What is Holistic Management?

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Holistic Management gives us the power to regenerate grasslands from an ecological, economic, and social perspective. While regenerating Earth’s desertifying global grasslands is our mission here at the Savory Institute, Holistic Management is so much more than just grazing.
Holistic Management is a framework for managing complexity. The living world is comprised of beautifully and infinitely complex adaptive living systems - land, animals, people, plants, fungi, and more all interconnected and in relationship - and the way we manage decisions amidst these complex living systems matters.
In this modern, industrial era, we have all been taught from an early age to reduce a problem down to its simplest components. This reductionist thinking works for machines and other “complicated” systems whose individual parts can be fully defined and understood, but when biology enters the picture, so too do randomness and emerging properties. Much to our chagrin, living systems cannot be controlled, only influenced. When managing these complex living systems, we must shift from “control” to “cooperation.”
Whether you are managing a farm, a family, or an organization, Holistic Management provides a framework for making decisions that ensure ecological, social, and financial needs are met, both in the short and long term.
Holistic Management provides a framework for decision-making - rooted in the fundamentals of ecosystem processes - and with a suite of planning procedures that include planned grazing, land planning, financial planning, and ecological monitoring.
The most well-known aspect of Holistic Management is Holistic Planned Grazing (HPG), though they are often mistaken as being one and the same.
While Holistic Management is the overall framework for decision-making, HPG is a planning procedure for charting grazing moves that considers the time that a plant is exposed to a grazing animal so that the plant’s recovery is planned. In short, HPG helps farmers, ranchers, and pastoralists get animals to the right place at the right time with the right behavior and for the right reasons.
In addition to planned grazing, the suite of Holistic Management planning procedures also includes land planning, financial planning, and ecological monitoring.

[@B.A.512]

These insights from Holistic grazing are so important right now, where governments try to ban meat eating and dairy. Offcourse there is a grey area here, but livestock and cattle is crucial ❤

[@b_uppy]

Government agencies and politicians that have partnered with globalist elitists and corporate conglomerates who want more money for less in return...

[@marlan5470]

There are serious death-peddlers in politics and lobbies. All their policies end up serving Death. They use "good intentions" (sometimes referred to as Ideals), then twist them around and cause Death.

[@arielcarol3113]

When you are eating grass fed animals, you do not need to eat as much of it to have your nutritional needs met!

[@jaymannewell]

If this doesn't have a million likes by may I will be sad.

[@SavoryInstitute]

Share it far and wide!

[@pohkeee]

Do your part! Subscribe and share…then politely drop the information in your conversations when and wherever you can!

[@jaymannewell]

@@pohkeee Year late, been there done that.

[@hcrone]

Great video, thanks. 🙂👍

[@joelschittenhelm5571]

This is very important

[@9realitycheck9]

My grandfather and his local neighbors were doing mob grazing and pasture rotations back in the 1930s...my Dad followed and today I am doing likewise.. my daughter is now learning from me.

[@ChefJollyRoger]

thats awesome!! please make videos about it. we need more voices

[@erikasulcz6426]

Great solution

[@rogercoronell3636]

For evolving and thriving human need to come back to get in synchrony with nature, with our Earth, our Sun and entire Universe! To reach Humanity is up to each one of us.

[@la912]

Very well explained 👍

[@adamfontana537]

Such a great and simple idea. I have seen the difference on my little 10 acres.

[@odhiamboomulo5937]

How many animals do you keep?

[@adamfontana537]

@@odhiamboomulo5937 I have about 1000 chickens, 30 goats and 10 Dexter cattle

[@peterclark6290]

The video could have provided an extra minute or so to explain how deep, friable 'cathedral' soils are made and sustained, which can attenuate droughts and flooding by storing rainfall in situ naturally, and by doing so addressing existential concerns such as food security along with the Eden-ification (beauty) of the land used by pastoralists who know they are part of an ecology wherever they are situated. We can leave viewers to work out the nutritional density benefits of herbivore meat (Keto-Carnivore) at a later time.

[@oceanwonders]

The animation part was nice.

[@solarpoweredfarm8813]

Thank you

[@AlexanderYoung-fm5rz]

Great job!

[@MARIALUIZA-vu3no]

God bless your job🎉❤

[@JorgeFredyNunez]

Is there the possibility of having audio in Spanish?

[@downbntout]

Pretty video, discusses HM of rangelands well. But Alan Savory intended HM's decision framework to fit all kinds of enterprises, right on up to governments. It's a persistent perception that HM is only about cows.

[@ayoungethan]

Yes, the core of HM is about how we perceive our relationships and make decisions and that needs to grow far beyond those who are directly responsible for land management

[@100024kivar]

This is so good, when comes the time that this is normal?

[@johannesantila5738]

After World War III

[@peterclark6290]

Only one problem, with 'hoofs break up compaction'? That's always been the most beneficial function of roots, protozoa, fungi, worms, etc. Some graziers limit the size of their beasts for that specific reason. For those with larger beasts only accelerated rotation can avoid it (more work). Pastoral care for a planet beckons all on this journey. Reclaim deserts, restore rain distribution, endless, seamless ecosystems nourishing on many levels a loving 'master'.

[@ayoungethan]

No, compaction is moreso a byproduct of faltering biological processes than merely a physical process from too much weight. It can occur through chronic animal impact. But the compaction they discuss in the video is moreso soil capping (biological or chemical), which is a byproduct of chronically bare soil directly exposed to sun and rain, both. Hooves are excellent at breaking apart that hydrophobic layer to lay mulch and allow water to soak into the soil profile vs run across it and cause erosion and flooding and drought. And the biological impacts of closely bunched animals moving across a landscape contributes to all those other factors you identify as helping to reverse soil compaction. So it is highly inaccurate to blame animal size.

