Smartphone GPS Survey Apps – with Photo Point Function (Updated 15 Nov 2024): APPLE iOS Gaia GPS (MY EQUAL FIRST CHOICE) – USD$59.90-$89.90+/year Measure Map Pro (MY EQUAL FIRST CHOICE) – USD$30.99 Agro Measure Map Pro (MY EQUAL FIRST CHOICE) – USD$74.99 GPS Kit – Offline GPS Tracker – USD$14.99…
‘Off the Contour’ #31 – WYSIWYG CAD Farm Planning 23 Years On
Regrarians WYSIWYG #CAD #FarmPlanning 23 Years On We did this design & helped install it for Campbell Mercer and his family at their ‘Manna Hill Estate‘ at the turn of the century. In 2001 our team used CAD software to design the entire layout of olives, agroforestry, internal road &…
Plan Element Pricings
Plan Element Pricings Given the enormous success of the REX Online Farm Planning courses, since 2017 its been unusual for us to create whole farm plans. HOWEVER what people do want from us are precision GPS-ready CAD grading construction layouts of different plan elements— for earthmoving contractors and establishment crews.…
Off the Contour #28 – DJD COVID-19 Statement
Darren J. Doherty, COVID-19 Statement I believe very strongly that an individual’s private medical choices and history are just that (i.e. PRIVATE). However given the peculiar circumstances I regularly face and invitations I continue to receive, I want to make my own COVID-19 related genetic/synthetic biology therapy status public. Having…
Off the Contour #27 – James Anderson’s misquoted reference in the lineage of rotational, rational and planned grazing
Essays relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Volume Second, The Second Edition, by James Anderson, Farmer at Monks-Hill, Aberdeenshire, Edinburg, 1777—A misquoted reference in the lineage of rational, rotational and planned grazing By Darren J. Doherty, CPAg (AIA) James Anderson (1739-1808) of Monks Hill, Aberdeenshire (UK), was a Scottish farmer,…
Regrarians Handbook Update – 2020.04.07
On Monday the 6th of April 2020 we were offered a package of financial support to pay for the production team and myself to complete and print the Regrarians Handbook. We made a commitment in January to not run any educational programs until October – this was to allow us…
Off the Contour #26 – A Response to George Monbiot’s ‘Apocalypse Cow’
The writings of ‘The Guardian’ columnist George Monbiot (‘George’) over the last few years have become more radical when it comes to the future of agriculture. This took my (and many others) notice when in 2014 George released an article questioning the evidence for some of Allan Savory’s claims in…
Vale Eugenio Gras
1959-2020 It is with great sadness that this morning we received the news that this outstanding human has passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his partner Raquel, their daughter Alondra and their family. Felix Eugenio Gras Menaut was an industrial engineer by degree, but is best known for…
Off the Contour #25 – A holistic future or will Jeremy Clarkson be proved correct?
Monday 6th January 2020,Darren J. Doherty, CPAg (AIA), Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia The fire season here in SE Australia has some months to run and has so far proved to be unprecedented on a number of levels. Will the enormity of this latest conflagration actually result in large scale landscape management…
Joel Salatin y Darren Doherty Barcelona 8 May 2019 & Masterclass Menorca 9-11 May 2019
Thanks to Aline Van Moerbeke for compiling these notes and posting them on the Permacultura Mediterránea FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/PermaMed/ Aline’s photos from the Masterclass can be found here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fgyHG1qnE4FvFq4y6 These Masterclasses were organised by the teams at Editorial Diente de Leon & Organic Managers in conjunction with the owners and…