Eco Friendly Farm Forestry (this article was first published in Earth Garden Magazine in 2000) Eco Friendly Plantations…. Is that an oxymoron? To many that have observed the recent rise in investor driven “farm forestry” plantations one can only agree that this would certainly be the case. Mention the words…
Off the Contour #8 – Keyline Design Mark IV
KEYLINE DESIGN Mark IV ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ Building Soils, Harvesting Rainwater, Storing Carbon Abe Collins[i] & Darren J. Doherty[ii] Note: some of the pictures in this article did not come through in the migration from Google Documents to Blogger. To see these please go to this link while…
Off the Contour #7 – Earth Dam Design
Published in 2000 by Permaculture Activist (USA) The cheapest way of storing large volumes of water is in a water storage dam or pond. The potential functionality and aesthetics of a dam is brought through good design, thorough planning and investigation and appropriate construction techniques. This article hopes to address these…
Off the Contour #6 – ‘A Case Study in Permaculture Design Business Development’
A Case Study in Permaculture Design Business Development By Darren J. Doherty, Regrarians Ltd, Published by EcoHabitar Magazine, Spain, 2007 Back in 2000 Bill Mollison asked me to produce a book that sequentially outlined the process of developing a Permaculture Design Project that he would publish with Tagari Publications. To…
‘Off the Contour’ #5 – An Inaugural RegenAG Year to Remember
G’day, We have come to the end of what has been a tremendously successful year with the inaugural RegenAG Workshop Series coming to a close in Mudgee recently. It is with great pride and gratitude that I write this knowing of all the great information and knowledge that all of…
‘Off the Contour’ #4 – A Regrarians Retrospective Version II
Introduction This article was stimulated by the nice piece that emerging Permaculture Designer Nick Huggins put together promoting Permaculture Design practice and the course that he has designed to go with this…I have a few pointers around my own experience with all of this…some of which was shared with the…
‘Off the Contour’ #3 – Cold Turkey Rice & Mangos in Mexico ++’
Ing. Jorge Alaya Menendez is the pioneer of Rice cultivation on the Yucatan Peninsula and the largest rice grower in Mexico. Near the picturesque village of Palisades on the Usumacinta River (the largest river in Mexico) Valley he and his son Jorge Alaya Filijrana and family manage over 10,000ha (‘Pancho…
Off the Contour #2 – ‘Livestock & the Veganosphere’
My attention was piqued by the ‘Going Vego’ article penned by Nicole Murphy in the ‘Food Fossickers’ column (page 16) in the widely distributed Bendigo Weekly (#669) last week around water use per kg of meat production plus a few other livestock management claims as I found it containing some common…
Off the Contour #1 – ‘A Regenerative Plenary’
It has become clearer over the last few years that we have to do something about the way in which we continue as a species on this amazing planet. With that comes the need to develop some whole new understandings around our participation in what Allan Savory has described as…
#EatBuyGrow Rally + Event – Melbourne 19th February 2015
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