Friends of HMI

The following links to other websites are for informational purposes only. Holistic Management International is not responsible for the content of any site to which we provide a link. The content may or may not relate directly to Holistic Management, but could be of interest to those interested in Holistic Management.

Arizona

HRM of Arizona

Colorado

Whole New Concepts
P.O. Box 218
Lewis, CO 81327
www.wholenewconcepts.com
Cindy Dvergsten
970/882-4222

Texas Websites

Texas Organic Growers Association

Native Prairies Association of Texas 

Garden-Ville - Malcolm Beck

Sustainable Growth Texas - Dallas/Ft. Worth & Soils Alive - Michael Bosco

Childress Farm - Bob Childress

DWD Longhorns & Bandera Grassland - Debbie & Don Davis

Hill Country Conservancy - Frank Davis

Ranching School of Hard Knocks - Walt Davis

Heifer International - Mike Everett

Sand Creek Farm - Ben Godfrey

Shadow Mountain Ranch - Sharon Lane

The Reed Ranch - Jim & Judy Reed

Drs. Dick and Pat Richardson

Betsy Ross' Grassfed Beef & Sustainable Growth Texas - Betsy Ross

PlanIt Texas Member Organizations

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Texas Wildlife Association

Texas Parks & Wildlife

Audubon Texas

Nature Conservancy of Texas

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers

Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers

US Fish & Wildlife Service

Texas Dept. Agriculture

Native Plant Society of Texas

National Wildlife Federation

Texas Chapter Wildlife Society

Texas Cooperative Extension

Other Websites

Managing Wholes
This grassroots site is about management for simultaneous social, financial,
and ecological benefit. Our goal is to promote change toward a future that works.
 

Bud Williams Stockmanship School
Teaching low stress livestock handling methods and more. People can be trained in stockmanship and management techniques that eliminate stress and, in fact, make handling episodes positive to performance, quality, and animal welfare. It is just a bonus that, by working your animals in this way, you will get the job done faster and with less stress on yourself and your crew.

Ecoresults
EcoResults! measures the effectiveness of any land management action by monitoring the land’s response to that action. By doing this we are in essence asking Nature if that action works or not. We don’t measure effectiveness in terms of victories achieved in the areas of legislation, regulation or litigation, or in terms of the amount of land being managed according to policies we advocate, as many other environmental providers do.

Grassland Beef
Grass-fed beef that is tender, juicy, meaty and available online. Our family of producers uses the U.S. Wellness Meats production protocol to ensure that the quality of the product you receive is consistent time after time.

Hoven Farms
Hoven Farms Certified Organic Beef: free of artificial hormones and antibiotics, fed organic grass and grain that has not been sprayed with chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, never have been fed animal by-products, and free ranged on beautiful Alberta pastures.

Jeff Goebel
We work on conflict resolution through consensus building, serving organizations, groups, and families confronting complex issues, involving multiple agendas, and seeking lasting, win/win solutions. Our approach begins with seeking to understand the root causes of conflict, identifying all the stakeholders involved, and bringing them together in a collaborative process of visioning, trust building, and negotiation.

Joe & Julie Morris / T.O. Cattle Company
Morris Grassfed Beef – every cent of your purchase goes to support rural communities, biodiversity on the lands we manage, and delicious, healthy food for your family.

Kinnett Ranch
Sponsored listings of ranchland for sale in Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and other states, Dude Ranch vacations, and more.

Land EKG
At Land EKG™, our mission is to help private and public land stewards—ranchers, agencies and conservationists —maximize solar profit by creating healthy soil systems with diverse plant and animal communities.

Land Stewardship Project
The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities.

Majestic Merino
Majestic Merino has a unique range of pure, itch-free, quality merino wool products, produced from Australian sheep carefully selected and bred for their soft handling wool. We also carry crafts and garments featuring natural fibres for the discerning shopper.

Oregon Country Beef
Country Natural Beef is a conduit allowing individual family ranches to own, control and finance our beef from birth of the calf to our retail customer. This conduit serves as a two way bridge - providing value to our urban customer's meal and meaning to our rancher's work.

Reed Family Ranch The Reed Family Ranch is 1,700 acres located in north central Texas, in Navarro County. Miles of the legendary Trinity River border the Ranch, which is famous for its exceptional wildlife habitat.

