Holistic Management Training in Northern NSW
Courses/Workshops, Livestock, Rehabilitation, Soil Conservation, Structure — by Bob Nekrasov January 25, 2012
What better way to become more of a danger to the modern realm of earth destruction and technological torment than to team up Permaculture knowledge with Holistic Management training.
Teaming HM with Permaculture has an exceptionally powerful effect on building soils, repairing large landscapes and assisting with an holistic framework of decision making. A perfect tool to add to a PDC making you a true humus-building rebel.
Terra Sancta Permaculture is looking for persons interested in some HM training who are located around the Northern NSW area. The training is flexible and subsidized by TAFE.
Course Details
The training is a semester course, structured around 8 two-day sessions that run from 9am to 3.30pm each day, with three to four weeks between each session to allow for implementation of the acquired knowledge. The course is currently heavily subsidized at just $225 for the 16 days training and all resources including manual, text book, hand book and lunches and teas during the course.
The course is packed with new ideas on how to manage your land and your lives holistically. Students will come away from the course with an holistic goal for themselves and their business/family, a financial plan for themselves and a grazing plan for their property (if applicable), along with a positive outlook and new ideas to achieve their goal. The course is backed up by email and telephone access to your educators as well as a two-monthly magazine from the Holistic Management International centre in America full of interesting stories and great ideas. The educators will also initiate a post course support group mechanism so your training group can continue to meet on a regular basis to share their learning and successes.
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Course Trainer
We are proud to announce that the training will be delivered by Brian Wehlburg of Inside Outside Management. Full details of Brian’s work can be found here:
Dates
Final dates and location have not been finalized as we are only taking names for now. We can say that it will be in the Northern NSW region and will start mid to late June.
There are limited places!
Contact Bob: terrasanctapermaculture (at) gmail.com
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Comments (5)
I don’t understand the concept of over resting a grassland. Because over rest means reafforestation by natural regeneration,through different stages like scrubland than becoming a young forest. Which it is great!
This attempt of restoring the range for me is doubtful,because those grazing animal in nature are present only in naturally developed prairies like in North America,Africa’s savanna etc. not in other places like the Amazon forest where there are huge numbers of cattle for burger production.
Thanks
Comment by Pietro — January 26, 2012 @ 1:58 pm
As one of Brian`s current students I can thoroughly recommend this course. Holistic Mangement is a great complement to Permaculture, giving you an elegant goal seting and decision making framework and great insights into harnessing the power of animal impact in the landscape
Comment by Joel — January 26, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
the risk with over resting is fire Pietro!
hoofs are used as mulch hammers to squash rough stubble into the ground thus carbon enters soil.
HRM didnt used to embrace permaculture so great to see the paridighm shift
Comment by andrew — January 28, 2012 @ 5:38 am
#Pietro – If you don’t understand it sounds like you need to get your self informed by reading Allan’s books or getting along to a HM course some were in the world.
This course is an essential understanding for all and I mean all Permaculture designers if you intend keeping livestock on your land.
With out this knowledge and understanding we are no better them people in conventional systems thinking. Darren Doherty, holds this course in high regard, even with his wealth of experience in Permaculture.
Comment by Nick Huggins — January 28, 2012 @ 6:22 am
Good evening Pietro
Thank you for your thoughts. I was confused by this aspect in my home country of Zimbabwe where some areas that were rested biodiversity returned, but in other areas that were rested they continued to bare off and become deserts. I continue to see the very same difference here in Australia where National Parks along the coast are extremely biodiverse but over the range in the more seasonal rainfall areas plant spacings in many of the National Parks are increasing as much of the land moves towards desert under nothing more than rest. As you correctly observe that large grazing animals have evolved with the grasslands of the world and are a key component of that ‘Whole’ environment. My I encourage you to watch a clip of Allan Savory explaining this major insight into how environments function labelled “Brittleness” at http://www.insideoutsidemgt.com.au/Holistic%20Management.htm
Thank you for your interest, Brian.
Comment by Brian Wehlburg — February 2, 2012 @ 9:29 pm
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