Our climate-smart farmer in focus this month is Robert Quirk. Robert is a Tweed Valley cane farmer who is also an advocate and teacher of sustainable farming practices. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including Carbon Farmer…
To celebrate the amazing work underway in farms across Australia, we have launched a 'Climate-Smart Farmer in Focus' initiative. Each month, we select one of our farmer members who are doing great things on-farm to profile and learn from. This…
At a glance Who: Kerrie McMartin and her dad Graham McMartin What: Grows commercial crops of lychees, custard apples and sugar cane as well as running a pick-your-own strawberry agritourism business. The custard apples and strawberries are grown on the…
Alisdair Tulloch is fifth-generation grapegrower and winemaker at Keith Tulloch wines, which has been certified as carbon neutral by the Federal Government.
At a glance Who: Jon Wright What: Beef Seedstock and commercial producer Where: Cowra, central west NSW Jon Wright is a beef seedstock and commercial producer from Cowra in central-west New South Wales. Jon is focussed on breeding a low…
We bought our 3 Yarra Yarra farms in the Morawa shire in 2018. They are on marginal land which cannot be used profitably for growing common food crops. Rainfall is supposedly 330mm per annum. We plant native trees and shrubs…
In order to celebrate the amazing work underway in farms across Australia, we have launched a Climate-Smart Farmer in Focus initiative. Each month, we are selecting a farmer doing great things on-farm to profile and learn from. This month our…