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Building business resilience from the soil up
Good soil health and plant ecosystems are paramount to farm business resilience. If we get this right, we reduce horticulture operation costs, time and energy. We become more profitable.
If you’re interested in learning how to ensure good soil and plant ecosystem health over the long term, understanding about soil health and how to improve the health of your horticulture operations, then this workshop is for you.
We’ll visit Lakelands Produce, demonstrate practical soil health tests and interpret the results. We’ll take a look at the farm system ecological health and demonstrate what makes a good ecological system and what to look out for and how to improve ecology in your farm system.
We’ll use HORT 360 to complete a soils health gap analysis for your farm and start the first steps to developing your farm business resilience plan.
Come along and learn about soil health, healthy ecological systems and how to put plans in place to improve your farm business resilience. Find out about what support and funding is available to help you turn your plans into a reality.
Agenda
| 10:00 am | Welcome and introduction at Lakeland Town Hall |
| 10:30 am | Farm tour Lakeland Produce |
| Soils health and testing in paddock demonstration
Ecological health demonstration in paddock and your questions answered |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch at Lakeland Town Hall |
| 12:30 pm | Introduction to the Farm Business Resilience Program using HORT 360, including:
·      review of check list questions to help you develop a farm business resilience plan ·      review of the Soils module in Hort 360 ·      Start developing your own Farm Business Resilience Plan |
| Overview of QRIDA Drought Support, grants and loans | |
| 2:45 pm | Q&A and next steps |
| 3:00 pm | Event end |
Need more information?
Karen George, Growcom – 0408 135 003 or kgeorge@qfvg.com.au
EVENT DETAILS
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
10am – 3pm
Lakeland Town Hall, Lakeland Qld 4871
Day includes a farm visit to Lakelands Produce.
COST
Free.
Lunch and refreshments included.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Dhiraj Gajera – Regional Soils Coordinator TNQ Drought Hub
Wendy Seabrook – Founder & Director, Learning from Nature
Karen George – Manager, Resilience, Growcom
Would you like to get involved in the TNQ Hub? Do you have an upcoming event that you’d like us to attend? We’d love to hear from you! Please email tnqhub@jcu.edu.au