The Girgarre Project, southeast of Echuca, is located across multiple properties on the lower Goulburn Valley of the northern Victorian Riverine Plain. The area is known for its indistinct drainage and ephemeral wetlands, with occasional sandier lunette rises emerging from the floodplain. Being a soldier settlement area opened up a century ago, landholdings were tight and largely cleared of their woodland vegetation communities. More than 90% of the farmland has been directly impacted by historical irrigation, with vegetation, soils and natural water assets all being highly modified.
Kilter Rural is striving to achieve as much as  30 per cent of the Girgarre farmland project ecologically restored by employing a range of active and passive management techniques, to improve both the extent and quality of native vegetation. This is integrated with regenerative agricultural practices being deployed on redesigned and irrigated cropland.     
As part of this project, Kilter Rural hopes to:

• support clear and credible reporting to our farmland investors on the condition of the natural assets that Kilter managers on their behalf;

• track the paddock-level condition of these natural assets in order to understand, review and refine farm management activities;

• provide a quantitative condition improvement metric that will enable participation in evolving ecosystem service markets that reward the public benefits of private land stewardship; and

• by example, help facilitate the efforts of other land managers that wish to participate in the regeneration of Australia’s highly modified semi-arid agricultural landscapes.