Holistic Management Courses
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Cut Through the Noise
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Empower Your Decision Making
Learn a decision-making framework that takes all of your context into account: environmental, social, and financial, to ensure you can make the best choices for your operation, land, and life.
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Build Resilience
Reduce the impacts of drought, flooding, and other extreme weather events for your land, develop security in your finances, and engage with your social network to plan for the future.
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Think Differently
Approach your land base, your business, and your working relationships with a new perspective.
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Develop Your Legacy
Embrace deep questions and leave with answers for the future that are grounded in your context.
Courses
What Sets Us Apart
Regenerative land management can sound complicated, and with more voices amplified on social media and strong opinions vying for attention, it can be an overwhelming space to join. Tough questions arise: What should you expect from a transition? How do you ensure a financial path that will succeed? How do you meet the inevitable roadblocks that nature and life will throw in your path?
Your situation is unique, how can you quiet the chatter and make the best decisions for you?
Holistic Management puts you in the driver’s seat by providing a framework for working through the tough decisions. Learn the principles and theory from which regenerative agriculture is derived and learn how to manage for the complexity that working with nature - and your own unique circumstances - demand.
The Provenance Co. offers the official Savory Institute Accreditation Curriculum in an intensive format. These courses are for anyone interested in becoming accredited in Holistic Management as well as applying Holistic Management to their own operations and lives. Each course includes time on the land, real-life examples, instruction from experienced Savory-accredited professionals, and practical discussion.
Participants typically leave with their plans either in-progress or in full completion.
“Quality of Life” Course
Dates TBA
Savory Institute Accreditation Holistic Financial Planning and Land (Infrastructure) Planning
Sharon Springs, Kansas
Day One
Foundations of Holistic Management, including ecosystem processes and role of livestock.
Identify focus for financial planning: wealth-generating expenses, enterprise analysis, and more.
Day Two
Long-term land and infrastructure planning and context checks.
Financial diagnoses, income, overhead and maintenance expenses, enterprise expenses.
Day Three
Review and create annual income-expense plan. Evaluate forage.
Engage with financial monitoring exercises and net worth analysis.
“Performance and Legacy” Course
Dates TBA
Savory Institute Accreditation Holistic Planned Grazing with Ecosystem Monitoring Basics
Sharon Springs, Kansas
Day One
Foundations of Holistic Management, global and local cases. Connect with your big picture.
Set up your seasonal grazing chart, plan your stocking rate, plan your paddock map, evaluate key dates.
Day Two
Land and livestock management planning.
Understand & measure your forage base, create hay and cropping plan, make your drought plan.
Day Three
Reading the land: ecosystems and forage assessment.
Bring your whole season plan together, check it against key needs and decisions, ensure it accomplishes your goals.
FAQ’s
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Because one of the primary tenets of Holistic Management is to meet you where you are, anyone can take our courses regardless of where they are in their journey. Many of our course attendees have taken either partial or full trainings before, and are coming back to solidify and re-introduce key concepts.
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Accredited professionals must have taken all of the SI coursework, which is covered in our February 2025 courses if taken together. Completing accreditation includes an application, exit exam, and paying dues. More information can be found at https://savory.global/educators/.
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Absolutely! Our courses are available to anyone who wants to learn.
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Yes. We have had students from Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and beyond. We will help you identify the characteristics of your bioregion and learn how to use principals of Holistic Management to succeed wherever you are located.
View PDF sample of full course agendas, lodging options, and more details (from February 2025 course):
Our Instructors
Julie Mettenburg
The Provenance Co., CEO
Accredited Master Field Professional
A 6th-generation Kansas farmer, Julie brings more than a decade of direct land Holistic Management, and a lifetime of farming experience to The Provenance Co.
As founder in 2014 of one of the first Savory Institute-accredited Hubs, the Tallgrass Network, Julie has studied with practitioners worldwide including Allan Savory, and subsequently has offered training to several hundred people including staff of the Noble Research Institute and farmers of the Kalona Organic Dairy. In 2022, she earned the highest level of professional certification for the Savory Institute, becoming the 8th individual, and 2nd woman, worldwide at the rank of Master Field Professional.
Dan Phelps
The Provenance Co., Ranch Manager
Dan Phelps spent nearly 2 years site-building and managing the inaugural Provenance Co. Regenerative Rewilding project in Wallace, Western Kansas. Prior to moving to Wallace, Dan and his family operated their own urban farm, MAD Farm, in Lawrence, Kansas, since 2010.
Dan is instrumental to operations on our nearly 4,000 acre scale pilot project, overseeing Holistic Management planning, as well as participating in the long-term planning and vision for the company. He holds a degree in agroecology from the University of California Santa Cruz, and has served as educator at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has studied Holistic Management for over 5 years and attended the 2023 Savory Institute global meeting in Portugal.
Ben Wolf
The Provenance Co., Regional Operations Manager
Although born and raised at Quinter, Kansas, Ben is a first-generation farmer. Ben’s prior agriculture jobs have included leading the 40,000-head cattle feeding team for a steam flaking feed mill in Northwest Kansas, and day labor in a local dairy. He also brings nearly 15 years of experience in manufacturing as a manager and process engineer.
As cattle and forages manager of WB Farm and Ranch LLC, Ben reported nearly a 3-times increase in cattle carrying capacity along with marked increase in water flows, wildlife, operational profitability and flexibility. In addition to growing grass, his passions include the art and science of herd improvement through selection, genetics and handling.
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Phone
(310) 383-5238
Email
chloe@theprovenanceco.com