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When we examine the lives of HolisticManagement practitioners, we soon becomeaware of how much they share in common—the external realities of their land, animals,techniques, and challenges. Then as we godeeper, we realize just how unique eachperson is in his/her internal landscape. Herewe discover what Allan Savory calls “thedriving force behind every decision we make.”And we also find, to our surprise and delight,the capacity for the practice of HolisticManagement not just to heal the land, theenvironment, and fractious communities, but also to heal ourselves—to unite ourfragmented psyches into a whole thatexperiences life as peaceful, happy andproductive.

It is within this context that I write thestory of the Morris family—Joe, Julie, Sarahand Jack—of San Juan Bautista, California.

It only takes a half-cup of coffee sittingaround the kitchen table of Julie and Joe’scomfortable ranch house to get to the

beginning: Julie laughingly recalls the run-up totheir wedding in 1991. “Two weeks before theceremony, when my friends thought I shouldbe involved with dresses, parties and plans, Joeand I attended a three-day seminar on HolisticManagement in Santa Cruz led by NaseemRahka. We were so excited that we defined ourwhole and wrote our three-part (holistic) goalon the way home! It has been updated as Sarahand Jack came along (now 9 and 7), but todayit’s basically the same affirmation of values andarticulation of who we are and who we wantto become.”

There it is: a marriage by two twenty-

somethings (actually 24 and 29 in the case ofJulie and Joe) completely grounded in HolisticManagement as a way of life—perhaps notcompletely unique, but certainly unusual inthis, the early stages of the evolution of HolisticManagement as a way of life. Because they hadthat shared framework of Holistic Managementfrom which to “grow” their marriage, they havebeen able to exponentially work toward the lifethey want. And what led them to the seminar?

Uniting Two Worlds

“In 1990 I was teaching at a Jesuit highschool in Washington DC,” Joe explains. “I wasworking the bookshelves at the library inpreparation for a class on social justice. Next tothe works of James Baldwin was a smallvolume that caught my eye because it had aunique title—Home Economics. Curious, theterm seemed so old-fashioned, I pulled it downand began reading a commentary by WendellBerry on the linkage between agriculture andour under girding human culture. I got excitedbecause it was a connection that hadcompletely eluded me. See, I possessed twoseemingly unrelated halves—first a person thatknew he wanted to be a cowboy at age three,and then a person who longed for social justicein the world. After college at Notre Dame,where I majored in the Great Books program, Ihad gone from cowboying at the 14,000-cowEllison Ranching Company property in Nevadafor two years to serving the poor in the barriosof Caracas, Venezuela for two years to sixmonths at the Graduate Theological UnionSeminary in California. Then back to my oldcowboy job for a year and a half, and on to

HM2—Holistic Management SquaredRobert Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Working with All Thy NeighborsRobert Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A Letter To My BankerFloss Garner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

47 Ranch UpdateAnn Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Life PlanningAspen Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Holistic Management helped Joe & JulieMorris learn how to bring theirfragmented lives into a unified whole.Now Joe & Julie, with children Jack &Sarah, are creating the life they wanttogether. Read their story beginning onpage one.

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Washington and teaching Spanish and socialstudies. You can readily see that I was tornbetween two worlds.

“I went home and told my house-mateabout reading Berry’s stimulating perspectives.He had more of Berry’s works, and I devouredthem. Then my friend gave me an issue of theWorld Monitor with an article on Allan Savory.‘Read this,’ he said. It blew me away! Now Icould not only see that my love of the landand my love of working for positive culturalchange were reconcilable in theory, there wasin fact a way that I could do both,simultaneously!”

Wait . . .WashingtonDC seems a strangelanding place in thistrajectory of soul-drivenflip-flops. WhyWashington? Joe laughs,“The short answer is thatJulie was there!”

Julie picks up the ball.“Let me explain. Joe and Iboth grew up in SanFrancisco and attendedCatholic schools. One ofmy friends at St. RoseAcademy (a girls’ school)had an older brother atthe University of NotreDame. So I knew of Joethen, but actually didn’tmeet him until aftercollege. At the time I hada job in Washington as areporter with Thompson Newspapers. Joe cameto DC after a year of our corresponding, andthat’s where we got to know each other. Afterhis Holistic Management epiphany, we headedback to California, where I continued to writefor newspapers, and Joe looked for ways to getinto ranching holistically.”

More Than Resource Management

Joe recalls, “I couldn’t find a job withHolistic Management practitioners, so I was allears when my parents and my uncle, who hadinherited my grandparents’ 200-acre ranch here,suggested I take it on as a home-base forexperiencing a sort of ‘master’s degree’ programin Holistic Management.” (Joe’s lineage includesfive generations of ranch owners, but the

tradition of active cattle ranching had ceasedwith his grandfather, J. J. Baumgartner. J.J. waswell known for continuing into the 1980’s,under the T.O. Cattle Company aegis, thevaquero tradition of the historic Santa MargaritaRanch (which became Camp Pendleton in1942). “We now lease another 7,000 acres andrun 200 cows plus replacements, 80 two-year-olds for our Morris Grassfed Beef business, and1800 head of stockers on a gain basis. We do allthis with one full-time employee, EverettSparling, and one part-time employee, Joy Law.”

Before we look at Joe and Julie’s “master’sdegree” course work, coffee cups are moved

aside and the 4 lb., 14” x 12”, 300-plus page book,Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destructionof the American West book is presented. Thethesis of the book is that cattle should bebanned from public—and therefore, byextension, private—lands. What do the partnershave to say to this? Julie takes up the challenge.“The crux of their argument is that cattle areruining the land. Holistic Management says thatcattle aren’t ruining the land, it is management,that is, decision-making, that produces eitherhealing or damage. Cattle are merely a means.”

In this book George Weuerthner haswritten a series of chapters with provocativetitles such as “The Donut Diet: The Too-Good-to-Be-True Claims of Holistic Management” and“Using a Hammer to Swat Mosquitoes: Livestock

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Joe & Julie Morris offer field days as part of their marketingand educational efforts to neighbors, customers, and localpolicy makers. They have hosted well over 1,000 people at fielddays and discussions on their property.

Profitable Outreach

Julie and Joe are philosophers, ecologists,and social activists, and they are prophets aswell. They have hosted well over 1,000 peopleat demonstrations and discussions on theirproperties, especially at the home place in thefoothills of the Gabilan Range, so beautiful thatJohn Steinbeck’s book title, Pastures of Heaven,immediately comes to mind. Does that mean1,000 new Holistic Management practitioners?

“No,” Julie shakes her head ruefully. Joeexplains, “Basically you have three kinds ofattendees. First are commercial cattle people.Some of them are attracted to what they hearand see, but most can’t figure out how to use it

as Management ‘Tools.’ ” Joe, who like Julie, hasnot seen the book before, reacts. “Look, I’m notgoing to say that the results of HolisticManagement practitioners are perfect or evenuniform. Many people have adopted only partsof the process. Even those of us who are fullycommitted to using all aspects of HolisticManagement often have an incompleteperspective of just what we’ve tapped into.

“For example, I’ve been at this thing for over10 years, and I really just ‘got it’ at a dinnerwith Allan Savory in December when hedescribed the evolution of HolisticManagement, and that it is at its heart adecision-making process with an integrity of itsown. Before, I thought of HolisticManagement as a resource managementmodel or perhaps as an economic model.You see, Julie and I have had apredisposition to ‘think holistically.’ Butthat actually inhibited our understandingof Holistic Management as first and foremost a process thatabsolutely demands a clear delineation ofthe questions that should inform decision-making. While I recognized that there isan inherent interrelated nature in allthings, this mind-set didn’t translate into asystematic analysis, because I assumedthere was no need to go further. Butthinking holistically is not the same asmanaging holistically.

“Take a proposed action. In applyingthe Holistic Management® testing guidelines Iwould consider how the action would affectour gross margin and how it would affect thewhole ecosystem. But I didn’t think about howan increased gross margin might affect theecosystem; nor did I ask, habitually, several ofthe other five questions. That left the questionof sustainability unanswered.”

“I’ll give you another barrier to the properuse of the Holistic Management® model,” Joeconcludes. “People have a great faith, andproperly so, in their intuition. But they arepredisposed to use their gut feelings up front,without informing their intuitive capacities byconsideration of the whole under management,the holistic goal, the ecosystem processes, thetools and the testing guidelines. If you look atthe 2004 Holistic Management® model—which Inow carry with me all the time as a result ofthat meeting with Allan—you will see that thesociety and culture testing guideline, which hasa lot of the ‘How do you feel now?’ question init, comes last, after all the other tests. That’swhen the gut feelings should come in.”

more common phenomenon, and it is vital. Wemust lead this dynamic, not merely react to it.”

