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Sometimes glimpsed through a small kitchen window, the chef whips up her own injera, using a combination of wheat and teff, the high-protein grain native to Ethiopia and also known as lovegrass.

Farmers damage their vehicles going down wombat burrows they can’t see because the lovegrass is so tall.

What started as casual conversation among a local plant ecologist, an agricultural officer and a farmers’ representative snowballed into a collaboration between a team of scientists and an engaged community of farmers that not only led to better lovegrass control, but demonstrated a new way to approach research on invasive species.

Some believed you could manage infestations of lovegrass and still be productive and profitable.

Others believed that once lovegrass began to take over a native pasture there was little choice but to convert it to a kikuyu-based pasture that resists lovegrass invasion.