All farmers are invited to the next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group at Queensferry Waters farm at Grantville. John & Carmel Carney recently purchased their farm, and run steers. It is situated adjacent to Westernport Bay, and has large areas of coastal vegetation and can be very wet! John participated in the 2022 Regenerative Agriculture […]
Labertouche Landcare Group Inc, Invites you to their Invasive Pest Control Free community information event and pizza night. Sunday 7th October 2023 6pm Pizza 7pm start Labertouche Hall 440 Labertouche Rd Use the link to register: REGISTER HERE
You are invited to attend the next organic vegie/fruitgrowers discussion group at Penelope (Pea) Swales ‘Piggery Road Permaculture and Produce’ farm on Wed 11th Oct. Pea has a micro market garden, and grows vegetables which are sold to approx 14-18 locals through a vegie box scheme. The market garden is small (1/3 acrea) but packs […]
Over the past 12 months, Peter Ronalds has taken over 550 soil carbon samples, 230 soil chemistry samples, and 115 soil biology samples from 119 farms located throughout the region as part of the 'Farmers Digging Deeper' project. The Western Port Catchment and Latrobe Catchment Landcare Networks invite all landholders to attend this workshop to hear the […]
All farmers are invited to the next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group at ‘Linga Longa Park’ farm at Officer South. Simon Beard and family welcome us to their farm for our final discussion group for 2023. Simon runs 100 Friesian x Angus cows and crosses them with Charolais Bulls. They turn off 100 vealers annually […]
You are invited to attend the next organic vegie/fruit growers discussion group at United African Farm on Wed 6th December. The United African Farm is located on 3 acres in Cardinia. It is a community run vegetable farm which has brought together over 80 families from 10 different African countries, multiple languages and cultures together. […]
All farmers are are invited to attend our next organic vegie/fruit growers discussion group at Mikey & Kez’s ‘Five Tales Farm’ farm on Mon 12th Feb. Mikey & Kez have been growing food from the day they met, connecting through their love and passion for growing and cooking food. Mikey was a recent Nuffield Scholar […]
You are invited to the next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group at Neerim High Plains at Neerim Junction. Farmers from the Neerim/Jindivick areas are most welcome to attend also. Cathy runs a Brangus breeding herd and grows multi species pastures on her 200ha farm at Neerim Junction and has been trialling regenerative practices for several […]
The West Gippsland Progress Association have been able to organise Joel Williams to speak to local farmers at a workshop at Bunyip on March 12th. Join us for an enlightening day as Joel takes the stage to share his wealth of knowledge and expertise in agroecology, plant nutrition, and the intricate world of plant and […]
Our next Sustainable Farming Discussion Group farm walk will revisit the final results of the 'pasture pests trial' at Tony & Sue Morgan's farm at Bayles. Over 2 years, Melbourne Water in partnership with Orchard End Farm has been looking at management practices that can be used to reduce problem pasture pests such as Lucerne […]