Executive Land Management Course

Course Description

Principles of holistic land management and regenerative mind-set for decision-makers, executives and policy makers. This is a corporate leadership experience in the Karoo enabling decision-makers to experience and apply holistic and regenerative thinking.

Target Market

1. Corporate groups.

2. Family Farm businesses

3. NGO’s and Government decision makers

Duration

5 days. Monday to Friday.

Desired Outcome

To equip the participant with basic knowledge regarding regenerative land management within their holistic decision-making framework.

Certification

Herding Academy Cerificate.

Trainers

Roland Kroon and Johan Bouwer

Curriculum

• Creation of Holistic Context
• Holistic Decision Making and the Feedback loop
• 4 Missing Keys
• Ecosystem Foundation Blocks
  • Reading the landscape based on the ecosystem Processes.
  • Understanding landscape from Ecosystem Processes
  • Monitoring
• Soil Food Web
• Plant and Animal Physiology and health.
• Introduction to planned grazing
  • Biological Planning
  • Holistic Planned Grazing – in detail
  • 7 Principles of Grazing Management
  • Drought Management.
• Low Stress Stock Handling
• Land Planning - Mapping
• Practical knowledge of Ruminant Nutrition
• Management Tools in Practice
  • Rest – Total / Partial
  • Animal Impact
  • Herd Effect
  • Fire
  • Technology
• Business Management
  • Business Cash Flow Budgeting
  • Marketing – The livestock market cycle
  • Personal Finance
• Personal/ Social Growth
  • Communication
  • Introduction to Personality Profiling
  • Personal Goal setting
  • Creation of personal vision for the future.