The Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF) supports farmers in the Port Phillip and Westernport region to adopt climate-smart, sustainable agricultural practices.
The Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF) is a designated central contact point for farmers, landholders, industry, and community groups and will aim to support sustainable agriculture practices in Port Phillip and Westernport.
The scope of the SAF is to:
- Engage and inform farmers, landholders, community groups, and agriculture industries within their NRM region about climate-smart, sustainable agriculture practices – including best practice natural resource management, biodiversity and carbon markets, and practices that support emissions reduction and build climate resilience on-farm – to help achieve climate-smart sustainable agriculture outcomes.
- Facilitate partnerships and connections that will assist farmers, landholders, community groups and agriculture industries to work together to achieve sustainable agriculture outcomes.
- Support the delivery of sustainable agriculture projects in their NRM region.
Projects and partners
The SAF works with a range of partners, including:
- farmers
- agricultural industry bodies
- research organisations
- Landcare networks and groups with an agriculture focus
- state and local government.
Current projects include:
- EcoVineyards (Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula)
- Enhancing adoption of recycled green waste in vineyards (Macedon Ranges)
- Integrated pest management in multi-species pastures
- Dung beetles
- Farm Biodiversity - actions farmers can take to meet sustainability requirements
Keep up to date
Ag-Resilience knowledge hub
If you’re a farmer in the Port Phillip and Westernport catchment, our Ag-Resilience knowledge hub is your source for local information, projects, events and resources.
Ag-Resilience podcast
You can also subscribe to Ag-Resilience on your favourite podcast app so you don’t miss an episode! Listen to the trailer below for a taste of what you’ll hear:
Contact us
The SAF for the Port Phillip and Westernport region is Karen Thomas:
Funding acknowledgement
The Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF), is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Natural Heritage Trust under the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program.