Our 2025 Climate Smart farm planning course is underway and you can now put in an EOI for the 2026 course.
This comprehensive program will fast-track farmers’ learning by focusing on the main Natural Farming Assets (NFAs) (water, soil, biodiversity, pasture), how NFAs contribute to a successful farm business, poor management practices that threaten NFAs & strategies for improving & protecting NFAs for productivity benefits & climate resilience.
The program comprises 5 on-farm workshops focusing on natural asset management, 1 Stocksense workshop focusing on farmer health & safety & biosecurity, 1 guided whole-farm & action planning workshop. The course is led by whole farm planning legend Pete Ronalds.
Each on-farm workshop will have one major theme (water, soil, biodiversity, pasture) but will demonstrate how the owner manages their natural capital within the farm business as a whole. Special focus will be on strategies being adopted to address & profit from climate change.
The owners represent a range of different approaches to NFA management (conventional, organic, regenerative) and enterprises (cattle, equine, pigs, sheep, wine, agroforestry) broadening the program’s appeal & giving participants more information on which to base their future decision-making.
Participants will tour each farm to see the hard infrastructure (fencing, yards, lanes, dams/troughs, sheds, stock-handling facilities etc) and NFAs,& how each element fits within & contributes to the business.
To fill out and EOI for 2026 click here
Our 2025 course began in August with a visit to Cape Liptrap to look at water management and an introduction to farm planning. During the farm tour we explored how the property owners worked towards their goal to maximize grazing potential while preserving and enhancing the underlying natural assets.
