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 […]
All farmers welcome to attend our next organic growers discussion group on Thurs 30th Sep. Maurie & Maria Cafra set up a demonstration last summer to trial minimal till practices on their organic vegetable farm at Koo Wee Rup. The purpose of the demonstration was to grow several green manure crop mixes, terminate (kill) the […]
All farmers are invited to our next WPCLN Sustainable Farming discussion group. Due to COVID restrictions, we will meet online again - but hopefully we will be back on-farms soon! As we haven't been able to have good chats on-farm, a few of you have suggested that it would be good to share about what […]
The next Morn Pen Farmer Discussion Group will focus on the benefits of Dung Beetles and will be hosted by Dr Russ Barrow from Charles Sturt University, a researcher with the ‘Dung Beetles Ecosystem Engineers’ project, monitoring the distribution, abundance and diversity of dung beetles across various climatic zones. Russ monitors over 100 intensive surveillance […]
Whilst agriculture is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions, farms also have significant potential to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere in carbon sinks such as trees and soils. This one day conference will explore the benefits of zero-emission farming, showcasing the latest research and technology information, and industry progress towards CN2050. Keynote […]
