtful read!

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