Dr Leanne Ussher
Dr. Leanne Ussher is the Economist at GrowGood, an open-source initiative building digital public infrastructure for regenerative agriculture, land stewardship, and local food economies.
Organizations (3)
Nambucca Valley Landcare (NVL) is a non-profit volunteer-led organisation that delivers education, ecological restoration and on-ground projects that strengthen both environmental and community wellbeing. Its work spans riparian revegetation along the Nambucca River and tributaries, landscape rehydration initiatives, koala corridor restoration, biodiversity conservation, soil health workshops, and community education programs. Through these projects, NVL helps reconnect fragmented habitats, improve water quality, reduce erosion, enhance farm resilience, and foster a shared culture of stewardship across the catchment. The organisation's long-term vision is a healthy, connected and productive landscape where thriving ecosystems, resilient farms and vibrant communities support one another from the river's headwaters to the sea.
Nambucca Valley Landcare (NVL) is a non-profit volunteer-led organisation that delivers education, ecological restoration and on-ground projects that strengthen both environmental and community wellbeing. Its work spans riparian revegetation along the Nambucca River and tributaries, landscape rehydration initiatives, koala corridor restoration, biodiversity conservation, soil health workshops, and community education programs. Through these projects, NVL helps reconnect fragmented habitats, improve water quality, reduce erosion, enhance farm resilience, and foster a shared culture of stewardship across the catchment. The organisation's long-term vision is a healthy, connected and productive landscape where thriving ecosystems, resilient farms and vibrant communities support one another from the river's headwaters to the sea.
Growing Data Foundation brings together volunteers, researchers, and technologists to build sustainable open-source tools and platforms addressing environmental and community challenges, with work spanning environmental monitoring, citizen science, IoT sensor networks, and open data advocacy across South Australia and beyond. The organization partners with the Australian Landscape Trust to apply open data and IoT monitoring to large-scale ecological restoration in the Murray-Darling Basin. GDF operates a fellowship program pairing skilled digital practitioners with community organisations to build local capacity in open data, IoT and digital tools.
Growing Data Foundation brings together volunteers, researchers, and technologists to build sustainable open-source tools and platforms addressing environmental and community challenges, with work spanning environmental monitoring, citizen science, IoT sensor networks, and open data advocacy across South Australia and beyond. The organization partners with the Australian Landscape Trust to apply open data and IoT monitoring to large-scale ecological restoration in the Murray-Darling Basin. GDF operates a fellowship program pairing skilled digital practitioners with community organisations to build local capacity in open data, IoT and digital tools.
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.
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.