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REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE COURSE
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE – AN OPPORTUNITY COMING IN MARCH 2022
Holistic Management is a decision-making framework that ensures our decisions are economically, environmentally and socially sound i.e. the triple bottom line, enabling us to develop a clear vision of the future we want.
Holistic Management has its roots in environmental management. But, as it is essentially a decision-making process it is applicable to people in all walks of life...
Holistic Management presents a solid foundation for Regenerative Agriculture – the growing of food and fibre in a manner which works with nature, regenerating soils whilst producing from them – and provides the vision of what regenerated landscapes and communities look like and acknowledges that there is no ‘one answer fits all’ – every farm, farmer, farming family and paddock is different.
The ‘Holistic Management’ course for our whole business really was a turning point. To actually know where we wanted to go and why and using this context and the holistic decision-making framework to ensure we weren’t wasting time getting there, has resulted in us having a business and life that we want to participate in, not just go through the motions with. It’s enabled us to find customers, staff, business and social networks that all share a passion for changing the world. For the time of our life we were at, the best agribusiness course we’ve done hands down.
~ Tim and Amber Scott, Kandanga Farm.
The eight-day Mary Valley Holistic Management course starts on 1 March 2022 and will be delivered as four two-day sessions held four to six weeks apart allowing course participants time to implement new learning in our farming businesses.
We will be looking at how land managers can improve productivity and sustainability through good land management maximising solar capture, water capture, the cycling of minerals, increasing biodiversity resulting in a more resilient landscape and business. We will learn how holistic planned grazing – getting the animals to the right place at the right time for the right reasons – enables us to use our livestock as a solar-powered tool to effect positive change for our environments and profitability.
The Holistic Financial Planning unit looks at managing our expenses focusing on profitability, empowering us to achieve financial security. We will also be learning easy and effective monitoring methods for both environment and finances. There's much more than can be said here.
If you are interested in learning extra details, contact kerry@insideoutsidemgt.com.au
RAINFALL MOY POCKET – OCTOBER 2021
by Graham Brennan
This October 161ml. Last October 127ml. The 20 year average October 91ml. There was rain on 14 days, average for October being 11 days.
First 10 months of this year 854ml. Last year Jan to Oct 874ml. The average for Jan-Oct 936ml.
The 12 months total till end of October 1220ml. Our 19 year annual average 1198ml.
PUB STAFF BONUS PROVES MONEY TALKS
It worked. The $1000 bonus offer to get staff at the Kenilworth Hotel has secured some more employees. Steve Conway has been able to put on extra hands since he put the offer on the table in a bid to attract people to work at the pub although there is still some work going.
“I got four but I could do with another one,” he said.
Steve made headlines when he offered the bonus after finding it difficult to get bar staff or kitchen hands for the last year or so. The offer elicited the desired response and enquiries were received but Steve said most of them panned out to nothing, Steve was unsure why it had been so hard to find employees. “I don’t understand why there are thousands of people on the dole on the Sunshine Coast and I can’t get five staff. If I had the answer to that, I’d probably be prime minister and everybody would be employed. I know that when I was young, we went off and got jobs and you tried to make something of yourself.”
He said the new starters were reasonably local and “it’s amazing who comes out of the woodwork” when national headlines talk of a starting bonus. Although the new staff are on roster, Steve was still busy taking orders, serving beers and stacking the dishwasher on a recent Friday.
It's worthy to note that the Kenilworth Hotel has one of the biggest rosters in town to fill with about 22 on staff.
Five of six local businesses reported they never really had any problem finding staff. “We’re right for staff at the moment. We can usually find people. They come and go,” said one person.
Another said the staffing situation was pretty stable. That may be just as well given that business apparently does not receive a lot of enquiries regarding work.
The sixth said there could be various reasons why. Consider for a moment that Kenilworth is classed as “urban rural” with the work issues many isolated country towns share; some being limited accommodation options, no childcare services or public transport.
Interviewed by Janine Hill, MVV
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