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Vol 1 |
 Peggy Cole
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In This Issue!
Catching Raindrops If you think you can do a thing
or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Catching Raindrops promises to be fun, interactive and extremely informative. You will experience the aha! as you see the connection of all the parts coming together in healthy ecosystem processes that capture and store water naturally. Speakers such as Malcolm Beck, Steve Nelle, Terry Gompert and Pat Richardson will transform your relationship with the land as you realize its impact on every aspect of your life. We have a great watershed game in store for you, inspiring holistic solutions for managing water, and from David Langford a look at how the Texas Legislature is dealing with water issues. Finally we explore landowner values and divide into regional groups to brainstorm methods of catching raindrops as individual, regional and statewide wholes. Lunch is included, as well as great opportunities to shop the silent auction and trade show. You can even become a part of the silent auction or trade show by contacting HRM of TX at info@hrm-texas.org. Cost to attend the conference is $80, with discounts for members, couples and for attending the accompanying classes. Please see price schedule on the web at www.hrm-texas.org or call 512-847-3822 for brochure.
Follow that with a 2-hour class (3:30 – 5:30 pm Feb. 9) in “Money Matters” – Holistic Management® Financial Planning taught by Certified Educator Peggy Maddox, with successful practitioners Jim and Judy Reed of the award-winning Reed Family Ranch. Holistic Financial Planning departs from conventional methods in two ways: 1) it is guided by a holistic goal and decisions that take you toward it; and 2) it accounts for human nature and requires an attitude bent on success, especially when your holistic goal includes profit. Some say Holistic Financial Planning is the single most profitable part of Holistic Management. For these three teachers, it has meant the difference between financial success and failure. Celebrate Holistic Resource Management with us at the Friday Evening Social (6-9 pm Feb. 9). This is the time we get together as old and new friends to touch base and find out what has been going on with each other and with Holistic Resource Management of Texas, the statewide nonprofit dedicated to the health and welfare of Texas lands. We will have snacks and drinks, time to visit and time to conduct our annual business meeting where you will learn more about the organization and the upcoming programs designed to help folks practice holistic management, and how you can find a place to participate. Free for conference participants. Register online at www.hrm-texas.org, call 512-847-3822 with your credit card or mail your check for the proper amount to HRM of TX, 5 Limestone Trail, Wimberley, TX 78676. Conference Hotel is Holiday Inn Express in Kerrville (830-895-9500). They are holding rooms until Jan. 13 at a special Holistic Resource Management Rate of $69.95+tax. Reserve your room early. The hotel is located at 2114 Sidney Baker (I-10 & Hwy 16). Want to be a part of the HRM Annual Meeting? You can get a booth in the trade show for only $75 – limited to 10 booths. Call Joe Maddox at 325-392-2292 to reserve your spot. We will include you in our publicity between now and then – in print and on the web. Send us your logo. And surely you can think of something of interest for the silent auction. Can be an object, a service, a hunting trip – anything someone else might like to have. Contact Peggy Maddox at pmaddox@hrm-texas.org (325-392-2292) or Peggy Cole at pcole@hrm-texas.org (512-847-3822) include a description and photos (if you can) of the auction item for our publicity and the auction bid sheets. Here are the items donated so far: From Holistic Management International 1. Two handmade batik table clothes from Zimbabwe valued at $40 (our cost) 2. One signed hardcopy text book valued at $35 (retail) 3. One signed Handbook valued at $25 (retail) 4. One handmade Mexican blanket valued at $99 5. One small handmade Maasi (Kenyan) ceremonial necklace valued at $20 From Joe & Peggy Maddox 5 bags of diatomaceous earth or DE And now a word from our sponsors…HRM is seeking folks to sponsor some of the expenses involved with the annual meeting. This is a great way to help and be a part of this important program. Just let us know which part you’d like to sponsor and how you’d like to be seen in our publicity. Here are the parts of the whole: Publicity - Ads in Livestock Weekly - $100 Food – Conference snacks - $50 Contact Peggy Maddox at pmaddox@hrm-texas.org (325-392-2292) or Peggy Cole at pcole@hrm-texas.org (512-847-3822) to let us know what you would like to sponsor. Elementary Educational Opportunity at a Holistic Management Learning Site! A valuable field experience at the West Ranch Station, in Ozona Texas, Kids on the Land will begin curriculum development and training May 2007. Progressing in phases, participants will create a learning team, dedicated to creating and delivering a Holistic Management field experience to students in Grades 3-6. This effort will lead to the creation and beta testing of a solid Holistic Management curriculum specifically for kids. Participants will spend a week at the West Ranch, with 3 days preparing the field experience instructional delivery, and 4 fun-filled days with students. Curriculum will include environmental knowledge and skills, scientific concepts, and science processes rooted in Holistic Management and tied to the National Science Standards. Peggy Maddox, Director of Education at the West Ranch, is seeking interested individuals, especially those passionate about working with kids. Room, board, and travel stipend provided. Please contact Peggy at 325-392-2292 or westgift@earthlink.net.A Little Help With Your Plan!
