HMI programs in action and the results
that have been achieved

International

Australia

 

United States: Horizon Organic® Dairy

Horizon Organic® Dairy. HMI has a contract with Horizon Organic® Dairy, the nation’s largest organic dairy and a subsidiary of White Wave Foods and Dean Foods.

HMI provides the framework and tools for Holistic Management® planning and decision making at three of Horizon Organic®’s dairies in Idaho, Maryland and New Mexico.

The goals are:

1) To create a leading-edge example of how to run large dairies with animals out on the land – so that the organic product meets and exceeds USDA organic regulations, in such a manner that the health of the grazing land is also maintained and improved; and

2) To help the company turn recently acquired,
deteriorated property into productive rangelands.

Additionally, HMI is helping the company design a new dairy in Idaho, expected to be a state-of-the-art, organic dairy farming facility. Horizon Organic^® has a network of more than 540 dairy farmers; 340 are currently organic, and more than 200 are transitioning to organic.

 

United States: Whole Foods

Whole Foods and HMI work with the company’s Animal Compassion Program in a pilot study to integrate small and large animals in pasture restoration.

 

New Mexico: Acoma Pueblo

HMI is in Year Two of a two-year program working with Acoma Pueblo to integrate land and livestock with hunting and fishing to better heal and promote the productivity of 300,000 acres belonging to the Pueblo.

 

New Mexico: Heifer International

HMI is training members of Heifer International’s field staff to be certified to teach Holistic Management® in their home communities in New Mexico, so that they can fulfill the caring-for-the-land component of the organization’s mission.

 

Texas: The David West Station

At the David West Station for Holistic Management® in Ozona, Texas, interns from Mexico’s National Autonomous University work on special research, education and ranching activities.

Another program at the David West Station trains teachers in two Texas school districts in Holistic Management® for K-8 curricula.

 

Across the US

Active networks of Holistic Management® practitioners and educators have developed across the U.S. in California and the West, the Northwest, the Southwest, the Midwest, and the Northeast.

 

Canada

Since 1984, Holistic Management®’s strong presence in Canada, through some of the longest running management clubs and Certified Educators, has continued to offer training and ongoing support to new Holistic Management® practitioners.

 

Mexico

HMI’s active network of Certified Educators and branch, Fundacion para Fomentar el Manejo Holistico, AC, will soon release a Spanish version of the Holistic Management® textbook.

The National Autonomous University (UNAM) research station at Chapa de Mota has been used as a Holistic Management® learning site, hosting interns, numerous students and agricultural workers.

 

 

International Activities: Africa

Zimbabwe: Dimbangombe Ranch

The Africa Centre for Holistic Management® occupies the 6,500-acre Dimbangombe Ranch near Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.

 

The ranch is a Holistic Management® learning site and home to the Dimbangombe College of Wildlife, Agriculture and Conservation Management,which provides Holistic Management® training to the local community.

In 2005, Dimbangombe Ranch launched a micro-banking program, using goats as currency to counteract extreme monetary inflation in Zimbabwe. The project is now self-funded in two villages and is improving food security, healing the land, and empowering the women of the villages.

 

Southern Africa: Heifer International

Heifer International is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger permanently by providing families with livestock and teaching animal management.

 

HMI is training members of Heifer International to be certified to teach Holistic Management® in their home communities in Southern Africa, so that they can fulfill the caring-for-the-land component of the organization’s mission.

 

Southern Africa: Community Dynamics.

Community Dynamics, an organization of Holistic Management® Certified Educators from Southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa), provides training and consulting services for agricultural producers, community projects, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, and other entities.

 

Northern Uganda: United Movement to End Child Soldiering.

Working with the United Movement to End Child Soldiering in Northern Uganda, HMI is embarked on a pilot program to help people displaced by violence and civil war restore agricultural lands and develop new villages on 100,000 acres.

 

Kenya: World Vision International.

HMI provides cutting-edge natural resource management training to Maasai community members and leaders in Kenya in coordination with World Vision International, a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

 

In this program, HMI trains community leaders to integrate livestock and wildlife on 50,000 acres in a way that addresses healthy land, improved profitability and food security for 1,500 families.

 

International Activities: Australia and
New Zealand

Certified Educators work directly with practitioners and through universities and other educational organizations to bring Holistic Management® to thousands of farmers addressing issues of improving land health and increasing farm profitability.

Australia has more land under organic management than any other nation in the world. Because of this, a new unit of HMI is developing a variety of programs, including holding discussions with that country’s leading vocational/technical school to carry Holistic Management® branded programs throughout
their system.

There are 10 Certified Educators currently qualified to teach the principles of Holistic Management® in Australia. Each of these people have undertaken two years intensive training and comply with rigorous annual re-certification requirements through Holistic Management® International.

These highly motivated and dedicated individuals are committed to working to increase the awareness of Holistic Management® and its environmental, economic and social benefits throughout Australia. Educators work directly with individuals, Landcare and producer groups, as well as through universities, TAFE Colleges and government organisations.

Click here to go to the HMI Australia website, to view profile and background information of Australian Holistic Management® Educators.