REX® Online Farm Planning Program

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Most Affordable & Comprehensive Online Farm Planning Package

Since our first online REX® program in 2017, over 2000 people from all over the world have used this unique package to support them to improve their lives, their businesses and their land management.

“…the community of like-minded people that has been created during the REX® has made it truly special and we’re hopeful will lead to many long-term friendships as we all journey towards a common goal of regenerative enterprise…” ~ Lisa & Peter Kalokerinos, Bankers turned Farmers, Kapsali Farm, NSW, AU

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The REX is only available to Regrarians Planner Members, meaning that the cost (USD$95/month) of the program is spread out over a whole year while providing the following range of benefits:

• You can do two (2) REX programs per membership period
• Regrarians memberships are per project NOT per person
• You get full access to the available Regrarians eHandbook chapters
• Over 1100 hours of past REX and RON webinars/podcasts are fully accessible
• All of our REX webinars & Q&A’s are completely LIVE with recordings available to watch within hours of the session AND have subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian
• The full catalogue of the Regrarians Platform® Knowledge Library and past REX programs entries are available
• Professional farm map production using the Regrarians Mapping Services are included as a part of the REX package
• Full access to the industry leading QGIS for Mapping & Design, QGIS for Forestry & Cultivation and Google Earth for Mapping & Design online courses
• Lifetime membership of the Regrarians Workplace
• Regrarians Monthly Commission & Affiliate Program
• REX Scholarship Package
• Three online sessions per week: one x 2 hour webinar and two x 2+ hour Q&A sessions scheduled at different times for all international time zones

Hosted within the highly integrated and intuitive Regrarians Workplace professional development network, your participation in the REX is supported by 1000’s of Regrarians alumni and professional associates who are members of this diverse digital platform.

“…If the PDC is elementary school, then the REX® is a college degree. Aside from education and mentorship, you also get access to a network of people all over the globe who work with very different contexts toward a common purpose. The Regrarians Platform® and Regrarians Workplace are a treasure, and the most important and most valuable social network focused on regenerative agricultures on the planet…” ~ Neal Spackman, Regenerative Resources Co., USA

COURSE AGENDA

STARTING IN NOVEMBER 2024 — the 13th REX® Online Farm Planning Program

REX Online #13 • 11/12 NOV 2024 – 27/28 MAR 2025 Finish

There are three live sessions each week: the webinar and two (2) Q&A sessions. The dates that appear below are for the different time international time zones — e.g. NOV 11/12 means that the Live 1 session of that week would be on Monday the 11th of NOVEMBER 2024 in Africa/Eurasia/Americas and on Tuesday the 12th of NOVEMBER 2024 on the other side of the International Date Line in places such as Asia/Oceania.

We use the Zoom platform to run all of the three (3) sessions each week, one (1) webinar and two (2) Q&A sessions . When you register for these sessions the Zoom platform will automatically provide you with notifications for when these sessions are held and in your time zone.

If you do miss any of these sessions then don’t worry as we record each and every webinar and make them available in the Regrarians Workplace (with multi-language captions) YouTube and as a podcast an hour or so after the live session has been completed. Each Q&A session is also edited to contain each question and then uploaded with multi-language captions in the Regrarians Workplace. We have done this for the 10 previous online REX programs and so you have access to over 1100 hours of categorised recordings.

All of the dialogue and liaisons within the REX course is hosted in the Regrarians Workplace, our 5,000+ member professional development platform where you have access to people who are at different stages of their projects along with many of the world’s leading practitioners, consultants and trainers.

THE REX PROGRAM WEEK BY WEEK

WEEK 1 – REX® ORIENTATION & USING THE REGRARIANS PLATFORM®
FARM PLANNING PROCESS

• R13.1.1 – 11/12 NOV 2024 

Since it was incepted in 2012 the Regrarians Platform® (‘RP’) has provided people around the world with a planning process that is holistic, inclusive and thorough. Its 10 layers are adapted from 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.

