Almost 100 people gathered at Sperryville’s Old School House last night to hear about Holistic Management International’s plans for a new program in the Upper Piedmont.  The meeting also served as kind of a graduation ceremony and report for those of us who had taken part in an HMI pilot project for the past year. Most of all it turned into a wonderful evening of making new friends and sharing experiences.  It wasn’t for more than an hour after the scheduled adjournment, that the last attendees headed for their cars. Those of us in the pilot project had vastly different operations, both in the type of farming we do and in…