Saturation point: Australia’s best known carbon-neutral farm can no longer offset its emissions

Mark Wootten and Eve Kantor on their Hensley Park property, Jigsaw Farms. Photograph: Nicole Cleary/The Guardian

Mark Wootton and his wife, Eve Kantor, were the carbon-neutral pioneers of Australia’s red meat industry.

Years before the Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C, and a decade before the Australian government committed to reaching net zero emissions, their family farm in south-western Victoria was declared carbon-neutral.