Julie picks up the trail. “And this realizationis what is at the heart of one of the mostimportant Holistic Management decisions thatwe have made for the business. Because publicagencies now have a need to have their landsmanaged for biodiversity and other ecologicalconsiderations, that need can be monetized.And there are private land owners who will pay for it, too.”

Whoa . . . the Morris’ are getting checks fortheir resource management services? “Notchecks, but just as good,” Joe chuckles.“Reduced rent. Our leased land is 50 percent

public agency owned and 50percent privately owned. There aretwo state park parcels, one wildliferefuge and three private ranches.Our landlords want substantiveresults on the land. So in exchangefor the planning and monitoringthat produces and verifies theseresults, we pay reduced rents in acouple of cases.” He stares out acrossthe grasslands sloping down fromthe house and calculates. “Hmm . . .the rent savings totals in excess ofseveral thousand dollars a year. Andthis is payment for managing theland just the way we would want toanyway!”

The Choice of A NewGeneration

What other major decisions have beenmade using the Holistic Management process?“Hiring Everett Sparling, our full-time employee.That gave us more time for planning andmonitoring,” Joe explains. “Another would beteaching all the field trips; and, of course,Morris Grassfed Beef, which came out of anannual planning process when we werebrainstorming new income potentials.”

Julie, the business manager of thatenterprise, takes up the baton. “Grass fed iscompletely in alignment with our holistic goal.It is healthy, it is delicious, and it is good for theland where it is raised. We are what we eat;therefore, we are what the animals eat. Ourgrass fed cattle have a completely organic dietof fresh grass, forbs and legumes and cleanwater. No synthetic hormones, no antibiotics—just real things! (See accompanying sidebarabout how the Joe raises the cattle on page 14).

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Joe continues to learn as part of his HolisticManagement “master’s program” in which he works toproduce top quality grassfed beef for Julie to market andcontinues to improve their owned and leased land base.

personally. Also, so much of what they see isjust plain familiar—bulls, cows, calves, grass,water and so on. When they look, everything ismore or less standing still. They don’t see thecontinual cattle movement, the monitoring, andthe long planning sessions that are a part ofHolistic Management. They know and acceptthat every cattle rancher does some things alittle differently than they do, so what aHolistic Management practitioner does canalmost seem idiosyncratic rather than as an actripe with potentially revolutionary outcomes.

“Then there are the small ranchers, thosewith less than 200 head. These people almostall have ‘day jobs.’ To them, the additional costsassociated with Holistic Management usuallydon’t meet the marginal reaction test. And thenyou have the bureaucrats whose responsibilityis managing public lands, scientists, and the like.Here is where it gets interesting. Althoughthese people don’t run cattle themselves, theyare increasingly dictating how cattle are usedon the lands they manage. This is a more and

commodity market while remaining competitivewith the retail market. Five years ago we grassfed and sold 10 heifers. Last year we were up to50, this year it will be close to 70. We’ll probablytop out at 100 because it’s important to us tomaintain continuing relationships with ourcustomer—for example, we invite them to anannual Spring Wildflower Walk and BBQ at the Pacheco State Park where they bring theirfamilies and see how we operate.”

“We’ll stop at 100, but grass fed is the way of the future,” Joe asserts. “Our industrial systemof grain fed beef is unsustainable. Start to finish;grain fed takes 250 gallons of fuel per head toproduce, while grass fed, which is based uponsunlight, is one percent of that. What adifference! Another thing, grass fed is verydemocratic—grasslands can never be ownershipconcentrated the way grain fed cattle are. Sograss fed encourages local economics, something we strongly believe in.”

The Answers Are There

What are the challenges at hand for the

Morrises and their practice of HolisticManagement? Joe and Julie put their headstogether and emerge with a list.

1 . To convert their acquired knowledge intomore marketable products such as consulting.

2 . To better learn how to use animalimpact to produce perennial grasslands inCalifornia.

3 . To learn how to get paid for producingecological values on the land, such as carbonsequestration, improved hydrology, andimproved community dynamics in the form of greater health of species.

4. To use Holistic Management habituallyon a daily basis, including in the upbringing ofSarah and Jack.

The last item, a greater use of HolisticManagement, raises a question of just howmuch time Joe and Julie devote to planning and monitoring. Julie calculates, “Rough,financial 10-12 days per year. It should be twoor three times that. Biological . . .” Joe nods, says, “10 or 12 days, that’s pretty good.” Juliefinishes, “Personal, we talk more than we do

about it . . . ugh!”Final comments? Julie, “Holistic Management

is living the way you want to live.” Joe, “Youknow, Holistic Management takes the worry outof questions and problems. The answersalready exist because they reside in the holisticgoal. Just work the process! It’s analogous to theidea that a beautiful sculpture is already in arock. It just needs to be set free.”

The author wishes to acknowledge that J.J.Baumgartner was a foremost role model andinfluence for him, especially during the years1958 to 1974, and therefore the process ofwriting this article was a labor of love thatwill be long treasured. Also, thank you MariaRacquard—an extraordinary animalbehaviorist and rescuer—for inspiring thehumane treatment sidebar. For web addressesof more than a dozen articles on variousaspects of the Morris operations, please emailme, Robert Graham, at [email protected]. Joe & Julie Morris can be contacted at:[email protected].


In March 2003, a handful of San Benito County residents (population53,000) announced plans to put a growth limitation measure before their

Board of Supervisors. The proponents contended that the county, feeling thepressure of an influx of people from the Silicon Valley 50 miles northward(at a 45 percent growth rate in the 1990s, it was California’s fastest growingcounty), needed to preserve agricultural land in unincorporated areas. Thewell-intentioned plan easily gathered 6,000 signatures and went to theSupervisors who approved it outright 4-1. By then, details of the plan beganto be examined more closely and controversy erupted. The plan changed thezoning of many agricultural properties in a way that highly restricted theirowners’ ability to make decisions.

Joe and Julie Morris came out against the measure, as did many in theagricultural and the business community. Opponents gathered 5,000signatures, which caused the Supervisors to call for a referendum. Thepopulation became polarized. Environmentalists, who championed the plan,saw agriculture as an enemy in the matter (the ultimate paradox as itoriginated in a desire to save agricultural land from urban encroachment)and vice versa.

“It was terrible,” Joe recalls. “We are members of both the agricultural andthe environmental communities. We believed the measure was flawed, butsome of our friends thought we were traitors. We had to do something!”

In July 2003, the Morrises organized a two-day consensus buildingworkshop moderated by Jeff Goebel from Oregon. Julie recounts the event.“It was very hot in the gathering hall those days. We attracted 100 people

from all sides—ranchers, business people, the plan sponsors, educators and soon. We worked toward developing a common vision. Jeff got us in groups,and when we came back into a big circle everyone wanted the same things—clear air and water, good schools and so on. We came up with a ‘BestOutcome.’ It was marvelous.”

Joe picks up, “But the train had already left the station headed for a ballotmeasure in 2004. Both sides used the Best Outcome against each other. Wecalled another meeting in November to see if we could bring testing guidelinesinto play [to determine which actions would best lead us to the best outcome].But November was as cold as July hot. There was little movement among the40 attendees. I moderated and that was difficult, because I wasn’t neutral.

“We had another session in January. The purpose was to distinguishbetween goals and tools [objectives versus how to achieve those objectives], adistinction that gave people fits. Some people who had worked with Jeffmoderated the session. There were 60 people there and we did secure apromise from both sides that they would continue to work together after thevote.”

On March 2, 2004 the measure was defeated 7,900 to 3,600. What’s next?Joe says, “After the period of gloating by the winners and sour grapes by thelosers, I want to get Jeff back down here so that we can continue the process.It sure isn’t easy, but I really want to share the lessons I’ve learned and myknowledge of the land and its relationships with our neighbors. This is theway I can do it.”

