Gaelic Name: Darren John Ó Dochartaigh
Date of Birth: 2nd October 1967
Nationality: Australian
Birthplace & Residence: Dja Dja Wurrung Country (otherwise known as the Bendigo region of Victoria, Australia
Languages: Australian English (native), Castellano (basic)
CV Date: April 2025

Professional Memberships

• Certified Practicing Agriculturalist (CPAg) – The Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (AIA)

• Ordinary Member – Australian Society for Soil Science

Advisory Board & Roles

• Propagate Group PBC (USA)

• Kiss the Ground (USA)

• LandStream (USA)

• Partner – Asociación de Viticultura Regenerativa

Scholastic History

• 2006 Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training, Hortus Australia, Port Lincoln, SA

• 1995 Diploma of Permaculture Design – Permaculture Institute Tyalgum, NSW
  Fields: Education, Site Design, System Establishment & Implementation

• 1995 Whole Farm Planning Certificate (Train the Trainer) – University of Melbourne, The Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture – Longerenong Campus
  Tutor: Mr. Robert Binns

• 1995 Permaculture Consultant’s Design Course – Permaculture Institute Tyalgum NSW
  Tutor: Mr. Bill Mollison

• 1993 Permaculture Consultant’s Design Course – Candelo NSW
  Tutor: Mr. Andrew Sheridan & Mr. Hugh Gravestein

• 1984 – 85 Years 11-12 – Higher School Certificate (not completed) – Bendigo Senior Secondary College

• 1980 – 83 Years 7 – 10 – Flora Hill High School – Bendigo, Victoria

• 1972 – 79 Years Prep – 6 – California Gully Primary School – Eaglehawk, Victoria

• 1971 – Eaglehawk Kindergarten – Eaglehawk, Victoria

Short Courses completed

• 2017 – Technograzing — KiwiTech, Bulls, Aotearoa/NZ
  Tutor: Mr. Harry Wier

• 2009 – Holistic Management — Orella Ranch, California (USA)
  Tutor: Mr. Kirk Gadzia

• 1999 – Advanced Soil Fertility Workshop – University of Adelaide, Roseworthy Campus
  Lecturer: Mr. Neal Kinsey (Kinsey Agricultural Services – USA)

• 1999 – Hands On Agronomy – University of Adelaide, Roseworthy Campus
  Lecturer: Mr. Neal Kinsey (Kinsey Agricultural Services – USA)

• 1996 – Permaculture Earthworks – Permaculture Institute Tyalgum NSW
  Tutors: Mr. Bill Mollison & Mr. Doug Durrough

• 1994 – Keyline® Farm Planning Workshop – Albury TAFE
  Tutors: Mr. Vries Gravestein (Chiltern Permaculture Services) & Mr. Allan Lehmann (Lehmann Manufacturing)

Vocational History

• 2013 + Regrarians. Ltd.
  Director, Principal Trainer

• 2012 + HeenanDoherty Pty. Ltd.
  Director, Principal Land Planner

• 2010 + Regenerative Agriculture (AU)
  Registered Business Name Owner & Consultant

• 2010 – 2011 RegenAG® Ltd. (AU)
  Originator, Director & Lead Strategist (now defunct organization)

• 2009 – 2012 + Ecosystem Investments Management Australia (AU)
  Head of Regenerative Agriculture

• 2023-2024
  Udabno Regenerative Farm + Adjara Group (Republic of Georgia)
  Integrated Consultant

• 2009 + LandStream (USA)
  Vice President

• 2009 – 2011 Mas Arboles (ESP)
  Patron (now defunct organization)

• 2007 – 2012 + Carbon Culcha (AU)
  Integrated Consultant

• 2007 + Carbon Farmers of America LLC. (USA)
  Integrated Consultant

• 2005 – 2007 – ACDI/VOCA – Viet Nam
  Integrated Consultant/Educator – SUCCESS Alliance Program

• 2004 + M&M’s/Mars Inc. (USA)
  Integrated Consultant – Divisions of Plant Science, External Research & Sustainability

• 2000 – 2011 – Australia Felix Permaculture – Bendigo, Victoria
  Principal Consultant

• 1997 – 2000 – Australia Felix LandPlanning Consultants – Bendigo, Victoria
  Partner (with Ben Boxshall)

• 1997 – 2000 – Box Ironbark Farm Forestry Network Inc. – Bendigo, Victoria
  Founding Chairman

• 1996 – 1999 – GIFT (Investments) Pty. Ltd. – Bendigo, Victoria
  Chairman of Directors

• 1993 – 1997 – Permaculture Design Services Bendigo – Bendigo, Victoria
  Partner (with Michael G. Heenan)

• 1989 – 1993 – Organic Greengrocer/Bendigo Health Foods – Bendigo, Victoria
  Manager

• 1989 – Jean Jacques By The Sea – Restaurant – St.Kilda, Victoria – Captain

• 1989 – Launceston International Hotel – Cameron’s Fine Dining Restaurant – Launceston, Tasmania – Chef de Rang

• 1988 – Great Adventures Green Island Reef Resort – Restaurant – Green Island (off Cairns QLD) – Captain & Chef

• 1987 – 88 – Hospitality Industry Work Throughout Australia

• 1986 – 1987 – Eaglehawk Restaurant –Restaurant – Maldon, Victoria – Commis Waiter

• 1983-1984 – Woolworths – Supermarket – Kennington, Victoria – Nightfill

• 1978-79 – Seboa’s Newsagency – Eaglehawk, Victoria – Paper Boy

Community Activities

• 2017+ Provision of over 100 REX online farm planning program scholarships

• 1999-2000 Peter Harcourt Disability Services – Harcourt Park Development – Bendigo, Victoria
  Steering Committee Member as Environmental Design/Planning Consultant (with David Holmgren) Outcome: Harcourt Park Development

• 1996 – 2000 Box Ironbark Farm Forestry Network Inc. (BIFFN)
  Committee Member, Founding Chairman and Past President

• 1997 – 1999 North Central Catchment Management Authority (NCCMA)
  Regional Development & Farm Forestry Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) for the Natural Heritage Trust (NHT)

• 1997 – 1999 North Central CMA/Wimmera CMA/Buloke Shire
  Regional Farm Forestry Feasibility Study Committee MemberOutcome: North Central CMA/Wimmera CMA/Buloke Shire Farm Forestry Feasibility Study ($0.75million/3 year project)

• 1997 – 1998 Catholic College Bendigo (La Valla Campus)
  Environmental Design/Planning Consultant to Steering Committee
  Outcome: Draft Environmental Development Plan of Campus

• 1997 Kennington Primary School
  Environmental Design/Planning Consultant to Steering Committee Outcome: Draft Environmental Development Plan of Campus

• 1995 – 1996 St. Francis of the Fields Primary School
  Environmental Design/Planning Consultant to Steering Committee
  Outcome: Environmental Development Plan of Campus

Progressions

2026

• A year where so far we have been building elements that serve us first and serving others second. The prime example being the R-Earth precision farm planning software which we developed for ourselves until it was very clear this was going to a game-changer for integrated farm planning the world over. R-Earth started life as a browser version and is nearing its release in desktop format in the middle of this year. Otherwise the feedback from the market and members with 40% of Planners staying on beyond the 12 month minimum, and 100 Regrarians Planner Members for the first time since 2018.

