Regenerating Rural Landscapes: The Essentials - 2 Day Bootcamp

Looking to rehydrate your farm landscape,

improve farm biodiversity,

implement regenerative cropping or grazing,

and create a healthy and productive farm landscape

This 2 day Essentials Bootcamp will get you started!

Join us on farm at Bibbaringa, for this intensive, hands on, fun Bootcamp as we explore the basics of rural landscapes, landscape thinking and the science and practice behind landscape regeneration and landscape rehydration. Led by a team of highly experienced presenters, including David Hardwick from Soil Land Food and the team from The Mulloon Institute, this course will deepen your understanding of how your farm landscape works. It will help you improve the natural capital of your business.

Date & Time

Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th October 2020

8.30am to 4.30 pm

Course Content

Day 1 - Starts at 9.30am

• Regenerating Rural Landscapes: resilience, health and productivity
  
• Landscape thinking: Learn how to “read” your farm's landscape
  
• Landscape Patches: the jigsaw pieces of your farm’s landscape
• Water and Nutrient systems in rural landscapes
• Energy flows and Biodiversity in rural landscapes
• Your Landscape System: Geography, Landscape, Agriculture & People
  

Day 2 

• Soils: soils and landscape function
• Landscape Rehydration: the fundamentals
• Regenerating rural landscapes: strategies & tactics
• Rural Landscape Logic: Fitting agriculture into rural landscapes
• Rural Landscape Regeneration: Steps to Success

This course is hands on. You will need to bring outdoor clothing and a hat.

"David Hardwick is one of the best presenters I've come across because of the way he explains complex scientific concepts in a way that people can understand. His explanation of how soils, plants and microbiology work and interact is humorous and particularly memorable which is useful when trying to learn about such an intricate natural system. A thoroughly enjoyable and enriching course – well worth doing..." Struan NSW

Presenters:

David Hardwick - Soil Land Food. David is a professional agroecologist. He has been doing soil and regenerative agriculture extension and consulting all over Australia for nearly 20 years. He completed a degree in Ecological Agriculture at the University of Sydney with focus on regenerative and organic farming systems, land management and rural change. David has worked in the conventional, organic and regenerative sectors and across grazing, horticulture, dairying and cropping systems. For the last 10 years he has been teaching farmers and graziers about soils, rural landscapes and property planning using fun and practical activities as part of the highly successful Digging Deeper and Planning your Farm Landscape Courses.

Cam Wilson or Peter Hazel - The Mulloon Institute. Two of Australia's leading Landscape Rehydration specialists, Cam & Peter have extensive on ground experience in the planning, development and delivery of landscape rehydration projects at the local and catchment scale. They are great at presenting the concepts of Landscape Rehydration in practical ways. As part of The Mulloon Institue team they provide on ground advice, prepare Landscape Rehydration Plans and supervises on ground contractors. Either Cam or Peter will be joining us to co-present the course.

Gill Sanbrook - Bibbaringa. Gill is a regenerative grazier who owns and runs Bibbaringa. For nearly 30 years Gill has been managing properties with holistic management. Since 2007 Gill has been regenerating Bibbaringa with landscape rehydration, biodiversity and regenerative grazing approaches using a whole farm plan.

Venue & Catering

The course will be hosted by Gill Sanbrook on Bibbaringa, an amazing farm and education facility 30 minutes from Albury, NSW. Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Teas are included in the Course fee. Enjoy the sunset with an optional, informal evening BBQ as well on the Wednesday evening!

Places

Places in this Bootcamp are limited to 30. A minimum of 15 people are required for the event to go ahead. In the event that the course does not go ahead due to minimum numbers not being reached, or due to COVID19; 7 days before the course commences a full refund will be given.

Accommodation

A number of accommodation options are available including through Bibbaringa, down the road at the Great Aussie Caravan Park and in Albury.