—Robert Graham

Working With All Thy Neighbors

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Floss and her husband, Jerry, and son, Tony, manage the 47 Ranch Company nearBrownlee, Nebraska. The ranch had been inFloss’ family just over 50 years when we firstpublished this article in 1986..

e were recently asked by ourbanker how we were able to cut

$71,000 from our expenses ina single year (and also why we hadn’tdone it before!). I have been a bitstumped for a simple explanation.But this is what I told him:

Labor was up considerablybecause our hired man’s kids wantedto work after school and onweekends, and we didn’t think it wasright for them to work for nothing.Repairs were up $3,400 because of anirrigation motor we had to fix. Fuelwas down because we shut off one ofthe irrigation motors. We also boughta four-wheeler to use in checkingpastures, which helped with theoverall fuel bill. Veterinary expenseswere down because we eliminatedabsolutely everything we felt wecould, and because we had a goodcalving season. Feed was downbecause we eliminated cake andprotein blocks for the cows aftercalving. We’d been told by so manyfeed dealers and vets that the cowsneed that boost to make them cycle before weturn the bulls in that we always did it. But wewere exposing many more cows to the bullsthan usual, and we decided to see how good apreg. rate we could achieve without the blocks.We came out with a 92 percent rate! So we decided we wouldn’t buy blocks againunless we had a bad winter and the cows wereobviously in very poor shape going into calving.

Fertilizer was down because of eliminatingthe irrigation in one area and fertilizerapplications in extra meadows, which we haddone on a rotation basis in the past. Utilitieswere up because rates went up. Trucking wasdown—we didn’t haul any cattle to the otherplaces this year, or any old cows to far-awayauctions. Taxes were up—mostly because of the

extra labor. We cut the interest down a littleand wished we could have cut more.

Insurance was down because we took offsome of the older machinery that insurancewould no longer replace anyway. Dues weredown because we changed accountants. Ourlease figures were down because of ourargument with the Board of Educational Lands

and Funds. After all my figuring, percentages,logic and all the rest of it, what made themlower the lease was the fact that we shut off the water. Lease figures would have been evenlower had we not had to lease more pasturewhen the drought made it necessary.Depreciation was down because for once wedidn’t have to buy too many bulls (only 5!) and because we didn’t have to trade anyvehicles or expensive machinery.

The main reason we were able to do this was the Center for Holistic ResourceManagement. We spent a total of $4,500 goingto the Rancher/Farmer School, the ManagementWorkshop and a number of meetings withpeople who share the same goals—to improveour land and our lives and to make this a

paying proposition (motels and meals costmore than the schools!).

We will be many years implementing all thethings we want to do. We did put in aboutthree miles of new fence this year (and plan for a total of 25 more!) and put down one newwell, which includes a very expensive, solar-powered pump. The pump is movable and

can be used on several of the existing wells(somehow, it lacks the “old west” flavor of awindmill turning in the wind).

The biggest thing responsible for our successin cutting expenses was a change in attitude,which is something we gained from the schoolsand workshops. We have spent many hoursaround the kitchen table with charts, calculators,planning sheets, trying to implement themanagement suggestions we got at the schoolsand as a result are very optimistic about thefuture of 47 Ranch Company and ranching ingeneral—a minority view in this business these days.

One thing that will set us back quite a bit

A Letter to My Bankerby Floss Garner

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Floss, Jerry, and Tony Garner have worked hard to continue improving their land in the NebraskaSandhills. In this picture the Garners’ land is on the left and their neighbor’s is on the right. As youcan see, the darker color on the left demonstrates the improved health and production of theGarners’ land. The Garners’ land is also more consistently covered with vegetation, with less of the“blowouts” often seen in the Sandhill area.

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for 1986 is that we are having to buy hay, whichwe have never done before. The extreme dryweather last spring and summer made our haycrop the shortest on record, and we simply didnot have enough to see us through until spring.We were short by more than half. We soldmore cows than we had planned on but stilldidn’t have enough, and we didn’t want tototally sell out the “factory.” (We figure eachday we don’t have to feed the cows saves about $225.)

On the brighter side, despite the drought of last spring and summer, we increased ourstocking rate. We’ve never had more than

grazing part of ranching.Everyone in ranching is very aware of the

great need to cut back all we can. We knowthat all areas of the rural economy are introuble; but the things we learned from theschools were the reason we were able to makethose cuts, and Holistic Management is helpingus hold to the goals we set. Whether we cancontinue this kind of reduction in expensesdepends on breakdowns, inflation, interest rates —the whole thing. But I feel we havemade great progress. A lot of changes are inthe works. One, even long, letter can’t begin totell it all. But I hope this gives you some ideaof the past year—and the future.

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450 adult cattle on the home pastures in thesummer. This last summer, we had just over600 head of adult cattle on the pastures. Andwe did have enough grass for them in spite ofthe drought. Moreover, the cows probablylooked better going into winter than they everhave. And they sure looked better than theneighbors’ cattle. We achieved this with thegrazing planning. Using only what pastures and the set-up we have, we applied what welearned at the Rancher/Farmer School.

I just wish Dad could have been here to see this because so many years ago he wasarguing with the Soil Conservation Servicepeople that there had to be a better way—andnow we’ve found it. If we’ve done this well in a dry year, I can’t wait to see what we can do in a normal year.

Lest you fall into the trap of thinking thatHolistic Resource Management is strictly agrazing plan—which is what the researchers anduniversity people see it as—let me assure youthat it is so much more than just the grazingthat it staggers the mind. The best proof of thatis in what we’ve done with the expenses, and itcovers far more than either the financial or the

The biggest thing responsible for our success in cuttingexpenses was a change in

attitude, which is something we gained from the schools and workshops

Italked with Floss last May to get an update on this story. She had just read an article in the Omaha World Herald in which someone was

quoted as saying that Holistic Management was risky and not provensuccessful. It made her stop and think that she and her family had been managing holistically for almost 20 years and had found it to be very successful. The Garners have continued to hold their costs downover the years and continued to maintain land and animal productivitydespite drought. They have continued to reduce paddock size and increase paddock numbers (they began with 10 paddocks and now have 50).

When I asked Floss what has challenged her family most over theyears, she replied, “Quality of life.” While Floss & Jerry’s son, Tony, workson the ranch, and they’ve had a niece join them, it’s hard to find ranch help so that the family can take a break. She also wishes they wouldn’thave made some decisions so quickly before they first really understoodHolistic Management. They have put in nine new water points on theirranch over the years. One of the earlier ones was put on a high point to maximize wind energy to run the windmill. Unfortunately, it has

led to trailing near that water point. This realization led to using solar pumps in places where the land can

handle the extra traffic. They have also experimented with tire tanks ratherthan the recommended 20-30 feet diameter stock tanks that local expertssay are necessary to water 570 head of cattle. They have found that thesmaller tanks fill up more quickly and all the animals can take a turn at it,with calves having more access to the water, and less chance of theanimals getting into the tank. They’ve done the cost analysis of a solarpump and well versus pipeline to increase water points, and for them thepipe doesn’t pass the marginal reaction test.

The Garners know the next step for them is to develop their “end gameplan.” With that in mind they are talking to the other relatives who haveownership in the land, and beginning to explore their options. “The peoplestuff is the hardest,” says Floss. “We used to have weekly meetings, and thatmade it easier because we all had a sense of working on things together.When Tony went to hear Allan speak last year, he felt inspired again. Weneed to find people we can learn from.”

—Ann Adams

47 Ranch Update

We’ve never had more than 450 adult cattle on the homepastures in the summer. This last summer, we had just over 600 head of adult cattle on

the pastures. And we did haveenough grass for them in

spite of the drought.


For me, the principle behind the value ofplanning can be summarized as follows.It puts me in a proactive rather than

reactive position. As a result, I am placed in aposition of choice and control. I am movedaway from crisis management, where theactivities have charge of my life, toward aposition where I define what activities will beattended to and when. I am able to adapt tochange in a response-able way. The benefits to me are increased efficiency and reducedstress at all levels.

Adapting to Circumstances

I feel that understanding the principle of planning enables me to develop newprocedures to address the ever-evolvingcircumstances in the life of a small landholder.Over the four and a half years that we havebeen managing this land, we have beenmoving into greater levels of complexity.Keeping so many “balls in the air” at the same time was beginning to overstretch ourmanagement capabilities. We were beingdrawn further and further into crisismanagement. We were spending more timeattending to tasks as they presentedthemselves and less time planning andenvisioning the future toward which wewanted to work. We were losing oureffectiveness and efficiency. It was whilelearning about grazing planning that I askedmyself why the same principle could not beused to plan and control this very multi-disciplinary life of ours.

