Healthy soils, diverse feed and grain: resilience in practice at Bellevue Dorpers

Join Soils for Life and Macintyre Ag Alliance at Bellevue Dorpers for a hands-on day exploring how diversity across livestock, grain and pastures can drive soil health, drought resilience and productivity.

David and Robbie Curtis, alongside their daughter and farm manager Sophie, will take us inside their regenerative organic farming system: a working Dorper stud that integrates multispecies pastures and organic cropping.

We’ll walk the paddocks, examine diverse pasture mixes and hear how the Curtis family manage seasonal feed gaps, maintain groundcover and build a resilient farm business in their local context.

What to expect

• A guided farm walk through multispecies pastures
• Insights into pasture establishment, rotation and finishing lambs
• Practical soil health strategies in a mixed farming system
• Reflections on decades of commitment to native biodiversity
• Direct marketing and enterprise stacking for resilience
• An open discussion on what’s working, what’s not – share ideas, challenges and take-home insights

Lunch and morning tea will be provided.