10-day professional farm planning trainings
led by Darren J. Doherty
are being held at 12 locations in America, Europe & North Africa:
*#REX1 California, 9-18 March, Orella Ranch, Gaviota, 300 acres, mediterranean, undulating, 15" rainfall, cattle, agroforestry
*#REX2 Kansas, 22-31 March, Callicrate Cattle Company, St. Francis, 1200 acres, temperate, undulating, 18" rainfall, mixed livestock, agroforestry
*#REX3 Tennessee, 4-14 April, Hippo Hollow Farm, Columbia, 150 acres, temperate, undulating, 50" rainfall, mixed livestock
*#REX4 Chile, 19-28 April, Casa El Manzano, Bio Bio, Chile
*#REX5 Mexico, 4-13 May, Grupo Sierra Gordo, Queretaro
*#REX6 Texas, 18-27 June, Integrated Acres, Douglass, 150 acres, warm temperate, 49" rainfall, mixed livestock, agroforestry
*#REX7 Oregon, 3-12 June, Permaculture Design International, Albany, 350 acres, undulating, 40" rainfall, mixed livestock, agroforestry
*#REX9 UK, 22-31 July, Goffin Land, Church's Hill, Devon
*#REX10 NewYork, 6-15 August, Vermont Edible Landscapes, Whallonsburg, 60 acres, gently undulating, 45" rainfall, mixed livestock, agroforestry
*#REX12 Morocco, 21-30 August, Integral Morocco, Ouled Hammou
*#REX13 France, 5-14 September, Coume Sourde, Aude
Regrarian Charter
Our primary responsibility is to the regenerative enhancement of the biosphere’s ecosystem processes. Our secondary responsibility is to provide the potential for people to be informed about the regenerative economy, whether it involves their work in agriculture, land management, corporate life, domestic services, manufacturing or other activities that are within the reasonable domain of humans…
Integrated Design
We are unashamedly integrationalist in our approach to project design & delivery where we are not set on operating under a single set of parameters, approaches, disciplines or techniques. We carefully select the most appropriate tools for the right circumstances, considering with integrity how these fit with our charter and your objectives and expectations.
To be satisfied with mere sustainability is just simply lacking ambition and to be satisfied with ‘sustaining’ dying communities, ecosystems & economies is going no-where fast. We’ve scoured the planet for the best, most practical & cost-effective agricultural & living systems that take you, your land & our planet forward…
Regrarians Context
‘…To maintain creative, intergenerational family & community lives built around regenerative & profitable production, management & educational systems…’
Regrarians ‘Top 10’ Outcomes
1. Produce stable environments with sound watersheds
2. Restore profitability via integrated & regenerative agricultural development & management
3. Increase wildlife species, numbers with species & stability of populations
4. Improve water, soil & vegetation resources of cities, industry & agriculture
5. Re-establish riverine & riparian areas
6. Prevent waste of financial, human & natural resources
7. Entrench Holistic Decision Making Frameworks & Regrarian Design Ethics & Principles within the education system, communities & organisations
8. Develop viable decentralised energy production systems
9. Restore local, regional & global mineral & water cycles
10. Provide value to our collaborators, course participants, clients & community
Farm Design
Cost-effective, easy to understand & practical farm layout plans & documentation full of the wisdom gained from a lifetime or work in the field & the experienced gained by developing & managing many of these systems for decades.
Darren J. Doherty has extensive experience across the world in project design, development, management & training. A career-long focus on the profitable & regenerative retrofit of broadacre landscapes has seen Darren acclaimed as a pioneer in this important & often overlooked field.
Darren is a 5th generation Bendigo region farmer, developer, author & trainer and has been involved in the design & development of nearly 2000, mostly broadacre projects across 6 continents in close to 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) course series and Regrarians® REX, ROC & RAP courses 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 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.
Darren is married to Lisa Heenan & together they have three children, Isaebella (22), Pearl (15) & Zane (14). Lisa, Darren & Isaebella are all Directors of Regrarians Ltd., a family operated non-profit delivering consulting, events, development, AG products & multi-award winning media from the family farm in the Bendigo region of central Victoria, Australia.