1•CLIMATE LAYER – Holistic decision making, anthropological context (culture, regulations, risk), and biospheric climate (weather patterns, temperature, precipitation, wind etc.)

“…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.

1•CLIMATE LAYER – Holistic decision making, anthropological context (culture, regulations, risk), and biospheric climate (weather patterns, temperature, precipitation, wind etc.)

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.

1•CLIMATE – Holistic decision making, anthropological context (culture, regulations, risk), and biospheric climate (weather patterns, temperature, precipitation, wind etc.)

WEEK 4 – FARM MAP DEVELOPMENT

• R13.4.1 – 2/3 DEC 2024

The advent of the free Google Earth Pro 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.

2•GEOGRAPHY LAYER – Landform/Keyline® geography/geometry, demography, geology, landscape capability, mapping (topographical, aerial, surveying)

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, which will help you understand landscape function better.

2•GEOGRAPHY LAYER – Landform/Keyline® geography/geometry, demography, geology, landscape capability, mapping (topographical, aerial, surveying)

“…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, ‘Nationwide’, ABC TV (AU)

The development of the water layer starts with understanding what sources of water are available, their quality and quantity. Also taking stock of existing water storage, distribution, treatment and delivery infrastructure, while strategising and then planning any expansion or further development to provide for future needs.

3•WATER LAYER – Rehydration of the land for humans, their enterprises and the ecosystem (harvesting, storage, reticulation, effluent treatment)

WEEK 8 – 4•ACCESS LAYER

• R13.8.1 – 10/11 FEB 2025

Most people have trouble getting the Access layer right, whether on the largest or smallest scale. We define these arteries of movement and their engineering with the assistance of integrated analysis and planning of the 2•Geography, 3•Water, 5•Forestry, 6•Buildings, 7•Fencing and 10•Energy layers.

4•ACCESS LAYER – Access for people, vehicles (paths, tracks, roads) and utilities (electricity, telephony, services)

Agroecological systems vary greatly—a myriad of natural and created forms. Nearly all economic landscapes are part of forest complexes and in the Regrarians Platform, the integration of all forms of biota, particularly those of which have an enterprise based upon them.

5•ECOSYSTEMS LAYER – The overall agroecology (flora, fauna, fungi, algae & bacteria) including livestock, crops and forestry and the integration of these elements.

Buildings are often expensive pieces of infrastructure that require detailed planning and engineering, along with high levels of consideration as to their end uses. In the Regrarians Platform®, the integrated placement of these structures is very much determined by the five layers above it.

6•BUILDINGS LAYER – The design, placement and construction of living spaces, agricultural buildings and portable infrastructure

WEEK 11 – 7•FENCING LAYER

• R13.11.1 – 3/4 MAR 2025

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.

7•FENCING LAYER – The design, placement and construction of fences (perimeter, yards, laneways, subdivision, temporary, electric, living & shepherdry)

WEEK 12 – 8•SOILS LAYER

• R13.12.1 – 10/11 MAR 2025

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.

8•SOILS LAYER – Everything to do with soils – types, tests (geotechnic/agronomic) and the most cost effective treatments with which to regenerate soils

WEEK 13 – 9•ECONOMY LAYER

• R13.13.1 – 17/18 MAR 2025

The economy layer is driven by our analysis of the previous layers, particularly 1•Climate and 2•Geography. This analysis and our consequent planning focuses on driving the economic engine of the various capital flows (Soloviev, E & Landau, G 2008, pers. comm.) that, like soils, are fragile and form the basis of the regeneration of the whole.

9•ECONOMY LAYER – Analysis, strategy and planning of the various capital flows.

WEEK 14 – 10•ENERGY LAYER

• R13.14.1 – 124/25 MAR 2025

• 27/28 – 13th REX Online Course Ends
  

Energy is vital to fuelling all of the elements that drive any system. We therefore focus on organising energy generation & storage systems that regenerate rather than atrophy—bearing in mind their cost-benefit in a rapidly evolving field.

10•ENERGY – The generation and storage of energy (photosynthesis, fuel, electricity); machinery/implements; human and livestock nutrition