HLN's Current & Recent Projects
The Carbon Farming Outreach Program is here to help farmers start crunching the numbers and support the decision making and build the capacity of advisors to provide clear and trusted advice to their clients looking to reduce their emissions and store carbon… [view full article]
Refreshing the Upper Billabong is part of the Refreshing Rivers project, a collaboration between government, industry, research, and community organisations, led by Murray Local Land Services. This project has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust. … [view full article]
The ‘Pasture Ag-Tech’ project will be delivered across four years (2024-2028) to investigate the value of digitally enabled pasture management tools for making management decisions with better drought resilience, environmental, production and socio-economic outcome … [view full article]
The Community Impacts Grant is designed to support community members and not-for-profit organisations in remote, rural and regional Australia to drive local action that helps prepare for drought. It is part of the Australian Government’s commitment through the Future Drought Fund to support … [view full article]
The ‘Testing Tropicals in the NSW southern slopes’ project was established in response to increasing summer rainfall in the region and aims to demonstrate the role of tropical pastures species in southern NSW grazing systems. … [view full article]
Soil acidity affects >50% of intensively used agricultural land in NSW and approximately 23% in Victoria, and is especially prevalent in the higher rainfall areas in our region. Whilst some soils are naturally acidic, agricultural production exacerbates acidification by acidifying processes of the nitrogen cycle and removal of alkaline agricultural products … [view full article]
The On-Farm Water Management project has helped farmers reduce the impact of drought by preparing and implementing an on-farm water management plan – a plan that determines water needs (stock and domestic) and the capacity to meet these needs through storage (dams, tanks, waterways). … [view full article]
Holbrook Landcare have a new project starting this year, “Climate Smart Revegetation Plots on Farms’. In this project, we will be establishing sites with 3 to 4 mixed local native species, with plants of local and some different provenances of those same selected species. Some plants will be selected from locations identified in climate analogues modeling, as areas which may have a climate which will be similar to the future climate of the Holbrook region … [view full article]
This project is funded by the Future Drought Fund’s Drought Resilient Soils and Landscapes Grants Program. Holbrook Landcare Network aims to showcase modern pasture species combinations and management practices known to build greater drought resilience … [view full article]
The Southern NSW Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub is one of eight hubs being established by the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment across Australia to combat drought … [view full article]
As producers we balance livestock production, business growth and stability, with landscape resilience and sustainability on a daily basis. Traditionally, production stressors such as drought, fire and flood… [view full article]
In mid-2023 it became apparent that like many regions Holbrook and its local producers have been facing the challenge of attracting and retaining young, skilled workers on-farm. To tackle this issue Holbrook Landcare Network, with the support of the Southern NSW Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub … [view full article]
For 30 years, Landcare has driven grassroots change in natural resource management and landscape restoration, created local knowledge and experience and pioneered an ethical mind-shift in communities. Farmers & the Landcare community need to adjust to a future of natural capital income streams … [view full article]