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Your feedback is welcomed! Please feel free to post your feedback, questions and ideas here.

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Your feedback is welcomed! Please feel free to post your feedback, questions and ideas here.

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Here are the futures triangles we made. If you have more ideas, please create more triangles, take a picture and post here. Or we can post your picture if that's easier

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Post-it note exercise leading to the thought cloud

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Post-it note exercise leading to the thought cloud

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We asked our participants "What is most important to you?". The more instances of a word, the larger it appears in our thought cloud.

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Our second thought cloud at the end of the workshop to see how our participants priorities were affected. Compare and contrast!

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Dan Reid - Loam Bio / 0498 466 335

An Australian private company with two distinct products;

First Crop; a fungal inoculant that helps build and form stable carbon in a cropping system.

Second Crop; helps farmers develop a carbon project on their farm over 25 years, shares in profits.

Michael Anderson - GrainCorp

Michael is head of sustainability, helping us to understand new requirements regarding emissions reporting, and opportunities in the future.

Carmel Onions - Commonwealth Bank

Carmel is executive manager of agribusiness sustainability, spoke about how sustainable farming practices and building natural capital can help lower the cost of borrowing.

Stefan Van Boxtel - Cassinia Environmental / Bush Bank

Cassinia is leading the Bushbank program which aims to rehabilitate and sequester carbon on public and private property. Focusing on environmental plantings.

Carsten Berberich - Central Highlands Water / 0418 682 176

Carsten is representing all water bodies across the state and spoke about their intention to offset their carbon output by buying carbon credits. They are looking for carbon projects that are both robust and foster biodiversity.

Rowan Ewing - Landcare Australia

Rowan is part of Landcare Australia's new carbon service, helping connect corporate organisations with landcarers, ensuring they get the best deal possible.

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What do we want our future to look like? This question underpins the efforts of two community working groups involved in Landcare Victoria’s New Futures for Victorian Landcare project... Click the link to read more

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What do we want our future to look like? This question underpins the efforts of two community working groups involved in Landcare Victoria's New Futures for Victorian Landcare project.

Each working group includes 10 pilot landholders in two unique regions of Victoria. Last week they met with investors to discuss their plans for the future and the co-benefits of sustainable agriculture, carbon farming and biodiversity.

"It was great to hear the enthusiasm from the pilot Landcare networks and the investors alike for their landscape projects," Landcare Victoria Project Manager, Anthony Gallacher said.

"These sessions gave the two working groups the chance to meet with market investors to trade ideas and align 'what's on offer' with 'what they're buying'. They also gained information on how landcare networks can target an investment strategy that aligns with their landscape restoration and biodiversity goals."

On August 7, the Windharp Horizons working group and landholders met with investors, including representatives from Central Highlands Water, LoamBio, GrainCorp, the Commonwealth Bank, Bushbank provider Cassinia Environmental and Landcare Australia Ltd.

These groups presented a range of opportunities to the working group including information on supply chains, emerging markets and the co-benefits of biodiversity.

Named for the sound of the wind through the endemic Buloke tree, Windharp Horizons' priorities include enhanced, connected and rehydrated landscapes capable of sequestering carbon. Given the slow growing nature of the Buloke tree, this forward planning is important. Just three per cent of the trees remain and they must be more than 100 years old to feed the region's Red Tailed Black Cockatoos who can eat as many as 80 cones a day. The trees also support a range of insects including the newly discovered Buloke cicada and the azure butterfly, which only lays eggs when the mistletoe Buloke trees host, flowers.

Meeting in Nagambie on August 8, Granite2Goulburn Group (G2G) are aptly named for their landscape dotted with large boulders and the plains of the Goulburn River.

Investors also included Greenhams, who covered beef sustainability standards and emissions and Turosi, who spoke about the international demand for carbon neutral farming.

Many of G2G's working group members hold smaller parcels of land. Their priorities include 'horizontal stacking', creating longer corridors for biodiversity, water, and pest control, as well as 'vertical stacking' which involves planning to enter existing carbon markets, as well as scanning for possible future markets in biodiversity and other sustainability efforts.

"We don't know what opportunities will come up, there's so many emerging markets. One of the many benefits of this long-term planning approach is that you can look ahead to what's on the horizon," Anthony explained.

These community led working groups have been meeting since February.

Their activities prior to the investor session include meeting for community mapping, field trips and co-design workshops.

The New Futures Project Investor Sessions were facilitated by Regen Farmers Mutual. By the end of the year this process will culminate in each working group producing their own landscape investment and action plans.

To learn more about the project visit the New Futures page on our website.

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What do we want our future to look like? This question underpins the efforts of two community working groups involved in Landcare Victoria's New Futures for Victorian Landcare project

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Thursday 22nd August

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10am - 4pm

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We held a focus group prior to the workshop to widen participation and better understand peoples' interests and ideas for the Windharp Horizons project. The workshop facilitator participated as an observer and recorded these notes from the discussion.

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Workshop Handout - List of Potential Investors

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Workshop Handout - List of Potential Investors

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Buloke and Northern Grampians Landcare Network, in conjunction with Landcare Victoria and Regen Farmers Mutual, are very happy to announce the creation of Windharp Horizons, the working party creating a landscape-scale strategic plan to direct both regenerative agriculture and environmental rehabilitation and preservation of the region.

The BNGLN is one of two Landcare Networks in Victoria chosen to pilot the New Futures program, funded through Landcare Victoria.

Regen Farmers Mutual will be guiding a Landscape Impact Program with the working party to deliver 10 local landholders through the process of farm assessments.

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Developing a landscape strategy for the Buloke & Northern Grampians Landcare region, delivering regenerative farming and environmental projects.