• 7•Fencing Chapter of the Regrarians Handbook released

• Design, Development & Manufacture of the Regrarians® Ripper Rotor MK2 (Australia)

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R16 – 14 week

2025

• 8th World Tour, expanding into central and eastern Europe for the first time while returning to Mallorca after 11 years. Start working with Covalent Land Australia to support their carbon agroforestry projects. Regrarians Ltd. running at 40% below budget at start of year and we turn this around by mid-year thanks to a new website and recalibration of offering. The Regrarians Base Map Service was one example of our change in posture in this space, with more to come.

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R15 – 14 week

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R14 – 14 week

• ROC Farm Planning Convention – ROC37Portugal (Temperate)
  3 day, Herdade de São Luis, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal

• ROC Farm Planning Convention – ROC36Italy (Temperate)
  3 day, Iside Azienda Agricola, Sulzano, Brescia, Italy

• ROC Farm Planning Convention – ROC35Hungary (Temperate)
  3 day, DEDES, Gosztola, Zala County, Hungary

• ROC Farm Planning Convention – ROC34Poland (Temperate)
  3 day, AgroPartyka ,Kąkolewice, Poland

• ROC Farm Planning Convention – ROC33France (Mediterranean)
  4 day Permaterra, Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France

• ROC Farm Planning Convention – ROC32Mallorca (Mediterranean)
  3 day Ariant Estate, Serra de Trumantana, Mallorca, Spain

• Farm Planning for Agroforestry (Temperate)
  FPAC2, 4 day, Finger Lakes Region, New York, USA

• REXi Farm Planning Convention (Temperate) REXi13México (Arid)
  4 Day, Fundación Pro Cuatro Cienégas, Coahuilla, México

• REXi Farm Planning Convention (Temperate) REXi12Polyface, 4 day, Polyface Farm, Swoope, Virginia, USA

• REXi Farm Planning Convention (Temperate) REXi11Mangarara, 3 day, Mangarara Station, Hawkes Bay, NZ

• Regrarians Keyline® Plan Convention (Arid)
  3 Day, Fundación Pro Cuatro Cienégas, Coahuilla, México

2024

• Complete FIFO work on a large carbon agroforestry project in north eastern India to focus on Regrarians Institute training programs—particularly the REX®. Return to Polyface Farm for the first time in a decade and launch the first ‘Farm Planning for Agroforestry’ program with Propagate. ‘Cream Town’ Organic Restaurant & Café is closed as our family returns focus on pre-COVID activities

• Design, Development & Manufacture of the Regrarians® Ripper Rotor MK1 (India)

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R13 – 14 week

• Farm Planning for Agroforestry Convention (Temperate)
  FPAC1, 4 day, Finger Lakes Region, New York, USA

• ‘Designing Your Landscape’ - Stockman Grass Farmer Gathering (Temperate) 2 day Polyface Farm, Swoope, Virginia, USA

• Regrarians Keyline® Plan Convention (Arid)
  3 Day, Fundación Pro Cuatro Cienégas, Coahuilla, México

• ‘The Regrarians Platform® – The World’s Foremost Farm Landscape Planning Framework’ - CBTA#22, Tecnico Agropecuario, Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuilla, México

2023

• Called upon to provide key support to a large carbon agroforestry project in north eastern India where there is a target to plant millions of trees on pasturelands by the end of 2024. We provide leadership and direction in the development of on-farm nurseries, develop soil preparation machinery and introduce efficient plant establishment methods such that these targets were achieved. Provide planning and development support to the Udabno Project, a 20,000ha estate in central Georgia—Europe’s largest ‘regenerative agriculture’ project

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R12 – 14 week

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R11 – 14 week

• ‘The Regrarians Platform® – Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Adjara Group, Stamba Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R10 – 14 week

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R9 – 14 week

• Collective Territories, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne, Victoria, AU, Seminar – ‘Collaborative Studio incorporating architecture, landscape, industrial design, and public art’

2021

• The Covid-19 pandemic rages on and I find myself being an advisor to local hospitality businesses who aren’t able to keep up with the ever changing directives of the Victoria Government’s Chief Health Officer. Cream Town is actively labelled as the ‘Covid Café’ due to its decision to become a take-away when ‘vaccine’ passports are required for sit down service. And for being a non-discriminatory safe space for local workers who lost their jobs for not being illegally coerced into being injected with untested injectables.

• ReGEN for the NextGEN (Mediterranean)
  2 day Naracoorte Region, PIRSA, South Australia, Australia

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R8 – 14 week

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R7 – 13 week

• Monash University, Melbourne, AU, Bachelor of Architectural Design, Seminar – ‘THE FARM: A Regenerative Architecture’

• Geelong Grammar School, Corio, Victoria, AU,
  Seminar – ‘Sustainability Workshop’

• Peel Harvey Catchment Council, Western Australia, AU,
  Seminar – ‘Farm Planning in a Fire Prone Landscape – Train the Trainer: Farm Planning Extension Program’

2020

• Planned another expanded REXi world tour and then in March of that year the Covid-19 pandemic causes domestic and international travel restrictions. Our adult children all lose their jobs. Our eldest daughter (and Regrarians Ltd. Director) Isaebella launches the online ‘Cream Town’ gallery to support out-of-work visual artists who are not eligible for the many government subsidies—distributing over AUD$150,000 of payments in the process. Opened ‘Cream Town’ Organic Restaurant & Café in Castlemaine (closed in June 2024) which we all work in and becomes the new office for Regrarians Ltd.

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R6 – 13 week

2019

• We move to Castlemaine and then lead the REXi World Tour with its hybrid farm planning program—a combining 3-4 days of in-person convention with a year of online training and support. We also spend 6 months based in London, Milan and Paris as our youngest child Zane (then 17) has modelling contracts with international fashion houses.

