The funding will assist farmers to improve land capability and manage ecosystem health through workshops and field days.
Warrenbayne Boho Landcare group member Meredith Paez said attention was needed to go beyond the past but still build on the group’s achievements.
“It’s basically a whole farm planning course to address protection and management of farm assets such as soil, water and vegetation and how all those things underpin farm productivity,” Ms Paez said.
“In our first 10 years from 1983, we did a whole farm planning course for landholders, but it’s a new generation now.
“We have new people and young people coming into the district who don’t know enough about our history and about how revegetation helps with farming production.
“We are an ageing population, so we are trying to get younger people involved.”
The funding will be used to source course facilitators and not for on-farm work.
Baddaginnie landholder Eleanor Sadler moved into the area three years ago and said what the Landcare group is offering would be welcomed for farm planning.
“We have clearly got some beautiful areas here that we’d like to protect and also running our sheep farm alongside,” Ms Sadler said.
“It’s got be a functional working farm but also have an area of bushland and trees to help us during lambing time and provide shelter for stock.
“So there is always a place for looking after your local habitat.”
Although Ms Sadler said she was looking forward to learning from some experienced farmers, she also recognised the need for younger people to get involved in Landcare.
“It is time for us to step up and learn from them but also forge our own path with climate change and everything else facing us.
“It is heartening that younger people are wanting to join up.”
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