Price
Free
Event date and time
Wednesday 5 Nov 2025
9.00am to 3.00pm AEDT. The gate will be open from 8am and events will start promptly at 9am. Parking is available on-site, and we'll have staff helping to direct traffic and people in the parking area.
Location
9308 New England Highway
Armidale NSW
Come and join us at CSIRO's Chiswick Research Station for a special event!
CSIRO is a leader in agricultural innovation, supported by our research farms around Australia, including at Chiswick on Anaiwan Country, near Armidale in NSW.
The Sustainable Chiswick Project is making this livestock research farm a real-world testbed for agricultural sustainability. This project covers all aspects of sustainability, including environmental, social, and economic.
You're invited to our Chiswick site for a special project day where we will share our aspirations for this project and its activities.
The morning will feature an overview of the information we have collected to date for the Chiswick farm in natural capital baselining, animal welfare, biodiversity and soil monitoring. In the afternoon, there will be an opportunity, for those interested, to dive deeper into the natural capital and sustainable landscapes activities. We will reflect and explore with participants the next steps and opportunities for how we can drive solutions together.
This is an in-person only event being held at CSIRO's Chiswick livestock research farm, and registration is required.
Pricing
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Free
Dates and Times
Event date: Nov 2025
Wednesday 5 Nov 2025
9308 New England Highway
9.00am to 3.00pm AEDT. The gate will be open from 8am and events will start promptly at 9am. Parking is available on-site, and we'll have staff helping to direct traffic and people in the parking area.
Armidale NSW
Contact
More information
Dress: for the outdoors in an Armidale spring.
If you have any questions, please contact SustainableChiswick@csiro.au
Privacy statement
Your personal information is protected by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and CSIRO will handle your information in accordance with this Act.
Your personal information, including your name, organisation, role, email and phone number, is being collected by CSIRO for the purposes of facilitating your participation in the Sustainable Chiswick Project Day and related research.
CSIRO will use your personal information for future communications about related research and updates. If you do not wish CSIRO to hold your personal information for this purpose, please contact one of the research team using the details below.
For further information on how CSIRO handles your personal information and our access, correction and complaints process please read our privacy policy available on our website at https://www.csiro.au/en/about/Policies/Privacy or by contacting us at privacy@csiro.au.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the project or site leads.
Dr Sabrina Greenwood, Sustainable Chiswick Project Lead - sabrina.greenwood@csiro.au
Dr Mat Cook, Research Director and Chiswick Site Leader - mat.cook@csiro.au
Dr Sabine Schmoelzl, Group Leader - sabine.schmoelzl@csiro.au
Agenda
9am-12pm
Highlight and discuss current Sustainable Chiswick project activities, including:
- Sustainability frameworks and traceability
- Landscapes, natural capital and biodiversity
- Animal welfare benchmarking
- Sensors and data flows for on-farm decision-making
- Interactive session to focus on our 2-way learning
12pm-1pm
Lunch – you'll be our guest at an informal light lunch with plenty of opportunity for conversation and connection
1pm-3pm
Interested in natural capital and hearing more about sustainable landscapes for farm systems? If the answer is yes, then don’t forget to register for the afternoon workshop, where we'll focus on:
- What is a natural capital report?
- What are the options for natural capital interventions on-farm and what benefits could they bring?
- How Chiswick can help solve some of the challenges and questions surrounding sustainable landscapes?