The artisan paper maker in north-west Tasmania has made a business out of using animal scats, cotton from rags and old bedsheets, and by-product from agricultural endeavours, such as fruit juice and hemp crops.
He works out of Burnie, a coastal city that originally sprung up around a paper mill that, at its peak, employed thousands of people.
Darren learned to make paper as a teenager through an unemployment support program.
Years later, he is still churning it out of a small workshop in Burnie.