2025
A program of four 2-day Regional Grazing & Financial Planning workshops and
two 2-day Regional Planning workshops is taking place over the year, which will be
facilitated by Holistic management educators.
2024
AHMC implemented a new monitoring system (Bart) which offers digital reports
for landholders to make management decisions. Three 'Turning Knowledge Into
Practice Field Days' were held in regional centres, and a 2-day event, 'A
Celebration of Managing Holistically 30 Years On', was held in October at
Orange. Land to Market appointed a Australian Business
Development Officer, Monica Considine.
2023
In July, AHMC employed its first CEO, Helen Lewis. Further
connection with support, mentoring and regional field day events were
established for landholders. Training courses for new EOV monitors began.
AHMC promoted member Rachel Ward's new film on regenerative farming,
Rachel's
Farm, which won the Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Documentary
Feature Film.
2022
The Land to Market initiative, which was successfully implemented in Australia,
was refocused as a global brand. EOV activities continued and some producers
were licensed to use Land to Market branding on their products.
2021
The
Farming Matters Conference
in March 2021 at Albury was a huge success and brought industry, farmers and
supply chain partners together. A two-day program, including a talk by Alan
Savory, was followed by field trips to six holistic and regenerative
agriculture enterprises.
2020
The March 2020 conference had to be cancelled due to Covid, but planning began
for a conference in 2021, and a detailed newsletter was sent out regularly to
nearly 1000 interested recipients.
The Co-op started a five-year project with Deckers Ugg USA, who provided
funding for Australian sheep producers to perform EOV on their properties.
Deckers Ugg wanted to secure a supply of sheepskins for their boots and other
products from land certified as regenerating.
2019
AHMC won the Grand Champion Award in the Australian Government Innovation in
Agriculture Land Management category at the 2019 NSW Landcare Awards. The
Co-op expanded with new members, EOV workshops and Land to Market Australia
presentations, and planning began for a conference in March 2020.
2018
The Australian Holistic Management Co-operative establishment meeting took
place in July 2018 and the co-operative was registered by ASIC as NSWC32856 in
September 2018. The AHMC rules were approved, Tony Hill was appointed as the
Executive Chairman and EOV monitoring began as a service. At this time the
Savory Institute supported the establishment of Land to Market Australia to
create market interest in ecologically verified products.
2017
Following on the successful Dubbo meeting in 2016, Holistic Management
Educators Tony Hill, Brian Marshall, Ian Chapman and Brian Wehlburg were
sucessful in applying for government funding for 2017-18 to set up a co-op from
the
Farm
Co-operatives and Collaboration Pilot - Farming Together Program.
A Reference Group of about 20 interested landowners met at Braidwood in
September 2017 and clarified objectives for the potential Co-op and established
a Governing Committee: Tony Hill (chair), Anna Coughlan (deputy chair), Ian
Chapman, Brian Wehlburg.
2016
The Savory Institute coordinated an international event on the
theme of "Eat it, Wear it, Regenerate it, Ignite a Consumer Revolution". In
Australia this event was organised and built upon by the
2016 Dubbo Holistic Management Conference held by Hooves 4
Humus and the
Australian
Holistic Management Educators Group.
