We are over the moon to be the venue for this truly worthwhile course and totally delighted that there is so much interest that a second course needs to be run!

This course is lifechanging and the reason that the Kandanga Farm Store exists as you know it today. If we had our way this course would be taught in every school in Australia and we cannot recommend it highly enough. All bookings and enquiries will be handled directly by Inside Outside Management.

For more info see www.insideoutsidemgt.com.au

2nd course dates:

Session 1 March 31- April 1
Session 2 May 5-6
Session 3 June 30 – July 1
Session 4 August 18-19

Mary Valley HM course pdf

What is covered –

Session 1:

• • What sustains us? The four eco-foundation blocks that support all human endeavour.
    • Water Cycle – making every drop count; ways to improve the efficiency of your rainfall.
    • Mineral Cycle – ensuring the fast cycling of minerals to promote biodiversity.
    • Solar Energy Flow – maximising the transformation of sunlight to dollars through the photosynthetic process.
    • Community Dynamics – understanding the links between all living things, to create a stable, diverse and profitable environment.
  • New concepts about the functioning of nature.
    • Nature functions in wholes – discover why our present view of nature as interconnected parts cannot work.
    • Understand the time factor in grazing and why time and not animal numbers causes overgrazing.
    • Learn about the Brittleness Scale, and why some environments deteriorate when rested.
    • Understand the relationship between grazing animals, their predators and the plants.

Session 2:

• • Introduction to Holistic Management – demonstrates why conventional decision making is failing us in our holistic world.
  • Setting Holistic Context – learn how to create your own holistic context with the values that are uniquely yours.
  • Testing decisions –  understand the seven testing questions that ensure every decision you make moves you towards your context.

Session 3:

• • Holistic Grazing Planning®
  • Learn how to get your animals to the right place at the right time for the right reasons.  Understand how animals can be used as tools to increase biodiversity and long term profitability. Discover how to monitor grass growth to give plants maximum chance to achieve their potential, and to accurately estimate standing feed to budget your stock requirement.
  • Read the soil surface to obtain the earliest indication that you may be straying off course. Learn how to set up monitoring and photographic sites.

Session 4: 

• • Holistic Financial Planning – wealth generation
  • Plan your profits
  • Holistic Land Planning

A process that will help you create the lives you want from the land, far into the future.

The cost of the eight days of training includes the text book – Allan Savory’s “Holistic Management – a New Framework for Making Decisions”, the Holistic Management handbook, financial and grazing planning resources, morning teas, lunch and a great time! Participant numbers will not exceed 25 people.