Healthy soil is paramount to a productive, prosperous and healthy future in agriculture. Find out more about the tools many farmers are adopting to get the most from the ground up.
Learn how to build soil carbon, regenerate your landscape, and farming practices including bioferts, bio-char and other soil ameliorants.
This event is free to attend.
KEY SPEAKER – ANDRE LEU International Director of Regeneration International
Regenerative agriculture and climate change
PRESENTERS
SOIL
- Andre Leu – key speaker
- John Attard – cane farmer
Building soil carbon through plant diversity and on-farm bio-fertilisers and soil ameliorants - Garry Spotswood – mixed farmer
Alternative management of organic integrated farming systems - Michael Rocca – mixed farmer
Bio-char; Black magic
CLIMATE
- Neil Cliffe – DAF
Applying the climate risk matrix
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DATE Friday 23rd November 2018
VENUE Harrup Park, Mackay
TIME 10:00am to 5:45pm
RSVP By Friday 16th November on Eventbrite, or phone Reef Catchments 07 4968 4200
This event is followed by a seperate harvest celebration in the Botanic Gardens for those interested – a Watershed Land Art Project (Sunflowers and Song) in the evening 6:00pm – 9:00pm.