Regenerate Gippsland
Gippsland Agriculture
Kate Mirams and Peter Neaves, Gippsland dairy farmers, are showing the way in 2026!
Seven years ago, dairy farming team Kate Mirams and her husband Peter Neaves took a leap, and it changed their soil forever. The farm these days uses about a tenth of the synthetic fertilisers it previously did with no impact on grass or milk production
The conflicts in the Middle East with the accompanying fuel shortages, is not the time to look backwards but rapidly shift to practices centred on biology and ecology, demonstrating that it’s possible to remain profitable while reducing fossil fuel inputs and building soil and landscape health.
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Sandra Jefford from Wilandra Farm recently took part in the Gippsland Circular Futures Initiative in 2024.
Wilandra Farm was also part of the Storying Perceptions of Climate Change in Wellington shire 2020.
Regenerative agriculture has at its core the intention to regenerate or even restore the health of soil and the wider environment. It typically employs techniques that promote efficient use of natural resources, focussing on building soil health, increasing biodiversity and reducing carbon emissions.
Ag Research
Climate Smart Ag Research 2026
Farmers are stewards of the land and manage it carefully. As an industry, agriculture is facing increasing challenges due to extreme weather like, flooding, bushfire, drought and extreme heat.
FCA has collated and organised the Climate Smart Farming Toolkit to support farmers. The Toolkit contains useful resources and information to help farmers maintain their knowledge on climate-related challenges, build on work farmers are already doing, or get started on implementing Climate Smart farming practices. Visit the Farmers Stories
The Regenerative Agriculture Alliance (RAA)
Is a collaboration of Australia’s leading researchers and practitioners in regenerative agriculture, whose aim is to improve the holistic health and wellbeing of Australian landscapes, farmers and communities through regenerative agricultural research, education and practice.
Storying Climate Change
Climate Stories from Wellington Shire Farmers. Our ‘Storying Climate Change’ project is part of a global research initiative led by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Massachusetts Science Students; Nikhil Chintada, Theodore Lockman, Alexander Lopes, Jacob Schran, to map how people, and particularly farmers, perceive climate change and how they are responding to this change.
Storying Perceptions of Climate Change in Wellington Shire 2020, was a GCCN collaboration between International students with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Gippsland farmers and GCCN Board members John Lawrence, Carolyn Crossley, Ian Southall and Beth Ripper in support.
Individuals around the world are affected by climate change in different ways. Our goal was to collect the perceptions of climate change from farmers in Wellington Shire, Australia. In collaboration with the Gippsland Climate Change Network, we compiled 12 video interviews of farmers in Wellington Shire to capture their opinions and perceptions on climate change. Most of these farmers are sceptical of man-made climate change, but are responsive to climate variations, with many using renewable energy and regenerative farming practices. These investments and practices have helped the farmers respond to shifting and less reliable weather. Farmers living within the local irrigation district were mostly optimistic regarding the sustainability of their future. However, those living outside the irrigation district were generally much less confident about the long-term viability of their farms and community. These videos can help others understand the farmer’s perspectives and actions on climate change.
