FOLK FARM & FOREST

We are working with our community to steward a special piece of land in Kuitpo, South Australia and practice revegetation; ecological fine timbers; regenerating the soil, water, and landscape. The farm is on Peramangk-Kaurna Country.

 

The vision is for this property to be a biodiverse and climate positive farming enterprise, comprising revegetation with local native plants, a mixed-species forest for furniture grade and construction timber, carbon storage, and with our friends, rotational grazing of some areas of pasture by sheep.

What we have done so far:

• A focus on our waterways (*more details below).

• Planted local native species revegetation.

• Planted two mixed woodland native and non-weedy trees including Eucalyptus, Oaks, Sheoaks, nut trees, fruit trees, and more! We are being strategic with fire wise plants to ensure long term vitality.

• Planted paddock trees across the property.

• Removed gorse and blackberry from across the property.

• Collected seed (with our permits) from the adjacent bush sites - to extend those species into a larger area.

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Our waterways focus:

• Fencing off and revegetating our dams with water, riparian, and surrounding local native species.

• Installing a Flows for the Future device (in partnership) across our property to ensure more water makes it's way down the catchment.

• Partnering with the Nature Glenelg Trust to populate two of our dams with endangered native fish - one with Murray Hardhead and one with Yarra Pygmy Perch.

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Future projects:

• We want to continue planting hundreds of grasses, understorey plants, shrubs and trees every year around the waterways, across the property, and in our mixed woodland.

• We would love to explore carbon and ecological offset - we will continue to do the work no matter what, but we would like to see if these programs can help us do even more!​