BALINGUP SMALL FARM FIELD DAY
Once again, SWAN will have a display in the South West Catchments Council Landcare marquee at the Balingup Small Farm Field Day on Saturday 21st April. Come along and say hello to some of the volunteers and create a tree.
The theme for the 2018 Balingup Small Farm Field Day is - Small farms. Big ideas. The event will showcase all aspects of small farming; caring for the land and animals, growing trees and food, cooking with fresh local ingredients and creating fashion and crafts with natural products.
SMART FARMING PARTNERSHIPS GRANT APPLICATION
Most of SWAN's annual activities are partly funded by government grants. A number of grant submissions have been pulled together over the last few months with the most comprehensive being Smart Farming Partnerships grant application. The basis of this application was to unlock the potential of native forests on private land with the development of a Farm Forest Inventory Management System. (See graphic below)
Richard and Robyn Walker have clearly illustrated the benefits of a well managed native forest management plan with their award winning work at The Towers.
After being clear felled for timber over 100 years ago and left un-managed since, the 300ha of native forest was in a sorry state when they took on the property. The forest was overpopulated with trees which had stopped growing, were susceptible to disease and vulnerable to lower rainfall associated with the changing climate.
Despite the approach being unprecedented in Western Australia, they developed a management plan to develop The Towers forest as a commercially viable native forest. Read more about the 2016 WA Tree Farmer of the Year ...
Once again, SWAN will have a display in the South West Catchments Council Landcare marquee at the Balingup Small Farm Field Day on Saturday 21st April. Come along and say hello to some of the volunteers and create a tree.
The theme for the 2018 Balingup Small Farm Field Day is - Small farms. Big ideas. The event will showcase all aspects of small farming; caring for the land and animals, growing trees and food, cooking with fresh local ingredients and creating fashion and crafts with natural products.
SMART FARMING PARTNERSHIPS GRANT APPLICATION
Most of SWAN's annual activities are partly funded by government grants. A number of grant submissions have been pulled together over the last few months with the most comprehensive being Smart Farming Partnerships grant application. The basis of this application was to unlock the potential of native forests on private land with the development of a Farm Forest Inventory Management System. (See graphic below)
Richard and Robyn Walker have clearly illustrated the benefits of a well managed native forest management plan with their award winning work at The Towers.
After being clear felled for timber over 100 years ago and left un-managed since, the 300ha of native forest was in a sorry state when they took on the property. The forest was overpopulated with trees which had stopped growing, were susceptible to disease and vulnerable to lower rainfall associated with the changing climate.
Despite the approach being unprecedented in Western Australia, they developed a management plan to develop The Towers forest as a commercially viable native forest. Read more about the 2016 WA Tree Farmer of the Year ...
