Renewing a pastoral landscape

By Stephen Burns
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:11pm, first published August 12 2018 - 3:00pm
Gillian Sanbrook: “I wanted to plant 25 percent of the property to trees, but now I intend to plant 30 percent and run cattle as the primary production income."
Gillian Sanbrook: “I wanted to plant 25 percent of the property to trees, but now I intend to plant 30 percent and run cattle as the primary production income."

During the past 10 years, Gillian Sanbrook has planted over 70,000 trees, fenced gullies and creeks and tripled the number of paddocks on the 950ha property “Bibbaringa”, near Bowna, she purchased in 2007, transforming it into a more ecologically diverse place while lifting productivity according to the seasons.

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