“It’s extraordinary that for so many years and decades we have been misguided on what the land once looked like, so it has been challenging to get back to that point, or near to it, in any way,” says Tim Hill, the live-in manager of Tiverton, an 800-hectare Merino sheep farm in the Western District of Victoria. Co-owned by Harry Youngman, whose company Tiverton Ag manages close to 13,000 hectares of arable land in the state, and Nigel Sharp, who also runs the Mt Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre, the team behind Tiverton measure their economic goals against environmental ones with the intention of not only minimising environmental impact, but improving the land quality for the future, inspired by some of the learnings in Gammage’s research.