Lynn Foster

Nambucca Valley Landcare is a non-profit community organisation that supports and encourages landholders to manage their natural resources sustainably and productively. The organization provides support for landholders undertaking natural resources management in the Nambucca River catchment with a particular focus on restoring the Nambucca River and tributaries. The organisation is passionately run by volunteers committed to local environmental projects, including habitat restoration initiatives such as improving koala habitat across the Nambucca Valley through projects funded by the Australian Government.

GrowGood is an international open-source initiative building digital public infrastructure for land stewards, regenerative agriculture, and local food economies. With a transparent ‘web of life’ approach to farming, communities can track if current practices are improving or degrading ecosystem they depend on. Built on open standards like Valueflows and JSON-LD, GrowGood makes digital ecological and economic data meaningful, actionable and transferable, with holistic accounting of living and nonliving resources, plus other socio-ecological externalities that market valuations ignore. It offers verifiable traceability through an immutable stock-flow consistent audit trail, crucial for proving sustainability claims. It is Interoperability by default as it links to other JSON-LD schemas by design. Plus, ecologicial agents can have ‘rights of nature’ programmed into the software. GrowGood helps communities coordinate trusted ecological knowledge without relying on proprietary data silos.