Heytesbury District Landcare Network worked with a number of partners on projects looking at climate change impacts on food production, and increasing soil carbon.
The projects explored the value of increasing soil carbon in mitigating the adverse effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as improving soil productivity and food quality.
The project included trialling various tillage technologies for enhancing soil carbon and improving pasture volumes and quality through cover cropping and tailored multi-species pasture mixes.
Supported by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage Trust, and AgriFutures Australia.
Lessons learnt — also see Future Farm Practices section on the Resources page
