Funding for rural landholders to build farm and landscape resilience
Find out how to apply for the ACT Rural Resilience Grants. This grant supports activities that reduce the impacts of drought, invasive weeds, pest animals and erosion.
ACT Rural Resilience Grants
This grant supports ACT rural landholders to address a range of land management challenges. This may include drought, invasive weeds, pest animals and erosion.
Funded activities will:
- build longer term farm and landscape resilience
- support sustainable and profitable farming
- improve the condition of natural resources across the ACT and region.
Who this is for
This grant is for individual farm households or groups of farmers.
What you get
Individual landholders can get a grant of up to $30,000 per farm.
Check if you can apply
You can apply if you're:
- a landholder
- a group of landholders.
You must have acquitted previous ACT Government grants.
What you can do
Your project can focus on one of 3 areas:
- Reduce the impact of drought and build farm enterprise and landscape resilience.
- Address invasive weeds and pest animals.
- Address erosion and reduce sedimentation of farm creeks, rivers, dams and wetlands.
Examples of activities include:
- infrastructure to improve fodder storage such as grain silos and hay sheds
- rotational grazing, pasture cropping and other grazing practices to increase pasture biomass, improve soil health and build soil carbon
- baiting and trapping equipment such as wire cages, traps, bait boxes and trail cameras
- fumigation of rabbit warrens
- stock exclusion fencing and planting of native trees and shrubs to protect erosion-prone hotspots
- materials to support soil conservation work (coir logs, rock and other materials).
You must finish your project within one year.
Past projects
You can find past grant recipients in our annual reports.
Find out about recently funded projects below.
2022-23
- Alternate stock water provision: dam, pump and fencing, Booth – $17,600
- Alternate stock water provision for drought resilience, Booth – $20,000
- Blackberry control, Paddys River – $10,000
- Blackberry eradication, Tuggeranong – $10,000
- Bore installation to improve stock water provision during drought, Tharwa – $20,000
- Construction of farm fencing, Stromlo – $20,000
- Fencing and stock water provision to introduce regenerative farming practices, Paddys River – $16,524
- Hayshed and trough stock water catchment system, Tharwa – $19,000
- Solar pumping for stock water for drought resilience, Symonston – $10,000
- Installation large water tank, pipes and troughs for stock water supply, Tharwa – $20,000
- Reedy Creek erosion control work on tributary of Molonglo River, Majura – $24,386
- Refurbish and gutter an old shed to make fit for improved fodder and rainfall storage, Tuggeranong – $20,000
- Regenerative farming water supplies to improve stock and land management, Tuggeranong – $10,000
- Stock water tank installation for drought proofing, Paddys River – $16,000
- Water security through paddock subdivision and stock water supply, Tennent – $16,000
- Water transfer project for drought resilience, Paddys River – $4,314
- Weed and rabbit control to protect and enhance box gum woodland, Symonston – $7,580
- Weed control adjacent to nature reserves, Hume – $9,813
- Weed control along riparian areas to protect biodiversity, Tharwa – $9,978
- Weed eradication along 2 river corridors, Paddys River – $6,009
2020-21
- African Lovegrass, Blackberry and Scotch Thistle, Paddy's River – $10,000
- African Lovegrass and Blackberry, Tharwa – $9,520
- African Lovegrass and Briar Rose, Top Naas – $4,800
- African Lovegrass, Naas – $10,000
- African Lovegrass and Patterson’s Curse, Paddy's River – $9,940
- Blackberry, African Lovegrass and Briar, Paddy’s River – $10,000
- Blackberry, Saffron Thistle and Hawthorn, Tharwa – $10,000
- Blackberry and Sweet Briar, Coree – $6,750
- Hawthorn, Briar and St Johns Wort, Tennent – $5,000
- Patterson’s Curse, Blackberry and African Lovegrass, Kambah – $8,800
- Pigs, Deer, Wild Dogs and St Johns Wort, Uriarra – $10,000
- Rabbits and Blackberry, Pialligo – $2,200
- Rabbits, Majura Valley – $5,400
- Saffron Thistle and Scotch Thistle, Kenny – $1,700
- Saffron Thistle, Scotch Thistle and Serrated Tussock, Holt – $7,600
- Saffron Thistle, Symonston – $1,200
- Serrated Tussock and African Lovegrass, Hume – $8,000
- Serrated Tussock and Broad-leafed Weeds, Symonston – $10,000
- Serrated Tussock, Blackberry and Briars, Tharwa – $7,500
- Serrated Tussock and Saffron Thistle, Majura Valley – $8,000
- Serrated Tussock, Verbascum and Scotch Thistle, Naas – $2,800
- St John’s Wort and African Lovegrass, Majura Valley – $3,400
- Sweet Briar and Blackberry, Naas – $10,000
- Sweet Briar and Blackberry, Lanyon – $10,000
- Sweet Briar, Blackberry and Hawthorn, Tharwa – $9,920
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ACT Natural Resource Management
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Email
actlandcare@act.gov.au