Southern New England Landcare boasts six local landholders who have been trained in Peer Mentoring for Agroforestry type projects. If you or someone you know would like to find out how to go about an agroforestry project on some land in the Southern New England region, we are happy to set you up in the process. Here's how it works:

1. Make contact with us and tell us a bit about what you think you would like to do. It might be some kind of food tree production, native trees and shrubs, shelter belts or any other agroforestry idea.
2. We then make contact with those of our peer mentors who who have skills in the area of your interest, and set up an appropriate time for 2-3 of them to visit you on your property.
3. The mentors spend 2-3 hours with you on your property, taking a look around and asking you lots of questions and discussing ideas and taking some photos.
4. The lead mentor will then prepare a site visit report for you (approx 12 pages), detailing everything discussed, including possible ways forward, with useful links, contacts and even species lists.
5. You then have access to another 2 vists from your chosen mentor over the next 12 months to support you in your endeavours.

The cost of the program is $150 plus GST. Please contact our office by email or phone 02 6772 9123.