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Reducing carbon emissions no puzzle on Jigsaw Farms

<p>Given that Mark Wootton is founder and chair of The Climate Institute, it is not surprising that he believes the impacts of Australian agriculture on climate change need to be slowed down. But the fact that he and his wife Eve Kantor have spent the past two decades doing just that by running a productive and profitable low-emissions farming enterprise in western Victoria makes his message compelling, writes Jill Griffiths.</p>

Jessica Strauss
Reducing carbon emissions no puzzle on Jigsaw Farms

  Mark and Eve run Jigsaw Farms, which covers 6800 hectares in western Victoria. Originally school teachers, in 1996 Mark and Eve took on a farm that had been part of the Potter Farmland Plan. As part...

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