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Holbrook, NSW: Shelterbelts
Holbrook NSWAustraliaFriday, 23 August 2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pmJoin Sustainable Farms and our partners Holbrook Landcare for a morning at his properties Fairview and Bimbimbi near Holbrook.
We thank our wonderful hosts Phil and Mandy Locke for inviting us onto their farms to see the shelterbelt improvements they have made on site. Come for a chat, stay for lunch.
A range of topics will be discussed including:
- Designing shelterbelts for biodiversity
- The ...
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Healthy Profits
Farmers manage 48% of Australia’s landmass. Through their stewardship they deliver environmental outcomes on behalf of the Australian community. The Box Gum Grassy Woodlands is a critically endangered ecosystem (listed under the EPBC Act in 2006), and much of the woodlands are used for grazing and other productive uses.
The Sustainable Farms project will look at how farming these...
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Healthy Farms
A sustainable farm is one that is capable of producing food and/or fibre using farming practices that not only help to protect and restore natural capital, but also promote the financial viability and wellbeing of the primary producer.
At its heart, sustainable farming is about meeting the production needs of today’s society without compromising the ability of future generations...
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Healthy Farmers
Farm life is often demanding and hectic, which can make it stressful. Some common sources of stress for farmers include financial pressures, red tape, family and relationship pressures, and environmental hardship (such as drought, floods, and bushfire). On top of this many farmers live in isolated places, which can make it harder to access support when feeling stuck, stressed or...
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Gerogery, 'Beelawong', Getting the most out of your Farm Dam: for stock health, water quality and retention and biodiversity
Gerogery NSWAustraliaThursday, 28 February 2019 - 5:00pm to 8:30pmJoin Sustainable Farms (and our partners Holbrook Landcare and Murray LLS) for this field day as part of our 2019 Summer Series.
This family friendly field day will focus on works you can implement to your farm dam to encourage biodiversity, improve water quality, and enrich stock health. Our hosts are Sue and Chris Cain, who have been working to...
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Generous gift of land for Sustainable Farms
Kent Keith recently made a gift of land to help improve farming communities.
He donated his Ballanda Park property—406 hectares near Boorowa in NSW—so its proceeds can benefit Sustainable Farms.
Sustainable Farms is a five-year project to promote the production of food and fibre while managing the interconnections between farming and its broader environment, at the same time enhancing the...
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Field Days
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FarmWell Longitudinal Study
The FarmWell Longitudinal Study is working with Sustainable Farms to investigate links between environmental management, mental health, and economic outcomes in Australian farmers. It was set up to research these links in more detail using the existing ecological data (supplemented by remote sensing data), as well as self-report data that we’ll collect through online surveys from farmers and graziers....
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Farm Dam Enhancement brochure
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Episode Four: Mason Crane talks about farm revegetation
Welcome back to the Sustainable Farms podcast. In this episode, field ecologist Mason Crane speaks to Gordon Taylor about farm revegetation projects.
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