Create you own Farm Plan – online with the Regrarians Team of world-leading regenerative ag practitioners
Starting this April, plan your own farm over 13 weeks of live and interactive webinars, Q&A’s, forums and reviews — led by Darren J. Doherty and the amazing Regrarians Team of world leading regenerative agriculture practitioners
The 3rd REX Online program will be kicking off on Sunday the 1st of APRIL (Africa/Eurasia/Americas) and Monday the 2nd of APRIL (Asia/Oceania) with a ‘REX Orientation + Using the Regrarians Platform Farm Planning Process’
Since it was incepted in 2012 the Regrarians Platform (‘RP’) has provided a large number of people with a planning process that is holistic, inclusive and thorough. Its 10 layers are based on the 8 factor ’Keyline® Scale of Permanence’ that the renowned P.A. Yeomans outlined in 1958 and forms the basis to all of Regrarians Ltd. trainings, farm planning consultancies and media outreach.
A RP farm plan is not just a design on a map — its a detailed and holistic process that brings together the contexts of an individual, their family, their team and their community with that of the climate and the landscape and region they’re operating in.
A very special addition to this REX program is an optional weeklong tour of farms across SE QLD. In partnership with Regrarians Team member and Holistic Management Consultant/Educator Helen Lewis and the Condomine Alliance and Landcare Groups, Regrarians’ Darren J. Doherty will be spending a day at a range of operating farms whose enterprises will be joining us for the remainder of the REX Online Farm Planning Program.
This will give people the opportunity to join us on the ground for that week experiencing first hand some of the world-leading farm planning techniques and approaches that Regrarians has developed and applies across the world.
Pricing to join us on this option of the REX program will be announced soon.
There are two live sessions each week: Live 1 and Live 2. The dates that appear below are for the different time international time zones — i.e. APR 22-23 means that the Live 1 session of that week will be on Sunday 22nd of April 2018 in Africa/Eurasia/Americas and on Monday the 23rd of April 2018 on the other side of the International Date Line in places such as Asia/Oceania. We recommend using TimeAndDate.com to check your local starting times against 0700 (AM), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia time (AEST, GMT+10):
Live 1 – Sundays/Mondays – Week 1 starts, Monday 23rd of April 2018 at 0700 (AM), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia time (AEST, GMT+10)
Live 2 – Thursdays/Fridays – Week 1 starts, Friday 27th of April 2018 0700 (AM), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia time (AEST, GMT+10)
“…If you’re not designing your life then someone else is…”
– Javan K. Bernakevitch
Striking words from Javan, words that hit the chord of how important it is to establish what Regrarians’ founder, Darren J. Doherty, calls the ‘climate of mind’. The Holistic Context is a potent framework for refining what is truly important in you, your family’s and your teams lives and how that is expressed in the enterprises you work on and the landscapes and communities you work in.
A RP farm plan is not just a design on a map — its a detailed and holistic process that brings together the contexts of an individual, their family, their team and their community with that of the climate and the landscape and region they’re operating in.
The development of a Holistic Context is a critical part of the pathway to creating an achievable farm plan. Within the Regrarians Platform it becomes the benchmark against which all land management and enterprise decisions are made. Develop the understanding about what you really stand for, what makes you and your family (and team) happy, how you can work most productively and how you can build a foundation of landscape, enterprise and community wealth.
The advent of the free Google Earth® software has been a boon for land managers the world over — its become a ‘universal translator’ of sorts between all manner of more sophisticated and expensive software and has democratised the power or geography. Learning how to use it effectively and understanding its limits are important steps in building a farm plan. Its also important to set up your Google Earth folders from the start and Regrarians Platform layers are the natural order of these folders.
A primary step in the Regrarians approach to farm planning is to use Keyline® Geographic Analysis to understanding the principal landscape elements. Once established these elements inform the placement of most of the design features that make up the Development layers of the Regrarians Platform. Using the Keyline Geographic Analysis is at once liberating and powerful as the landscape ‘speaks to you’ (P.A. Yeomans), ‘telling’ you where to put different elements such as water, road, tree, building and fencing systems.
Understanding the ecosystem processes of your landscape and how these interact with the built elements are critical to building an effective farm plan. Using your farm map as a base and applying some simple and yet effective site analysis techniques will help you now and into the future as monitoring landscape function is a key component of holistic land management. We’ll introduce you to the brilliant ‘Bullseye!’ monitoring methodology that our original Holistic Management Certified Educator (HMCE) Kirk Gadzia co-authored. Also to the great work of another experienced HMCE and Regrarians Ltd. associate/mentor in Graeme Hand, who will help you understand landscape function better and is a co-facilitator at this module’s webinar.
“…Water is the principle planning medium. Water comes before roads and fences and everything. If you get the water right, you get the roads right and you plant the trees in the right place, and no-one does that…”
– P.A. Yeomans, 1979
Water Storage, Harvesting, Reticulation, Treatment
Most people have trouble getting Access right, whether on the largest or smallest scale. We define these arteries of movement and their engineering with the assistance of our analysis of the Geography and Water layers.
Roads, Tracks, Trails, Markets, Utilities, Labour
Forestry systems vary greatly—a myriad of natural and created forms. Nearly all economic landscapes are part of forest complexes and in the Regrarians Platform, forests and their placement are defined by layers 1–4.
