NETWORK AREA

The Upper Barwon Landcare Network supports an area of more than 153,000 hectares in the mid and upper Barwon River catchments that occur upstream of Inverleigh into the northern foothills of the Otway Ranges. The network area covers major sections of both the Surf Coast Shire and Colac Otway Shire. The catchment varies in topography, soil type and vegetation and supports a diversity of rural activities and lifestyles. Farm enterprises include dairying, beef & sheep grazing, broad-acre cropping, intensive pig and poultry farming as well as potato and pasture seed production with several organic seasonal vegetable production and small scale market gardens emerging. Agroforestry is also well integrated on many properties that provides a “biological infrastructure’ for sustainable robust and resilient farms.