The Limestone Coast Landscape Board’s Grassroots Grants recipients have been decided.

The successful applications come after Minister for Environment and Water David Speirs first announced the grants program for all landscape boards in July.

“Landscape SA is about building partnerships, rolling up our sleeves and working together to support our landscapes to thrive, leading to healthy and resilient communities, prosperous businesses and flourishing ecosystems,” he said.

“The Grassroots Grants Program is an important element of the Landscape SA reform agenda and will result in $2m in funding being provided across the state, ensuring there are more funding opportunities for communities dedicated to working in our landscape regions.

“It’s all about a back-to-basics approach and giving local communities a greater say in how we manage our natural environment,” Mr Speirs said.

Limestone Coast Landscape Board Chair Dr Kerry DeGaris said the diversity of projects really demonstrated how much work there was to do to improve the landscape.

“We finally settled on funding 16 projects that supported managing the Limestone Coast landscape,” she said.

“These projects will really make a difference to some challenging issues.

The selected projects are geographically spread across the region and cover topics that organisations in the community have identified as important pieces of work towards biodiversity, water availability or quality, soil management or pest control in their local community and we believe are very good value for levy funding.”

Among the successful applicants was MacKillop Farm Management Group. “Maintaining healthy soils in a grazing system is a delicate balance and this project will identify the most cost-effective method for doing so in the Wattle Range Council area, whilst also increasing the knowledge and skills of the agricultural community,” CEO Meg Bell said.

The full list of Limestone Coast Grassroots Grants recipients is available at landscape.sa.gov.au/lc