The EnviroVeg Program aims to support and improve environmental management on-farm. It is willing to assist vegetable producers who are looking to improve their long-term environmental sustainability.

In this article, Program Coordinator Danielle Park speaks to Tasmanian vegetable and potato producers and EnviroVeg members, Shane and Sharni Radford, about the value in collecting evidence of good environmental practice for vegetable producing businesses.

When completing their first EnviroVeg self-assessment, many aspects of Shane and Sharni’s vegetable production business was already achieving best management practice for environmental sustainability.

Two areas scored a little lower and were flagged as needing further investigation – energy and biosecurity.

The EnviroVeg Program 2017-2022 (VG16063) is a strategic levy investment under the Hort Innovation Vegetable Fund.

For vegetable growers looking to assess their current practices on-farm, the EnviroVeg program is one way of identifying opportunities for improvement, as well as benchmarking against others in the industry.