In late 2024, Weddin Landcare received funding for their project titled (in short) ‘Over the Fence’. The project will run over two years in 2025 and 2026. 

The project extends on the concept that great ideas and practice change often result from the conversations that occur between farmers ‘over the fence’ and when farmers get the opportunity to look beyond their farm gate. The project will utilise Weddin Landcare’s extensive network to connect farmers with leading or early adopting farmers and experts to gain the practical advice and guidance they need to adopt climate-smart agricultural production systems. 

Six field days will be held to demonstrate the viability of various best practice methods in a local context. Experts will be engaged for these events to help facilitate conversation and provide technical knowledge and advice. In April 2025, over 40 farmers attended our first field day as part of this project on ‘Strip and Disc Cropping Systems‘. We held our second field day ‘Microbe Friendly Farming‘ in September 2025. It was another great success with around 45 farmers from near and far attending.

During August 2025, we took a small but keen group of farmers to the Riverina region to visit 7 progressive farms. Participants indicated they got a lot out of the two-day bus trip. A second bus trip is being planned for 2026 to central/northern NSW. These bus trips will encourage farmers to think more broadly and expose them to other, proven ideas that could be adapted locally.

Six visual stories featuring local farmers, properties and projects will be created to cater for the increasing number of farmers who gain their information online. The visual stories will give insight into the challenges, motivations, triumphs and goals of some of our local farmers in the Weddin district and will be produced by Grenfell boy, Stuart Walmsley – one of Australia’s most multi-faceted content producers who has a passion for sustainable agriculture and stories from rural and remote areas. Work on the visual stories has commenced, with Stu working with our chosen local farmers to create some great videos!

Training subsidies are currently being offered through the project. Farmers, farm managers and future farmers can apply for up to 50% of the course fee for approved training courses.

Keep an eye on our facebook page for updates on this project or sign up to our e-newsletter to get notifications direct to your inbox.  

Join in on this project by coming along to one of our upcoming events or taking advantage of the training subsidy.

Landscape Rehydration Field Day

Mulloon Institute will be running a Landscape Rehydration Field Day in Grenfell on Wednesday 25th March 2026. Registrations for this will open soon.

Training Subsidy 2025-2026

The Weddin Landcare Training Subsidy 2025-2026 aims to assist farm owners, farm managers and future farmers within the Weddin Landcare District to undertake a professional training and development opportunity to improve their skills in managing their farm business and/or the natural resources on their farm, with the aim of fostering best-practice, sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. Applicants can apply for up to 50% of the cost of their training course, to a maximum of $1,000 (GST excl) per farm business. 

For more information on the Training subsidy 2025-2026 or to apply, click the link below. 

Planning for more field days and another bus trip in 2026 is currently underway. If you know of a particular expert in the sustainable farming realm that you would like us to bring to our district, please let us know by contacting us or completing this survey.

For any enquiries about this project, please get in touch with Melanie on 0493 416 442 or weddinlandcare@outlook.com

This project, is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage Trust.