Welcome to Tweed Landcare

Farmers are the original Landcarers Regenerative Agriculture Regenerative Agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services. Regenerative Agriculture aims to capture carbon in soil and aboveground biomass, reversing current global trends of atmospheric accumulation. At the same time, it offers increased yields, resilience …

The grassroots of Tweed Landcare are the hundreds of Care group volunteers undertaking bush regeneration (weed control) and planting native trees across the Tweed. There are more than 20 Care groups  working to restore approximately 200 hectares of bushland along creeks and rivers, wetlands, hill tops and coastal dunes. Most Care groups are restoring Council …

Tweed Landcare has received funding for a grazing management project that could have enormous benefits for local farmers, biodiversity as well as climate change mitigation. Increased soil biology, nutrient availability, water infiltration, drought proofing and reduced erosion are some of the benefits expected from the project.  Economic benefits to farmers are expected through increased carrying capacity for livestock, healthier livestock, improved …

An ecological community (EC) is a group of native plants, animals and other organisms that naturally occur together and interact in a unique habitat.

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