The soil carbon project funded by a federal government drought resiliency grant, will include a number of events and workshops for landholders.

KCLG president Rowen Wallace said the eight month project would explain soil carbon farming and its benefits, discuss different methods to increase carbon in soil and delve into potential income from carbon farming.

"Carbon is a bit of mystery topic, but it is organic matter in soil," she said.

"If we increase that through various strategies that this project will enable farmers to do, it increases water retention in soil, decreases soil temperatures and increases soil life, which are all factors which will make farms more resilient if we have ongoing and increasing drought."

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Agroecologist David Hardwick will also be delivering the project.

He said a challenge in agriculture was that farming activities could decline soil carbon over time.

"This project is looking at different approaches to trying to build soil carbon in the Kiewa Valley through different farming activities, like changing grazing or using gypsum or a few other things," he said.

"So we're just setting up a few demo sites and it's just a project to help farmers learn about what is carbon, why it's important and just as importantly how they might go into a carbon project.

"There's a lot of confusion out there about exactly how you to do out and how do you sign up and how do you make money and all those sort of questions."

Mr Hardwick said between two and five per cent of soil in the Kiewa Valley area could be carbon.

"It depends a little bit on the condition, is the soil healthy or not and also some soils are shallower than others," he said.

"The challenge with the carbon projects is, can we increase it by much? and that'll be the big question."

Mr Hardwick said the soil carbon could be increased by one or two percent or a couple of percent, but it would be interesting to see throughout the project.

Project officer Charles Daabol said there'd been a lot of interest for the workshop and learning sessions.

"It's a really important topic at the moment, soil carbon and carbon in general, with the way the world is going," he said.

Four sessions are being held across the Kiewa Valley, including on November 23 at the Yackandandah Hotel from 12pm to 2pm, November 25 at the Dederang Pub from 12pm to 2pm, November 27 at the West Peak Hotel in Mount Beauty from 12pm to 2pm and one online webinar on November 29 from 7.30pm to 9pm.

Landholders can register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/kiewa-catchment-landcare-groups-inc-35599372363.

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