• Masterclass with Joel Salatin (Mediterranean)
  3 day Son Felip, Ciutadella, Menorca, Spain

• Voyager Estate Field Day (Mediterranean)
  1 day Voyager Estate, Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia

• REXi Convention – REXi10Mangarara (Temperate),
  4 day Mangarara Station, Patangata, Aotearoa/NZ

• ROC Convention – ROC31México (High Tropics) - ROC30
  2 day Las Cañada de la Virgen, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México

• REXi Convention, REXi9México (High Tropics),
  4 day Rancho Vía Organica, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México

• REXi Convention, REXi8Chilé (Mediterranean),
  4 day Eco Escuela El Manzano, Cabrero, Bio Bio, Chilé

• REXi Convention, REXi7Brasil (Dry Tropics),
  4 day Palmas, Tocantins, Brasil 

• REXi Convention, REXi6Uruguay (Temperate),
  4 day Sierra de Rochas, Uruguay 

• REXi Convention, REXi3Spain (Mediterranean),
  4 day La Loma Viva, Granada, Spain

• REX Online Farm Planning Program R5 – 13 week

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R4 – 13 week

2018

• Pearl Warnecke Heenan sadly passes away in her own bed at 95, without any medication or pain. We pack up her home of the last 50 years and head to Europe to work with 2016 REX Alumni Francesc Font to launch the ‘Organic Managers program.

• ROC Convention, (Arid Tropics) - ROC29, NQ Dry Tropics NRM, 1 day, Clancella Downs, Charters Towers, AU

• ROC Convention, (Arid Tropics) - ROC28
  NQ Dry Tropics NRM, 3 day Ulcanbah Station, Ulcanbah, AU

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R3 – 13 week

• ‘d’Agricultura Orgànica’ - Organic Managers, University of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain

• ‘d’Agricultura Orgànica’ - Organic Managers, Olot, Girona, Catalunya

• ‘d’Agricultura Orgànica’ - Organic Managers, El Mercadel, Menorca, Spain

2017

• Following the 2016 REX World Tour we move into Lisa’s childhood home to become the full-time carers of Lisa’s elderly mother Pearl. We pivot from the 10 day in-person REX program to the 10 week REX® online farm planning program. While we also develop the Regrarians® Workplace education and extension network

• Design, Development & Manufacture of the Regrarians® RipperSeeder with Luke Hallam and Hallam Fabrication

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R2 – 10 week

• REX Online Farm Planning Program – R1 – 10 week

• ‘After the Fire 2’ - Peel Harvey Catchment Council, Waroona, Western Australia, AU

2016

• Ran the REX World Tour with 14 × 10 day farm planning conventions across 4 continents. Establish a private online network of REX alumni that becomes the Regrarians Workplace. Developed the ‘BeforeTheFire’ and ‘AfterTheFire’ farm planning in fire-prone landscapes programs following the devastating Waroona fires in Western Australia. Travelled to Carisbrooke Station (the world’s largest Keyline project - 50,000acres) to meet Anne and Charlie Phillott.

• REX Convention – REX14France – (Temperate)
  10 day, Mas Alavall, Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France

• ROC Convention, (Arid Tropics),
  3 day Wambiana Station, Charters Towers, AU

• REX Convention – REX13France – (Temperate)
  10 day, Domain de Mazy, Laure-Minervois, Aude, France

• REX Convention – REX12France – (Temperate)
  10 day, Coume Sourde, Rennes-le-Château, Aude, France

• REX Convention – REX11Morocco – (Arid)
  10 day, Ouled Hammou, Morocco

• REX Convention – REX10NewYork – (Temperate)
  10 day, Whallonsburg, New York, USA

• REX Convention – REX8Vermont – (Temperate)
  10 day, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont, USA

• REX Convention – REX7Oregon – (Temperate)
  10 day, Permaculture Design International, Albany, Oregon, USA

• REX Convention – REX6Texas – (Sub Tropics)
  10 day, Integrated Acres, Douglass, Texas, USA

• REX Convention – REX5México – (High Tropics)
  10 day, Grupo Sierra Gorda, Jalpan, Queretaro, Mexico

• REX Convention – REX4Chile – (Mediterranean)
  10 day, Eco Escuela El Manzano, Cabrero, Bio Bio, Chile

• REX Convention – REX3Tennessee – (Temperate)
  10 day, Hippo Hollow Farm, Colombia, Tennessee, USA

• REX Convention – REX2Kansas – (Temperate)
  10 day, Callicrate Cattle Co., St. Francis, Kansas, USA

• REX Convention – REX1California – (Mediterranean)
  10 day, Orella Ranch, Gaviota, Virginia, USA

• ‘After the Fire 1’ - Peel Harvey Catchment Council, Waroona, Western Australia, AU

2015

• Move to Castlemaine and commence post-production ‘Polyfaces’ feature documentary which is released at the ‘Life Sciences Film Festival’ in Prague, where it wins the Minister of Agriculture award. Polyfaces qualifies for the 2015 Academy Awards and wins multiple awards across the world. Geoffrey Booth commissions us to develop the ‘Genius of Keyline ‘ CGI project, which Georgi Pavlov then created in the weeks before Geoffrey sadly passed away—realising a dream of his for the last 40 years.

• Regrarians® Practical Convention – RAP7 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Farfield Farm, Afton, Virginia, USA

• ROC Convention – ROC27 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Coume Soude, France

• ROC Convention – ROC26 – (Temperate)
  2 day, Southampton, Western Australia, Australia

• ROC Convention – ROC25 – (Temperate)
  2 day, Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia

2014

• Awarded Hawai’i Senate Commendation by Senator Mike Gabbard. Continue liaisons with Hōkūnui agrihood project on Maui, while completing another world tour. Filming of the ‘Polyfaces’ feature documentary project completed and we launched first Regrarians Handbook chapters. Meet Allan, Chris and Ken Yeomans with Geoffrey Booth to discuss the ‘Australian Keyline Research & Educational Storehouse’ (AKRES) project

• Regrarians® Agriculture Convention – RAW16 – (Tropics)
  1 day, Hōkūnui, Maui, Hawai’i, USA

• Regrarians® Agriculture Convention – RAW15 – (Tropics)
  2 day, Asia Pacific Centre for Regenerative Design, O’ahu, Hawai’i, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC24 & Keyline Summit – (Cold Temperate)
  3 day, Afton, Virginia, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC23 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, Crete, Greece

• ROC Convention –ROC22 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Albany, Oregon, USA

• ROC –ROC#21 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Walnut Creek Farms, Oklahoma, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC20 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, Ojai Foundation, California, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC19 – (Cold Temperate)
  2 day, Shelburn Farm, Vermont, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC18 – (Cold Temperate)
  3 day, Stack Farm, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC17 – (Cold Temperate)
  3 day, MA Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC16 – (Cold Temperate)
  3 day, MA Center, Elburn, Illinois, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC15 – (Temperate)
  3 day, MA Center, San Ramon, California, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC14 – (Sub-Tropics)
  3 day, Warwick, Queensland, Australia

