To be a land owner comes with great responsibility.
Over 50% of Australia’s land mass is in private hands and what each of us choose to do has consequences well beyond our own gates.
We must find ways to share both the responsibility and the rewards.
Yambulla’s ambition is that by exploring ways to share Country we will develop productive, equitable and sustainable new models that other landowners will feel inspired to adopt.
You can be a part of this. Visit Yambulla. Support us. Learn. And help make change.
NATIVE FOODS
We're sharing Country with Indigenous social enterprise Black Duck Foods. Working together to optimise this land for growing and harvesting native foods in ways that heals Country and respects Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property.
REGENERATIVE FORESTRY
With sustainable forestry experts Wood4Good we are developing a 650ha sustainable, Culturally-sensitive and habitat-creating native plantation that will produce both medium and long term shared revenue through the harvesting of a range of timber products, Native Foods and botanicals.
THE YAMBULLA LODGE
Our Lodge Stay experience is a way for us to share Country with more people. Visit Yambulla, learn about what we do, meet the people involved and support our work.
Revenue from The Yambulla Lodge is vital for supporting the work of The Yambulla Project.
A quiet Spring has meant we have had some time to catch up on our wildlife camera data. It's been a massive task as we have captured over 300,000 photographs in the last 2 years. These images needed to be reviewed, #tagged, filed and stored.
This winter we worked to replicate the conditions that we experienced after the 2020 Black Summer bushfires. That terrifying event was informative as it rejuvenated the Yambulla native grasslands leading us to a new partnership and a new native grain industry.
We are developing a new program that pairs Indigenous and non-indigenous people to walk together, to share old and new ideas. And to collaboratively find pathways to make this Country the best it can be.
Our main tenant will vacate Yambulla this month, having finished harvesting the 320,000 trees they planted 17 years ago. This ends a relationship that began in 2007 when 650 hectares of Yambulla was leased and planted to down to Shining Gum (Eucalyptus nitens), to be used for photocopy paper.
After many years of trialling different methods of blackberry control we now have an eight year operations process for converting a landscape infested with blackberry to one that is relatively blackberry free. Using data we have collected over a 20 year period, we can now schedule, budget and assess control works.
Last year we realised an opportunity to invite an important Aboriginal Lore group to be co-custodians at Yambulla. We cemented the relationship in December by gifting them one of our favourite pieces of Yambulla. The gift parcel sits beside our most important waterhole where sits an important ‘Mother Tree’ and has a separate access road, keeping it very private. We couldn't be happier to have this group as our neighbour, giving us Cultural guidance.
A quiet Spring has meant we have had some time to catch up on our wildlife camera data. It's been a massive task as we have captured over 300,000 photographs in the last 2 years. These images needed to be reviewed, #tagged, filed and stored.
This winter we worked to replicate the conditions that we experienced after the 2020 Black Summer bushfires. That terrifying event was informative as it rejuvenated the Yambulla native grasslands leading us to a new partnership and a new native grain industry.
We are developing a new program that pairs Indigenous and non-indigenous people to walk together, to share old and new ideas. And to collaboratively find pathways to make this Country the best it can be.
Our main tenant will vacate Yambulla this month, having finished harvesting the 320,000 trees they planted 17 years ago. This ends a relationship that began in 2007 when 650 hectares of Yambulla was leased and planted to down to Shining Gum (Eucalyptus nitens), to be used for photocopy paper.
After many years of trialling different methods of blackberry control we now have an eight year operations process for converting a landscape infested with blackberry to one that is relatively blackberry free. Using data we have collected over a 20 year period, we can now schedule, budget and assess control works.
Last year we realised an opportunity to invite an important Aboriginal Lore group to be co-custodians at Yambulla. We cemented the relationship in December by gifting them one of our favourite pieces of Yambulla. The gift parcel sits beside our most important waterhole where sits an important ‘Mother Tree’ and has a separate access road, keeping it very private. We couldn't be happier to have this group as our neighbour, giving us Cultural guidance.
Yambulla is grateful for the collaboration and support of a range of partner organisations.
Contact us if you are interested in becoming a Yambulla Partner.
We acknowledge First Nations People as the original inhabitants and traditional custodians of the Yambulla valley and surrounding areas.
We recognise and value their continuing connection to the land and culture.
