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Holistic Management

2015-09-22T19:23:11Z

Stevenkluck:

"The core competency of Holistic Management is the ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially sound management of the world’s grasslands, rangelands, and savannas. These environments comprise two-thirds of the planet’s surface area." <ref> Savory Institute

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==Key Insights==
===Holistic Perspective===
"Individual parts do not exist in nature, only wholes, and these form and shape each other." Allan Savory
*You look outward from your whole self to the greater wholes of which you are a part; and
*You look inward to the smaller wholes that are a part of you.

===Brittleness===
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:
**precipitation reliability
**the distribution of humidity during the year
**chem/physical breaking down of dead organic matter
**how quickly soil biology communities develop
Land responds very differently to various practices and tools in brittle and non-brittle environments because of the speed and effectiveness of the decay process.
===Predator-Prey Relationship===
Essentially, predators cause bunching and moving of large herds of herbivores which affects the environment.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagO3gmwmA0 Lords of Nature]

===Timing is Everything===

"You cannot overgraze land, you can only overgraze plants."
*Plants need a recovery period before a second bite is taken in order for it to fully recover.
*The process of recovery after grazing means growing an entirely new root system, not just regrowing above ground biomass comparable to before the grazing event.
*Overgrazing and overtrampling is more dependent of the '''amount of time and frequency''' animals are exposed to land/plants and '''not the number''' of animals.

==Ecosystem Processes==
===Water Cycle===
===Nutrient/Mineral Cycle===
===Community Dynamics===
===Energy Flow===

Holistic Management

2015-09-22T19:20:56Z

Stevenkluck:

"The core competency of Holistic Management is the ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially sound management of the world’s grasslands, rangelands, and savannas. These environments comprise two-thirds of the planet’s surface area." <ref> Savory Institute

[[Image:hmcolor.gif|thumb|center]]

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==Key Insights==
===Holistic Perspective===
"Individual parts do not exist in nature, only wholes, and these form and shape each other." Allan Savory
*You look outward from your whole self to the greater wholes of which you are a part; and
*You look inward to the smaller wholes that are a part of you.

===Brittleness===
This concept helps describe an environment depending especially on soil moisture by looking at:
**precipitation reliability
**the distribution of humidity during the year
**chem/physical breaking down of dead organic matter
**how quickly soil biology communities develop
Land responds very differently to various practices and tools in brittle and non-brittle environments because of the speed and effectiveness of the decay process.
===Predator-Prey Relationship===
Essentially, predators cause bunching and moving of large herds of herbivores which affects the environment.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagO3gmwmA0 Lords of Nature]

===Timing is Everything===

"You cannot overgraze land, you can only overgraze plants."
*Plants need a recovery period before a second bite is taken in order for it to fully recover.
*The process of recovery after grazing means growing an entirely new root system, not just regrowing above ground biomass comparable to before the grazing event.
*Overgrazing and overtrampling is more depenedent of the '''amount of time and frequency''' animals are exposed to land/plants and '''not the number''' of animals.

==Ecosystem Processes==
===Water Cycle===
===Nutrient/Mineral Cycle===
===Community Dynamics===
===Energy Flow===

2015-09-09T05:29:26Z

Stevenkluck:

==Mission/Vision==
Goals
==Goals for 2016==
==Fruit trees==
-apples
-pears
-plums
-apricots
-peaches
-cherries
==Perennials==
-asparagus
-currant
-gooseberries
-raspberries
==Economics==
*Purchase fruit trees for ~$8.50/tree
====Options for fate of tree====
*Sell bare-root 3/4" fruit trees for $25/tree or $20/tree when purchasing 10 or more trees (avg $21/tree)
*Sell potted 3/4" trees leafed out for $45/tree
*Plant and grow trees in the ground until next season, sell as 1" bare-root for $35
*Plant and grow trees in pots until next season, sell as 1" potted for $60
====Options for how trees are sold (using 500 trees as a baseline)====
*All bare-root sales: 500 trees = $6,250
*All potted sales: 500 trees = $18,250 MINUS cost of pots/soil/fertilizer
**Assuming free soil and fertilizer from farm, pots costing $700: $17,550
**Assuming $250 on fertilizer and $600 on soil: $16,700
*Trees overwintered in-ground and sold as bare-root next season: $13,250
*Trees overwintered in pots and sold next season: $25,750 MINUS cost of pots/soil/fertilizer
**Assuming free soil and fertilizer from farm, pots costing $700: $25,050
**Assuming $500 on fertilizer and $600 on soil: $23,950
==Timetable==
===Jan-Mar===
===Apr===
===May-Aug===
===Sept-Dec===
==Growing Methods==
====Irrigation====
*Drip irrigation
====Containers====
*In-ground bags
*Above-ground air pruning bags
*Plastic pots

Tree resources
http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/4dmg/Trees/trees.htm

2015-09-01T17:14:11Z

Stevenkluck: /* Basic Steps */

This is an example of a commercial-scale straw culture operation:

== Basic Steps ==
# Obtain mother culture and keep refrigerated
# Replicate small piece of mother culture in petri dishes with agar
# Sterilize barley or other grain in a pressure cooker
# Mix culture from petri dishes into sterilized grain in bags kept in a sterile, temperature regulated environment
# Sterilize straw in steam boiler room (or other method)
# Mix 1:4 inoculated grain with straw in bags
# Keep bags hanging for three weeks in temperature regulated incubator room
# Move bags to humidified room an wait about two weeks for fruiting
**Bags may fruit heavily and then fruit less heavily again in a week
# Harvest mushrooms and store or dry for longer-term storage

Commercial-scale mushroom cultivation

2015-09-01T17:07:23Z

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