Getting Started Holistic Land Planning Course Results

HMI’s Online Learning Series Getting Started Holistic Land Planning course began in March 2016 with 14 participants from the United States, Guatemala, Ireland, Belgium, Finland and Iceland. This course focused on the key holistic land planning design principles and practices to allow participants to more effectively manage all their resources. This simple approach to land planning helped the participants explore key infrastructure/land improvement projects in the context of their whole farm/ranch goal to better analyze design possibilities for improved return on investment. Participants developed management consideration lists, land plan options and explored tool options and the return on investment of the different land planning options using the Holistic Management decision making framework and considering how such options will affect land productivity. Featured Participant:

Holly Dolder

“The Holistic Management International Courses have opened my eyes to a new world of animal, land and business management.  Before HMI, I was a total novice to farming, farm animals and land management.  The once thought of short golf course beautiful pastures now bring a totally different feeling.  No longer is overworked, undernourished lands my envy.  Transforming our own little 10-acre paradise into a healthy well managed and planned out piece of heaven on earth has been made so much easier by the knowledge we have gained from these courses.  The instructors are fantastic and so helpful with excellent advice for each person either in class or one on one.  I believe anyone who wants to find a different way to see the business of farming, novice or expert, will find HMI is well worth the time spent to participate."

Here’s the best things participant’s learned/experienced:

Based on the survey responses, here are the changes that occurred:

Getting Started Holistic Land Planning Survey Results