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The picturesque Bowna property of Gill Sanbrook will become a classroom for some hands-on lessons in how agriculture can be part of the solution for climate change.
Learning how to balance environmental improvements in your landscape and run a productive rural business will be the focus of the Regenerative Rural Landscapes Boot Camp on October 28 and 29.
Agro-ecologist David Hardwick, from Soil Land Food, and Peter Hazell, from The Mulloon Institute Bungendore, will present two days of learning and discussion.
The course will cover rehydration of landscapes and learning to read landscape along with the benefits of building biodiversity in grazing and cropping enterprises.
Participants will also learn about the hydrograph of their land.
Mr Hardwick says the course will be about getting your hands dirty and looking at the science relating to regenerative agriculture.
"We want to build the natural capital of the Australian landscape and show participants how agriculture can be part of the solution for climate change," he says.
Meanwhile Mr Hazell is a landscape rehydration specialist and has worked on local and catchment rehydration projects throughout Australia.
One of his bigger projects was in the Mulloon catchment with 23 landholders.
The boot camp will take place in the Bibbaringa Woolshed set against the backdrop of Ms Sanbrook's own transformed landscape on her ecological beef production property.
For the past 13 years she has practised holistic management, natural sequence farming and biodynamics on the property.
Participants will see how she has increased resilience to rehydrate the land through building soil capacity, infrastructure planning and adapting landscapes for climate change.
When Ms Sanbrook and her former husband purchased Bibbaringa, it was in a sorry state.
While the property had "good bones", the land was degraded, overgrazed, and suffering from serious gully erosion.
If you join her in a stroll across the paddocks, she will point out the jewels in the crown of her vision splendid.
There's long lines of contour banks, 70,000 trees that have been planted, stands of native water grass - "it's significant on a statewide scale" - and the ground cover.
The property is almost unrecognisable compared to photographs from February 2007.
- For more details about the workshop or to book contact Maria Bertoncini 0406 476 330 or via maria.bertoncini@icloud.com