• ROC Convention –ROC13 – (Sub-Tropics)
  3 day, Warwick, Queensland, Australia

• Regrarians® Advanced Design course – RAD2 – (Mediterranean) 10 day, Muskerry Farm, Muskerry, Victoria, Australia

• ROC Convention –ROC12 – (Mediterranean)
  2 day, Manjimup, Western Australia, Australia

• ROC Convention –ROC11 – (Sub-Tropics)
  1 day, Kahumana Farms, Oahu, Hawai’i, USA

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Mediterranean)
  92hr, Fertile Roots Foundation, Essaouira, Morocco (SOLO#13)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate)
  72hr, Very Edible Gardens, Dehesa Felix, Eppalock, VIC, Australia (Co-Teacher with Dan Palmer, Adam Grubb & David Holmgren)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate)
  92hr, Regrarians, Dehesa Felix, Eppalock, VIC, Australia (SOLO#12)

• ‘Restoring Nature with Regenerative Agriculture: Creating Resilient Farms, Landscapes and Communities’ - Ojai Valley Green Coalition, Ojai, California, USA

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Beef & Bourbon Evening, Center for Food Safety, Kaimuki Superette, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years (with Grant Schultz)’ - Farmscale Permaculture Workshop, Versaland, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

• ‘Convert Your Farm into a Stacked Permaculture Enterprise’ - Washtenaw Food Hub, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA

• ‘What is Possible With Permaculture Design in the Home Garden’ - Matthew Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

• ‘Why Regenerative is better than Sustainable?’ - The Resiliency Institute, Naperville, Illinois, USA

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years (with Joel Salatin) - Sustainable Leadership Lab, University of Stockholm, Sweden

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Savory Institute International Conference, London, England

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - The Bridge PAI, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

2013

• Creation of the brand Regrarian® and Regrarians Platform® concept, Regrarians Ltd. non-profit incorporation and founding of the Regrarians Institute. Isaebella continues filming of the ‘Polyfaces’ feature documentary project. Start liaising with the Frost family and their Hōkūnui agrihood project on Maui, Hawai’i.

• ROC Convention –ROC#10 – (High Desert)
  3 day, Owl Peak Farm, La Madera, New Mexico, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC#9 – (Temperate)
  3 day, New Agrarian Design, ‘The Farm’, Summertown, Tennessee, USA

• ROC Convention –ROC#8 – (SubTropical)
  1 day, Utopia Sustainable Landscapes, Bermuda

• ROC Convention –ROC#7 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Ever Terra Farm, St. Mary’s, Ontario, Canada

• ROC Convention –ROC#6 – (Mediterranean) 2 day, Markegard Family Grass Fed, Half-Moon Bay, California, USA

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate)
  72hr, Very Edible Gardens, Dehesa Felix, Eppalock, VIC, Australia (Co-Teacher with Dan Palmer, Adam Grubb & David Holmgren)

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Green Rows, Waimanolo, Oahu, Hawai’i, USA

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Hōkūnui, Maui, Hawai’i, USA

• ‘Adaptation 101: Regrarian Farm & Ranch Planning for Drylands – with Dennis Moroney’ - Quivira Coalition Conference, Alburqueque, New Mexico, USA

• ‘A Regenerative Tennessee’ - Bermuda Botanic Gardens, Bermuda

• ‘Moving Beyond Sustainability in Agriculture: Why Regenerative Agriculture’ - University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

• ‘Climate Change in Agriculture’ – with Alby Mangan, Renata Brillinger & Ann Thrupp - Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, California, USA

• ‘Regrarianism: Rebooting Agriculture for the next 10,000 years’ - Main Stage - Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, California, USA

• ‘Regenerative Agriculture & Living’ - Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Rohnert Park, California, USA

• ‘Holistic Management® and Permaculture’ - Very Edible Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• ‘Regenerative Agriculture & Darren Doherty Retrospective’ - 2013 International Permaculture Day

• ‘‘Regrarianism – Beyond 2033? Actions Necessary for declining resources, shifting markets, climate competition
  & skill droughts’ - 3 Pillars Network, 3rd Sustainable Food Summit, Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• ‘Regrarianism & the Regen10’ - North Central Catchment Management Authority, Yarrawalla, Victoria, AU

2012

• Developed the Regrarians® brand and ran the first ever Regrarians World Tour, while providing a range of short programs across Australia. Isaebella continues filming of the ‘Polyfaces’ feature documentary project, while the Regen10 planning framework and pedagogy continues to develop and gain attention around the world. Andrew Jeeves and I decide to collaborate on the Regrarians Handbook project. Georgi Pavlov comes to our attention when he is doing renders of some of our project plans.

• ROC Convention –ROC5 – (Temperate)
  1 day, Central West CMA & Watershed Landcare Group, Mudgee, NSW, Australia

• ROC Convention –ROC4 – (Temperate)
  1 day, Mid Macquarie Landcare Group, Wellington, NSW, Australia

• RAW Convention – RAW14 – (Arid)
  2 day, Carbon Farming Series, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

• RAW Convention – RAW13 – (Temperate)
  2 day, Maharishi University of Management & Practical Farmers of Iowa, Fairfield, Iowa, USA

• RAW Convention – RAW12 – (Temperate)
  1 day, Yowrie Landcare Group & South Rivers CMA, ‘Brandywine’, Cobargo, NSW, Australia

• RAP Convention – RAP6 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Taranaki Farm, Woodend, VIC, Australia (with Joel Salatin & Ben Falloon)

• RAP Convention – RAP5 – (Temperate)
  4 day, Taranaki Farm, Woodend, VIC, Australia (with Joel Salatin & Ben Falloon)

• RAW Convention – RAW11 – (SubTropical)
  2 day, Karuah Great Lakes Landcare & Great Lakes Council, Dyers Crossing, NSW, Australia

• RAP Convention – RAP4 – (SubTropical)
  2 day, Manning Landcare Group, Wingham, NSW, Australia

• RAP Convention – RAP3 – (SubTropical)
  1 day, Manning Landcare Group, Wingham, NSW, Australia

• RAW Convention – RAW10 – (SubTropical)
  1 day, Great Lakes Council, Forster, NSW, Australia

• RAW Convention – RAW9 – (SubTropical)
  1 day, Manning Landcare Group, Barrington, NSW, Australia

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Los Masos, Pyrénées-Orientales, France

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Temperate)
  4 Day, Carbon Farming Convention, NY, USA

