Farm forestry Gippsland: grant program 2024-2025
The Gippsland Farm Forestry grant program is now administered by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA).
For information on the current grant program please email: farmforestry@deeca.vic.gov.au
Program objectives
The program’s objectives are to support plantation growth on farms to expand and diversify Victoria’s timber resources, while generating other benefits such as:
- enhancing farm productivity
- diversifying income streams for landholders through the sale of timber and potentially carbon credits (or contribute to carbon offsets via other industry schemes)
- generating economic activity in regional communities.
As well as supporting the establishment of plantations in dedicated woodlots, the program encourages the integration of timber trees and agriculture in other ways, including within shelterbelts and in wide spaced plantings, preferably guided by the landholder’s whole farm plan. Designed in this way, a broad range of economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits can arise from incorporating timber trees into the farming landscape.
Grants for plantation establishment
Grants are now available for plantation establishment in 2024–2025. Successful applicants will be awarded around 50% of the typical establishment and early management costs to establish a farm forestry plantation on their land.
Please read the Gippsland Farm Forestry Program Guidelines 2024-2025. If you believe the program fits with your objectives, you can apply using the Gippsland Farm Forestry Sites Grant Application Form 2024-2025.
We require all the information outlined in the guidelines in order to assess your application.
The Gippsland Farm Forestry grant program is now administered by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA). For information on the current grant program please email: farmforestry@deeca.vic.gov.au