Landcare and internet platform Pozible have formed a crowdfunding partnership for farmers.
Marketing manager at Landcare NSW Jenny Quealy said 25 farming projects will be chosen next month during Landcare Week, ABC Rural reports.
“Landcare has just recently received 100 expressions of interest, ranging from fish hatcheries, to fish ladders, saving endangered species, to planting trees in bushfire affected areas … or even new sheds,” she said.
“We often don’t think of farming as a creative pursuit, but it is.
“It’s about time that farmers, graziers and producers got involved, putting out their ideas and seeing if they can get some funding from the world.”
Quealy says those who have big ideas they’d like to have crowdfunded don’t need to be tech-savvy.
“The tech side of it has been done for you,” she says, “because the platform sets that up. It's very simple to go to the website where the Landcare and Environment Collection is and there you can find a very simple form where you can start a project.”