CoPP Bootcamp & Field Day in Victoria
The CoPP-VIC Bass Coast Community group stands together at Joby and Camilla Grave’s beautiful property, Mount Pleasant with an impressive view of the sunset and the Bass River Valley behind.
The most recent of the Mulloon Institute’s Community of Practice Projects, CoPP-VIC, started with a field day and then a 2-Day Bootcamp held at Kernott in the Bass Coast region presented by Mulloon’s Principal Landscape Planner Peter Hazell and Landscape Planner and Environmental Engineer Erin Healy.
Project partners Bass Coast Landcare helped to make the event a fantastic success. The event was filled with interesting, intelligent, and engaged land managers, a mix of creative and diverse activities and strong community enthusiasm. Peter and Erin look forward to working more with this community into the coming year!
Thank you to our wonderful hosts, Joby and Camilla Graves at Mount Pleasant. A big shout out to Joel Geoghegan from Bass Coast Landcare for his steadfast and invaluable support in getting this project successfully off the ground at Bass Coast.
Over the three days, Joby and Camilla Graves opened up their farm, Mount Pleasant, to host the group.
The Bass Coast attendees were a diverse and enthusiastic group of land managers with a wealth of collective community knowledge.
Natural infrastructure solutions start to look a bit different where the natural resources available are play dough, pipe-cleaners and paddle-pop sticks!
The group had the opportunity to ‘deep dive’ into property mapping, focusing on their visions, goals, priorities and key issues regarding water in their landscapes.
To finish of the third and final day of the event the groups gathered for a ‘tough mudder’ challenge, where natural infrastructure solutions (at miniature scale) were put to the test against our largest flood events.
This project received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.