Landscape and Ecology

Our primary focus is landscape management using grazing animals with a desired outcome of building soil carbon and encouraging biodiversity.

We always aim to match our stocking rate to our variable carrying capacity. This in turn maintains ground cover which protects our soil and enables us to achieve maximum water infiltration. Resilience is displayed by rapid pasture response to rainfall at different times of the year.

Annual tree planting programs of both tube stock and direct tree seeding have been undertaken to increase biodiversity, build carbon, provide shade and shelter for animals and to aid riparian restoration areas. Natural Sequence farming reduced chemical usage and multi species fodder cropping are also techniques we are utilizing to achieve our landscape goals.

Areas on our farms have been set aside from production as a way of both studying and encouraging the natural ecology. We have had an ecologist conduct biannual flora and fauna studies in some of these areas to enable us to learn more about the species present and the natural landscape functions.