Meet impressive young landcarer Monty House. He’s a 24-year-old WA sheep and grain farmer with a wonderful story of growing up with a love of farming and a commitment to landcare. He was recently elected chair of the Gillamii Centre, supporting landcare across much of the Cranbrook and Broomehill-Tambellup Shires, and is on the WA Landcare Network’s management committee. Here’s Monty reflecting on issues like soil health and salinity: “These are the sort of problems that I’m interested in, that I’d like to solve, and certainly I do spend an awful lot of time thinking about them.”
His thoughts about paddock-tree loss, due to the expansion of cropping, are sobering. Many people feel distressed seeing the piles of bulldozed trees so it’s good to have this issue discussed openly. Monty’s story, drawn from an interview with Gondwana Link, is in this month’s Southerly Magazine and on our Heartland Journeys website here.