Holistic Management Handbook Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your
Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach developed by biologist Allan Savory to restore the world's grassland soils and minimize the damaging effects of climate change and desertification on humans and the natural world. This third edition of Ho
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HANDBOOK R E G E N E R AT I N G YO U R L A N D A N D G R O W I N G YO U R P R O F I T S
Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, and Allan Savory
Holistic Management Handbook
Holistic Management Handbook Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits
Third Edition
Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, and Allan Savory
Washington | Covelo | London
Copyright © 2019 Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, 2000 M Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20036 The authors are grateful for permission to reprint the excerpt quoted in part 3 from Don Coyote: The Good Times and the Bad Times of a Much Maligned American Original, Dayton O. Hyde, Johnson books, 2004. Holistic Management is a registered trademark of Holistic Management International. Island Press is a trademark of The Center for Resource Economics. Library of Congress Control Number: 2018961802 All Island Press books are printed on environmentally responsible materials. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Keywords: Cash flow, context checks, drought reserve, ecological health indicators, growing season aide memoire, holistic context, Holistic Ecological Monitoring, Holistic Financial Planning, Holistic Land Planning, Holistic Management, Holistic Planned Grazing, infrastructure planning, land restoration, nongrowing season aide memoire, planning maps, profit, regenerative grazing, wildlife habitat.
CONTENTS Preface ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ix
Part 1. Holistic Financial Planning Generating Lasting Wealth ........................................................���������� 3 MASTERING THE BASICS ........................................................... 5 Your Holistic Context: Aligning Your Financial Decisions ������������� 5 The Context Checks: Reducing Decision-Making Stress .��������������� 5 Management Tips and Good Ideas����������������������������������������������� 17 Planning Forms ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� 21 CREATING YOUR PLAN .............................................................29 Planning the Planning: Laying the Foundation ............................ 29 Preliminary Planning: Taking a Hard Look ................................... 32 Putting the Plan on Paper ..........................................................�� 36 Monitoring Your Plan to Ensure Profit ......................................� 48 SUMMARY .....................................................................................50
Part 2. Holistic Planned Grazing Getting Animals to the Right Place, at the Right Time, with the Right Behavior......................................................................55 MASTERING THE BASICS ......................................................... 57 Why Plan Your Grazing?
