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What people are saying about us and about Holistic Management
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| Inside Outside Management |
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"The Holistic Management course
delivered by Inside Outside Management under the TAFE umbrella has
far exceeded our expectations!
We have learned an enormous amount
about what a healthy environment is, what a productive pasture looks
like, and how to achieve them. This carries over to include a better
understanding of animal health and nutrition achieved with little or
no chemical interventions.
The fundamental concepts of Holistic
Management are powerful and persuasive, and the knowledge and tools
taught in the course allow a keen novice and seasoned professional
alike to get started straight away.
We have already begun the process of
mending past (inadvertent) sins and omissions, and can see the
beneficial impact in only a few short months.
We now have a wonderful
decision-making tool to allow us to resolve a problem or test an
idea, or ideas, taking all of the key factors: the environment; the
cost and funding sources; the impact; and our long term "life
goals", into account.
The current and last segment of the
course, Financial Planning, will allow us to keep within known and
viable financial parameters.
In summary, we are delighted to be
doing the course, and excited about the new knowledge and tools we
have gained.
PS We are just about to go away
for three weeks, and the pasture assessment tools we have
acquired allowed us to work out how to deploy the cattle so that
we can be sure that they will have sufficient nutrition while we
are gone."
Julie Brady and
Felicity Carter, Forster, NSW
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"Certainly
the best course I have attended. Totally new ideas passionately promoted
by the facilitators, lots of reinforcement. Gives me great hope and
motivation for the future!"
Glenn Telford,
Bymount, QLD
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"I
would encourage other Graziers to have a look at attending one of these
workshops to equip themselves with the information revealed to assist
them in making future grazing management decisions / plans."
James
T. Vote, Warwick, QLD |
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"Well presented and
useful information easily adaptable to our business. Will help with our
decision-making to benefit all aspects of our lives."
Wayne McNalty,
Glenmorgan, QLD |
"I
did have doubts about doing the course but as we worked through it, it
was a big wake-up call about ourselves and the environment."
Corrina Kirkwood, Glenmorgan, QLD |
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| 'The
Holistic Management course with Inside Outside Management at Bega was a
great experience - bonding exercises formed the group into a close knot
trusting group of people who were comfortable to share their
experiences. The HM method of farm planning is a wonderful concept which
should be more widely promoted.'
Jenny Baker, Bega, NSW |
'An
enlightening, inspiring and challenging course'
Rod Logan, Bega, NSW |
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"Traditionally,
livestock is kept in paddocks for weeks or months. They nibble away at
the most nutritious plants, giving the noxious weeds an advantage,
destroying biodiversity and profitability.
A new approach,
holistic management, reverses this. The herds are moved from one
small cell to another, as often as every day. The livestock eat
everything in a cell, but over the following months the pasture is
rested and the grass grows back luxuriant and sweet. Cattle are better
fed, less worried by parasites (because the moving disrupts the parasite
cycle), calmer and seemingly happier (perhaps because the animals live
in a more natural herd structure). Farmers are happier, too, because
their workload is more evenly spread and their businesses are more
profitable".
Tim Flannery, scientist, 2007
Australian of the Year, author of the Weather Makers |
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“Holistic Management is one of the key tools at our
disposal
[to combat climate change].”
Tim Flannery, scientist, 2007
Australian of the Year, author of the Weather Makers |
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"Where Holistic
Management is practiced increases of up to 3% in soil carbon are being
achieved. This happens largely because the soil is protected from
erosion and grass cover increases, allowing more root growth.” .
Tim Flannery, Chairman of the Copenhagen committee
for climate change |
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"If
you are not totally satisfied with what you have done in the past, this
[Holistic Management] has to be worth a good hard look. Most Holistic
solutions seem to require more brain work than money to implement so
that goes straight to the bottom line."
Greg and Carol Hoadley, Glenmorgan, QLD |
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Holistic Management
ensures you make decisions that are environmentally sustainable; i.e.
maintaining ground cover, retaining and promoting green plants. I now
look at what environment a pest lives in and I create an environment
that does not suit it."
Trent Vincent, Injune,
QLD
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