Creating a New Procedure

I set about identifying all the various areasof activity: Area 0 (House, House Keeping,Administration, Finance, Marketing, PayingGuests, Workshops, Internships, Volunteers);Area 1 (Greenhouse, Vegetable Garden); Area 2(Perennial Nursery, Forest Garden); Area 3(Farm); Area 4 (Structural Forest); Area 5(Conservation Forest); Area 6 (Irrigation); Area7 (Building Projects). I adapted the FinancialPlanning Worksheet, by sub-dividing themonths into weeks, photocopied them on bothsides and allocated a sheet to each activity.

in the habit of weekly meetings as we werethe subject of my case study. So it was easy tobolt this practice on. We went through eachWorksheet to identify what had been plannedfor that week. We then transferred theinformation onto a white board which wasarranged by days of the week. In additionthere was room to add anything that we hadmissed for this year, which would be added toour Plan for 2004.

This process highlighted David’s and myvery different temperaments (see PleaseUnderstand Me 2 by David Kiersey for moreinformation on temperament analysis). I like tohave perspective, plan and manage. David ishappy to take things a day at a time and a task at a time. However, the strength of ourcommitment and agreement to the quality of

life to which we are aspiringis such that these differencesare not irreconcilable,although they result in someheated discussions!

In addition, we decidedthat we would monitor howmany things had not beencompleted by the end of the week. If there wereconsistently too many thingsthat had to be broughtforward, we needed to replan.We found that this processenabled us to challenge againthe details of the plan. Forexample, as a result ofchangeable weather, we didnot begin the greenhouseconstruction as planned. By

the time the weather cleared, and we wereready to begin building, I pointed out that we had missed the possibility of sowing earlyvegetables. There would be no use for thegreenhouse until the beginning of winter. Wecould, therefore, postpone that work and bringanother project forward. As we have becomemore familiar with the routines of our life, andthe length of time they take, so the number ofitems brought forward has reduced andcontinues to diminish.

We appreciated that all does not always goaccording to plan! There are times when otherpriorities present themselves unexpectedly.However, even these could be planned overthe space of the week. Any ‘planned crisis’

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This sample of Aspen & David Edge’s “life plan” showshow they are able to chart their time and make betteruse of it. The end result is more production and a lotless stress. Improved communication and harmony aresome additional added bonuses.

We then summarized this information byarea of activity onto one sheet to see if therewere any significant peaks or troughs in ourwork. If there were, this highlighted thosetimes when we would be overloaded, in whichcase we needed to replan the tasks. We did thisby starting at the point at which we plannedthe completion of the task and workedbackwards. Where it was possible to adjusttiming through re-scheduling the activity, wedid so. Where it was not possible to adjusttiming, we planned to obtain extra voluntaryhelp to ensure that we met our deadline.

We then arranged that every Sundaymorning we would have a Life Planningmeeting, which lasted about an hour. Throughmy Certified Educator studies, we were already

My husband, David, and I then spent aweek thinking through all the tasks thatcomprised each area of activity. We thenentered each task onto the Activity Worksheetand marked on what week we planned to dothe task. At the end of this exercise we had 15 Worksheets completed, some running ontotwo sides. These activities represented theeight areas mentioned above, together withany activity within those that was largeenough to warrant separate identification, forexample my Certified Educator studies.


was entered onto the white board in red, andagain we monitored to ensure that these redentries didn’t start to dominate the board, inwhich case we needed to take stock andreplan. In fact, we discovered that there werevery few situations that demanded instantattention to the exclusion of all else and henceleft us no opportunity to plan. For example,our neighbor, a goat farmer, works on a veryhere and now basis. He will often come andsay he is ready to plant today and ask if hecan borrow the rotovator (rototiller). Thetempting response is to agree immediately.However, we are encouraging ourselves to goindoors and check our white board to seewhether we can honestly respond in that waywithout throwing the whole week’s plan intodisarray. We place ourselves in a position ofchoice and, therefore, control.

Added Bonus

One of the jokes in our family is thatwhenever David and I are discussing how to achieve a particular goal, we will havecompletely opposite points of view! Workingtowards consensus has been our ongoingpractice through 20 years of life together.However, when we installed our Life Planningprocess, we discovered that it facilitated themanagement of diversity within the decision-makers, as well as diversity within the wholeunder management. We found that we couldsatisfy both our temperaments, mine to haveperspective, and David’s to deal with thematter in hand. I could spend time planning,deriving satisfaction from knowing where Iwas going, and David could get on with thejob, deriving satisfaction from knowing whathe was doing in the present.

The plan, which was crafted in line withour holistic goal, kept us focused on the biggerpicture and helped us keep our perspective.We also had the freedom to express our ownidiosyncratic modus operandi but withoutgetting bogged down in differences. Byplanning and delineating, we were clear aboutwhere the responsibility and accountability for any task lay. We were completely self-determining within the organization of theactivity, while at the same time in accord that

This new procedure had highlighted theextent to which crisis management had begunto dominate our lives. We had begun to attendto only activities that were at the top of thepile… the telephone call, the visitor, theneighbor asking for equipment, the volunteerasking for another job. This was taking upabout 60 percent of our time. In the words ofStephen Covey, “We were focusing on ‘things’and ‘time’ rather than on ‘relationships’ and‘results.’” With the installation of the Life Plan,we noticed that crises dropped to less than onepercent of the activities that appeared on ourweekly white board.

I was also struck by the psychologicaldifference between a “To Do” list and a “Plan.”The former seemed to take on the weight of amillstone, and the latter offered the cosettingof a personal secretary! Simply adding to a listof activities to be accomplished made us feeloverwhelmed and under pressure. Life wasbeginning to drive us rather than the otherway around. We realized that when we werehaving a hard time, we gave other people ahard time. As we were failing to meet our ownexpectations, so we increased our expectationsof others in an effort to redress our growingsense of inadequacy. When we decided to takeresponsibility for, and control over, our lifeagain, we placed ourselves in a proactiveposition. We had choices. We had time. This, in turn, enabled us to respond in the mosteffective way rather than taking the firstsolution that presented itself. We felt as thoughwe were looking after ourselves again andthat, in turn, gave us the emotional reserves tolook after others. We were no longer lookingto someone else to get us out of the situationwe had created.

After six months we found that we hadachieved more than we had expected priorto the Life Plan. During the time that crisismanagement had begun to dominate our lives, the developmental work (or the wealth-generating work) was continually beingdisplaced by the details of daily living. Oncewe had started to plan, these projects cameback onto the agenda and we begancompleting them.

For example, in our first year, when wewere facing the worst drought on record, wedecided to renovate the existing reservoir using an innovative building technique—tiresrammed with earth to provide a stabilizing

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David writes some additions or changes to the Edge’s “life plan” board.Adjustments to the timing of eventsscheduled in their life plan happens as part of their weekly meetings.

The Proof of the Pudding

After only a month we noticed a significantimprovement in our efficiency and anenormous reduction in our stress levels! I, forexample, was sleeping better. I was not wakingup at 4:00 a.m. with my mind full of a list ofactivities for the day or the backgroundanxiety that I had forgotten somethingimportant. I was able to rest secure in theknowledge that everything possible had beenplanned. All I had to focus on was whatneeded to be completed for the day, withoutthe distraction of my concerns about whatneeded to be completed in the future. Thisincreased my capacity to deal with the dailyconcerns effectively.

the completion of the task took us toward ourholistic goal. We did not interfere with howeach task was completed as we resided in thetrust that we were working toward a commongoal. Experience has taught us to avoid tryingto work together on a common task unless ithas very distinct and separate aspects. Ourdifferent approaches are often a source ofirritation, and we spend more time arguingabout how to get to our destination thanconcentrating on getting there.


wall. This was our first major project and reliedon volunteer labor for its completion. As weinitiated other wealth-generating projects, and wewere no longer facing a water crisis, renovatingthe reservoir dropped lower and lower on our‘to do” list. There was always some other prioritypresenting itself. However, once we entered therenovation of the reservoir on the plan, webrought ourselves into a position that in anothersix months the retaining wall should becomplete. If we had continued the way we hadbeen, the completion date would have been“sometime” or “never.” In addition, we were ableto bring into our planning other projects that wewould not have been able to consider previously,such as the construction of a greenhouse and asheep shed.

We rely exclusively on volunteer labor ona year round basis under the WWOOF (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms)Scheme. This means that we have youngpeople of all ages, nationalities, dispositions,and skills working with us for anything fromtwo weeks to three months. Although we onlyhave two people at a time, we had been

finding it increasingly difficult to stay ahead oftheir search for tasks. We had also found thatwe were less able to give them adequateinstruction or monitor their performanceaccurately. This meant that they were makingmistakes, which led to serious consequences.