Here Is What
Is Coming Up In The New Year! January 13, 2007 : Wildlife Management Tax Valuation Seminar, Cibolo Nature Center , Boerne. Click the following link for more information: PDFs\2007 Tax and Wildlife flyer.pdf January 18-19, 2007 : 2007 Texas Water Conservation Assn/Texas Rural Water Assn Water Law Seminar, Austin Marriott at the Capitol. Call (512) 472-8591 for more information. January 20, 2007 : Wildlife Management Tax Valuation Seminar, Cibolo Nature Center , Boerne. Click the following link for more information: PDFs\2007 Tax and Wildlife flyer.pdf January 23-26, 2007: Texas Ground Water Assn Annual Convention and Trade Show, Waco. For more information click the following link: http://www.tgwa.org/meetings/index.html http://www.tgwa.org/meetings/index.html January 24-25, 2007: Texas
Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting, TPWD, Austin. For
more information, call (800) 792-1112. January 27, 2007 : Wildlife Management Tax Valuation Seminar, Cibolo Nature Center , Boerne. Click the following link for more information: PDFs\2007 Tax and Wildlife flyer.pdf February 9-10, 2007: Holistic Resource Management of Texas (HRM) Annual Meeting, Kerrville. For more information click the following link: http://www.hrm-texas.org/index.htm February 20–21, 2007 : 2007 Abilene Farm, Ranch & Wildlife Expo, Experts from TWA, TPWD, and Texas Agriculture Extension Service will present programs on a variety of topics of interest to landowners and managers. Held at the Taylor County Expo Center. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. , (325) 795-2238. February 27, 2007: Ecosystem Service Markets: Everyone’s Business Seminar, The Westin Galleria, Houston. For more information click the following link: http://tfsweb.tamu.edu/ecoserv/default.aspx March 6-9, 2007 : 2007 Spring Meeting" sponsored by the Texas Water Conservation Association, Austin. For more information: http://www.twca.org/meetings.html March 21-23, 2007 : 2007 TRWA Annual Convention" sponsored by the Texas Rural Water Association, Austin. For more information: http://www.trwa.org April 4-5, 2007: Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting, TPWD, Austin. For more information, call (800) 792-1112.
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Catching Raindrops – Abundant
Water for Texas: The Holistic Resource Management Annual
Conference!
So,
instead of a conference on dealing with drought and shortages
of water, Holistic Resource Management of Texas is hosting
a conference on the wonderful way nature has designed to
capture and store abundant water for all—through
the meeting of raindrops with the surface of healthy soil.
Join us February 9-10, 2007 for education and celebration
in Kerrville, Texas. Conference hotel is Holiday Inn Express. 
Sign
up for the special 6 hour Holistic Management® Grazing
Planning class on Friday, Feb. 9 from 8am to 3pm (lunch
on your own at noon). We are bringing Terry Gompert all
the way from Nebraska where he is well known as a dynamic
teacher, grass-fed beef producer, extension agent, forages
expert and certified educator in Holistic Management. The
basics of holistic management grazing planning will be
presented with special interest given to why plan and how
to get started with a plan. You will learn how to set up
a planning chart, rate paddocks' productivity, determine
recovery period, calculate average and actual grazing periods,
plan the animal moves and monitor the plan.
Interested
in working with children? Join us as we begin an adventure
for all particpants, students one and all. Develop our
future resource base--KIDS! Get your hands dirty! Share
Holistic Management with Kids on the Land!
Did
you know the NRCS has soil survey maps online at 2006 Holistic Resource Managment of Texas, Inc.