Pasture Management Workshops – Gippsland Vic

November was a busy month with having the Horse Keeping Conference and Equitana booked in. After the Equitana I spend one more week in Victoria to host 3 workshops on pasture management in the Gippsland region. I was very lucky with the weather – mostly dry and even sunny! I think we had only one morning of rain during the Equitana!

The workshops at Korrumburra, Bairnsdale/Stratford and Orbost were well attended. Approximately  75-80 horse and land owners or agistees came along to the workshop – even on a very nice sunny Spring weekend day!

The workshop was an introduction to regenerative pasture management for horse properties. We discussed a number of topics including the current challenges we are facing with horse and land management, vision & planning, horse nutrition, behaviour, digestive and metabolic disorders, pasture for horses, grass species, plant physiology, soil development, ecosystem management, tools how to manage ecosystems, sacrifice areas and slow feeding systems. Lots of stuff to think about afterwards!

This workshop will be followed by another workshop that focuses specifically on land/property planning for horse properties. So keep an eye out for the program in 2013 in Victoria (Gippsland, Yarra Valley ) and South Australia (Mount Barker).

More intro workshops are planned in the new year in QLD, Victoria & South Australia! Keep checking our website, facebook page or your local landcare/catchment organisation.

Can’t find horse & land workshops in your region? If you are interested in these workshops – contact your local landcare/catchment organisation to send out an expression of interest for equine specific workshops!

I want to thank the South East Gippsland Landcare Network and Far East Gippsland Landcare Network for hosting the workshops. They organised good facilities and  food for the participants!