For example, one volunteer dug up ourperennial broccoli, which left us short ofvegetables in the spring. We also hadvolunteers leave without completing their taskor not reporting a broken tool. Once we spentour time planning, we were able to thinkthrough the tasks that were most appropriate

for them to complete, provide performancecriteria, and ensure that we were managing bydelegation rather than abrogation. As a result,mistakes such as mentioned above wereeliminated, and we always stayed on top ofmanaging their time.

This application of the principle ofplanning had highlighted the fundamentalvalue of being proactive rather than reactive.We were constantly placing ourselves in aposition of choice even when a new priorityarose. When we had choice, we were incontrol, and that control produced peace ofmind. We are now in a position to adapt tochanging circumstances and yet we feel securein the sound preparation we have made. This Life Plan is here to stay!

Aspen Edge lives with her family atSemilla Besada in southern Spain and maybe contacted at [email protected] those who have noticed the variousproperty name changes . . . it’s a story in it’sown right . . . suffice it to say that SemillaBesada is the last and final choice.

With the installation of the LifePlan we noticed that crises

dropped to less than one percentof the activities that appeared on our weekly white board.

Ifirst heard about the EnergyCel™ in the Stockman Grassfarmer. Theidea intrigued me that a very simple technology could increase the

combustion efficiency of any combustion engine, thus reducing emissions and wear and tear on your engine and increasing gas mileageand horsepower.

The theory is that the EnergyCel produces a strong magnetic fieldaround your fuel line, treating your fuel as it passes through. Untreatedfuel molecules tend to “clump” together due to weak attraction betweenmolecules with similar properties. These clumps tend to burninefficiently causing power loss, lower mileage, and carbon buildup.EnergyCel’s strong magnetic field causes these “clumps” of fuel moleculesto re-align and spread apart, yielding more complete combustion andmore power production.

One “expert” opinion mentioned in EnergyCel market material is JerryCumbus, co-founder of the Automotive Research and Design Center inTulsa, Oklahoma who currently tests cars for manufacturers and writestechnical reports. In an article in the Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspaper,Jerry reports: “We can recommend the EnergyCel with no reservations. Its internal cleansing action should also extend engine life as well as keepmaintenance minimal and fuel consumption at a high efficiency level.”

I was intrigued enough by the marketing material to buy anEnergyCel. I installed it on my 1998 Chevy Prism. I can’t say I noticed any difference in horsepower, but I can say that I noticed an increase ofmiles per gallon (mpg) from my usual 39 mpg to 42mpg (an 8 percentincrease). With current gas prices that means I’ll break even in about one

to two years, because I can now use cheaper fuel as well as buy less of it.For those using bigger vehicles pulling heavy loads, the return on gasmileage should be higher, as much as 31 percent. One testimonial on theEnergyCel website notes that someone using a 2001, 95hp MasseyFerguson tractor saved $1200 a year in fuel.

What also really intrigued me was the reduction in emissions whichin the marketing material would be potentially reduced by as much as 80percent. I installed the EnergyCel and took my car to have the emissionstested. I have 95,000 miles on my car and the acceptable standard for it is220 parts per million (ppm) of hydrocarbons (HC) and 1.2 percent carbonmonoxide (CO). My emissions ended up being 7 ppm of HC and zeropercent CO. The emissions technician said he had seen new cars withzero percent, but not one with as many miles I had. I plan on buyinganother EnergyCel for my other vehicle.

This product is sold by Sharon and Bill Van Der Vlist in Houston,Texas. You can contact them at 281/852-2157, [email protected] orwww.myenergycel.com/1900. The EnergyCel costs $185 and is fully tax-deductible in the U.S. as an emissions control devise.

—Ann Adams

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Tools to Test

much resistance is in your horse. If you do not have enough trust inyour horse, it will resist and not want to give up control. When youachieve some degree of bend in the head and neck, let go, release thepressure. This is the most important aspect of all horse training, dogtraining, cattle training, or even people training. The horse learns fromthe release of the pressure, not from the pressure.

The pressure is a motivator to seek a way, which produces abehavior that can be rewarded by releasing the pressure. The release ofthe pressure is the reward that communicates to the horse that what itjust did was correct. This is what is known as negative reinforcement.The word negative is used as in a mathematical equation where you aretaking something away, a removal, not as a bad thing. Learn to releasepressure, and your horse will seek it.

If you ask for more than the horse can give and do not release, it will become confused, perhaps scared, and start to resist, perhaps evenpanic. If the horse gives a little, you give back until you can bend itshead and neck all the way around easily, regularly, and have it stay therewithout the horse moving its feet. Since this article is not about trainingtheory, it is important to understand positive reinforcement, negativereinforcement, and punishment. If these are foreign concepts to you, Isuggest you do some research on them and your training will go muchbetter. And by the way, these concepts all occur in nature and bydefinition are natural, although punishment does not occur that oftenand is the least effective.

So now you can bend your horse easily and it will stand for it. Youhave achieved a mechanical advantage over the horse, something theScythians discovered in about 1,500 BC. If you feel resistance, the horse is bracing against you somewhere in its body. As we move through theexercises you will be able to discover where and try to eliminate thatresistance. As you ask for more, you can expect resistance to occur atsome point in the process of training.

Working the Shoulders

Let us move to part two, the shoulders. The shoulders may be themost important part because they are what so many horses use to resist.Often when you are trying to disengage the hind quarters you cannotget real disengagement because the horse drops the inside shoulder (the

As holistic managers, you have already realized the importance of managing wholes. In our vernacular, it is the only management

style that will allow you to move toward your holistic goal.That concept or principle also applies to the horse. You must manage thewhole horse. The late, great Tom Dorrance once said, “It is amazing howfew people see the whole horse.” Of course, Tom saw things in the horsethat few do, as say, Allan Savory does on the land. So how does one goabout managing the whole horse? The answer is one part at a time, untilyou have the whole horse. Much like how you eat an elephant, one biteat a time.

Bending the Neck

Our management of the horse is going to start from the front andwork to the back. For our purposes we will divide the horse intosections until we have gained some control over the whole horse. Thesections or parts of the horse are: 1) the head and neck, 2) the shoulders,3) the mid section or body, and 4) the hind quarters.

Beginning with the head and neck, you should be able to bend your horse’s head around with ease (softness in the horse world). Thistechnique will begin the process of putting lateral flexion, or bend, inyour horse. The ability to bend the head and neck will give you thebeginning of a mechanicaladvantage over the horse. Thehorse is very strong when it isstraight. If it chooses to getstraight, it has the ability totake over and not respond toyour commands. The irony iseventually you want yourhorse to be very straight. The exercise looks like this:

You will achievestraightness with controlthrough lateral flexion. Thehorse’s willingness to bendwill also be a diagnostic foryou. It will tell you how

Managing the Whole Horseby Tim McGaffic

Bending the Neck Exercise

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diagonal) and is still able to stay relatively straight and engaged. Thereare many shoulder exercises that will help you control your horse better.I will cover a few here. The first is the two tracking exercise. For thisexercise, simply point your horse in a direction, and when it is walkingstraight, bend the horse’s neck to the left or right. Add your leg pressureon the side of the bend in a forward position. There are three legpositions: 1) Forward position—near girth to control front of horse, 2)Middle position—a little behind position number one to control middle of horse and 3) Back position—back near the rear cinch to control thehind quarters of the horse. While applying the leg pressure, ask yourhorse to keep moving forward, but to travel at about a 45 degree angle.

The amount of bend and leg pressure combined will dictate howmuch lateral suppleness you will have in your horse. This will help to keep the inside or bend shoulder up and moving forward and out. You can work on all of thisas you ride out to the stock. Itwill create a supple horse, andwhen you arrive at your herd,your horse will be verymaneuverable and handy. The exercise looks like this:

Another exercise that takes alittle more skill is to be able tomove your horse in a circlewhile it is bent in the oppositedirection. Walk your horseforward and start to bend it tothe right (direction notimportant), then add outside orleft rein to limit the bend while adding leg pressure in the forwardposition on the side of the bend (in this case the right leg). While youare doing this you are showing the horse where to go with the left rein.Your objective is for the horse to walk in a circle to the left whilemoving forward and having those shoulders in front of the hips. If you can steer your horseanywhere like this with littleresistance, you are on theroad to a handy horse. The exercise looks like this:

The Perfect Circle

The third and next partof the horse is the rib cage.For this exercise, ride yourhorse in a fairly small, butnot too small, circle (about 15feet in diameter). As youtravel on this circle, yourhorse’s body should mirrorthe radius of the circle. Start with the horse’s head and neck and add legpressure at about the same time. Your horse may want to accelerate. If itdoes, you have an energy leak and should bend the horse more andmake it very difficult to move forward. Try not to just stop the horse(unless it is an emergency). Your goal is for the horse to stay on thecircle with its body arced so that the radius of the circle passes right

through in between its nostrils, throat latch, shoulder blades and thusmid line. Your horse is moving forward not side ways with his bodymirroring the radius of the circle size you have chosen with the amountof bend you put in the horse.

