I've recently become interested in holistic management, the Allan Savory 3LM course. I bought the book and its DEEP! Starts with finance, whatever anyones view on money is, we can't deny its a tool.
'Holistic financial planning is the process through which you will reduce the grand notion of holism to the practical matter of what you do first and how much of it you do, so the whole will come out right.'
The next part of the book is all about holistic planned grazing; 'getting animals to the right place, at the right time, with the right behaviour.' This section explains paddocks/cells, grazing then rest and recovery times, stocking density, balancing nutrition in the non growing season and creating your grazing plan with detailed charts.
Part 3 looks at ecological monitoring. Whats the lands history, where you want to go with it, health indicators, soil capping and compaction, and looking at monitoring procedures.
Part 4 is designing the ideal layout of facilities, preparing maps etc and the cumulation of the farms whole plan.
This is one of the most comprehensive books I have bought yet, it really is a guide book true to its word. But its so detailed I feel I might need to do the 3LM course to get my head around it all!!
Anyone done the training and practising this? I think it would make for a good evening of chat over beers with a group of like-minded people.
Have the books online if anyone wants any info let me. Got well through them. They do the course on Clive Brights farm, planned to do it last summer but unfortunately dates didn’t work. Keep me posted if any puts a course together.
I know Clive Bright has done it and really rates it. I could reach out to 3LM and see what costs would be. Can ask members here how many would be interested in attending
Good thinking. have to admit I bought the book a while back but it has never left the shelf...doh
Really want to do it. Its about getting a group together who are keen and then getting 3LM to facilitate. It can be done across the water like in FarmED but thats not really practical as you have to spend a few days for each part i think.
Most people i know who have done it rate it but, there is an element of sales with it and I have heard this as a negative. The fella who gave me that advice was actively getting a group of likeminded farmers together to sort of help themselves understand it.