EXPLAINING THE APPLICATION OF HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT TO AGRICULTURE AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT SECTORS.
Guest: Helen Lewis - exponent and advocate of holistic grazing practice and accredited professional educator in Holistic Management with the Savory Institute.
Along with her family, Helen practices holistic grazing on her rural property near Warwick in S.E. Queensland. She also has twenty years of experience in training organisations, groups and families in Holistic Decision Making, Holistic Profit Planning and Holistic Planned Grazing.
Introduction to this episode:
My guest in this podcast episode, Helen Lewis, is highly knowledgeable about the practice of regenerative agriculture using holism principles. She is a trainer in holistic management who practices what she trains about: implementing, along, with her husband, holistic grazing of a growing Angus cattle herd on their property west of Warwick in S.E. Queensland.
During our discussion, Helen talks about the origins of her interest in holistically managed agriculture, her direct experience of observing the benefits of adopting holistic principles on her own farming property; and her passion for spreading the word on holistic agricultural practice to other people, including other farmers, policy and decision makers. She hopes that her work will contribute to a future in which all development decisions will achieve a more considered, evidence based balance – incorporating proper valuations of the holistic interconnections between people, environment and prosperity.
MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time elapsed in mins.
- Guest foreshadow summary comment
- Generic podcast series introduction. - 0.30
- Current episode and guest introduction. - 2.14
- Guest comments: how did your passion for the environment start? - 4.10
- Who inspired or mentored you in your work? - 8.18
- How did you get involved with environmental conservation to begin with? - 11.40
- When did you first realise the impact of your work on restoring the environment? – 22.00
- Describing environmental achievements on guest’s own farm. – 24.45
- What are some of the challenges you have faced and how did you respond ? – 41.32
- How has your work influenced you to keep doing what you do? – 47.08
- Are you working on any current, exciting projects? – 51.46
- Guest takeaway message and advice for some next steps in environmental protection. – 55.36
- Thanks to guest acknowledgements and episode close. – 59.22 (62.00)
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES MENTIONED OR RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION
(wherever possible will be URL linked for easy listener follow up)
- Holism concepts – some early ideas by Jan Christian Smuts (late 19th/early 20th century)
- Allan Savory and holistic management.
- Dick Richardson – brief notes on his Grazing Naturally system concepts.
- Bruce Maynard – a 2022 National Landcare article on his work.
- Helen Lewis (guest) Decision Design Hub
Podcasts related to the guest’s topic of interest
- Helen Lewis – Decisions that Matter – forthcoming in late May 2023.
- The Regenarration podcast with Anthony James.
- The Regenerative Journey with Charlie Arnott.
- The Regenerative Agriculture podcast with John Kempf
- Dart throwing to take random samples of pasture cover and surface soil health.
GUEST AND CONTACT DETAILS:
Does the guest want any of these contact points included ?
Contact Helen - hello@decisiondesignhub.com.au
Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE):
T 07 4639 2135 Email WEB Facebook
Production:
Produced for HOPE by Andrew Nicholson. This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 1st May 2023
Key interview questions developed by: Anna Kula Incidental Music: James Nicholson
Indigenous artwork: courtesy of Queensland Depart of Justice and Attorney General, Queensland Women's Strategy (2023)
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