When you can do this with no pressure on the reins or legs, yourhorse is staying where you put it. The horse is between your hands andlegs, and you have done a very good job at rewarding it with a releasemany times until it has actually achieved the behavior. This type ofexercise is called shaping or successive approximations. It is breakingdown the maneuver into small parts and rewarding it. If you can do this,you are getting good at horse training. If you have problems, go back tothe front and ask yourself, “How can I be more rewarding? How can Icommunicate what I want better?”

Your horse is not trying to mess with you, but is only doing what it thinks you want or it has to do to protect itself. Always master oneexercise completely before you move to the next. There are manydifferent exercises and techniques to achieve the same behavior, butthere are only a few principles on how the horse learns. Remember torelease and thus reward graduations to the eventual maneuver. Neverteach a new maneuver (behavior) by doing the full maneuver. Break itdown into smaller sequences.

Training for Tomorrow

Now for the last part of the horse, the hind quarters. If you can rideall the previous maneuvers, this is probably going to be easy. If it is not,then you probably don’t have the shoulders and rib cage under control.Return to your perfect circle with the horse’s body on the radius. As youwalk the horse forward, you will need to slow the front end down alittle. You will do this by taking up on the leading rein, which is thebend side rein and holding firm the outside rein so as not to lose thebend. Then, slow the horse just a little with the outside rein and add leg pressure to the inside in the back position.

Your horse should start to step out with its hind quarters. You willfeel the inside hind coming underneath you. If you do not feel this, look at it so you can tell what is going on and can reward the correctbehavior. When you can do this, and move the horse’s hind quarterseach direction, try it at a back up. When you can do that, then bend the horse slightly in one direction and see if you can move the hindquarters in the same direction as the bend. If you can do this, you are on the way to spins, roll backs, lead departures and other more advanced maneuvers. Moving your horse in the direction of the bend is much more difficult than moving its body away from the bend. You no longer have the mechanical advantage, and you will need awilling, understanding horse. Your horse will need to yield to legpressure very well while being held in the face. If you can’t do this yet, simply go back and keep practicing the simpler exercises until you have a high level of success with them consistently. It is very easy to do these exercises on trails and in pastures as you ride to thestock. Remember the horse is learning all the time, so be aware enough to know what you are teaching it. You are always preparing it for tomorrow.

Tim McGaffic is a Certified Educator and professional horsetrainer. He lives in Marina Del Ray, California and can be reached at: [email protected].

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Editor’s Note: We thought this excerpt would be of interest to our Land& Livestock readers as a followup to Robert Graham’s sidebar on JoeMorris’ treatment of his animals (see page 14). This excerpt specificallyaddresses the various ailments that result or are connected to copperdeficiency in cattle and natural treatments for those ailments. There is additional information through numerous websites as well as theavailability of the complete article at [email protected]. We encourageyou to test the tools discussed in this article toward your holistic goal,just as you would any other decision.

Foot Rot

This is a highly contagious disease in animals atrisk through copper deficiency. The organism livesin most pastures and copper deficient animals willvery soon pick it up. The winter and spring of 1992,which was incredibly wet, produced an amazingnumber of calls from people with foot rot afflictedstock, and an equal number of thankful ones who,when supplementing with the stock licks, hadcleared it up very quickly. One lady who milkedtwo very fine house cows that became very lame with bad cases of foot rot, found that a tablespoon of copper sulfate in the evening bailfeed cured it overnight. The cows were, of course, getting dolomite intheir feed.

The disease causes smelly, suppurating and very sore feet, sometimeswith large proud flesh growths forming in between the toes. Ifconfronted with that condition, a sprinkling of straight copper sulfate onthe growth after dipping the feet in the copper wash will help the proudflesh to disintegrate. The wash should be made up of two pounds ofcopper sulfate to two gallons of water and two pints of vinegar. Thevinegar acts as a water softener to make the mixture soak into thelesions. Raising copper levels in the food, or giving the licks andmaintaining the cattle at the correct level, is the quickest cure (and thebest prevention), and there will be no recurrence even on the same land.However, if the farm has had artificial fertilizers used on it, the problemwill be ongoing until the imbalances can be corrected.

Keratin, which depends on adequate sulfur and copper in the diet, isthe component that gives skin and hair its strength. When foot rot (footscald) starts, a thin, red line will be seen between the toes of the cow.This happens when the skin has inadequate keratin and is breakingdown allowing the entry of the causative organism.

Diarrhea

This is caused by an imbalance in the gut due to poor feed, lack ofminerals, or interior parasites, all of which can place the cow at risk.However, Hungerford, the basic veterinary authority in Australia, suggeststhat diarrhea is nearly always due to a shortfall in copper. Give the lickby mouth — just put the powder straight in. Care must be taken that the

patient does not dehydrate. Drench in liquids if necessary. Sometimes atablespoon of vitamin C and the same of dolomite works well; half thisamount is very good in calf scours which is usually caused by a lack ofmagnesium in the diet. However, as Hungerford states in his Diseases ofLivestock, a lack of copper is often the cause in weaners and adults; it isalso often the cause of worm infestations as well.

A beef cattle farmer I knew had 80 head that were in a bad way. Herang me because one was down and he had tried every drench in thebook without success. He brought the ill one into the cattle yards with

the tractor. I suggested that he give it twotablespoons of the lick and the same of vitamin Cmorning and night for two days. I said that by then itshould be well on the way to recovery. He told methat it jumped out of pen the day after that. He thenran the remaining cattle through the race and gaveeach their two tablespoons of the lick. I asked him ifit was difficult. He said he opened their mouths withhis left hand and with a scoop that held the exactamount of the dose, he threw it into each beast’smouth. The job took him just over half an hour and

the herd recovered completely. Obviously the soil health had to beattended to and the lick made available ad lib at all times. The lick mustbe kept dry or the copper is lost by chemical action in half an hour.

Infertility

The cause needs to be determined. If the cows do not come in seasonfully, the most likely cause is lack of copper. See that the cows haveaccess to the lick in feed or ad lib or amend the diet if what theycurrently receive is insufficient. Cows that fail to hold to service (alwaysassuming that the male is fertile) are, unless non-breeders, suffering froma lack of vitamin A. An injection of vitamins A and D, or A, D and Ebefore the next heat will usually mean the failure will not occur again.Otherwise, supplementation with some sort of vitamin A coming up toservice, or feeding the stock on a well-grown green crop, would ensurethey hold.

This sort of infertility is apt to occur after or during a long drought(which is probably how the native fauna are regulated). Particular careshould be taken of the bulls in that case as vitamin A related infertility is usually irreversible in males. A lack of selenium is another reason forpoor or complete infertility in bulls. The sperm will be weak and few inquantity, and those that are there will tend to drop their tails. Luckilyseaweed contains selenium in an organic form and making sure that stud animals receive their ration of the lick regularly will go a long way to ensuring sperm quality and quantity.

Worms and Liver Fluke Drench resistance strikes fear into everyonethese days, but it seems to be a fact of life. The worms adapt to drenches faster than we can make new ones. Even the Ivermectin group, which was supposed to be proof against drench resistance, has

Pat Coleby’s Natural Treatments Cattle Ailments Common Ailments and Remedies (excerpt)

A worm count of 200 or below is not a

concern in properlysupplemented and

fed animals.

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now succumbed. Each new drench has a limited life as long as it isof a chemical composition.

The answer to worms lies in good husbandry which has beenoutlined in earlier chapters. We shall never be able to beat the worms, so we must use an organic system of farming that lets the dung beetles,earth worms and soil fauna do it for us. This must be allied to a diet highenough in the necessary minerals to stop the worms from becoming ascourge. Dr. William A. Albrecht says in his works that animals who have the right amount of copper in their systems do not have wormproblems. Farmers who have fully remineralized their land and have itin good heart have, in many cases, given up drenching on a regular basis. Most of them also see that their cattle have licks available whenthey want them.

