The Future of Local Food

11: Tom’s Paddock: Synergistic Increases To Productivity On Small Farms’, Tom Abbottsmith Youl


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Over three generations, the Abbott Smith family on Graceburn Farm has aimed to create a balance between conservation, primary production and life-style on their 130 hectare property situated in the Yea Valley. Our ecologically sustainable farming practices produce food products, which are appropriately integrated with the maintenance, improvement and conservation of our environment and biodiversity. This balance between agricultural land uses and ecological conservation is made possible with the use of high tech electric fencing, reticulated stock watering systems, land class fencing, native wildlife wetlands, stock exclusion areas and local EVC (ecological vegetation class) revegetation works.
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