3. Holistic Management

Cooperation with Savory Institute

Maja 12May17 - Abbey assured me, that my doubts with grasslands are not valid. Only if we would like to create a Savory's Hub, we would have to have a land managed in the right way. For being a Champion I don't even need a land, so whether we want to restore grasslands or plant forests or just learn and teach about Holistic Management - Savory Institue is with us ;)

To join as a champion there is a yearly fee 99$. That includes the online course "Foundation of Holistic Management" that is worth the same (and more - details in the attached flyer below). I would like to take that course to be able to introduce HM properly.

Stef 16Apr17 - very good question, why not ask them directly? See my comments above under Challenges about clarifying your vision in this respect. Was looking forward to the presentation you mention but ... could have combined very well with your end of EVS presentation!? Please do add details here of courses you could take with SI and make some plans (but try to first contact them about your doubts).

Maja 25Feb17 - I attended the webinar about how to get involved with Savory Institute. I attached pdf files that are a summary of this. Basically, I could go for the Champion and later on for Acredited Professional, for the Hub we don´t have right resources yet, most important - land and focus.

Anyway, I realised that to get involved with Savory Institute in any way, I shouldn´t consider Grazing without the whole Management structure. That includes the Context, decision-making processes, Monitoring and Financial planning.

I would like to start implementing that step by step, I will present the idea to the rest od 8thLife community, as we all should be on board with that.

Also - Abbey Smith pointed out that Savory Institute is focused on recovering grasslands. From what I know, Canaries were forests once and that is what we want to do - not grasslands. My idea was to use Holistic Grazing to build the soils and then plant trees on them. Is that viable? Is working with SI viable then?