Sustaining Art
Unique art created by and for people who care about the earth. Since 1993 Sustaining Art has worked to create a heartfelt connection between the urban dweller and the land upon which all life depends through beautifully crafted art.

Swanton Pacific Ranch
is located in Santa Cruz County at the northern reaches of California’s Central Coast and the Monterey Bay. The 3,200 acre property is a landscape composed of a majestic redwood forest, lush riverine ecosystems and expansive coastal grassland overlooking the bay and the Pacific Ocean.

Agroecology
Agroecology is the application of ecology to the design and management of sustainable agroecosystems. This website is an information resource for developing sustainable food systems, emphasizing training, research, and application of agroecological science to solving real world problems.

American Grassfed Association
American Grassfed Association protects and promotes true grassfed producers & grassfed products through national communication, education, research and marketing efforts.

Butte College Agriculture and Natural Resource Department
T he Butte College offers courses that are tailored to fit the individual. Butte College's programs are designed so that the student can earn an associate degree, a certificate of achievement, or completion of the first two years general education towards an advanced degree.

Center for Rural Affairs
The Center for Rural Affairs works to establish strong rural communities, social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, and genuine opportunity for all while engaging people in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities.

The Change Project
The Change project is dedicated to using the power of the turbulence around us to help build a world that works. We are moving from a psychological "terra firma" to a world that feels far more oceanic, with few landmarks, hidden and conflicting currents, and sudden overwhelming storms. The trend toward instability is long-term and global. It is not likely to get easier any time soon.

Grandin Livestock Systems
Dr. Grandin is an author ("Animals in Translation") and designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries.

Holocene Design Company
Holocene Design offers a planning and envisioning service, providing a framework for strategic planning and goal formation enhanced by an understanding of SUNstainability. Our participatory approach encourages innovation and dialogue.

The Kerr Center
The Kerr Center is a private non-profit foundation that engages in scientific, educational, and charitable activities.Yhe Agricultural Division of the Kerr Foundation was established to provide farmers and ranchers in the area with free technical assistance and information on how to improve their operations.

Missouri Alternatives Center
The Missouri Alternatives Center serves as a communications center for Missouri farmers, Extension staff, government personal and people who want to begin farming, diversify their current operation, or find ways to profit from small amounts of acreage. The center has answered more than 55,000 information requests on approximately 2,800 topics since opening in 1989.

The Natural Step
The Natural Step is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, advisory work and research in sustainable development.

Quivira Coalition
The mission of The Quivira Coalition is to build resilience by fostering ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.

Range Magazine
RANGE magazine is an award-winning publication devoted to the issues that threaten the West, its people, lifestyles, lands and wildlife. Known for its powerful photos and straight talk, RANGE exposes a land and lifestyle in crisis and shows how daily challenges are being met with grit, determination and humor.

Simultaneous Policy
The Simultaneous Policy (Simpol) aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction, and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone.

Sirolli Institute
The Sirolli Institute is an international, social enterprise with the mission of introducing Enterprise Facilitation to communities seeking to grow from within. From the first project in Esperance, Western Australia in 1985 we have continued to engage with passionate practitioners and civic leaders who believe that entrepreneurship is important to a sustainable and thriving local economy.

Sustainable Northwest
Sustainable Northwest provides dedicated, nonpartisan support for a community-oriented, conservation-based economy in the West. Sustainable Northwest helps people and communities restore and maintain ecological health, balance diverse interests, and promote economic opportunities.lt;/p>

Grazing Taller Northwest
Grazing Taller captures benefits for pasture, cattle, and building soil. Observing impacts underground, across seasons and at milking, this dairyman is figuring out how to solve global warming while improving quality of life.

YES! The Journal of Positive Futures
The Positive Futures Network is an independent, nonprofit organization supporting people’s active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world.The Positive Futures Network (PFN) and its publication YES! magazine start with the belief that we need deep change if we are to avoid the breakdown of society and the natural world.

Water for the Recovery of the Climate: A New Water Paradigm
Our goal is to show relation of the water cycle change and the climate change, possibilities of the recovery of the climate by restoring water cycle, possibilities and significance of the anti-flood prevention as well as prevention against droughts, and the need of integrated management of water sources in the land.

WikiScience
Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.