Keyline® PracticeSoil Health and Drought-Resilience for 21st Century Farms and

Landscapes

Join us at The Ploughshare Institute forSustainable Culture (www.sustainlife.org) foran enjoyable three-day experience andexploration of various uses for the Yeomans’plow along with learning a state-of-the-arttemplate for whole-farm planning and layoutusing proven ecological principles.

We will learn together optimal, highly-effectiveways to plan for and achieve the full powerof a Dynamic Design approach for yourland, your animals, your profits, your waterand soils.

The workshop will include classroom as wellas outdoor exercises and practicums--including a demonstration of the Yeomans’Keyline sub-soiler--for a full learningimmersion! Altogether this experience willadd a great diversity of new practical skillsand options to your design and management‘toolbox.’

PLAN TO LEARN and DISCOVER in thisworkshop:

Class Information

Cost: $375Starts at: 9AM, Sept. 28, 2017Ends at: 5PM, Sept. 30, 2017Location:The Ploughshare Institute608 Dry Creek RoadWaco, Texas 76705254-754-9620

To register, visit:

https://goo.gl/AwHdJn

Discover the secrets for rapid creation of healthy, and biologically active topsoil

Plan for whole landscape water harvesting for your property Learn how to determine and apply Keyline Pattern Cultivation Increase the yields and resilience of rangelands, pastures, and

your whole operation Understand the wide variety of treatments possible using the

Yeomans’ sub-soiling plow Generate an inspired vision for your landscape Use the Keyline Scale of Permanence to bring your vision to life Learn to create and implement a whole farm plan using the insights of

Keyline Design Understand Keyline Geometry in the Field Connect and integrate farm infrastructure, layout, and functions for

improved efficiencies and synergy Hands On--Learn to make inexpensive GIS contour surveys Explore synergies possible with perennial polyculture agro-forestry Reduce costs and dependency on outside inputs, increase profits,

and enhance livelihoods while improving your quality of life Why managing wholes is the future of agriculture How to integrate grazing and animal impact to a whole farm plan Position your farm, ranch and operations for success in

changing times

Course Instructor

Owen Hablutzel is a Keyline Design® instructor,Holistic Management® Certified Educator, andfull-time consultant who works internationally. Owen has been successfully working totransform soils and fertility, and to increasewhole landscape hydration through regenerativetechniques since 2007. By working together withfarms, ranches, and land managingorganizations his integrated and Dynamic Designapproach is helping to create more fertilelandscapes, robust farm economies, and resilient watersheds across the western US and in many more of the world’s dry places.

More info at: Owen Hablutzel Bio

“Owen does great keyline work…. Owen has the demonstrated ability, skill and no-nonsense ‘can do’ attitude to do most anything with regards rural property development.” --Darren Doherty, 2009

What is Keyline® Design concept and practice?

Keyline Design emerged from Australia in the 1940’s and is one of the first, farm planning frameworks to take a whole-system approach towards achieving a ‘permanent agriculture.’ Originator, P.A. Yeomans, developed planning tools and innovations—using his knowledge of geology, hydrology,and soils—which lead to drought-resilient and highly diversified farm, with increasing yields. Yeomans overturned conventional wisdom by demonstrating that topsoil can be built at astounding rates and in a cost-effective fashion using his ingenious and proven Yeomans plow and Keylinepattern cultivation.

What is the Yeomans Plow?

As part of his water harvesting and soil building innovations, Yeomans developed a unique, non-inversion, sub-soiling chisel plow known as the Yeomans Plow. This implement is designed to break compaction and aerate soil profiles with minimal undesirable disturbance to soil life by not inverting the existing soil layers. Used in the proper geomorphic pattern of ripping--known as Keyline Pattern Cultivation--maximum soil moisture, explosive pulses of soil life, and rapid building of topsoil can result. Good results have been found for brush control situations as well as for erosion control.

Short video of Keyline Sub-soiler at work (the instructor is in the video at the start): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yap0CPEejIk&feature=youtu.be

How Do I Register for the Course?

You can sign up for the class at:

http://www.sustainlife.org/store/classes/keyline-practice-soil-health/(Select the class date of 2017-09-28 near the bottom of the page and click “Add to Cart”, then go through the checkout sequence to pay for and reserve your slot in the class).

The cost for the class is $375. The class starts at 9AM September 28 and will end at 5PM, September 30, 2017.

The class will be held on the Ploughshare Institute for Sustainable Culture’scampus, which is located at:

The Ploughshare Institute608 Dry Creek RoadWaco, Texas 76705

If you have any questions, please feel free to call the Ploughshare office at: 254-754-9620

AGENDA:

DAY 1 –

Introduction to Keyline Origins Story of Yeomans / Keyline The Keyline Scale of Permanence as Whole-farm planning Template Climate and CONTEXT Geography and Landshape – Keyline Geometry-Geography Sandpit Exercise Water

DAY 2 –

Water – design for Optimal Use Drought-Resilience and Water Harvesting Access – design for multi-functionality Surveying Field Exercise Creating GIS contour maps for Design and Planning Integrating Agro-Forestries and Perennial Polycultures

DAY 3 -

Structures / Buildings – Placement & Flexibility Fencing, Grazing and Livestock Water Systems Soils - Soil Generation in Practice Yeomans’ plow sub-soiler Keyline Pattern Cultivation Additional treatments using the Keyline Sub-soiler Keyline Pattern Cultivation – Yeomans’ Plow Demonstration

Soils, Carbon and You - Strategies and Synergies

Recommended Reading:

The Essence of Holistic Management by Ann Adams and Jody Butterfield –pdf here: http://www.lineaclave.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Essence-of-HM.pdf

Keyline Design – Mark IV by Abe Collins and Darren Doherty – pdf here: http://www.permaculturenews.org/resources_files/KeylineArticle.pdf

Holistic Management : A New Framework for Decision-Making by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield

Holistic Management Handbook: Healthy Land, Healthy Profits by Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham and Allan Savory

Related Articles Links:

http://permaculturenews.org/2013/05/03/cows-and-plows-transformation-solutions/

http://permaculturenews.org/2012/06/30/planning-for-permanence-with-yeomans-keyline-scale/

Related Video Links:

Keyline Design Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deuW1pdwbdY

Keyline Case Study: http://permaculturenews.org/2011/11/04/owen-hablutzel-water-and-transformation-in-dryland-systems-resilience-science-keyline-application-ipc10-presentation-video/

Holistic Planned Grazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHoh-OKUfU

Results from Keyline Pattern Cultivation

Whole-farm plan Design example…