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05/09/2026

Pearl's Debut Album 'Dream Body' Now Available

Many of you who have been to our in-person programs between 2000-2016 will have met our daughter Pearl.

Among many other things she is a songwriter and musician and yesterday she released her debut album; 'Dream Body' on Bandcamp.

Its available here: https://cli.re/P-DB

Enjoy!

10 track album

02/09/2026

Hektár - mezőgazdasági podcast Upcoming Premier September 13

In October of 2025, Lisa and I were in beautiful Hungary for the first time, thanks to András, F***y, Kate and Robert of the DEDES - Private Agroecology Project.

After the Regrarians Open Consultancy (ROC) the Hektár - mezőgazdasági podcast team and I went around the DEDES project and I spoke about the transitional steps that they were taking to make this acreage more productive, profitable, resilient and even more beautiful.

Thanks for the opportunity to be involved with this film and we hope that it encourages more people to follow many of the simple, practical and low-cost steps the pioneering DEDES project has taken as a leader in this part of the world.

Thanks to Gribek Dániel - agrárújságíró for sharing this with us.

Sláinte!

Darren J Doherty
Regrarians Ltd.

25/08/2026

Regrarians Ripper Rotor (RRR) MK1 - 2nd Pass on a Gippsland Carbon Agroforestry Project

"...we should be planting strawberries..."

Some of you will have seen that earlier this year I designed and helped make this single-pass, non-inversion subsoiler & Ø40cm single-rotor hydraulic power harrow.

The problem I've long been looking to solve is how to use lower HP farm tractors at scale to do minimum-tillage, 'advanced soil preparation' for woody plant establishment. As a planter and manager of agroforestry trees, I also know how difficult planting is when you have s**t soil preparation and how poor the establishment and growth rates can be as well.

Regrarians started working with Justin Glass and the team at Covalent Land Australia in 2025, and this 609ha grazing operation in the Victorian High Country is the pilot for that relationship.

From our first meeting, my challenge to him was that mechanical soil preparation on large agroforestry projects using bulldozer rippers, disc-plows and one-pass preparation, was not only expensive, it also makes planting both inefficient and difficult.

The development of tilth, which farmers (and gardeners) are very familiar with, is not something you get with hyper-aggressive dozer rippers and disc plows + makes the use of knockdown and residual herbicides necessary.

Having significantly reduced the cost of preparation, the RRR is a form of 'strip-tillage', with a 50cm deep (using a Tilco Hydromax Ripper) x 40cm wide tillage zone (following 'Keyline®' geometry) being prepared over two passes—one in late summer/early autumn, and the 2nd in early spring, immediately prior to planting.

This site will be planted using BCC Plant the Planet 'Pottipuki' planting spears, and having been on the end of one of these on many projects, I know that the planting team will really appreciate the planting result.

Shane, the tractor operator, who is himself a mixed farmer (of 1000 acres here in Gippsland), shearer and forestry contractor, said yesterday, "...we should be planting strawberries..."

That's a great compliment and reminds me of that saying, "...you should garden like a farmer, and farm like a gardener..."

Yours and Growing,

Darren J. Doherty
Regrarians Ltd

25/08/2026

Regrarians Ripper Rotor MK1
- Tilco Hydromax + 40cm non-inversion strip tillage with a hydraulic power harrow (4 x 28cm blades)

23/08/2026

Propagation - BCC Hiko V265 + V400 - Morus nigra

Been wanting to do this for a while and after getting some of these air-pruning/root-training containers (along with a fine Sunday), we potted up 86 black mulberry cuttings.

The tree is one of three we regularly harvest fruit from - I’ll get some more cuttings from another tree we’ve been gleaning from for over 50 years, with the other at my mother Esme’s home—which I transplanted from my grandmother Eileen’s last house.

At a project in India in 2023/24, millions of M. alba were propagated in a locally manufactured 300cc tray which while good, only had 12 cells per tray so took up a lot of room in the nurseries. The V-265 has 35cc less soil volume but has 28 cells per tray so its probably the most efficient larger cell tray BCC produces.

These trays were AUD$17.50 ($0.625/cell) for the V-265's and AUD$14.30 ($0.95/cell) for the V-400's. Using retail organic potting mix (AUD$13.95/30L bag) and it works out to be $0.12/cell for the V-265's and $0.18/cell for the V-400's.

With year old black mulberries costing between AUD$12-34/each, its a bit of a no-brainer propagating them yourself using cuttings which are free.

~ Thanks to Chris at Forestry Tools for getting this special order in for Regrarians

07/08/2026

Depuis 2015, Permaterra est le partenaire officiel de Regrarians en France. 🌱

Darren Doherty, fondateur de Regrarians et figure mondiale de l’agriculture régénérative, nous fait confiance pour transmettre ses méthodes de conception. C’est une reconnaissance qui nous engage, et qui guide notre exigence au quotidien.

Keyline Design, agriculture régénérative : des approches concrètes, éprouvées sur le terrain, que nous intégrons dans nos formations et dans le développement du Mas Alavall.

02/08/2026

BioLite Camp Stove #??

We bought our first BioLite camp stove with the first crowd fund in 2012 and this is our 2nd after the first one died a year back.

We’ve given many away as gifts as they are such a great little unit.

This new unit heated up the percolator in 6 mos flat from scratch - i.e. lighting the fire and coffee ready - using some split Acacia implexa (lightwood) pruning I gleaned from George Howson’s Dalpura Farm a few years ago.

After the coffee I then used the grill attachment to cook up the last of the Maldon Quality Butchers rump steak.

~ DJD

25/07/2026

11/07/2026

Welcome Back Regrarians REX® Alumni !

Since 2011 we have delivered 33 REX® Whole Farm Planning Programs both in person and online.

We welcome those 1000's of people to join the Regrarians Workplace as a 'REX Alumni' member with the following benefits:

• Regrarians Workspace - FULL ACCESS
• Regrarians eHandbook - FULL ACCESS
• Regrarians Professional Planning Services - 10% OFF
• REX® Online Farm Planning Program - FREE TO WATCH
• REX® Farm Planning Program Archives - FREE

To join click here: https://cli.re/REX-Alumni

10/07/2026

Regrarians Keyline® Design & Natural Sequence Farming 'Contours' on One Farm

Regrarians' Darren J Doherty talks over the integration of his design of Keyline® plan elements and those of McIvor Farm Foods's Jason Hagan's first integration of Tarwyn Park Training's 'Natural Sequence Farming' contours.

Watch Here on Regrarians YouTube Channel:

Regrarians' Darren J Doherty talks over the integration of his desi...