Case Studies

The Rosser family which includes Gary Rosser and husband and wife duo Mike and Lucy Rosser, are becoming old-hands at carbon farming. They are also huge advocates of the regenerative benefits that carbon projects bring to agriculture businesses as well as the financial benefit for regional communities.

Like most landholders, the graziers behind the Far West Native Forest Protection Project “want to leave the land better than it was when we go.” And while landholders recognise that seasons rule what happens out west, they also recognise that there is lots they can do to improve how the landscape responds to those seasons.

Located near Louth, in Western New South Wales, Pattison has been home to a registered carbon project since 2015. Due to the project an area of native vegetation just over 4,000ha in size is now protected for 100 years.

For the landholders of Abbieglassie in Maranoa, Queensland, the Maranoa Ecosystem Conservation Project came at just the right time, coinciding with the start of a drought in 2016. Their decision to commit to not clearing the carbon project area provided the business with a drought-proof income that allowed them to pay bills and push ahead with infrastructure upgrades using locally sourced labour and materials.

Rose Isle is a family run grazing operation near Louth in New South Wales. Garry and Samantha Mooring purchased the property from Garry’s parents in 1983 and now run sheep and cattle across the station while also regenerating close to 8,000ha of native vegetation.

Robin and Keryl Thorpe have run Lynwood, near Cobar in New South Wales, since 2006. The pair decided to partner with GreenCollar after attending a carbon farming seminar, appreciating that such projects would allow them to be kinder to the land while diversifying their income and reducing the need to rely so heavily on livestock.

Pauline and Barry Oliver now have three carbon projects across two properties. They are protecting and regenerating native forest in NSW, and have taken their learnings to a run-down property purchased more recently in WA.

Follow the Kulkyne Creek through NSW and you’ll eventually reach the northern block of Salt Lake Pastoral, a 38,358hectare a piece of land that the Barton family has leased since 1927. The Kulkyne is a valuable water source for the farm, but drought years have made it harder and harder to keep the land healthy and the vegetation resilient.

Located near Bourke in Western New South Wales, this project isn’t just regenerating native forest, it has also secured the future of the farm.