1994/95 Our dear friends Nada & Tony Smark (then of Woodbrook Farm) bought us our first Yeomans Keyline Plow in return for us designing & developing their first vineyard & forest (which was a Keyline vineyard & forest – see picture below!). What is a ‘Regrarians Keyline Superplow’? History Since…
The integration of trees into agricultural landscapes is done in many different ways. One layout that has a lot of practical and aesthetic appeal to even the most ardent of graziers is the savannah. Otherwise known as open grassy woodlands, dehesa (see photo below) and montado these systems are seen…
by Darren J. Doherty 2016 marked 40 years since Earl Butz (1909-2008) resigned as USA Secretary of Agriculture, however his vision for ‘getting big or getting out’ and ‘planting fence row to fence row’ has continued unabated — as have the terms of trade decline for producers and the decreased…
“…I believe this is one of the most profound assessments of human-ecology dependencies that exist…” — Joel Salatin, in the ‘The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs”, referring to the Regrarians Platform® Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest ever farmers. In the ‘regenerative agriculture’ movement…
The late, great P.A. Yeomans (1904-1984) did the world a great service by developing the #Keyline farm planning system from the 1940’s. With this he provided some excellent and enduring work on the ground on any number of properties across Australia and a few other parts of the world, notably a…
Over the years I’ve been musing and discussing with both myself and a number of folks about the notion of non-inversion, low-till broad scale tree/shrub establishment. Its always concerned me that methods we pioneered, going back to the mid 90’s with the DOJO (ripper:tiller:mounder) and beyond, have been particularly deleterious…
We kicked off 2017 with our first farm visit for the year at the 1300ha Holstons Station near Buchan in east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The brief is to design build a complete Keyline® landscape using the #RegrariansPlatform. We tested the new DJI #MavicPro — both for getting a bird’s eye view of the site…
Four days of presentations, discussions, site tours and practical activities presented by Holmgren Design and Regrarians for all those engaged or enthusiastic about growing and managing trees and forests for timber and multiple values. Bringing together the complementary knowledge and skill sets of permaculture co-originator David Holmgren and Regrarians farm planner…
For many years now we’ve been working with Jo & Martin Peters and their team at FarmingIT near Meredith (Victoria, Australia) who have developed perhaps the most cost-effective professional farm mapping service that Regrarians knows of anywhere in the world. More recently they started offering a UAV (‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’) based…
We had a post by Adam Snow on our excellent Regenerative Agrarians Facebook Group that I thought would be great to turn into an ‘Off the Contour‘ post. This is by no means a complete appraisal of what can or could be done #AfterTheFire. What I have done though is…