[Lapg] Holistic Management Course this weekend

Wed Sep 7 16:59:36 PDT 2011

Dear Permie Allies,

I wanted to personally recommend the Holistic Management Training  
happening this weekend with visiting HM trainer and consultant Kirk  
Gadzia - happening at the MA Center & Green Friends Farm - an amazing  
broadacre permaculture demonstration site located in the east SF Bay.  
It's quite a site to see if you have not yet been there.

Holistic Management is an awesome complementary set of land management  
tools and decision-making framework for the permaculture designer.

There's still a few spots left for anyone on the fence or intrigued to  
get the download from Kirk... individual day options as well, if you  
can't come for the whole weekend.

I'm personally very much looking forward to it, and to seeing many of  
you there!

-Jay Ma

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Holistic Management Training

With Kirk Gadzia

September 9,10, &11, 2011

M.A. Center ~ Castro Valley, CA

For more Information and to Register Click Here.

The Next Step for Permaculture Designers

"What is the best thing you can do to further your effectiveness as a  
a permaculture designer?  Take a Holistic Management course.”

“What permaculture lacks is a decision-making framework. What holistic  
management lacks is a design framework. Let's put together a dowry."

~ Darren Doherty

What is Holistic Management?

Holistic Management is a goal driven framework for making better  
decisions to manage all aspects of our lives.  With a process to  
assess and optimize short and long term strategies, this systems- 
thinking approach to managing land resources can improve production,  
generate financial strength, regenerate ecosystems, and improve the  
quality of life for those who use it.

How Livestock Can Save the Planet!

For millenia every grassland on the planet co-evolved with grazing  
mammals that travelled in large tightly packed herds and moved often  
(due to predators).  It turns out that when you mimic these patterns  
with managing animals the effect is soil building, increased  
biodiversity, longer water cycles, and healthier ecosystems.  This is  
an important key to combat climate change AND have economically and  
ecologically abundant farms and ranches in the process.

Course Details - Come for 1, 2 or All 3 Days

Day 1: Holistic Decision Making

Learn this goal driven framework to manage land, organizations, and  
homesteads of all scales.

• Gain an understanding of the Holistic Management framework overview
• Make sustainability a profitable practice
• Bigger profits & better quality of life

Day 2: Holistic Land Management

We will apply the decision-making framework to the design and  
management of land.  Using the 380 acres at the M.A. Center  
permaculture project as a model we will learn hands on how to:

• Evaluate land health through observation of ecosystem processes
• Develop systems of monitering so feedback will guide future decisions
• Understand the "tools" of land management.
• Understand priciples of restoring fecundity and biodiversity to  
grasslands
• Prioritize projects to assure short and long term financial, social,  
and ecosystem goals are met.

Day 3: Holistic Animal Management

In drylands and Mediterranean climates herding grass eating animals  
can either degrade landscapes or act as the single most effective soil  
building force available. Here we will learn the principals of  
managing animals on grasslands, orchards, and brush-scapes.   
Particpants will learn how to develop grazing plans that will:

• Transition dry hillsides to green perennial grasslands, fertile  
orchards, perennial, or biodiverse forests.
• Bring water sources back to life
• Sequester carbon in deeper and healthier soils
• Improve soil health and biodiversity of rangelands and pastures.
•  Increase grazing and wildlife capacity.
• Boost orchard health and fertility
• Grow healthier crops and achieve higher yields.
• Reverse desertification in brittle environments

Tuition & Registration

$300 ~ All 3 days.
$225 ~ Days 1+2
$100 ~ Day 3

For more Information and to Register Click Here.

About the Instructor - Kirk Gadzia

Kirk Gadzia is a certified instructor with the Holistic Management  
International Center, Savory Institute,  and is founder of Resource  
Management Services - a training and consulting firm located in  
Bernalillo, NM. Kirk has extensive international experience in  
consulting with many large ranching and agricultural operations  
throughout the United States and overseas. The focus of his work is a  
holistic approach to agriculture and life, whereby land, animals,  
crops, wildlife and other resources are planned into the operation and  
financial picture. The model for making this work is mimicking natural  
systems and balancing life style with long and short term goal.

Site Details - MA Center Green Friends Farm

The beautiful 180 acre grounds of the M.A. Center are becoming a  
demonstration & educational hub of leading permaculture, holistic  
management, and regenerative design practices.

Site Projects Include:

* 1,000 tree holistic food forest
* Dynamic watershed restoration
* Broadacre land contouring & water infiltration
* Keyline patterning & ploughing
* Native reforestation & agroforestry
* Holistically managed grazing
* Soil food web management
* Solar energy
* Community garden & orchards
* Sustainability & spirituality programs

For more Information and to Register Click Here.

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