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 #24 – #KeylineSuperPlow History
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…
Holstons Savannah Shade Study
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…
Off the Contour #22 — Producing chickens like cows
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…
Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin writes about the Regrarians Platform®
“…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…
Irrigation Dam Concept Layout
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…
#RegrariansGeography Process — Holstons Station
#2Geography in the #RegrariansPlatform® — our first planning project for 2017 — Holstons Pastoral Co is 1000ha (2500ac) property near Buchan in Gippsland, VIC, AU. Here we are starting things off with the #RegrariansGeography analysis — this is in part adapted from the late P.A. Yeomans Keyline® Geographic and Geometric analysis…
Off the Contour #19 – #AfterTheFire?
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…