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate)
  72hr, Sydney Permaculture Institute, Bandusia Resort, St. Albans, NSW, Australia (Co-Teacher with Penny Pyett)

• ‘Regrarianism & the Regen10’ - Maharishi University of Management & Practical Farmers of Iowa, Fairfield, Iowa, USA

• ‘The Regen10 & SilvoPastoral Intelligence’ - FACETS/SkillSet, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

• Urban Permaculture’ - Great Lakes Council, Wingham, New South Wales, Australia

• Urban Permaculture’ - Great Lakes Council, Tinonee, New South Wales, Australia

2011

• Bruce Ward invited me to deliver a private farm planning program for Holistic Management Certified Educators—directly leading to the development of the ‘10 layer ‘Regen10’, which in 2013 became the Regrarians Platform®. Ran the 1st (and only) RegenAG® World Tour. Later in the year I led the first ever RAD program in England—the 7 day precursor to the 10 day REX® program in 2016. Relinquished the RegenAG® brand I originated to RegenAG Ltd. in Australia to focus on the development of what became Regrarians the next year (2012). Commence filming of the ‘Polyfaces’ feature documentary project.

• RAP Convention – RAP#2 – (Mediterranean)
  2 day, Albergue, de los Albedules, Castilla, Spain

• RAW Convention – RAW#8 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, Quinta do Vale da lama, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal

• RAW Convention – RAW#7 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Cowdray Estate, West Sussex, United Kingdom

• RegenAG® Advanced Design Convention (RAD) – RAD#1 – (Temperate) 7 day, Cowdray Estate, West Sussex, United Kingdom

• RAW Convention – RAW#6 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, La Donaira, Ronda, Andalucia, Spain

• RAW Convention – RAW#5 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, Son Barrina, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain

• RAW Convention – RAW#4 – (Mediterranean)
  1 day, Mallorcan Farmers Union, Porreres, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain

• RAW Convention – RAW#3 – (Temperate)
  3 day, Melchof, Melchow, Brandenburg, Germany

• ROC Convention – ROC#2 – (Tropics)
  3 day, Jervoise Station, Greenvale, QLD, Australia

• RegenAG® Practical Convention (RAP) – RAP#1 – (Mediterranean)
  1 day, ‘Compost Toilet & Ferrocement Tank Construction’, Son Barrina, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain

• RID Convention – RID#2 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, Son Barrina, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain

• RAW Convention – RAW#2 – (Mediterranean)
  3 day, El Prat Llobrogat, Catalunya, Spain

• RegenAG® Open Consultancy (ROC) Convention – ROC#1 – (Mediterranean) 5 day, Ibiza, Islas Baleares, Spain

• RegenAG® Introduction to Design (RID) Convention – RID#1 – (Mediterranean) 5 day, Ibiza, Islas Baleares, Spain

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Dry Tropics)
  3 Day, RegenAG, Free Range Permaculture, Jervoise Station, Greenvale, QLD, Australia

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Sub Tropics)
  3 Day, RegenAG, Free Range Permaculture, Westmar, QLD, Australia

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Holistic Management Certified Educators, NSW TAFE, Orange, NSW, Australia

• ‘RegenAG® Keyline® Earthworks Practicum (Temperate), 5 Day, Hidango, Chile

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Mediterranean)
  72hr, Open World Foundation, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain (Translated to Spanish – Co-Teacher Richard Perkins)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Mediterranean)
  92hr, Permacultura Greece, Athens, Greece (Translated to Greek) (SOLO#11)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Tropics)
  72hr, Earth Passengers, Taitung, Taiwan (Translated to Mandarin – Co-Teacher with Peter Morehead)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Dryland)
  72hr, Milkwood Permaculture Farm, Mudgee, NSW, Australia (Co-Teacher with Nick Ritar & Jesse Lemieux)

• ‘Regenerating Watersheds’ - Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

• ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ - Mallorcan Farmers Union, Porerres, Islas Baleares, Spain

• ‘Towards a Regenerative Greece’ - Permaculture Greece, Athina, Attica, Greece

• ‘Eco-Ideas – Regenerative Agriculture & Industry’ - Panasonic Spain, Barcelona, Catalunya

• ‘Towards a Regenerative El Prat Llobrogat’ - Municipalidad El Prat Llobrogat, El Prat Llobrogat, Catalunya

• ‘Towards a Regenerative Mallorca’ - INIA, Inca, Islas Baleares, Spain

• ‘Towards a Regenerative Mallorca’ - El Diaro, Inca, Islas Baleares, Spain

• ‘RegenAG® Keyline® Farming in Chile’ - Curso de conservacion de suelo y agua en el secano: Construccion de Sistema Keyline, Hidango, Chile

2010

• Origination and trademark RegenAG® brand – Including Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series across Australia which was supported by the federal government’s ‘Climate Ready’ program—helping over 800 farmers join the series—bringing figures of the calibre of Kirk Gadzia, Eugenio Gras and Joel Salatin to the country. I developed the RegenAG® brand as any use of the word ‘carbon’ became a divisive due to the political climate in Australia. Met Andrew Jeeves and Geoffrey Booth for the first time.

• Designed & Developed the Working Prototype of the World-First Keyline® SuperPlow (with Ben Falloon of Taranaki Farm)

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Dry Tropics)
  3 Day, RegenAG, Free Range Permaculture, Mt Molloy, Queensland, Australia

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, RegenAG, Milkwood Permaculture, Mudgee, NSW, Australia

• Keyline® Farming Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, RegenAG, Fusion Farms, Tylden, Victoria, Australia

• Keyline® Design Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Fusion Farms, Tylden, Victoria, Australia

• Keyline® Design Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Milkwood Permaculture, Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, NSW, Australia

• Earthworks Practicum, 5 day, Australia Felix Permaculture, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

• GIS/Watershed Analysis Practicum, 3 day, Australia Felix Permaculture, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Livestock Managers Convention, 3 day, Sierra Gorda Foundation, Querétaro City, Querétaro, Mexico

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm, 3 day, COAS, Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Tropics)
  92hr, Free Range Permaculture, Atherton Tablelands, QLD, Australia (SOLO#10)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate)
  72hr, Ryde TAFE, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Co-Teacher with Penny Pyett)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (SubTropical)
  92hr, Rainbow Valley Farm, Matakana, NZ (SOLO#9)

• ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ - 3rd Indigenous Land & Water Management Conference, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

• Master of Ceremonies Gala Dinner & Day Session - 10th Australian Permaculture Convergence, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia

• ‘Challenge of capability, community & caring: Aphorisms & a grandson’s journey towards a permanent culture’ - Más Árboles ante el Cambio Climático - 2° Encuentro Internacional Amigos de los Árboles, Institución Cultural El Brocense, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain

2009

• Following on from the 2007 world tour, we ran our Carbon Farming & Carbon Economy world tour—this time round our flights were all paid for and we built on the number of methodologies we integrated into our programs. We started working with Joel Salatin and Eugenio Gras and started to introduce them to our audiences around the world.

