After yet another 14-hour day in an unfulfilling job, Julie Humphris came home one night and said: “I want to buy a farm.” With the unwavering support of her husband, Shannon, they bought 40 acres of “uncared for land” and developed a vision for Blue Marble Farm. Their dream is to turn it into an […]
Alongside her parents, Andrew and Kim, and brother Jon, Eleanor Revell is taking a more hands on role in the management of her family’s 10,000-tree macadamia farm. Her goal is to farm regeneratively while maintaining good productivity. Program: Regenerative Agriculture Mentoring Program (delivered by Southern Cross University through the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance and Farming Together,
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Jamie Williamson and his wife, Jenette, have 3000 macadamia trees. The farm was dark, overgrown and faced serious soil, pest and erosion issues when they bought it in 2017. It didn’t take long for Jamie to question the existing conventional farming practices, and to start looking for alternatives. Program: Regenerative Agriculture Mentoring Program (delivered by
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Colin Seis, a sheep farmer from the NSW Central Tablelands, is regarded as one of the pioneers of regenerative agriculture in Australia. But during the 1970s, his family was using farming methods that were “destroying” their property, Winona. They soon hit tough times – fertiliser costs skyrocketed, rainfall no longer infiltrated, the soil lost its
Farming Together’s sister organisation, the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, is extremely proud to announce we are the Media Partner for the Biochar 2030 Roadmap. It has been developed by the Australia New Zealand Biochar Industry Group, which was formed to streamline biochar education, research, collaboration and commercialisation activities to provide better outcomes. The group’s Biochar 2030
Lead researchers involved with Southern Cross University’s $2.5 million Soil Extension Program shared their knolwledge with Northern Rivers farmers at a recent tea tree farming field day at Casino. Professor Terry Rose has a diverse knowledge of soil nutrition, cover cropping, nitrogen efficiency and impacts of soil amendments across a range of pasture and cropping
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Making the shift from conventional to regenerative agriculture is a big decision – there’s a lot to learn and understand. But thanks to an innovative mentoring program run by the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, Farming Together and Southern Cross University, a number of farmers have started to implement meaningful changes on their properties. A mid-session review
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New research has found many farmers in the Central West region of NSW trust their intuition, or “gut feeling”, when it comes to making important decisions on their properties. The report, Agriculture in Central West NSW: Rural Landholder Social Benchmarking Report 2022, is part of the Soil CRC national farmer project, Surveying On-Farm Practices, led
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Two paddocks at a property in central Victoria are being managed in two very different ways, with a third left untouched as a control, as part of a research project to assess the financial outcomes of regenerative and conventional pasture management. The Beckworth RegenAg Project involves Southern Cross University, the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, Nutrisoil, AGF
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Trial name: Multispecies cover crops in subtropical horticultural plantations Funding body: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Farmer: Tom Silver Main Crops: Avocados, Macadamias Farm name: Laurel Park Avocados and Macadamias About Laurel Park Avocados and Macadamias is situated on the Alstonville Plateau, halfway between Ballina and Lismore. It covers roughly 15 hectares (nearly 40
Our latest Regenerative Agriculture Mentorship Program (RAMP) has officially launched! We had a hugely successful three-month pilot program earlier in the year and our first full-length 12-month program launched in July. Now we are delighted to share we also have a six-month mentoring program running with eight regions in Northern NSW and Southern Queensland. As
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An 18-month trial of summer cover crops, including sudan grass, astro forage sorghum, millet, cow pea, sun hemp and mixed pastures, is showing promising results in Western Australia, with plans to extend the work once the trials are complete. ‘Multispecies summer cover crops for Western Australian cropping systems’ is one of eight projects under the
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