Blocks, Shelter, Savannah, Orchards, Natural, Animals
Buildings are often expensive pieces of infrastructure that require detailed planning and engineering. In the Regrarians Platform®, the integrated placement of these structures is very much determined by the five layers before it on the permanence scale.
Homes • Sheds • Portable
The placement of Fencing as relatively fixed infrastructure is a hallmark of our domestication of many species, particularly livestock (and humans!). Traditional systems are expensive to build and apply. The advent of electric fencing revolutionised our ability to manage landscapes, allowing us to follow topographic patterns and natural animal behaviours.
Permanent • Electric • Living • Yards • Temporary
Soils are the foundation of life and therefore an important focus; we need to take care of the whole to support its foundation. Regrarians’ focus on determining the most cost-effective treatments to regenerate soil from the many that exist.
Planned Grazing • Crops • Minerals •Fertility
Economy is driven by our analysis of the previous layers, particularly Climate and Geography. This analysis and our consequent planning focuses on driving the economic engine of the various capital flows (Roland, E & Landau, G 2008, pers. comm.) that, like soils, are fragile and form the basis of the regeneration of the whole.
Analysis • Strategy • Value Chain
Energy is vital to fuelling all of the elements that drive any system. We therefore focus on organising energy systems that regenerate rather than atrophy — bearing in mind their cost-benefit in a rapidly evolving field.
Photosynthesis • Generation • Storage • Machinery
DO YOU WANT?
JOIN US ON THE REX 10 WEEK ONLINE FARM PLANNING PROGRAM.
This April, the team at Regrarians presents the 3rd REX® Online Farm Planning Program.
An opportunity for you to create your own farm plan facilitated by a team of some of Regenerative Agriculture’s greatest practitioners.
Starting on April (Africa/Eurasia/Americas) & July 6th (Asia/Oceania), this REX program will provide you with 10 weeks of in-depth training to create your own farm plan with support all the way from our the team of experienced farm planners & farmers.
Home for the REX is the new Regrarians® Workplace. Here you’ll find all of the members of the Regrarians® Team, many of our current & past clients, professional associates along with participants of the many live & recent online REX programs from all around the world. This platform is very intuitive and easy to use — its based on Facebook and so if you’ve used Facebook then you’ll feel right at home but without the distractions!
A least twice a week for 13 weeks we’ll take you through a live and interactive GoToWebinar-based presentations and Q&A, where we give you weekly tasks & reading; hold special sessions and even One on One’s & small group sessions to make sure your needs are taken care of. All of the sessions are recorded and made available to you forever so you can get the most out of the program.
All of your weekly task work is loaded into the REX13Week Google Drive — we’ve set up all of the folders so you’re good to go, making it easy for the Regrarians® Team to make comments and steer you in the right direction.
REGISTER NOW by purchasing this program HERE.
Tickets are priced at $USD995 per person or project — that’s right per project!
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You can also join the Regrarians Affiliates Program & receive US$50 for every mate you get to sign up!
PLUS!!
With every booking you get a free DVD of the multi-award ‘Polyfaces‘ documentary plus the available chapters of the Regrarians eHandbook.
With the advent of the Regrarians Ltd. non-profit in 2013, Darren has shifted his service profile to being that of a volunteer of that organisation, and is a leading attendee at conventions and conferences organised in conjunction with local organisations and individuals all over the globe.
Darren is a 5th generation Bendigo region farmer, developer, author & trainer and since 1993 has been involved in the design & development of well over 2500, mostly broadacre projects across 6 continents in over 50 countries, ranging from 1 million hectare cattle stations in Australia’s Kimberly region to 110,000 acre Estancia’s in Patagonia, EcoVillage developments in Tasmania to public:private R&D agroforestry & education projects in Viet Nam, novel AG Machinery development + family farms across the globe with a range of private, corporate, government & non-profit clients.
A true ‘integrationalist’, Darren has more recently been the originator of the Keyline® Design (2006), Carbon Farming (2006), Carbon Economy (2007), Regenerative Agriculture (along with RegenAG® {2009}) & Regrarians® (2012) and Regrarians® REX®, ROC & RAP conventions and conferences across Europe, North & South America and Oceania. This wide experience has created an international reputation of achievement plus and enviable & expansive network that integrates many disciplines. Globally many of Darren’s alumni and client base of well over 15,000 people are at the cutting edge of the movement towards regenerative agriculture & living systems.
Darren is the originator of the Regrarians Platform process which outlines a strategic & logical process to the development of regenerative agricultural systems, and is the program extensively outlined in the Regrarians Handbook which is now being released chapter by chapter as an eBook.
50 years of age, Darren is married to Lisa Heenan & together they have three children, Isaebella (24), Pearl (18) & Zane (16). Lisa & Isaebella are Directors of Regrarians Ltd., a family-operated non-profit attending conventions and conferences across the world, whilst organising Australian-based events, development, AG products & multi-award winning media out of the Bendigo region of central Victoria, Australia.
Lisa and Isaebella are the multi-award winning Producers, Directors and Cinematographers of the critically acclaimed feature film, ‘Polyfaces‘, which was released in late 2015.