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Cobram Estate Olives

The carbon farming future looks bright for Cobram Estate Olives as they utilise CFF’s DIY Model to undergo an environmental planting project.

Project Location

Boundary Bend, Victoria

Tree planting area

0

Hectares

Permanence Period

0

Years

About the Project

Cobram Estate is working with CFF to plant around 200 hectares of mallee eucalypt and mixed native trees on their Boundary Bend property in Victoria.

 

Cobram Estate Olives have made sustainability a core component of their farming operations. This 200 hectares of tree planting will serve as their first foray into carbon farming, and Cobram Estate intends to roll out more carbon projects across their properties in the coming years.

 

With two passionate Aussie farmers at the helm of Cobram Estate, this project was an exciting opportunity for us to join forces with Cobram Estate and blaze the carbon farming trail with a farmer-led environmental planting project.

We were able to capitalise on the Cobram Estate’s local knowledge of site preparation and experience in tree planting to set this project up for success.

Aims

  • Planting native trees is closely aligned with our core business operation of growing olive trees, which already enables us to store carbon … The carbon sequestered from planting these trees across the 200a hectares will go towards further strengthening our carbon position.

    Leandro Ravetti CEO,
    Cobram Estate Olives

Lessons Learned So Far

To help clarify the process for the Cobram Estate Team, the CFF provided resources and guides to break down the specific steps involved in an environmental planting project. With these resources on hand, alongside their existing farm knowledge, the Cobram Estate team could confidently self-manage certain stages of the project and lower the project costs.

This project exclusively uses mixed natives and mallee eucalypt species planted in strategic locations across the property to mirror some of the existing vegetation found on the landscape.  

 

With the local farmer’s knowledge to assist us, CFF assisted with the strategic planning of this project, including:

  • Breaking down the project opportunity and financial returns in a feasibility report.
  • Registering their project with the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) under the Reforestation by Environmental or Mallee Plantings FullCAM Method (2014).
  • Developing and distributing our resources and guides to help Cobram Estate choose the designated planting areas which generated the best carbon yields and ensured high survival rates.
  • Producing a detailed work plan with all the activities to be planned from the start of the project up until the planting.

What's Next?

The Cobram Estate Olives team will be completing their first offset report in 2027.

Project details

Number of properties

1

Planting configuration

Biodiverse direct seeding only, block plantings

How we helped

Feasibility, FullCAM carbon yield modelling, project registration, planting plans, coordination support and compliance oversight.

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