Given the information in Chapter 8 in the section on copper, where itis pointed out that Dr. Albrecht found worm infestations (of any kind)only occurred in copper deficient animals, thesection below on different kinds of worms isacademic. It has been noticeable with all stock thatfluke, tape worm and coccidia are the first andeasiest to prevent with even quite small amounts ofcopper. Those farmers with cattle on the lickdescribed in Chapter 8 will find that drenchingbecomes a thing of the past. A worm count of 200 orbelow is not a concern in properly supplementedand fed animals; in fact, a “wormless” beast usually isnot very well since worms do not live in unhealthyanimals. Not only actual worms, but all protozoa-type infections alsoappear to be caused by a lack of copper in the diet. It took me and other farmers a few years to realize that many of the conditions, such as coccidia and possibly toxoplasmosis, just were not occurring once the ration was in order.

As the copper in the lick prevents the worms from staying in the gutof the cattle, they will surely die out fairly soon as they have to liveinside a beast to complete their life cycle. It is interesting that wormcounts done soon after beasts arrive often show a quite high count ofeggs, but no adults either mature or immature. Another week or two on the lick is probably enough to see that the animal is fully clear. When hatched worms just do not stay in an animal whose copperreserves are correct.

Copper and worms

I have not used any proprietary drenches for just on 30 years now.Copper sulfate, with various additions, was used for many years prior tothe advent of artificial chemical drenches in the late 1950s. The copperwas mixed with either carbon tetrachloride (a very poisonous cleaningfluid), lead arsenate (another dangerous poison) or nicotine sulphate,which was possibly the safest of the three. I very much doubt if thereported deaths were often due to copper poisoning.

Copper toxicity causes liver damage which, if not treated, is fatal. Wefound out that when copper is administered with dolomite, there is littlerisk unless the cattle have been grazing heliotrope or some other weedhigh in copper like Patterson’s curse or St. John’s wort; however, if theyhad, the chance of a worm burden would be virtually nil, because of thehigh copper content of all three.

According to the Department of Primary Industry in Queensland, theblood serum levels of copper in a bovine should be between 500 and1,100 milliliters per liter, at which levels worm infestations would beunlikely. In all cases of suspected worm infestation, a count should betaken either by the vet, or as many farmers the world over these daysdo, examining the manure with a microscope (a school qualitymicroscope will do).

Long standing copper overload can apparently be corrected by givingthe affected cow dolomite on a permanent basis. This can be given with

an injection of vitamin B15 (10 cc), Pangamic acid (10 cc) and vitamin C (20 cc) in the same syringe oncea week. This has been tried in the field on farmswhere too much copper has been spread on the land.For immediate copper poisoning, give the beast atablespoon of dolomite and vitamin C powder bymouth every few hours, and 10 cc of vitamin B15 with30 cc of sodium ascorbate (vitamin C) in the samesyringe by injection. This can be given every fewhours, although a calf that I first did this work onrecovered fully in an hour and a half and further

doses were not necessary. Signs of copper poisoning are misery and ahunched up appearance—in effect, acute belly ache due to liver pain.

According to Justine Glass, black animals need about six timesmore copper than white ones. Consult the section on copper fordeficiency signs.

Initially several friends who ran cattle, horses, sheep or goatsexperimented using copper instead of proprietary drenches, with verysatisfactory results. The only controlled experiment was performed withgoats and the Department of Agriculture did the tests. Half were giventhe latest state-of-the-art drench (not Ivermectin), and half were giventhe copper sulfate/dolomite/vitamin C dose. The results were equal— 100 percent clear in both cases.

When I first started using copper sulfate instead of proprietarydrenches, I could not find any guidelines and Dr. Albrecht, whose worksshow that copper prevents worm infestations, does not mention dosagequantities. A retired vet lent me a copy of the British Veterinary Codex(1952) and I was able to work out amounts from that source. I hadreckoned that monogastrics need about half the amount on body weightthat ruminants require; however, work done by the University ofMinnesota on ponies and copper requirements suggests that equinesactually top the list as far as copper requirement or tolerance goes.

Black animals need about six times more

copper than white ones.

continued on page 14

14 Land & Livestock * Ju ly/Augus t 2004

The animal handling philosophy of Joe and Julie Morris (see mainarticle on page one) can be summed up as two concepts: respect

and the mimicry of nature. They believe in orchestrating low stressenvironments from birth through death. Joe,Joy, and Everett have attended the BudWilliams Stockmanship School and workedwith Tom Dorrance. They have also beeninfluenced by the work of the well-knownanimal behaviorist Dr. Temple Grandin ofColorado State University.

Joe studies how animals interact in thewild and then seeks to duplicate thosepatterns. This has led to spring calving, ratherthan the traditional fall calving practices inCalifornia. This means the cattle have agrassland diet supplemented only by smallfeedings of minerals. It means honoring thenormal biological cycle by not using growthhormones. It means no deworming, exceptwith copper sulfate fed free choice. “We seek a balance in the biological community.Humans have parasites as a matter of course,and we don’t sterilize our insides. Whyshould the worms in cattle that are part of their normal ecological system beeliminated?” Joe asks. “We are trying tomanage for the health of animals, land andourselves—not against the health of worms.”

Invasive, stressful procedures areminimized to those deemed absolutelynecessary. When they are performed at

branding time—namely roping, vaccination, castration, anddehorning—the emphasis is on speed, safety and elegant, effectiveexecution. “Animals and people are alike: we all can stand fairly high

stress for short periods, but the killer ischronic stress,” Joe states.

Brandings are conducted as an artform in keeping with the vaquerotradition inherited from Joe’s grandfather,J. J. Baumgartner. Only acculturatedcowhands—and kids who aspire to be—participate. People come from 90 miles around for the ritual and social interaction.

The second time of stress in the life ofa Morris Grassfed animal is at death. Tominimize this, the cattle are kept on theirhomeland grass through the night andthen loaded into trailers at first light.Morris aims to have them first in line atthe slaughterhouse with water waiting inthe holding pens. When the time comes,the cattle are funneled through a curvedconcrete chute (Grandin’s design concept),a door drops behind and within 10 to 30seconds a captive bolt stunning gun isused to induce instant unconsciousnessand death without causing pain.

It is all part of a pattern for Joe andJulie Morris that can be summed up as“conscious living, conscious dying.”

—Robert Graham

Working With Animal Nature

I have discussed running copper through the diet with various vetsand at least one did not have apoplexy, but was genuinely impressedand interested because to use his exact words, “We have come to the endof the line with proprietary drenches.” That was 18 years ago and thesituation has not improved with the years.

Modern strategy

I found that telling people to drench their animals with copper anddolomite, etc., was not a success, but what does work is prevention asunderlined many times in this book.

Pat Coleby’s Natural Treatmentscontinued from page 13

Using the skills of the vaquero and theunderstanding of livestock learned from BudWilliams and Tom Dorrance and their families,Joe & Julie can doctor sick cattle among the herdwith little stress. The animals can reunite with theherd immediately after they get up, and a longtrek to the corral is unnecessary. Understandingand skills add considerably to the Morris’ qualityof life, while low tech and low energy inputs-—such as ropes and solar powered horses—pass thetests for the Morrises.

Working with various farmers we evolved the lick mentioned inChapter 8. It has been eminently successful and it is no longer necessary to think about the old strategic drenching. It takes a full year to build up the copper reserves in an animal and only then doesthe coat stay a good strong color the whole year through. The cattle’s continuing good health on the regime seems to be the only consequence.

This article was first published in Acres USA and is available via e-mail upon request by contacting [email protected].

Africa Centre News

Last March the staff and board of the AfricaCentre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe

undertook to restructure the Centre to clarifyroles, streamline operations and enhancecommunications. The exercise began withrefining their holistic goal, which helped clarifymany of the roles and responsibilities and guided the restructuring, which was completedthe end of May.

The Centre is now run from fourseparate offices to minimize stafftravel, with each office headed by asection manager: Huggins Matangaoversees the administration office inVictoria Falls, and continues to serveas Africa Centre Director, responsiblefor overall operations; Elias Ncubeheads our Community Programssection and is based at our office inthe Wange Community; Roger Parry is responsible for client relations(tourism) and is based at the elephantcamp on Dimbangombe Ranch;Rodger Savory is ranch manager andis based at Dimbangombe Ranchheadquarters. Although the politicaland economic turmoil (inflation is600%) in Zimbabwe remains, theAfrica Centre staff and board remain confident of their success.

the herdsmen. That proviso was a good idea intheory, but didn’t work in practice. Theherdsmen came and went, which made trainingthem in planned grazing impossible. The cattleowners weren’t paying the herdsmen regularly or enough to make it worth their while. So wehired the herdsmen ourselves, trained them, andrequired the villagers to cover veterinaryexpenses for their animals (vaccinations, ormedicines for sick animals), and that worked.

