Sustainable Farm Families

Sustainable Farm Families project undertakes educational programs and physical assessments of farmers and their families throughout Australia.

To see where our particpants have come from please click on the links to the left.

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Victorian SFF participant Newsletter
A $2.4 million State Government grant will help to position Victoria as a national leader on farmer health and well-being by establishing a National Centre for Farmer Health in Hamilton. In addition to $2.4 million in Government funding over four years the centre will receive a $1 million contribution from the Helen and Geoff Handbury Trust...more>
Extension to Sustainable Farm Families to support the physical and mental wellbeing of farmers and their families. The funding will be used to run workshop that focus on practical steps to improve the lives of farm families , targeting 500 farmers in areas undergoing significant change…… more>
New Reports Released:
- Living Longer on the Land - Sustainable Farm Families in Broadacre Agriculture “The farm isn’t the paddocks and the crops and the machinery, the farm is you. And without you, the farm isn’t worth anything.” by Susan Brumby, Professor Bruce Wilson, Stuart Willder May 2008 [RIRDC Publication No 08/048 RIRDC Project No WDH-1A]
- Living Longer on the Land - Case studies of the Sustainable Farm Families Program in the Sugar and Cotton industries by Susan Brumby, Professor John Martin, Stuart Willder May 2008 [ RIRDC Publication No 08/049 RIRDC Project No WDH-2J]

Broadacre

Cotton