Sometimes all it takes is a new (old) way of looking at things
Our Regen Reads recommendation this month is Holistic Management by Allan Savory with Jody Butterfield.
Holistic Management is by no stretch of the imagination a new book on the scene – in fact, it was touting regenerative practices and a regenerative mindset before they were mainstream ideas!
So chalk full of ideas, this book might best be approached as almost a textbook rather than a work of non-fiction. A must read for anyone interested in understanding their (agricultural) system and the world around them.
“Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it’s how we graze livestock. If we don’t change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels with environmentally benign energy sources.”
Regen Reads is COG’s monthly regenerative agriculture reading list.