Victorian Trees on Farms Program

The Victorian Trees on Farms Program (VToF) provides grant to rural landowners seeking to integrate trees into their land.

The program acknowledges the differing motivations of landowners and is therefore flexible in its approach to species selection and spatial arrangement.

VToF encourages the management of trees for timber production but also allows for integration of environmental plantings to provide shade, shelter and other on-farm benefits.

Round 1 of the Victorian Trees on Farms Program is open until 30 June 2026.

Eligible projects

VToF projects must be designed to support and contribute to a landowner’s farming enterprise. Projects are required to be designed to focus on one of the following approaches:

• farm forestry plantings for timber production using species which have known timber qualities,
• integrated environmental plantings that use a mix of native species consistent with the local Ecological Vegetation Class and can provide co-benefits to the surrounding agricultural system.

Applicants can choose to incorporate both farm forestry plantings and integrated environmental plantings across different blocks within the one project.

Farm forestry plantings must be at least 3 hectares in size and be established in areas that receive at least 500mm rainfall annually. Integrated environmental plantings must be a minimum of 5 hectares.

Integrated environmental plantings must be at least 5 hectares in size and should be able to achieve carbon sequestration of at least 5 tCO2 e per hectare per year over 25 years.