Cowdray Hall & Cowdray Home Farms,
Easebourne, Midhurst, West Sussex

This is a rare visit to Britain by one of the World's most in-demand Holistic Management grazing practitioners. It's an opportunity to learn from a master how to apply this technique to rejuvenate soils and pastures.

Holistic Management^® is an animal and land management practice that mimics nature to benefit both grazing stock and biodiversity. Graziers across the world have discovered that they can increase production of their herds while also improving water and mineral cycles of environments under a Holistic Management regime. Pioneered by Allan Savory more than 40 years ago, it offers land stewards a way to make grazing, land management and financial decisions that positively impact land health and productivity. This type of grazing management is now considered to be the single most beneficial technique for restoring both profits and biodiversity to independent grazing operations. Overgrazing is a function of time, NOT animal numbers. Damage occurs when the plant is trying to grow but an animal keeps eating it again.

Why Holistic Management^®?

Holistic Management® is most easily defined by simply adding W to the word holistic. This describes what the process does - helps us manage Whole situations rather than perceived parts. Managing the whole gives better results and fewer unexpected problems. Many publications today are filled with gloomy forecasts about agriculture and the environment. Yet, there are few who offer realistic solutions that strengthen both our economy and communities. To reverse this trend we must do it with the people already on the land. Holistic Management gives human values a priority, while creating profit through proven financial planning procedures and ecosystem enhancement techniques.

Learn How To:

MANAGE FOR PROFIT

• Eliminate unnecessary costs
• Create new wealth from your resources
• Plan and achieve a profit
• Analyze new and existing enterprises for their contribution to the entire operation
• Increase production on your land
• Why most people actually plan for non-profitability and what the three keys are to reversing this tendency

MANAGE FOR LAND HEALTH

• How to "Leave it better than you found it"
• Improve rainfall effectiveness, increase production and regenerate soil health
• Enrich plant and wildlife diversity
• Reduce dependency on outside inputs
• Create a detailed grazing plan that enhances both your production and landscape goals

MANAGE FOR PEOPLE

• Set realistic goals and achieve your desired quality of life
• Improve family and employee harmony and involvement
• Prepare for managed succession of the business into the next generation
• Learn leadership skills that create true involvement
• Understand the key communication skills that lead to effective management

Course outcomes

Upon completion of the course you can expect to have a working knowledge of how to use the Holistic Management® model to achieve your goals. Understanding and managing the ecosystem is stressed, as well as the tools available to you to influence your financial, land and people resources. The course gives you the specific techniques you need to help you significantly improve your ability to make better decisions in your business.

Venue

This course in being run on the 16,500 acre Cowdray Estate, a large proportion of which is managed forestry and agricultural land. Situated in the heart of the South Downs National Park, Cowdray Home Farms covers 838ha and specialises in organic dairying, arable potatoes and combined crops. Part of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme, Cowdray Home Farms is committed to evolve into a more regenerative and resource efficient profitable enterprise by utilising the practical knowledge and skills taught by the Regenerative Agriculture team. Indoor sessions will be taught in Cowdray Hall; part of the Cowdray Estate, centred around Easebourne, Midhurst. The venue includes a meditation chapel, a small cinema room, a large hall where the classes will be held and a dining area. Cowdray will provide delicious organic vegetarian lunches and dinners each day as well as morning and afternoon tea. These meals will all be prepared by their wonderful chef Ellie. Cowdray Hall is an hour and twenty minute drive from central London. The closest railway station is Haselmere. Trains run from London Waterloo to Haslemere and take 50 minutes.

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Websites: www.cowdraychapel.co.uk / www.cowdray.co.uk

Fees:

Individuals / farms: £325
Organisations (universities / agencies / corporations): £475
Fees include all tuition, and course materials plus lunch & dinner each day (lunch only on the final day). A deposit of £150 is required to secure your place, the remaining balance is to be paid three weeks before the course starts. Please note: this course is non-residential. A list of local places to stay can be found here on the Regenerative Agriculture UK website.

Please note that participant numbers are limited.

Booking:

To reserve your place, simply download the relevant version of the course booking form
(see links below), fill it in & return to us with a £150 deposit payment
(full details of how to do this are on the form).

For more more details (places are limited, so book early*) please contact:
Mel: 01326 251302 / 07768 193848 or email