🐝 New Platform, Same Mission

Thanks to our partnership with Farm Ranger, Southern Africa’s leading Satellite Tracking Providor, each sponsor now sees their animal’s actual grazing route, updated daily, with GPS-tracked positions as they move through the bush.

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Lao Watson-Smith
June 13, 2025

Welcome to Our New Home on Beehiiv

Dear friends and supporters,

We want to take a moment to welcome you to our new newsletter platform, hosted here on Beehiiv. As many of you know, our work through ACHM and Holistic Hooves is deeply grounded in the principles of Holistic Management — principles that we believe are essential for restoring landscapes, strengthening communities, and confronting ecological collapse.

Unfortunately, our previous publishing platform, Substack, decided that our content did not meet their internal standards and took our publication offline. While disappointing, this has in no way slowed us down. We’ve chosen to move forward — and upward — with Beehiiv.

To ensure continuity, we’ve subscribed all our previous readers from Substack to this new system. If you're receiving this email, you're already part of our growing network — and we’re glad you’re here.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be uploading the full archive of our past newsletters — a rich record of stories, insights, and regenerative milestones from Dimbangombe Conservancy and beyond. It’s a big task, so we appreciate your patience as we rebuild the historical catalogue.

🐄 Holistic Hooves:

We’re also happy to report that Holistic Hooves is thriving.

✅ We’ve welcomed our first cohort of sponsors — and are delighted that they are now following the daily journey of their animals through our digital extranet. If you’re one of those early supporters, we hope you’re enjoying the ride!

The Holistic Hooves Dashboard

🛰️ In the past few weeks, we’ve rolled out a major upgrade:

Sponsor App where the exact daily herding routes can be seen!

Thanks to our partnership with Farm Ranger, Southern Africa’s leading Satellite Tracking Providor, each sponsor now sees their animal’s actual grazing route, updated daily, with GPS-tracked positions as they move through the bush. This is more than a technical improvement — it’s the first time a regeneratively managed herd has been digitally tracked and shared in this way.

This new feature:

  • Gives you a live connection to the land your animal is restoring

  • Allows us to digitise and display our grazing plans

  • Opens the door to overlaying EOV data, so you can track how your animal contributes to real ecological change

Our next development milestone will make it possible to show both the planned route and the actual route, along with EOV data points — so you’ll be able to see when grazing pressure leads to improved vegetation cover or soil health.

THE HERD

Kito

KITO, A ROBUST

and determined Nguni Ox born in 2018 with a strong build and distinctive markings

Jabu

INTRODUCING JABU

a powerful and majestic Nguni bull with a striking black coat and distinctive white markings.

Dalia

DALIA IS A HEIFER …

with a distinctive appearance, showcasing a mix of white and brown patches across her body.

Sade

SADE STANDS TALL …

and proud amidst a large herd, her striking black and white coat marking her as one of the most distinctive …

🌿 Thank You for Being Part of This

Your support — as readers, sponsors, advocates, and fellow travellers — makes this journey possible. Despite the occasional roadblock, the mission continues stronger than ever: restoring Africa’s grasslands, regenerating rural economies, and building a future rooted in ecological truth.

If you're new here, or if you'd like to sponsor a regenerative animal, you can do that anytime at holistic-hooves.com.

Let’s keep walking together — step by step, hoof by hoof.

With gratitude,
The ACHM & Holistic Hooves Team
#HealWithHooves

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Until next time,

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