Off the Contour

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…

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…

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…

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…

A Short History of Regrarians: Regrarianism Explained By Darren J. Doherty, Beginnings The development of the Regrarian system and philosophy has at its roots the late, great P.A. Yeomans’ ‘Keyline Scale of Permanence’. A few light bulbs went off in my mind over many years working as a regenerative broad-scale…

As we look forward to 2015 we (the Regrarians Ltd. Directors: Lisa Jane Heenan, Isaebella Doherty & Darren J. Doherty) wanted to set the tone for the means by which Regrarians Ltd-managed social media interacts & develops its discussions so as to maintain the high standard of conversation held by so…