TIMME is a 5-year (2025–2030) project empowering six communities of practice to increase the health and resilience of their landscapes. It will enable local communities to work collaboratively on landscape-scale projects that achieve measurable benefits for land, water, people and biodiversity.
The project is grassroots in spirit, with Mulloon Institute staff working to support local networks. It incorporates a range of valuable skills and methods to unlock whole-of-systems approaches to achieving community and ecological resilience. Several demonstration projects in WA and NSW, in both agricultural and First Nations contexts, will be the focus of activities.
Images:
Top banner: NSW community of practice Boots on Ground day (Photo © Grow Love Project)
Middle image: Back to Country planting day (Photo © Grow Love Project)
Bottom image: WA community of practice Boots on Ground day.
What does TIMME aim to achieve?
The TIMME project is empowering six communities of practice to increase the health and resilience of their landscapes. It aims to foster community capacity to work collaboratively on landscape-scale projects that achieve measurable benefits for land, people and biodiversity.
To do this, the project:
- Brings a holistic perspective to the challenge of healing landscapes and acknowledges that land managers navigate many co-existing objectives and motivations, such as agricultural productivity, natural capital, Care for Country obligations and resilience to climate extremes.
- Embraces systems-thinking tools and methods that can equip communities to navigate complexity, and to work together to implement landscape-scale projects.
- Acknowledges the cultural connection of First Nations people to Country, and the importance of being on Country to care for Country.
- Will build skills and capacity at the community level, through activities that involve learning-by-doing, co-design and collaboration in local contexts.
- Will generate shareable evidence of project impact, through monitoring, case studies of demonstration sites and films that provide proof-of-concept and inspire others.
The Key Project Outcomes will be:
- Increased landscape function through rehydration and repair on four demonstration catchment sites and two First Nation sites
- Increased skills and knowledge among project participants in systems thinking approaches, landscape restoration and management of natural capital
- Enhanced creative and collaborative relationships and networks that strengthen the capacity of project stakeholders for the long term
- Development of tools and strategies to equip land managers to identify stressors, feedback loops and tipping points in dynamic landscape systems, so they can more readily track indicators of change, manage for resilience and support landscape to bounce back from shocks
- An evidence-base, drawn from monitoring and evaluation processes around each project, that is well-communicated to a wide audience through compelling case studies, films and other outputs.
What does TIMME stand for?
- Training – education, skills-building and collaborative design workshops around landscape resilience and whole-of-system approaches to land regeneration and landscape rehydration.
- Implementation – delivery and implementation of practical on-ground projects
- Mentoring – opportunities for land managers to be supported building on their skills and implementing their own projects
- Monitoring – capturing baseline information about landscape condition and then monitoring across key indicators to measure impact and trajectories of change.
- Evaluation – data analysis and evaluation that will be used to identify trends and support future decision making. Case studies and films will also be developed to disseminate learnings to a broader audience.
Who will be involved?
The project will be delivered through the establishment of six communities of practice across WA and NSW. The locations of these sites are:
- Araluen Creek – Araluen, NSW
- Coolumbooka River – Cathcart / Bombala, NSW
- Mulloon Creek – Mulloon, NSW
- Yambulla – near Eden, NSW
- Aylmore Springs – Gnowangerup, WA
- Blackwood Basin Catchment – Boyup Brook, WA
The project will establish six demonstration sites that showcase the importance and effectiveness of using a whole-of-system approach to build both community and ecological resilience in agricultural contexts. Key community stakeholders will work with Mulloon staff on co-design of the demonstration site projects and development of key objectives, and the wider community will be able to participate wherever possible in workshops, skills days, implementation and monitoring.
Where is the funding coming from?
The project is funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund (FDF). The aim of the FDF is “to build drought resilience, including climate resilience, for the public good of the Australian agriculture sector, landscapes and communities”. The TIMME project aligns with the strategic objectives of the FDF by delivering a program that will provide the knowledge and tools for each community of practice to build economic resilience, environmental resilience and social resilience in the context of their own landscapes.
How long does the project run for?
The project will run over the course of 5 years, finishing in June 2030.
