In 1954 P.A. Yeomans released ‘The Keyline Plan’—the first ever book on broadscale functional and integrated agricultural landscape design and planning. For over 30 years Regrarians Land Planning have been using ‘The Keyline Plan’ to design ‘town and country’ projects and in doing so is guided by the ‘Keyline® Scale of (relative) Permanence’ (KSOP).
Regrarians Ltd. & HeenanDoherty Pty. Ltd. director Darren J. Doherty, is the only person to be approved (in 2002) by Ken B. Yeomans (son of P.A. Yeomans, Keyline® designer and owner of the Keyline® trademark) to provide Keyline® branded land planning services and to use this trademark in its extension and outreach. Doherty also maintained a 3 decade friendship and working relationship with the late Allan J. Yeomans (1931-2024), the second son of P.A. Yeomans and owner of the Yeomans Plow Co. until his death in February of 2024.
Doherty has trained more people in ‘The Keyline Plan’ than anyone since P.A. Yeomans himself, and is widely recognised as the world’s foremost farm landscape planner.
Why Keyline®?
Over the 70 years since the first Keyline® book was released, ‘The Keyline Plan’ has arguably been the land planning framework with the greatest influence on decisions that Australian land managers have made on ‘what to put where’—especially with regards water supply infrastructure such as water storage dams. However, Keyline® is much more than just farm dams and Keyline plowing, it is an entire land planning framework that can be applied to any landscape scale or shape, reducing infrastructure costs, increasing its function while being ecologically beneficial, durable and operationally efficient
The Regrarians Keyline® Plan
Since starting out in March of 1993, Regrarians has lived and breathed ‘The Keyline Plan’. All of its outreach, extension and plans have been defined by ‘The Keyline Scale of Permanence’ or ‘KSOP’. ‘The Regrarians Keyline® Plan’ is the modern iteration of the original planning framework, taking notice of all of the incredible innovations and practices that have emerged over the last 70 years, while retaining the tried and true genius of the KSOP and applying Regrarians Georgi Pavlov’s world-renowned cartographic and land analysis skills; incorporating insights from working with many other regenerative agriculture methods; and guided by the hands-on experience in planning and guiding the development of literally 1000’s of projects worldwide. We felt it was time that we formally re-booted ‘The Keyline Plan’ by building on its genius and lead the development of a new era of land planning that was highly functional, ecological, durable and profitable.
Accessing ‘The Regrarians Keyline® Plan’ Services
The Regrarians Land Planning team can provide anything from a single dam design to orchard layouts to a complete Keyline® plan of any scale landscape, anywhere. Where sufficient resolution maps are available, these services can be provided remotely—dramatically reducing the cost of access and the speed of delivery.
To begin:
- Read over the KSOP Service Overview below to understand what we can do for you
- Contact us with information about your project to see if we can be of service
- After assessing your submission we’ll contact you with a follow-up
- An online meeting will be organised
- A costing proposal will be provided
Countryside KSOP Service Overview
- Climate
- assess the meteorological climate
- set out project goals
- Land Shape
- topographical mapping
- UAV survey processing
- Keyline geographical site analysis
- hydrological site analysis
- Water supply
- dam design and grading
- water conservation and water irrigation channel design and grading
- pipeline reticulation layout design – potable, irrigation, sewage, treated water
- water treatment plan
- Farm Roads – design and grading of:
- road networks
- gradient catchment roads
- ridgeline and contour roads
- crossings
- auxiliary features
- Trees
- Keyline clearing
- contour strip Forests
- tree crop and orchard layouts
- riparian buffers
- Permanent buildings
- placement
- fire design
- Subdivision fencing
- laneways
- paddock layouts
- Soils
- Keyline pattern cultivation lines and programs – design for manual and autosteering implementation