• Keyline® Farming Convention (High Tropics)
  7 Day, COAS, El Arenal, Jalisco, Mexico (Translated to Spanish)

• Keyline® Design Convention (High Tropics)
  3 Day, Sierra Gorda, Queratero, Mexico (Translated to Spanish)

• Keyline® Design Convention (High Tropics)
  7 Day, COAS, El Arenal, Jalisco, Mexico (Translated to Spanish)

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 3 day, COAS, Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico

• Advanced GIS & System Development Convention, 3 day, COAS, El Arenal, Jalisco, Mexico

• Keyline® Farming Convention, 3 day, Carbon Economy Course, Orella Ranch, Goleta, California, USA

• Principles & Techniques of Soil Building & Water Management (with Penny Livingston), 3 day, USDA-NRCS/NOAA, Aromas, Salinas Valley, California, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 3 day, Asociation de Permacultura de las Islas Pitiusas, Islas Baleares, Spain

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 3 day, Permacultura-es, Bonastre, Catalunya,

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 3 day, Fundacion + Arboles, Alcaraz, Albacete, Spain

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 7 day, Maderas Nobles, Riopar, Albacete, Spain

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Organic Dairy & Pasture Association, ‘Willomere’, Hororata, NZ

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Organics New Zealand/Aotearoa, ‘Mangarara Farm’, Hawkes Bay, NZ

• Broadacre Permaculture, 6 day, Carbon Farming Tennessee, Summertown, Tennessee, USA

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Cold Humid)
  92hr, New Agrarian Centre/Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA (SOLO#8)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Mediterranean)
  92hr, Permacultura Espana, Son Rullan, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain (Translated to Spanish)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Tropics)
  92hr, Free Range Permaculture, Atherton Tablelands, QLD, Australia (SOLO#7)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (SubTropical)
  92hr, Rainbow Valley Farm, Matakana, NZ (SOLO#7)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate)
  72hr, Ryde TAFE, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Co-Teacher with Penny Pyett)

• ‘Permaculture Across the Globe’ - Sustaining Hawkes Bay Trust, Hastings, NZ

• ‘Rehydration Revolution: Hydrological & Carbon Farming (with Brock Dolman)’ - Bioneers, San Rafael, California, USA

• ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ - Connexions, Half Moon Bay, California, USA

• ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ - Rainbow Valley Farm, Matakana, NZ

2008

• Building on what we learned from the 2007 world tour, we spent the majority of the year in Australia delivering integrated farm planning programs and some farm planning consulting

• Keyline® Design Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Dalpura Farm, Moriac, Victoria, Australia

• Keyline® Design Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Dalpura Farm, Moriac, Victoria, Australia

• Keyline® Design Convention (Temperate)
  3 Day, Milkwood Permaculture, Mudgee, NSW, Australia

• Designing Water into the Landscape Earthworks Course (Temperate), 3 Day, Milkwood Permaculture, Goulburn, NSW, Australia (Co-Teacher with Geoff Lawton)

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Department of Primary Industries, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, West Marong Landcare Group, Woodstock on Loddon, Victoria, Australia

• Convention or Innovation – A Practical on Farm Trial - Using the Yeomans principles of Keyline® Design to Increase Production in Central Victoria, 1 day, National Landcare Program, Graytown, Victoria, Australia

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Tropics)
  72hr, East Water Ltd/Earth Net Foundation, Chachoengsao, Kingdom of Thailand (SOLO#6)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Sub Tropics)
  72hr, Permaculture Research Institute, The Channon, New South Wales, Australia (Co-Teacher with Geoff Lawton)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Dryland)
  72hr, Milkwood Permaculture Farm, Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia (SOLO#5)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Cold Humid)
  92hr, New Agrarian Centre/Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA (SOLO#4)

• ‘Broadacre Permaculture’ (Joint Presentation with Tony Rinaudo) - Global Food Crisis Conference, World Vision, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Breakthroughs in Water Technology (Joint Keynote Presentation with Bill Mollison & Geoff Lawton), 1 Day, The Churchill Club, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• ‘Modern Approaches to Keyline® Design’ (Joint Presentation with Phil Gall) - 9th Australian Permaculture Convergence, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• ‘Enterprising Paradigms & Processes for Broadacre Permaculture’, 9th Australian Permaculture Convergence, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• ‘Permaculture Design: The Business of Biospheric Design’ - 9th Australian Permaculture Convergence, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• ‘Permaculture Across the Globe' - Great Lakes Brewery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

2007

• ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ World Tour—the world’s first carbon farming programs which are centred on Keyline® farm planning and Holistic Management®. We used our savings to buy 5 round-the-world tickets to self-finance the tour as we determined it was important we do what we could to inform the world about the vital role agriculture had in addressing global warming

• Keyline® Design Convention (Dryland)
  2 Day, Harvesting Rainwater Centre, Tuscon, Arizona, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Cool Temperate)
  3 Day, Regenerative Design Institute, Bolinas, California, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Cool Temperate)
  2 Day, Carbon Farmers of America, St Albans, Vermont, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Cool Temperate)
  2 Day, Global Environment Management Centre (GEM), University of Wisconsin, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Cool Temperate)
  2 Day, New Agrarian Centre, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Cool Temperate)
  2 Day, AH Tuttle LLC, Canandaigua, New York, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Mediterranean)
  6 Day, EcoHabitar Institute, Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spain (Translated to Spanish)

• Keyline® Design Convention (Cool Temperate)
  6 Day, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, Ithaca, New York, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Dryland)
  2 Day, Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, Cuyama, California, USA

• Keyline® Design Convention (Mediterranean)
  6 Day, Orella Ranch, Goleta, California, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm (Joint Facilitation with Abe Collins), Marin County Ag Commissioner, Nicasio, California, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Dance Palace, Point Reyes, California, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Santa Barbara Library, Santa Barbara, California, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Cuyama Town Hall, Cuyama, California, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 1 day, Linn, Missouri, USA

• Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm Convention, 3 day, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Dryland)
  92hr, Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, Cuyama, California, USA (SOLO#3)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Cool Temperate)
  72hr, Portland Permaculture Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA (Co-Teacher with Geoff Lawton)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Dryland)
  72hr, Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, Cuyama, California, USA (Co-Teacher with Geoff Lawton)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Dryland)
  72hr, EarthFlow Design Works, Santa Maria, California, USA (Guest Teacher with Larry Santoyo)

