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Allan Savory

Allan Savory

Zimbabwean ecologist and former soldierWikipedia

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Sep 25, 2026

Marlin MillerHOST
32:28
I mean, the thing that I can...
Marlin MillerHOST
32:31
The only thing that I can think of, as you were saying that, was Alan Savory and his TED Talk on desertification.
Marlin MillerHOST
32:38
Yes.
Marlin MillerHOST
32:38
If I'm saying that correctly.

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Daniel SalatinGUEST
41:43
really, um, from my dad.
Daniel SalatinGUEST
41:46
I lived a very special childhood from that perspective of growing up in the season of giants early on before like alternative ag became, you know, really popular.
Daniel SalatinGUEST
41:55
So, you know, being able to hang out with Alan nation, Bud Williams, Alan savory, not as much, but I met him a couple of times and got to talk with him a little bit.
Daniel SalatinGUEST
42:08
I said, Alan nation already, just a wealth of knowledge there.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:10
They've all invented the exact same thing.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:13
And Alan Savory addresses it in his book.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:16
And I believe in the Alan Savory book, it's called The Wagon Wheel Design.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:22
And that's where you've got a fixed coop and you have like multiple paddocks around the fixed coop.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:30
And then each paddock has a gate.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:41
And then once all the chickens have left the first paddock, I close the gate on that.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:46
So they have the exact same coop, you know, 365 days a year.
Paul WheatonHOST
17:54
And my concern with that is that that's going to build up a bunch of disease right there, which is what Alan Savory talks about.
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:01
And then I'm looking at the list of managed framework on the wall behind you.
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:05
I got Alan Savory's book, a bit like you, and you think, okay.
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:10
And it was all kind of, it's all kind of, and I read those on as well, you know, all those kinds of things were floating around.
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:16
So it was like inevitable that I'd go from that really high data, like really intensive kind of thing or management intensive, which I know holistic management is management intensive, but moved a little bit further down that road.
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:29
yeah and you said
Rob HavardHOST
22:30
frozen so andre voisin grass productivity is the book i think yeah because we had someone on spotify ask specifically because i think we mentioned this in a previous podcast and they're like i couldn't hear what the name of the book was but so yeah grass productivity andre voisin i'd say that's the best book to read on grass really management
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:50
And Alan Savory says that as well.
Rich ThomasGUEST
22:52
Not that I'm saying you or him, but that's what he says, isn't it? But if you go back, you've got Robert Elliot in the 1800s, late 1800s, sorry.
Joel SalatinGUEST
21:44
That's just a fact.
Joel SalatinGUEST
21:46
I mean, unless you irrigate, but, but, but there are a lot of places in this country that are, if you're, if you're in an above, I'm going to say, well, Alan Savory calls it brittle and non-brittle.
Joel SalatinGUEST
21:57
I think he makes the, makes the distinction at 20, 20 inches of rain a year.
Joel SalatinGUEST
22:01
I'm going to say about 25 inches, not to cut it too tight, but if you're over 25 inches of rainfall a year, then, then you, with rain, with great management, you can pretty much maintain your fertility with manure.

