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Landcare In Focus
7th
November 2013 ~ www.landcareonline.com.au
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ORN of farmers’natural interest
in soil health, the special-interest Landcare group Soilcare has
moved from strength to strength since
forming eight years ago.
Soilcare was created...
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1● ● ● ●
Landcare In Focus
7th
November 2013 ~ www.landcareonline.com.au
B
ORN of farmers’natural interest
in soil health, the special-interest Landcare group Soilcare has
moved from strength to strength since
forming eight years ago.
Soilcare was created out of the
Tuckombil Landcare Group, on the
NSW North Coast, which in 1998
recognised that its farmer members
shared a common interest in understanding how their practices affected
the soil.
In the subsequent Good Soil Project
and the two Good Worm Projects
that followed, Tuckombil Landcare
attracted more than a million dollars
in funding.
By 2004, preoccupation with soil
health was pulling Tockombil
Landcare members away from other
natural resource management tasks,
according to Soilcare chairperson
Bonnie Walker.
The following year, Soilcare was
born to provide a specific focus on
agriculture’s relationship with the soil.
“Healthy soil is fundamental to the
health of people and the planet,” Ms
Walker said.
“We can’t talk about the h
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