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Healthy Farmers
Farm life is often demanding and hectic, which can make it stressful. Some common sources of stress for farmers include financial pressures, red tape, family and relationship pressures, and environmental hardship (such as drought, floods, and bushfire). On top of this many farmers live in isolated places, which can make it harder to access support when feeling stuck, stressed or...
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Gerogery, 'Beelawong', Getting the most out of your Farm Dam: for stock health, water quality and retention and biodiversity
Gerogery NSWAustraliaThursday, 28 February 2019 - 5:00pm to 8:30pmJoin Sustainable Farms (and our partners Holbrook Landcare and Murray LLS) for this field day as part of our 2019 Summer Series.
This family friendly field day will focus on works you can implement to your farm dam to encourage biodiversity, improve water quality, and enrich stock health. Our hosts are Sue and Chris Cain, who have been working to...
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Generous gift of land for Sustainable Farms
Kent Keith recently made a gift of land to help improve farming communities.
He donated his Ballanda Park property—406 hectares near Boorowa in NSW—so its proceeds can benefit Sustainable Farms.
Sustainable Farms is a five-year project to promote the production of food and fibre while managing the interconnections between farming and its broader environment, at the same time enhancing the...
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Fire in farm landscapes: Keep your fallen timber and dead trees
Fallen timber and dead trees are essential to healthy, functioning ecosystems. They provide refuge, shelter and resources for plants and animals. This shelter is particularly important for animals during fire and to support ecosystem recovery after fire.
Keeping fallen timber and dead trees in the landscape is one of the best things you can do for biodiversity and landscape health...
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Field Days
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FarmWell Longitudinal Study
The FarmWell Longitudinal Study is working with Sustainable Farms to investigate links between environmental management, mental health, and economic outcomes in Australian farmers. It was set up to research these links in more detail using the existing ecological data (supplemented by remote sensing data), as well as self-report data that we’ll collect through online surveys from farmers and graziers....
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Farmers favourite tree challenge
Is there a big tree on your property that’s special to you? If so, we’d love you to participate in our "farmer's favourite tree challenge 2021".
Each year, we create a calendar with photos of some of the amazing landscapes, wildlife or plant life on farms – it’s a thank you to the farmers and others who partner with us...
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Episode Four: Mason Crane talks about farm revegetation
Welcome back to the Sustainable Farms podcast. In this episode, field ecologist Mason Crane speaks to Gordon Taylor about farm revegetation projects.
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