As part of the Smart Farming in Western Port project, the Bass Coast Landcare Network is running a farm walk to learn about Natural Capital Accounting on farms and all farmers are invited. Natural Capital Accounting methods have been developed for assessing both vegetation and soils on farm which can be turned into accounting terms […]
Taught by Alan Savory, Graeme Hand has 25 years of experience with planned grazing management (including land and soil health monitoring, enterprise design and financial planning and monitoring). Come and hear from Graeme about: • Implementing a regenerative grazing management approach—why and how • Animal and plant-based monitoring methods • Setting up your own safe-to-fail […]
Taught by Alan Savory, Graeme Hand has 25 years of experience with planned grazing management (including land and soil health monitoring, enterprise design and financial planning and monitoring). Come and hear from Graeme about: • Implementing a regenerative grazing management approach—why and how • Animal and plant-based monitoring methods • Setting up your own safe-to-fail […]
You are invited to a follow up planting day at Jaan Enden and Tim Wilson's properties at Labertouche. This is an opportunity for members to get together, help out fellow Landcare group members and have a social catch up. Date: Saturday 29th May 2021 Time: 10am to 12.30pm before we break for a delicious lunch. Location: […]
All farmers are welcome to attend this workshop focusing on carbon on farms! DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS THIS WILL BE NOW HELD VIA ZOOM Our guest speaker Richard Eckard (Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Melbourne) will talk about; • Carbon on farms – types of carbon, farm carbon cycles, benefits of carbon […]
All vegie/fruit farmers are invited to attend our next gathering! Our discussion group first met in 2015 and in the past 6 years we have had 34 farm walks located all over the region plus 4 zoom sessions (due to COVID). Due to current COVID restrictions we can’t meet on farms, so our next session […]
You are invited to our next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group at Dov's farm at Jindivick. Topic is - ‘waterway management, tracks, culverts & incentive programs’. Dov has completed an amazing project to remove willows, fence and revegetate all the creek, wetlands & springs on his farm and repair tracks and culverts with support from […]
Everyone is welcome to this tree planting at Bayles as part of National Tree Day Event - Re-Vegetation of the Koo Wee Rup - Bayles wildlife corridor When - 1st August 2031 (9am-12pm) Where - Orchard End Farm 55, Number 5 Drain Road, Koo Wee Rup Site Contact - Joss Pohl 0404374490
Our next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group is with regenerative dairy farmers Owen Billing & Andrea Benson via Zoom. Owen & Andrea are dairyfarmers who manage approx 240ha near Korumburra and have been on a regenerative farming journey for about 15 years. Owen will talk about the reason why he transitioned to regenerative agriculture, along with […]
All farmers are invited to our next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group with Jade Killoran. Jade is the founder of ‘Healthy Farming Systems’ and is an independent cover crop advisor and researcher, helping farmers trial, adopt, and manage multispecies cover crops on-farm. Jade completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 2013 focusing her Honours year […]
