Southern Blue Regenerative is a family owned business working with farmers to build prosperity through improved profit and creating resilient healthy landscapes.
Based in the tablelands of northern NSW in Armidale, we work with farmers and businesses across regional Australia focused on developing, showcasing and educating people about regenerative and profitable production of food, ecological regeneration of our landscapes and creating happy and prosperous people.
We have created an extensive network of partners in Australia and overseas to enable us to work collaboratively on a range of projects, including Holistic Management and Regenerative farming, business and enterprise development, coaching and major project implementation.
Sustainable & Regenerative Agriculture
Holistic management and natural resource management
Glen Chapman, as the principal consultant at Southern Blue Regenerative, has worked in a variety of roles over the past 25 years developing his skills in regenerative and sustainable farming and holistic management.
- Agribusiness development and opportunity analysis
- Farm benchmarking groups
- Business facilitation and coaching
- Education and training courses and workshops
- Strategic Visioning, context and shared outcomes
- Social Enterprise business modelling
Glen is an accredited educator with the Savory Institute, and has worked across Australia with farmers was well as travelling overseas investigating regenerative farming. Over the past ten years Glen has focused on regenerative agriculture and have travelled within Australia and internationally visiting and learning from farmers and educators. This included taking farmers and agribusiness managers on education tour groups to the USA and various programs in Australia. From this work he has developed training in regenerative principles and practices and works with farmers today to develop their business improving production, regenerating landscapes, developing value adding business models and marketing their products. He continues to work with industry experts to co-deliver workshops and training in holistic management, regenerative and sustainable agriculture, pastures, livestock management, soils and landscape management.
Southern Blue Regenerative currently delivers a range of regenerative training programs to producers across Australia. These are a combination of face to face programs, workshops, webinars and one on one coaching, covering:
- Regenerative farming principles and practices,
- Holistic Management,
- Holistic Land Planning and Keyline landscape planning and the Yeomans Scale of Permanence
- Regenerative Business Modelling
- Financial management, budgeting, benchmarking and wealth development
Our Regenerative Farming Enterprise
Glen and his wife Lucinda, also operate their own farmer enterprise near Armidale utilsing leased and owned land to produce beef and lamb selling direct to customers in the region. This operation showcases their experience in Holistic Management utilizing planned grazing, keyline land and hydrology management, biodynamics and regenerative biological farming principles. They regularly host workshops and field days to share their experience and learning with others.
In 2018 we purchased our property east of Armidale near the village of Wollomombi – Tarinore Farm. Along with lease land on a family farm west of Guyra, we are producing beef and lamb and are working to make this available to locals in the North of NSW. We base our management on regenerative agriculture principles and our family property has been operating under a minimal input and cell grazed holistic management system since the early 90’s allowing native grasslands to rejuvenate. Our new farm is in transition from previous management and we are building healthy soils, biodiversity and a beautiful place for us and our animals.
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Our aim for the future of the farm is to continue regenerating the soils and plants and introduce multiple enterprises that overlap and benefit each other.
A little of our background
After Glen’s parents completed a Grazing for Profit school in the early nineties, he saw there were alternative production methods to what he was being taught at university in his Bachelor of Agricultural Economics. He started researching Keyline Farming techniques and then worked as a consultant focused on holistic management and sustainable grazing with Resource Consulting Services.
After starting their family Glen and Lucinda returned to Armidale, where Lucinda works for Landcare. Glen started working with regional businesses advising and developing business plans for a wide array of enterprises. This included working on the development of some social enterprise plans with local communities and regional development of ecotourism.
Glen developed the first sustainable and regenerative farming tour, which took a small group of farmers to New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia and California visiting Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm, Rodale Institute for research in organic farming and the Centre for Agriculture Economy in Harwick Vermont.
Glen is continuing development of the regenerative food and farming tours, with the launch of a new series with both Australian and overseas programs. For more information on current programs>. We are also delivering a range of workshops and field days.
