Planning your Farm Landscape workshop

The Mulloon Institute has teamed up with David Hardwick of Soil Land Food to deliver a Planning your farm landscape course in Coolac, NSW for Muttama Landcare.

The course forms part of SLF’s Regenerating Rural Landscapes program which is a hands-on, action learning based course that introduces the basics of rural landscapes, landscape thinking and the science behind landscape rehydration. The program builds an understanding of how landscapes function so that property design and planning can use ecology to get the best result for productivity, efficiency and sustainability.

TMI’s Peter Hazell presented on landscape hydrology during day 5 of the 6 day course, which also covered:

•         Understanding how farm landscapes function

•         Understanding the water & nutrient cycles in farm landscapes

•         Understanding energy flow in farm landscapes

•         Using maps for property planning

•         Identifying landscape patches in rural landscapes

•         Assessing landscape & patch health

•         Identifying & prioritising issues

•         Innovations to redesign & improve your property

•         10 steps of property planning to develop a regenerative whole farm plan

Day 6 of the course will also involve The Mulloon Institute and focus on practical planning to improve a farm’s hydrology. Day 6 will happen later in the year, once the Covid-19 pandemic is under some control.