Southampton Homestead have quickly established themselves as a leading pastured poultry enterprise in the south west of Western Australia. Southampton’s Michelle McManus and Jeff Pow have developed the ‘Southampton Poultry Processing Model‘ (SPPM) and have on offer 7 RON modules to share their professional experience around this model. 1. Navigating…
The 2016 Regrarians World Tour dates and venues are getting closer to being announced. This tour will focus on the delivery of our flagship training event — the Regrarians 10 day Open Consultancy or ‘REX’. What is the REX? The REX focusses on the development of professional design and consulting…
Credit: Jason Hagan, McIvor Farm (2014) Extensivising Intensive – Strategies to Mitigate Risk for Intensive Animal Husbandry Systems Recent rulings by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) have classified that some producers in Victoria are managing ‘intensive animal husbandry’ systems. Despite the immediate uproar, particularly focussed on ‘right to…
After a very long gestation, the Regrarians Handbook team were able to finally get the 2.Geography chapter out today. We produced some 12 versions of this quite detailed chapter and many, many iterations and background maps and so on — particularly for the two Keyline sections. We took a very…
Last week Lisa and I travelled over to Western Australia to complete a consultancy in the humid south west. A few years back, soon after purchasing this historic property, the owner’s had a local contractor build an earthen barrier dam across a valley that runs through the property. This embankment holds…
Regrarians’ are working with a number of clients across Australia and the USA who have, or are planning small-medium scale, and in some cases, mobile livestock processing units. We are working with the likes of Tom Duncan (http://www.homeecology.net/), an old friend and colleague who among other things trained and worked extensively with…
Michelle McManus and Jeff Pow Own and operate Southampton Homestead and Farm, a 120-acre property in Balingup, Western Australia that has been transitioned from a pine plantation to a regenerative and fully integrated pasture-based poultry operation. You will get to see firsthand how Southampton Homestead is currently building up their pastured…
I was struck (again) this morning by a note a client sent to be relating to the cost of developing a site following a design we’d completed together. These clients have a broadacre holding that is in conversion from annual cereals to perennial grassland, tree crop woodland (aka ‘Savannah’), shelter…
#RegrariansONline (#RON) Beta It was way back in 2007 that an attendee to one of our workshops in California suggested that we should do online training. We thought about it and inquired and at that stage bandwidth and web software weren’t quite there — quite frankly neither were we! Thanks…
The late Mr. Geoffrey Booth and I met in 2010 and soon after we started discussing the development of a Keyline archive, which Geoff was already advanced in putting together. Geoff kindly offered to bequeath me his archived materials and today I was lucky enough to have received a…