Darren Doherty Discussion

Jun 9, 2015

http://www.regrarians.org/services/farm-design-process/ - design process. Recorded sessions etc. https://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee-rtk.html used to do [1]. Lower cost opiton - [2].

Create a closed group on FB - professional dev type group. Only for people who meet personally. Build rapport. Then can transition to an open forum. Pass this [3] by Stefano, and advertise Darren's participation.

Jun 6, 2015

• http://www.swiftnav.com/piksi.html
• Georgi Pavlov brothers on Human Designs - [4]

• Using Cinema 4D Isometric, Cryengine 'e-on VUE’

• Earthworks swales - Army Corps + Yeomans
• Sepp Earthworks (Book - Desert or Paradise) - takes Yeomans + Army Corps + ?

• Darren toured Sepp's place, 2007
• For large flat areas - 10-20 meters from body is microclimate -
• Sepp's design process is lacking - back of envelope + on the run. Expensive.

• Darren considers his work in engineering space.
• Some of Sepp's is not necessary - where are they necessary and not?
• Clarify what is "REGENERATIVE" - we are using a Moniker (Regen Ag) without questioning what it is.
• 90 min sessions - 4 sessions, with 2 half hour sessions, hour for lunch - 9 to 5:30 affair,
• Day 2 is geography layer
• Day 3 is geography - Earth Works is afternoon - that is water layer
• Day 4 - earth. Protocols for establishing carbon mappinng are too long - screen presentation of how you get a scientifically verifiable carbon map, to be tracked over time.
• Official protocol for carbon mapping - [5]. Also [6]
• Allan - Yeoman's plow guy - [7]

• Heat element + blower at 560F - and there is your carbon difference
• Scientifically verifiable monitoring protocols

• Peter Traverse - main person - in carbon - https://plus.google.com/photos/117745392570544689225/albums/6021563002126298289?banner=pwa - fractalfarming@gmail.com
• Irrelevant centralis stuff -
• Number one metric - financial accounting + ecosystem monitoring; great metaphor
• Keep carbon mapping - introduce that this carbon should be monitoring.

• Day 4 morn - clean up monitoring vs baseline
• The Farming Ladder - [8] - George Henderson The Farming Ladder (1943)
• Andro Linklater - [9]
• Integrated Product Service Systems - bokashi + bone + char + minerals (offal). Bone charring process.
• David Holmgren lives one hour away - [10]
• Mobile Meat Processing Unit - open source it is - working with Darren
• http://www.hokunui.com/ -
• Aquaponics + living machines -