By Jackie Eshelman at White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia for the CREATE course I sit in the dark, creaking in a weathered rocking chair perched on the rickety front porch of an old home on a sleepy street in …
Designing an Upstream Economy Using the Holistic Management – In the Policy Mode
By Andrea Malmberg Long before I went through Holistic Management planning processes, I walked people through creating policy and designed research holistically. I still refer back to the original textbook, Holistic Resource Management, where the “modes of application” are described …
Releasing Anxiety and Creativity through Holistic Planned Grazing
By Andrea Malmberg I had the immense pleasure of walking several miles with my head down toward the soil surface last fall and spring on an exceptionally well-managed ranch in eastern Oregon. My charge was to establish an Ecological Health …
How to Establish Dung Beetles in Pastures (and Why You Want to Do This)
By Spencer Smith. This article appeared in the November 2018 issue of Acres U.S.A.magazine. Read the full excerpt below. How I Became Interested in Dung Beetles I only recently became interested in dung beetles, largely because it has only been recently that …
Meet a Carbon Farmer | Carbon Farming Principles, Management Strategies & Benefits for Farms, Ranches
This article excerpt originally appeared in the May 2018 Vol 48, No. 5 issue of ACRES USA magazine. It is written by Abbey and Spencer Smith. Readers may view and download a full PDF of this article. Introduction to Carbon Farming …
Families working together: how regeneration really happens
The following Letter to the Editor was sent to the Eating Well magazine editorial team in response to an article by Barry Estabrook about regenerative agriculture. Allan Savory and our family’s ranch, Springs Ranch is featured in the article. The editor, …
Holistic Planned Grazing: Supporting a Drought-Resilient Landscape
– This article first appeared in the July 2017 issues of ACRES USA Magazine. Written by Abbey and Spencer Smith In California, many farmers and ranchers are either drilling wells to get more water for their crops or putting in …
Holistic Planned Grazing for maximum forage production and livestock gains
– This article first appeared in the June 2017 issue of ACRES USA Magazine. Written by Abbey and Spencer Smith In our courses and workshops, we meet many different livestock producers and graziers. We find that they come to our …
Holistic Planned Grazing: Enhancing Biodiversity, Wildlife Habitat
This article originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of ACRES USA magazine. It is written by Abbey and Spencer Smith, edited by Jody Butterfield. Readers may view and download a full PDF of this article. A key concept in …
How to Regenerate the Earth: Farm to Table Talk Podcast
It was an honor to talk with Rodger, the host of the Farm to Table Talk podcast about the work of the Savory Global Network. Rodger writes: “Meat consumption has been blamed for climate change but what if this is …