• ‘Keyline® Design in California’ - Sustainable World Radio, Santa Barbara, California, USA

• ‘Permaculture Across the Globe’ - Eco Earth Play, Ojai, California, USA

• ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ - Great Lakes Brewery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

• ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ - CalPoly Institute, San Luis Obispo, California, USA

2006

• Fly-in-Fly-Out (FIFO) to Viet Nam to complete the work at the SCAS research site and while doing the first trainings in the Americas. Start planning for the ‘Soil, Water & Carbon for Every Farm’ world tour

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Cold/Temperate)
  72hr, Global Environment Management Centre (GEM), University of Wisconsin, USA (SOLO#2)

• Permaculture Design Course (Temperate/Sub-Arid)
  72hr, Bendigo, Victoria (Co-Teacher with David Holmgren)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Convention (Cold/Temperate)
  92hr, Estancia Ranquilco, Neuquén Province (Patagonia), Argentina (SOLO#1)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/SubTropical) 72hr, Taranaki, New Zealand (Co-Teacher with Grifen Hope & Joe Polaischer)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/SubTropical) 72hr, Rainbow Valley Farm, Matakana, NZ (Co-Teacher with Joe Polaischer)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/SubTropical) 72hr, Ryde TAFE, Sydney, NSW (Co-Teacher with Janet Millington & Penny Pyett)

• ‘Building Sustainable Communities with Permaculture in Viet Nam’ - Global Environment Management Centre (GEM), University of Wisconsin, USA

• “Critical Issues” Seminar Series - Global Environment Management Centre (GEM), University of Wisconsin, USA

• ‘Permaculture in Viet Nam’ - ABC Regional Radio, Australia

2005

• We all move to rural Viet Nam to work on the Sustainable Cacao Agroforestry Systems (SCAS) project for Mars Inc.

• Permaculture Design Course (Temperate/Sub-Arid)
  72hr, Bendigo, Victoria (Co-Teacher with David Holmgren)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/SubTropical)
  72hr, Ryde TAFE, Sydney, NSW (Co-Teacher with Janet Millington & Penny Pyett)

• Permaculture Design Course (Temperate/SubTropical)
  72hr, Bega, NSW (Co-Teacher with John Champagne)

• Permaculture Design Course/Sustainable Cacao Agroforestry Systems (SCAS) Convention (Tropical) 160hr, ACDIVOCA/Mars Inc., SUCCESS Alliance, Dong Xoai, Binh Phuoc, Viet Nam (Translated to Viet Nam)

• ‘Broadacre Permaculture’ - ABC Regional Radio, Australia

2004

• First trips to Viet Nam to work with Mars Inc. under Howard Yana-Shapiro (then Director of Plant Science & External Research) to support the cacao becoming an official crop of Viet Nam

• M&M’s/Mars Inc/Forest Science Institute of Viet Nam Co-Designer (with Dr. Roger Leakey)/Project Manager of Sustainable Cacao Agroforestry System (SCAS) Research & Demonstration Farm

• Permaculture Design Course (Temperate/Sub-Arid)
  72hr, Bendigo, Victoria (Co-Teacher with David Holmgren)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/Sub Tropical) 72hr, Ryde TAFE, Sydney, NSW (Co-Teacher with Janet Millington & Penny Pyett)

• Kitchen Garden & Broadacre Permaculture - Charlton & District Agricultural Show, Charlton, Victoria, Australia

2003

• Concentrated on local projects, especially ‘Dalpura’ in Gherang, Victoria, Australia

2002

• We all moved to Maleny in Queensland to lead the development of ‘Fountainhead’, Australia’s first organic health resort

• Approval as a Keyline® Designer by Ken B. Yeomans (www.keyline.com.au)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/Sub Tropical) 14 weeks, Maleny, QLD (Co-Teacher with Janet Millington)

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Temperate/Sub Tropical) 14 weeks, Maleny, QLD (Co-Teacher with Janet Millington)

• ‘Presentation of 1 month old Mandela Garden Landscaping Project’ - Gardening Australia – Maleny, QLD, Australia

• ‘Permaculture Gardening Lectures – Kitchen Gardens – The Vital Ingredients’ - Festival of Colour – Maleny, QLD, Australia

2001

• Focussed on design, project management and development of broadacre farm projects across SE Australia

• Shell Oil Refinery, Geelong Joint Sustainable Land Management Plan consultants + Project Developers – developed in conjunction with Mexted Rimmer Landscape Architects

• Geelong Grammar School – Corio Campus Environmental Management Plan Consultants + Project Developers

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Cool Temperate)
  72hr, Rocky Cape, Tasmania (Co-Teacher with Bill Mollison & Janet Millington)

2000

• Focussed on design, project management and development of broadacre farm projects across SE Australia

• ‘Permaculture Farm Planning Lectures’ - Yarra Valley Expo – Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

• Invitation from Bill Mollison to teach Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) with him

• Development of Manna Hill Estate farm plan and installation

• Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Cool Temperate)
  72hr, Rocky Cape, Tasmania (Co-Teacher with Bill Mollison & Janet Millington)

• ‘Permaculture Farm Planning Lectures’ - Yarra Valley Expo – Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

1999

• Focussed on design, project management and development of broadacre farm projects across SE Australia

• Geelong Grammar School – Corio Campus Environmental Management Plan Consultants + Project Developers

• ‘Farm Forestry in the North Central Region’ - North Central CMA/DNRE/BIFFN – Regional Farm Forestry Seminar - Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

• ‘Permaculture Farm Planning Lectures’ - Yarra Valley Expo – Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

1998

• Focussed on design, project management and development of broadacre farm projects across SE Australia

• Started working with Konrad Ensor, a mining surveyor who played a key role in developing precision farm layouts (1998-2001)

• Developed the farm plans for Dalpura and Taranaki Farm, and went on to establish the first

• Sustainable Land-Use: Techniques Convention, 3 day, Permaculture Association of South Australia (Mediterranean), Kenton Range Tree Farm, Birdwood, South Australia, Australia

• ‘Permaculture and Whole Farm Planning’ - NASAA/BFA National Conference, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

• ‘A Modern Approach to Keyline® Design’ - University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, Australia

1997

• Focussed on design, project management and development of broadacre farm projects across SE Australia + started our first external training programs

• Design of the ‘Works Pattern’ workflow process (still in use)

• Sustainable Land-Use: Techniques Convention, 3 day, Permaculture Association of South Australia (Mediterranean), Kenton Range Tree Farm, Birdwood, South Australia, Australia

• ‘A Modern Approach to Keyline® Design’ - University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, Australia

1996

• Focussed on design, project management and development of broadacre farm projects across central and northern Victoria and into South Australia

• Incorporated the ‘Permaculture Corporation’, a collaboration between ‘Australia Felix LandPlanning Consultants’, ‘Modern Information’ (GIS) and ‘Silviculture Victoria’ - dispersed in 1998

• Became the inaugural Chairman of the Box Ironbark Farm Forestry Network Inc.

