Fencing with Macka – Evelyn Central

Fencing can have many benefits for horticultural operations:

• Excluding animals from orchard areas
• Protection of riparian vegetation, bank stability and other sensitive areas
• Management zone and property boundary delineation
• Protection from impending biosecurity issues such as weeds and feral animals.

Join ‘Macka’ and Growcom on Saturday 8 June to learn more about:

• Selecting the right fence materials for the site and the application.
• Floodway and exclusion fencing, and planning for water access and water quality issues.
• Materials – make the first expense the last.
• New technologies and other considerations.

Attendees will have the opportunity to book a free consultation with Macka to discuss fencing solutions. These consultations will take place at individual properties.

For more information, please contact Growcom’s Paula Ibell on 0498 119 633 or email pibell@qfvg.com.au

MEET YOUR PRESENTER, MACKA

Macka has been fencing for the past 40 years throughout the channel country and the Mareeba District. He brings a range of experiences in farming from cattle, sheep, cropping land, yard building and orchard management as has, ‘kilometres of experience’ in all types of fencing. For the past 16 years, Macka and his wife Irene have operated a lime farm on the Barron Catchment.

_{The Peer-to-Peer program is delivered by Growcom’s Hort360 Great Barrier Reef project and is jointly supported by the Integrated Engagement and Capacity Building project through the Queensland Government’s Queensland Reef Water Quality Program.}