ActivACre

ActivAcre is a new local initiative in Northern Tasmania, created to reward progressive, ambitious farmers with guaranteed income for the next 25 years, improve exisitng farm business and enhance environmental outcomes.

This is future-focused land management - a way to reawaken dormant assets; to re-energise underutilised paddocks and hillsides.

The AcitivAcre approach is unique to each property, however has common benefits across every project, such as; providing additional income; creating shelter for primary production; increasing water efficiencies; reducing environmental impact; improving soil.

Green Triangle

SFM manage three core plantation forestry projects for three separate clients, totalling close to 27,000ha of land established with a mix of hardwood and softwood plantation species. The largest of these plantation assets is

Limestone Plantations, owned by New Forests, which makes up almost 25,000ha of the total area under management, located across Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia.

The remaining two assets are Portland Tree Farm Project (PTP), a joint venture between Mitsui and Nippon, and several hundred hectares of softwood plantations owned by Australian Softwood’s. Additionally, the SFM team have an ongoing harvesting and marketing program focused on servicing private landholders in SW Victoria and SE South Australia.

Lenah Estate

Lenah Estate is 27,150ha of plantation in the Derwent Valley. Owned by New Forest and under management by SFM it includes 50 joint venture projects with private landowners and Sustainable Timber Tasmania. The majority of the plantable hectares is radiata softwood pine plantations. Around 350,000 tonnes are harvested annually with the majority going to the nearby Norske Boyer Mill in Tasmania. For more detail about this project click here.