The Aboriginal Carbon Farming - Fixing Our Country program is aimed at providing training, education and skills to enable indigenous landholders take up the Federal Government’s $22m Indig-enous Carbon Farming Fund challenge.

Greening Australia senior vegetation consultant Mick Durant said about 10 participants from Murray Bridge, Mannum and the Sugar Shack farming property completed training and on-field work.

The training will help communities understand climate change and the new carbon market, with practical workshops including soil type identification, seed collection and planting for a viable biodiverse carbon sink.

Greening Australia, in partnership with Canopy and the Aboriginal Foundation of South Australia, ran the three-day workshop, which will conclude on Wednesday.

Mr Durant said the group also learnt how to create carbon credits and assess a property for its viability as a carbon sink.

“We’ve been really happy, they’ve (participants) really taken it on board and are quite interested in the idea,” he said.

Mr Durant said five more training workshops would be held over the coming months, including one at Murray Bridge at the end of February and another at Raukkan later in the year.

- Details: For more information on the program contact Greening Australia SA on 8372 0100.