Supporting farmers to grow productive and profitable agroecosytems, from the ground up.
Community and landscape care
Community and landscape care
Tenderground is run by Courtney Young, a farmer and agroecologist based in North East Victoria. Courtney offers coaching and educational workshops to support farmers to build healthy agroecosystems that are productive and profitable. She is particularly interested in soil and plant health analysis, farm business strategy, and marketing.
Courtney is a CREATE certified coach through Integrity Soils, and she has completed holistic management training and postgraduate agricultural science studies at Melbourne University. She has 10 years of experience working with farmers to support landscape regeneration.
Education and Extension
Courtney and her team are skilled soil health educators, passionate about supporting farmers to build their landscape literacy and diagnostic skills for better decision making. Courtney’s approach to extension is grounded in action learning principles and peer to peer knowledge sharing.
Consulting and Coaching
Through soil and plant health monitoring and coaching, Courtney supports farmers to understand their landscape health and develop a comprehensive action plan to meet their production and profitability goals.
Past Projects
A Grazing Property in Transition: North East Victoria
A 49-hectare cattle property in north-east Victoria with good bones and real ambition. This new-to-farming couple came to Tenderground wanting to grow more grass, raise healthier cattle, and build a farm that could handle whatever the climate throws at it. Here's what the soil told us, and what we're doing about it.
A 390-hectare sheep grazing property in central Victoria, run by a couple with five years of holistic planned grazing already under their belts. The grazing management was genuinely impressive, but soil constraints and a lack of plant diversity was holding them back. Here's what we discovered and the action plan we developed.
Taking a regenerative grazing operation to the next step: Central Victoria
The clients had groundcover, good intentions and a clear set of values. Tenderground coaching helped them develop a clear picture of what was happening below the surface, and a plan that connected soil, pasture and vine health to the outcomes they were after.