Come together for a full-day, interactive workshop for Minnesota’s farmers, land managers, conservation professionals, and educators.

Generations of Americans have worked to protect soil, water, and the productivity of working lands. Conservation programs and practice standards have helped, but even a well-designed practice can fall short when it is chosen without considering the larger goals, ecological processes, people, and conditions of a particular place.

In this full-day workshop, we will explore how Holistic Management can connect goals with decisions made to bring about regenerative outcomes over time. The aim is to familiarize people with the holistic management framework which enables them to choose and adapt actions that fit their context, their land, their goals, and their legacy.

Just as the headwaters influence everything flowing downstream, our understanding of the whole under management shape the decisions, designs, strategies, and practices that follow. We’ll connect the history of conservation with insights into living, complex systems—and consider how monitoring outcomes can help us learn, adapt, and overcome challenges.

We will work through how Holistic Management can be applied across working lands. The workshop is designed for producers and the people who support them, including conservation professionals, educators, and land managers.

Participants will leave with:

• An understanding of how whole-context decision-making connects goals, design, strategies, and practices
• A framework for holistic decision making
• An understanding of how ecological, financial, and social outcomes can be considered together
• Practical steps for applying Holistic Management and monitoring results in their own context

Facilitated by Kyle Hildebrandt, a Lake Superior SFA Chapter member, and owner of The Forage Farmstead near Duluth, Minnesota. He is a Savory Institute Accredited Professional in Holistic Management education, and an Ecological Outcome Verification Monitor.

Registration: Advance registration is required. It is free to attend. Lunch will be provided.

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number 2004.25.085287 “Expanding Regenerative Grazing in the Upper Mississippi Watershed.”