Open Gate: Circle Ranch Day

Helping Water Flow Where it Needs to Go

Our Circle Ranch Day is part of HMI’s Open Gate Learning Series. Open Gates are peer-to-peer action-based learning days with short presentations and small group exercises geared for participants to share discoveries and management techniques with guidance from experienced facilitators and producers.

Whether you are an agricultural producer, land steward, local agency representative, or just interested in how to produce healthy land, animals, and food, this is a day for you.

Come and be a part of this on-the-ground learning day, enjoy nutritious, fresh food and help strengthen local foodsheds. Because we all have a stake in the way our food is grown.

What to Expect

At the Open Gate: Circle Ranch Day, you will...

• See what fellow land managers are doing to regenerate land health and wildlife habitat at the beautiful Circle Ranch in theChihuahuan high-desert grasslands of far-West Texas.
• Learn how to use a Plug N’ Spread Treatment to control the gullies responsible for draining and drying rangelands
• Learn about the Yeoman’s Plow and how Keyline subsoiling works for water infiltration and enhances the Plug N’ Spread technique
• Practice monitoring the land for effective water cycle, forage production and soil health
• Discuss practical strategies to improve water use, wildlife habitat and healthy grasslands
• Enjoy the hospitality of the Gill family at a delicious lunch
• Hear how Holistic Management has helped the Gill Family and Circle Ranch to restore healthy grasslands in the desert and enjoy the benefits of regenerative agriculture.

Agenda

August 26, 2016

9:00

Registration

9:30

Introductions & Orientation – P. Cole

9:35

Holistic Management on Circle Ranch – C. Gill

10:00

Plug N’ Spread Treatment – B. Zeedyk

11:30

Lunch

12:15

Field Work – Creating a plug n’ spread

3:45

Rangeland Monitoring Exercise – P. Cole
with and without Keyline treatment

4:15

Q&A & Evaluations

4:30

Adjourn

For more information please visit our website.

REFUNDS:

Sorry, registration fees are non-refundable due to the costs incurred by HMI.

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