Angus Cooke is a member of the Southern Brook Landcare Group and found out about Wheatbelt NRM funding for projects aimed at preventing wind erosion through the group’s coordinator at the time.

‘Lynburn’ is a family-run property northeast of Wongan Hills. Colin Lane and his parents Ross and Robin knew of an area on the farm that would benefit from revegetation. The Lane’s found that groundcover and climatic conditions had a significant effect on the survival rates of the seedlings.

Peter Dickinson’s family farm ‘Stoneley’ is situated about 12km directly east of Corrigin.

The Corrigin Farm Improvement Group lead a revegetation project involving three neighbouring farmers in the Corrigin shire in 2010. This project was funded by the Wheatbelt NRM Soil Conservation Incentives Program. The Larke, Hewett and Guinness families all had previous experience planting trees, but had more areas on their farm that needed revegetating.

Corrigin farmer, Dave Crossland, was invited to take part in a project to trial new legumes.

Four Corrigin farming families planted trees on degraded areas of their farms.

The north-eastern Wheatbelt is characterised by vulnerable soils such as Wodjil sands, which can sometimes result in wind erosion.

Water repellency is a common problem many farmers face this problem across some proportion of their farms.

Barry and Beverley Harrap of Koorda had been awaiting an opportunity to assist them in implementing their farm revegetation plans.

Situated low within the landscape of the Corrigin shire is Wilcurra farm.

As a young child Maria lived in the Doodlakine area on the ‘Nambling Brook’ property, owned by an extended family member.

Situated between Cunderdin, Merredin and Corrigin sit a small town called Ardath.

The Bodallin Catchment Group was formed to bring farmers within the Yilgarn region together to discuss and trial areas of interest.

Reece Boyne comes from a long line of farmers. In recent years the Boyne’s had seen some of the cropping paddocks being battered by the elements. They knew that replanting trees would be necessary to provide protection from further erosion.

Third generation Quairading farmers Bill and Richard Walker have been trying to improve Yacklin Farm’s soils since they took over the family farm 20 years ago.

In May 2012 the Lego’s organised a bus tour to encapsulate all the revegetation projects in the area.

The Pearse’s project stemmed from a conversation with their local nursery manager, discussing revegetation options and potential grants

Avondale, near Beverley, embarked on this project when the Sandalwood Network was looking for a paddock to get a project going. They wanted to see how a system worked together hosts and sandalwood growing in belts with pastures in the alleys.

Large areas of the south west agricultural region, particularly coastal regions and the north-eastern Wheatbelt, are potentially at risk of wind erosion. The incorporation of perennials into these farming systems plays a large role in the stabilisation of fragile soils.

This booklet is designed to help farmer groups, natural resource management (NRM) or catchment groups, individual farmers and advisers to see the benefits of incorporating forage shrubs into mixed farming systems, particularly, but not exclusively, for areas where other perennial plant options are limited.