On today’s Sustainable Living Program our guest was Allan Savory. For centuries we believed livestock were a major cause of desertification, but Savory’s research showed that the cause lay in how those livestock were managed. His solution involved mimicking the behavior of the formerly vast herds of wild grazing animals he had witnessed as a young biologist. He devised a simple method any pastoralist can use to move massive amounts of carbon and water from the atmosphere back to the soil and begin reversing thousands of years of human-caused desertification – on the scale required, which no technology imaginable can accomplish. In the process, we can feed more people and enhance societal well-being.
Allan’s the co-founder of the Savory Institute and wrote the classic book Holistic Resource Management. In 2003 received the Banksia International Award and won the 2010 Buckminister Fuller Challenge. One of todays most famous farmers, Joel Salatin, wrote “History will vindicate Allan Savory as one of the greatest ecologists of all time!” Mr. Savory will be speaking in Georgia on December 11th & 12th. We also talked with Will Harris, a family member of White Oak Pastures about his 5th generation farm based on sustainable land stewardship & humane animal stockmanship the Savory Event.
