Healthy Hectares is a program of workshops, field days, and webinars targeted to small rural property owners in North East Victoria, to build capacity to apply best practice land management principles to their land.
The program adapts the Healthy Hectares program developed by Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority and Euroa Arboretum to the North East region and includes information on Property Planning, Biodiversity, Soils, Water, Pastures, Livestock, Pests; plants and animals, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Burning, and Emergency Preparedness.
Program resources
Read on to view content delivered as part of the Healthy Hectares North East program as well as from other organisations and sources.
Healthy Hectares booklet
A guide for small landholders to create productive and environmentally sustainable properties in North East Victoria.
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Topic information and resources
Each topic is a clickable link (in the list above and the details below) that will open a resources list in PDF.
The PDFs contain links to further information and video resources.
Property planning
- Whole farm planning information & checklist
- Planning considerations
- Land Classes
- Natural Assets
- Safety
- Property Identification Code
- Videos
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Biodiversity & Wildlife
- Websites
- Books
- Databases and guides
- Videos
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Pests – Plants and Animals
- Websites
- Videos
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Soils
- Ag Vic & NSW websites on Soils information
- Soil Sampling
- Regenerative Farming
- Erosion
- Interactive map on soil quality by location
- VIC DPI Practical notes
- Videos
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Pastures
- Evergraze – Perennial Pastures
- Ag Vic
- AIMS – Agricultural Information and Monitoring Services
- Pastures and Grass ID
- Video
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Water
- Websites
- Water for production
- Water management
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Livestock
- Feeding Livestock
- National Livestock Identification System (NLIS)
- Videos
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Emergency management / planning
- Ag Vic – emergency management
- Bushfire
- Drought
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Other useful resources
NSW Local Land Services – ‘Every Bit Counts’ project
Supports small landholders to improve their land, production capacity, and environment. The website covers extensive topics useful to small properties including; rural property ownership, farm safety, livestock and poultry, water (production), water (environment), weeds, soil and groundcover, aboriginal cultural heritage, pest animals, preparing for emergencies, horticulture and wildlife.
lls.nsw.gov.au/what-we-do/our-major-projects/every-bit-counts