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Joel SalatinGUEST
47:03
What
Jared SorensenHOST
47:03
will help us to reach that tipping point where we are being more regenerative than degenerative, Joel?
Joel SalatinGUEST
47:10
Well, by the way, that statistic comes from Holistic Management, Alan Savory's group.
Joel SalatinGUEST
47:16
They're the ones that pushed the pencil on that.
William BondGUEST
41:53
helps the soil the best, builds soil best, right? Not what grazing protocol is going to make bigger cows, what grazing protocol is going to build the soil the best.
William BondGUEST
42:02
If you follow grazing protocols like Greg Judy or Joel Salatin or Alan Savory or Alan Nation, any of those guys, or Jim Garish, follow any of those guys.
William BondGUEST
42:11
Just start with the simplest one first and then get more advanced as you grasp the easier ones.
William BondGUEST
42:18
You realize you can... increase forage density 300% per season that you graze correctly.
Emma RactliffeHOST
0:16
Agrarian Futures is joining the World Within Studios podcast network.
Emma RactliffeHOST
0:20
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Emma RactliffeHOST
0:29
We are delighted to be adding agrarian futures to that effort.
Emma RactliffeHOST
0:33
Today, we're cross-posting an episode of our fellow World Within Studios show, the How to Change the World podcast.
Cooper HibbertGUEST
4:33
And if you're drawn to that, it can be a very fulfilling experience.
Rostam ZafariHOST
4:38
Your connection to land starts in large part with your great-great-grandfather and his legacy, Henry Sieben.
Rostam ZafariHOST
4:47
Reading about him, he came to the U.S. as a very young person, had lost his mother from Germany, lost his father in short succession after that.
Rostam ZafariHOST
4:57
And him and one brother followed, I believe, John Bozeman.
Pono Von HoltGUEST
13:53
Feeding had that extra thing we had to add, you know, 130 or 40 bucks a ton to get feed out here to feed an animal.
Pono Von HoltGUEST
14:02
So at some point right there around the... early 80s, we got hold of technology developed by Alan Savory, Stan Parsons, that took a holistic approach to managing ranches with an intensive grazing philosophy to duplicate the wild herds in Africa.
Pono Von HoltGUEST
14:29
And so we took that,
Tip HudsonHOST
14:31
tried it out in

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Pono Von HoltGUEST
27:25
So we optimize the growth of the grass when it's resting.
Pono Von HoltGUEST
27:29
And secondly, we ought to get the animal impact on it, which is the manuring, the fertilizing, and the rest, and stopping the overgrazing.
Pono Von HoltGUEST
27:38
So we fenced this property off in the mid-'80s using electric fence, adopted some of the concepts that the holistic approach that Alan Savory was talking about.
Pono Von HoltGUEST
27:53
And he was a great help to us getting started.
Anne BriggsGUEST
67:36
Uh, [laughs] but it's-
Luke HammondHOST
67:37
Let's bring on Allan Savory and talk about that.
Anne BriggsGUEST
67:39
Yes, let's.
Anne BriggsGUEST
67:40
Um, [laughs] anyway, uh, [laughs] but yeah, so Mother Nature does not like to be uncovered.
Tom OpreHOST
49:24
You know, like we shot some stuff outside of Cascade with the Sieben Livestock Company.
Tom OpreHOST
49:29
Cooper Hibbert, and he's embracing some of the aspects of Alan Savory's regenerative ranching concept.
Tom OpreHOST
49:35
And I have to be honest with you, the ranchers that I saw that were rising to the kind of that called the cream of the crop there were people that were embracing, I wouldn't say carte blanche, you know, but different aspects of what Alan Savory preaches, and I just spent, in March, I spent five days with him in his Ding Bang Gombe concession south of Vic Falls.
Tom OpreHOST
49:56
You know, he just came out with his memoir.
Tom OpreHOST
49:57
He's 90 years old, and I know that window's not getting any bigger, and so I wanted to go and spend some time with him.
Tom OpreHOST
49:24
You know, like we shot some stuff outside of Cascade with the Sieben Livestock Company.
Tom OpreHOST
49:29
Cooper Hibbert, and he's embracing some of the aspects of Alan Savory's regenerative ranching concept.
Tom OpreHOST
49:35
And I have to be honest with you, the ranchers that I saw that were rising to the kind of that called the cream of the crop there were people that were embracing, I wouldn't say carte blanche, you know, but different aspects of what Alan Savory preaches, and I just spent, in March, I spent five days with him in his Ding Bang Gombe concession south of Vic Falls.
Tom OpreHOST
49:56
You know, he just came out with his memoir.
Tom OpreHOST
49:57
He's 90 years old, and I know that window's not getting any bigger, and so I wanted to go and spend some time with him.

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