Landcare In Focus - February 2013 Edition

1● ● ● ● C ENTRAL and northern Yorke Peninsula has long been considered a prime agricultural region. But a group of men with a passionate interest in regeneration have their sites set on a 303-hectare property called Millers Farm near Weetulta for very... More

1● ● ● ● C ENTRAL and northern Yorke Peninsula has long been considered a prime agricultural region. But a group of men with a passionate interest in regeneration have their sites set on a 303-hectare property called Millers Farm near Weetulta for very different reasons. Part of it is still leased for cropping, but the Gynburra Narungga Men’s Group (GNMG) wants to phase out farming altogether and turn the property into a cultural ‘eco-healing” sanctuary. Chairperson David Wilson says he and secretary Owen Karpany came up with the idea to establish a drugand alcohol-free native bush property in 2001-02. “If the land was a farm, and indeed this has been the case with the Millers property, then we envisioned re-vegetating it back to native status,” he said. “The reason we had this approach was to have a place where Narungga people could have access to land that resembles the country in which their ancestors lived on and a place that could facilitate healing “Hence our motto: ‘Heal th Less