This week we joined many around the world to celebrate the 90th birthday of regenerative farmer and champion of all things alive, Allan Savory.
Bio4Climate’s Jim Laurie first met Allan Savory in Houston in the 1990s, learning holistic management alongside Texas ranchers and driving hundreds of miles for workshops. Years later in Colorado, Jim was presenting on stage, with Mr. Savory sitting right before him in the front row. Never one to miss an opportunity for a good conversation, Jim called to Allan from the stage to broach the idea of applying holistic management to fish. Savory lit up at the idea; the world’s oceans and rivers were areas he hadn’t yet explored.
Jim took this photo (above) in Boulder, Colorado on June 23rd, 2013 while attending the first Savory Institute HUB Training Course with attendees from 6 continents. There are now over 50 Savory HUBS.
Seated from left are Jody Butterfield, Allan’s wife and his co-author of Holistic Management 3rd edition, Allan Savory, and Elsa Tung, a Tufts International Relations graduate student attending Hub Training.
Posted: September 21, 2025