[@peterclark6290]

@@ayoungethan 'No' yourself bud. [sign of a imbalanced mind when it's their favourite first word] Compaction generally requires long-term human 'impact' which you glossed over as 'chronic' or 'faltering biology'. Ditto capping (which was not hinted at) is merely the application of common sense. The Yeoman's plough used as an step 1 amendment works better for formerly irrigated/over-worked soils as animals would barely scratch the surface and thus take too long (situation-dependent) when restoring land to arability.

[@marlan5470]

Holistic management, regenerative ag, permaculture, etc. is not for the stupid. One can have masters and phd's but if one's stupid, decades in academia won't help with setting up a successful regenerative operation, while a humble herder in a poor country will be successful (and won't be poor for very long).

[@peterclark6290]

@@marlan5470 A comment not even worth making ML, delete it. Everybody is stupid in some areas, they also know not to pretend that they do. Regen has many levels and you don't need to know the biology, how the soil is restructured, the interactions between the airborne nutrients, or how they are extracted deep underground. Applying the basics is good enough.

[@jaimehernandezamin]

Hello! Can I translate the video to Spanish, a small chip in from my part.

[@eola8]

That would be nice!

[@rogercoronell3636]

Do you mean setting Spanish CC? for share with spanish speaker? Please please let me know what type of tool you have in mind. I coud be summing to your project.

[@peterclark6290]

Quick fix: Open the transcript (3 dots, bottom, right) Remove the time stamps (3 dots, top left) Copy the transcript Paste it into a translator (e.g. Google Translate) [You can do this for this comment to start off with and post it in Spanish]

[@JorgeFredyNunez]

@@peterclark6290 There is no option for Spanish

[@peterclark6290]

@@JorgeFredyNunez I gave you one, it requires effort

[@moldyketchuphead]

Other than permaculture, I haven't been able to find guidance on how to holistically manage my own 1/2 acre plot. Are there small animals like poultry or others than can be managed on a smaller scale? I think it's great to think big with large scale regenerative agriculture, but I also think individually we can all make a difference as well.

[@arielcarol3113]

Rabbits and chickens are what work best for our 2 acre farm. The rabbit pellets are amazing for the gardens. And, they provide healthy food for us and our dogs. I am still purchasing chicken and rabbit food to supplement their foraged food. Also they take time & there is a learning curve!

[@pimpskywalker3187]

You could also turn that plot into a Food Forest 🌳 in you have the time

[@codniggh1139]

yes, also ducks and pigs- Pigs and sheeps help a lot with fruit tree pests when they eat the infected fruits.

[@b_uppy]

Mar Lan @ayoungethan You said every year. Burning occured where the animals failed to graze. *When the grass oxidizes, its unpalatable (also low nutrition).* You do know what oxidation of grass does? (especially since I told you). The grazing itself is the regenerative act. The oxidation determined the burn area. '20 acres' is too small to attract the large herds, especially when the surrounding area is in bad shape as well. We now know how to manage without burning. When farming and ranching, it is mob grazing and alley cropping trees, shrubs, vines and perennials. In urban and residential areas we with trees. We need to restore the ecosystem that built up the water. The trees are slowly creeping back in, naturally. It is necessary because water sources like Oglalla Aquifer are below 20%, due to bad ag practices.

[@pandastory-abookseriesabou8568]

​👌🏻​ Agreed ​💫

[@practicalphilosophy9031]

💚🙏💚

[@b_uppy]

Nice looking, but too simple. Many corporate conglomerates can use this video to say 'see, we're doing this' and the lack of info would fool consumers lacking knowledge in what constitutes good versus bad. Thank you for showing the land as savannas instead of grassland alone. Native Americans messed up when they started burning. It helped them spot prey and predators, but it also meant they had keep burning because they had altered fauna patterns so much that grasses oxidized, and this needed more burning. It removed critical resources, and now we must work on planting trees so water recharges the aquifers thru the carbon left by trees' tap roots.

[@ayoungethan]

Its not that simple. They didn't just burn to give a better view. They didn't burn every year, either. Fire can help with regenerative management but probably needs to play a far more specialized andmarginal though still important role in ecosystems generally compared to biological nutrient cycling.

[@marlan5470]

They burned a small local area every 20 years. And they rotated. (North America).

[@Mount_Jax]

I'm sorry, but blaming North America's sad state of natural biodiversity, declining ecosystem, and poor land management on indigenous people is extremely false and ignorant. Where do you even get off thinking this way!? Also, burning in selected areas improves new growth from the ash fertilizing the soil and creating a fresh space certain important plant and grass species to thrive again if the area is to conjested or over populated with something not edible, useful or just drawing too much nutrients from the soil making it harder for other species to thrive.

[@b_uppy]

@@Mount_Jax You're just repeating ignorant shtick that perpetuates myth. Burning became a crutch that absolutely changed the flora and fauna. That they're 'indigenous" fails to excuse the knock-on problems they caused. That they managed a rhythm that allowed them to survive despite that is good, but we need to be honest about the bigger picture.

[@practicalphilosophy9031]

Opossums for example eat five thousand harmful flees a year - start with your back yard and the animal friends there by giving them their space and assisting in their harmonious survival.

[@pohkeee]

The irony in an economic system? If you’re going to populate and regenerate the grasslands of the world? You have to have the social and/or monetized, incentive to maintain sufficient ruminant herds. In other words…we must find humane ways to continue meat consumption. Idealized and “ Disney” fairytales are not an ecological consideration to Mother Nature’s balance. We are either working with Earth’s ecological realities, or we are creating more problems. Wisdom isn’t always the warm and fuzzy easy answer.

[@rypatmackrock]

And the more I am learning about the savory Institute; the more I am learning how they are answering those very questions too. You should check out the TED talks regarding the savory Institute.