Collaborating with Small Producer’s Initiative and Holistic Management International, join us as we continue our exploration of holistic and regenerative management practices to build soil health and agro-ecosystem resilience.
Gain practical skills to:
• Develop a fall/winter grazing plan
• Assess your lands forage potential
• Match animal needs with available resources
• Maximize winter grazing & minimize feed costs
$40 / Lunch will be provided
Instructors will be:
Wayne Knight, Executive Director at HMI
With 27 years of ranching experience using Holistic Management, Wayne has had an identity crisis. When he joined the 11 000-acre family ranching business he called himself a cattle rancher. He changed to calling himself a grass farmer. Later still, he called himself a soil-microbe farmer, though he has always marketed beef. Privileged to work with his father, Tom Knight, who was an early adopter of Holistic Management under Allan Savory – Stan Parsons consulting, Wayne enthusiastically increased and intensified the practices HMI teaches. He became a Certified Educator in 2006 and was actively involved with the Southern African CE community organization, Community Dynamics. He has spoken at numerous conferences in Southern Africa, trained and mentored farmers, hosted open days on his property, and has written about his positive results using Holistic Management. Before joining the team at HMI Wayne served as a board member of the organization for 8 years. Through his enthusiasm for Holistic Management Wayne has traveled widely visiting farmers who practice high-density, long recovery grazing practices in Southern Africa, Australia, and the US. As a young graduate with a Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Natal, South Africa, he traveled across the US west working on ranches in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, California, and New Mexico.
Dr Ken Mix
Dr. Mix is a former vegetable producer from central Indiana. He operated a 20 acre commercial produce farm outside of Indianapolis in the 1980’s and 1990’s. He currently teaches and has active research in entomology, soil health, regenerative agriculture, crop production and agriculturally related climate and water resources. He oversees several projects with graduate students; including multispecies intercropping, variety trials, soil health, climate change and Central Texas fruit crops, novel crops, and more. He is the Program director of The Small Producers Initiative which hosts the largest non-land grant farm conference in Texas: The Southern Family Farmers and Food Systems Conference with over 500 Farmers attending annually and nationally recognized speakers on regenerative agriculture.
Christine Martin, Owner at The Regen Ranch & The Regen Ranch Consulting
Christine Martin owns and operates The Regen Ranch in Leon County, TX where she raises clean (no chemicals, hormones or antibiotics) and nutrient dense beef, lamb, chicken, turkey and eggs which she sells as meat direct to consumer.
Using Holistic Management principles and practices, the livestock are managed to allow the four fundamental ecosystem functions to be restored thus improving the health of her land and increasing in carrying capacity.
As a Holistic Management International Professional Certified Educator, Christine has coached clients in improving their land, their finances and their quality of life, moving them towards their dream life! Christine was born in Argentina from a ranching family, raised in Brazil and moved to Michigan to earn a B.S. in Business at Eastern Michigan University and M.S. in Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University.