Now, two years later, our herd of 600 cattleand goats has been herded according to plan, and

T h e

GRAPEVINEnews f rom t he savo r y cen te r * peop le , p rograms & p ro jec t s

Land Restoration

In the late ‘90s the Africa Centre startedrunning a small herd of cattle on

Dimbangombe Ranch. The animals were herdedaccording to a very simple grazing plan, but the herd was too small to make much of animpact. Three years ago, we invited villagerswho had no forage to bring their cattle ontoDimbangombe with the proviso that they supply

Training Program Update

The Savory Center’s 2003 Mexico CertifiedEducator Training Program participants

completed their last intensive the end of June in Chiapas, Mexico. This is the first CertifiedEducator program taught entirely in anotherlanguage (Spanish) and includes participants from throughout Mexico.

Several of the participants in the NortheastRegion’s Certified Educator Training Programreceived funding from Northeast SustainableAgriculture Research & Education (NE-SARE) for interested participants to work together todevelop Holistic Management Decision Cases. A decision case is a teaching tool developed by Harvard and modified at the University ofMinnesota. It appears to be an ideal model for

teaching various aspects of the HolisticManagement® decision-making process. Led by Dr. John Gerber and Dr. Constance Neely, the groupmet April 23-25 to explore the many possibilitiesfor using decision cases as a tool for teachingHolistic Management and to begin developingdecision cases.

The 2002 North Central Region’s CertifiedEducator Training Program will meet the lastweekend of July as they prepare for their last sixmonths before graduation and begin to write theircase studies. They will be meeting at the KelloggBiological Station, an experimental station, inBattle Creek, Michigan.

South African Conference

This March “Our Management Club” (themanagement club begun by Dick & Judy

Richardson) arranged The South African HolisticManagement Annual Conference at Tiger Kloof,Vryburg. The conference theme was “HandlingChange.” Despite its local nature, it was a trulyinternational event, attended by 149 delegatesfrom seven countries including: South Africa,Namibia, Australia, U.S., Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland.

The five-day program began with a pre-conference excursion to two farms near Kimberley.On Willowbank, the Barnes family's irrigation farmon the Vaal River near Kimberley, participantslearned about the challenges of sustainable cropproduction and livestock on pastures using HolisticManagement principles. Topics covered throughoutthe conference included: the connection betweenrumen pH and rumen microbes, permacropping,transitioning family business, fair and sound estate plans, conflict resolution, adaptingmanagement to the brittleness scale of theecosystem, human response to change, evaluatinginformation for effective decision-making, andmanagement clubs as an effective tool forsupporting and sustaining change.

The same vlei in 2004 is now dominated by high-qualityperennial forage growing freely everywhere under planned

grazing by a herd of 600 cattle and goats. Wildlife is abundant—elephant, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, kudu and impala, in particular.



In 1987 this vlei (meadow) onDimbangombe was undercontinuous graze by a herd ofabout 100 cattle. Most plants areovergrazed and only grow freely inthe protection of thorn bushes, asshown here. Wildlife was scarce,only a few small antelope species.


their impact has been enormous. It helped thatwe had average rains for the first time in threeyears, but the areas impacted by the herd are soobvious that the improvement is not entirely dueto good rains. Areas the cattle didn’t reach are stillmostly bare ground. On areas right beside themthat were grazed and trampled by the herd it’shard to find any bare ground. We expect ourmonitoring, which was being done as we weregoing to press, will tell quite a story.

The most exciting improvement has occurredalong the Dimbangombe River, which rises onthe property. A couple of years ago we werecontemplating planting a few reeds in the hopeof re-establishing them. Now the river hasthickets of reeds along its entire length--and we thought they needed some help!

Certified Educator Gathering

On May 1 and 2, the Africa Centre hosted a Certified Educator gathering that drew 20

participants from Namibia, Zimbabwe, SouthAfrica, Australia and the U.S. The topics discussedincluded the restructuring of The Savory Center’seducation programs, and programs beingpioneered in Southern Africa and Australia, thelimited role of the Africa Centre has played inpromoting Holistic Management in Africa andwhat its future role could be. (The association of Southern African educators, CommunityDynamics, has largely fulfilled this role in

Southern Africa over the past few years).

International Certified EducatorTraining

The Africa Centre hosted the first session ofour 2004 International Certified Educator

Training program May 2-9. The participants comefrom Southern Africa, Europe, Australia and theU.S.—our most diverse group ever. They include aprogram officer fromthe United NationsEnvironmentalProgramme/WorldConservationMonitoring Centre inCambridge, England, a political activistfrom Zimbabwe, a bio-dynamicfarmer/educator from Germany whoworks with mentallyhandicapped children,ranchers/farmersfrom Australia, SouthAfrica, and the U.S., a communitydevelopmentconsultant from SouthAfrica, the Asia/AfricaProgram Manager for

Humane Society International and a scientist withthe U.S. Humane Society.

Certified Educator Dick Richardson (SouthAfrica), the program facilitator, will work with adifferent co-facilitator for each of the remainingthree sessions over the next two years. HelenCarrell from Australia co-facilitated this session.Wiebke Volkmann, a Certified Educator fromNamibia, is the program mentor.

Australia Gathering

Holistic Decision Making Association(HDMA) of Australia and New Zealand met

on May 1 for their Annual General Meeting andfield day at the Coughlan family farm inMorundah, New South Wales. The Coughlan’sbeautiful farm, “Tarabah,” provided a reallyworthwhile “case study” of Holistic Managementin action. The Coughlans’ ability to come throughthe recent drought without having purchasedfeed and still have a fair supply of feedremaining as the winter growing seasonapproaches were strong indicators of theireffective thought process and planning at work.Approximately 60 people were in attendance forthat event including Savory Center Board ofDirector Chair, Rio de la Vista (who is also anHDMA board member).

On April 30, in conjunction with HDMA’sannual meeting, Certified Educators Mark Gardner and Graeme Hand offered a “HolisticManagement in Action” course. Rio, who alsoattended this workshop noted, “One of the key

them effectively to build a stronger whole.”

New Publication

The Savory Center, through the work of theNortheast Certified Educator Training

Program participants and funding throughNortheast Sustainable Agriculture Research &Education (NE-SARE) and Growing New Farmers(New England Small Farm Institute), has releaseda new publication, Improving Whole FarmPlanning Through Better Decision-Making. Ifyou are a new farmer or work with new farmersin the Northeast U.S., you are eligible for freecopies of this 70-page publication. It is alsoavailable for free on our website atwww.holisticmanagement.org/oll_wholefarm.cfm?To request your free copy, please contact The Savory Center at 505/842-5252.

Volunteer Thanks

Our thanks to Erica Frenay, a trainee in theNorth Central Certified Educator Training

Program, for her help in our work to collaboratewith universities and other institutions of higherlearning as part of our educational efforts. Herresearch and writing skills have been muchappreciated!

Certified Educator Mark Gardner answersquestions as part of his & Graeme Hand’s“Holistic Management in Action” workshop.

points that I took away from the day was theneed for us to better understand ourselves in order to better communicate with others—even,and perhaps especially, those closest to us. Toachieve the kind of deep, honest communicationand collaboration that successful farms, businesses, families and communities require, we need to become ever more careful and adeptat really understanding one another’s way ofseeing the world. Further, we need to learn toappreciate those differences so that we can use

Participants in the 2004 Certified Educator Training Program. Front:

Jörg Jacobi, Dick Richardson, Jennifer Lanier, Wayne Knight. Back:

Kelly O’Meara, Amanda Atwood, Jason Virtue, Wiebke Volkmann, HelenCarrell, Jozua Lambrechts, Andrea Malmberg, Philip Bubb, Tony Malmberg.

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Kelly Mulville

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NORTH CAROLINA

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OKLAHOMA

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To our knowledge, Certified Educators are the best qualified individuals to help others learn topractice Holistic Management and to provide them with technical assistance when necessary. On ayearly basis, Certified Educators renew their agreement to be affiliated with the Center. Thisagreement requires their commitment to practice Holistic Management in their own lives, to seek outopportunities for staying current with the latest developments in Holistic Management and tomaintain a high standard of ethical conduct in their work. For more information about or application forms for the U.S., Africa, or International Certified EducatorTraining Programs, contact Kelly Pasztor at the Savory Center or visit our website atwww.holisticmanagement.org/wwo_certed.cfm?

Certified Educators


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