• Won ‘Best Edible Garden’ award for our home property ‘Yeerip’, from Coliban Water

1995

• Focussed on design, project management and development of small-medium farm projects across central Victoria

• Designed & Developed the Working Prototype of the World First Dojo Ripper/Tiller/Mounder (with Joseph T. Jones)

1994

• Focussed on design, project management and development of small-medium farm projects across central Victoria

• Meet Nada and Tony Smark of Woodbrook Farm (Harcourt, Victoria, Australia) and they purchase a Yeomans Keyline Plow in return for us doing soil preparation of their bio-dynamic vineyards—the first in the world to be set out using Keyline geometry

• Introduction to Permaculture Design Course (Temperate/Sub Arid), 3 Day, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (Co-Taught with Michael Heenan)

1993

• Our farm planning enterprise kicks off

• 6th of March our daughter Isaebella is born at home, and Lisa and I resign from our jobs and start ‘Loddon Campaspe Organics’

• Qualify for and complete the ‘New Enterprise Incentive Scheme’ (NEIS) program

• Complete first Permaculture Design Consultants Course (PDC)

• Launch ‘Permaculture Design Services Bendigo’ in partnership with Lisa’s brother Michael Heenan—he resigns a few months later

1991

• 21st of December Lisa and I get together and within 6 months she is pregnant and we bought our first property

1989

• I leave hospitality to take on the role of manager of the ‘Organic Greengrocer’ in my home town of Bendigo, introducing me to the doyen of organic and biodynamic producers, processors and marketers across Victoria

• Moved back to the family farm to support my maternal grandparents

1987-1989

• Starting with the famed Eaglehawk Restaurant in Maldon (Victoria, AU), I work in Victoria, Tasmania and far north Queensland—mostly in fine dining restaurants working front and back of house. Most notably becoming one of the inaugural Chef de Rang at the Launceston International Hotel, one of the last fine dining restaurants with full guéridon service—highlighting northern Tasmanian ingredients

1986

• Spent the year being a beach bum in Cairns in far north Queensland

1971-1985

• Institutional education where I was dedicated until I went to high school, after which socialising, sport, farm life and bushcraft was much more interesting

• My greatest passion was working on my maternal grandparent’s mixed farm, ‘Myrtledale’ on the outskirts of Bendigo (Victoria, Australia)

1969

• Two days after I turn two, Mum marries Joseph T. Jones, a fitter and turner with the Victorian Railways (and enlisted the 15th Transport Squadron in the Royal Australian Corps of Transport) and we move into town

1968

• At 01:00AM on the February 18th, Biên Hòa, Việt Nam, my 23 year old father John Alexander Doherty, a conscripted artillery man (and boilermaker with the Victorian Railways) with the Mortar Platoon of the 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), is killed instantly in his first action from the shrapnel of a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), leaving my 21 year old mother Esme and I to live on her parents farm.

Intellectual Property

• Regrarian® – Registered Trademark

• Regrarians Platform® – Registered Trademark

• REX® – Registered Trademark

• Regrarians Logo – Registered Trademark

Regrarians Institute Members (Current & Past)

• Colvalent Land Australia (AU)

• M&M’s/Mars Inc. (Viet Nam)

• Polyface Farm (USA)

• Castello di Reschio (IT)

• The Landsmith Collection (AU)

• Managara Station (NZ)

• Voyager Estate (AU)

• Udabno Project (GE)

• Agricola Tinajacura (CL)

• Son Felip (Spain)

• Carversville Farm Foundation (USA)

• Callicrate Cattle Co. (USA)

• Cameron Family Farms (NZ)

• Cowdray Estate (UK)

• Hōkūnui Maui LLC (USA)

• The European Nature Trust (UK)

• Mulloon Creek Farm Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• Object Consulting Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• Maia Technology (AU)

• Savannah Farm (AU)

• Southampton Homestead (AU)

• McIvor Farm Foods (AU)

• Bunuba Cattle Co. Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• Ecosystems Investment Management Australia Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• Green Collar Services Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• EnvironInvest Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• Corporate Culcha Pty. Ltd. (AU)

• Natural Resources Conservation Service – NRCS – US Department of Agriculture (USA)

• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration – NOAA (USA)

• Republic of Chile, Department of Agriculture (CL)

• MasHumus (Mexico)

• World Vision (AU & Sri Lanka)

• Maderas Nobles (Spain)

• Fundacion + Arboles (Spain)

• New Soil Security Inc. (USA)

• Carbon Farmers of America LLC (USA)

• Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm (USA)

• Finca La Donaira S.A. (Spain)

• Jervoise Station (AU)

• Orella Ranch (USA)

• Regenerative Design Institute (USA)

• EcoHabitar Institute (Spain)

• New Agrarian Centre, Oberlin College (USA)

• ACDIVOCA (Viet Nam)

• SUCCESS Alliance (Viet Nam)

• Geelong Grammar School (AU)

• Royal Dutch Shell (AU)

• Milkwood (AU)

• Nicasio Grass Ranch (USA)

• Manna Hill Estate (AU)

• Taranaki Farm (AU)

• Percydale Olives P/L – Olive Investment Growers (AU)

• Vens Creek Nursery – Commercial Forestry and Revegetation Nursery (AU)

• Olicorp P/L – Olive Processors and Growers (AU)

• Commercial Dynamics P/L – Kenton Range Tree Farm & CC Lowline Stud (AU)

Addendum

• Regrarian®, REX®, Regrarians Platform® and the Regrarians Logo are all registered trademarks of Darren J. Doherty (AU)

• Keyline® is the registered trademark of Ken B. Yeomans (AU)
  Keyline® Design is the registered business name of Ken B. Yeomans (AU)

• RegenAG® is the registered trademark (in Australia) of The Free Range Permaculture Trust, Trading as ‘RegenAG’ (AU). Darren J. Doherty was the original trademark owner and gifted this trademark to RegenAG Ltd. (now defunct) in 2012.

• Holistic Management® is the registered trademark of Holistic Management International (USA)

• The Permaculture Institute (AU) Teacher Register operated between 2001 & March 2010. Darren J. Doherty was formally registered in 2006 as ‘Registered Teacher #29’ and was recorded as registered up until the register’s closure.