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Dirty Clean Food

The CFF has joined forces with Wide Open Agriculture to bring carbon farming opportunities to WOA’s Dirty Clean Food supply chain members.

Project Location

Various, Western Australia

Project area

0
Hectares

Permanence Period

0

Years

About the Project

Wide Open Agriculture (WOA) is trailblazing the Australian agriculture industry within their extensive supply chain of regenerative farming members.

 

Five farms are collaborating on an aggregated project with a combined area of 197ha. The project consists of farms across the wider Wheatbelt region, and provides a fantastic example of how to deliver an aggregated DIY environmental planting project.

Aims

As a certified carbon neutral business, WOA was looking to extend their engagement with the farmers that supply Dirty Clean Food (DCF) by purchasing carbon credits directly from them to offset their emissions and enhance the financial resilience of their farmers.

 

The Carbon Farming Foundation (CFF) undertook an extensive feasibility study to show how carbon farming could profit both WOA’s supply chain members and WOA’s own carbon neutrality.

Lessons Learned so Far

Warren Pensini, of Blackwood Valley Beef, is the first DCF member to be registered under the ACCU Scheme for a reforestation project. 

  • The initial proposal was to do a 200-hectare tree carbon project, and we put our hand up and said, we’ve got 40 hectares, let’s kick it off with that!

    Warren Pensini

Warren’s carbon project will provide his farming business an additional income stream, add credibility to his already established regenerative beef operation, and supports their carbon neutral aspirations.

  • We will view the majority of the carbon credits as superannuation, we’re not intending to trade them at this point. Most of those credits we will just bank and they’ll be there for our kids. The CFF has been really supportive around getting the project up and running. We’ve done it as a low-cost model, which was attractive obviously from our perspective, as the fees weren’t too high, especially with the support of Wide Open Agriculture.

Tree planting along the laneway at Warren’s Boyup Brook property.

The CFF provided a tailored feasibility report and accompanying heatmaps, outlining recommendations that would help Warren and WOA establish the project to achieve maximum success.

The CFF provided ongoing technical support throughout project registration with the CER, as well as additional connections to funding opportunities and a network of vetted sub-contractors. This is all part of our Fee-For-Service Model, where clients can opt for a low-cost service model or a full-service agreement.

  • The process is not simple in terms of putting a proposal into the CER. To be honest, I would’ve struggled to do it on my own, so yeah, their support’s been invaluable in terms of getting that over the line.
  • With the majority of suppliers in the carbon farming field at the moment, they can be taking up to 30 – 40% of the ACCUs. I just don’t think it’s viable for the majority of farmers, particularly if they’re also paying for all their establishment and upfront costs. So yeah, absolutely [this model] made it a lot more attractive to get on board with a carbon project.

Project details

Number of properties

5

Planting configuration

A combination of biodiverse blocks and belt plantings. The planting design took into consideration key principles for landscape re-hydration.

How we helped

Feasibility, project mapping, aggregation advice, FullCAM carbon yield modelling, project registration and project variations to add more properties, compliance oversight, planting coordination.

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