Taking steps into regen ag

Get support making changes to your farm business
Learn from experienced tropical regen farmers
Explore topics including soil health, regen cropping and horticulture, bioferts, composting and grazing
Meet like minded farmers in the Atherton Tablelands

If you are looking to make changes then this FREE 4 month Learning Program will help you on your regen agriculture journey!!!

The program comprises 3 face to face workshops run approximately once every month for three months between May to August 2026. The workshops are hands on where you will learn skills in various regen practices such as:

Soil health
Regen cropping
Multi-species pastures and cropping
Mulching, composting and biofertilisers
Regen grazing

The workshops will be complemented with 4 online sessions.

Finally you will get a one on one mentoring session with an experienced regen farming mentor to help you finalise a Farm Action Plan to make changes to your farm.

Experienced regen farmers from the Wet Tropics Soil Care network will also be supporting the program to share their experience with participants.

Facilitated by champion regen farmer Simon Mattsson from Soil Land Food with support from David Hardwick and experienced farmers in the Wet Tropics Soil Care Network.

Book a Free Ticket to Register your interest.

For more info come to the Information Session:

23rd April 1-3pm at Hallorans Hill Function Centre

OR

email: enquiries@soillandfood.com.au

Lead Facilitator

Simon Mattsson
Soil Land Food team member Simon is a regenerative farming extension specialist, Nuffield Scholar and consultant who focuses on plant diversity for managing soil biological function to improve soil for increased productivity and better environmental outcomes. He grew up on a family cattle station near Mt Coolan, Qld, before the family moved into sugarcane and cattle operations in Mackay. A Nuffield Scholarship in 2014 to research soil biology gave Simon the opportunity to travel the world exploring multi-species cropping. After visiting farmers on three continents, including Gabe Brown, he came home and planted sunflowers in his sugarcane! Since then he has sown many multi-species crops and pastures using biological approaches and has helped numerous other farmers do as well! Simon has been an active user of soil and sap tests on his farm for many years growing a range of crops and pastures. He currently grows tropical fruits and makes and uses compost and biofertilisers on farm as part of his enterprise. For the last 4 years he has helped deliver a number of workshops and courses for Soil Land Food in Queensland and NSW. In 2023 Simon completed the 4 day Soil Biology Masterclass at Western Sydney University.

Places & Conditions

Places in this Learning Program are limited to 15 farms. You will need to complete an Expression Of Interest Form to participants. In the case that the program is over subscribed the project facilitator will select the 15 participants.

Project Partners

This project is part of the Atherton Tablelands Integrated Collaboration funded through the Queensland Government’s Queensland Reef Water Quality Program and Sustainable Table

Contact the host of Reboot your farm: Regen Ag Learning Program - Nth Qld 2026