An additional new Landcare Co-ordinator has come to Mid Lachlan Landcare to help the
community of Cowra and its wider district with Landcare education and Landcare project
administration and management.

Amanda Foxon-Hill has a passion for plants, herbs, fungi and essential oils and brings skills in
small business management, teaching and Industrial Chemistry to her new coordinator role.
Amanda hails from the Blue Mountains but has been looking for the opportunity to spend
more time in the Woodstock-Wyangala region where she and her husband, Aubry own a
‘weekender’ land holding.

‘We have spent the past nine years undertaking conservation projects including weed
reduction and grassy-box woodland restoration on our block of land near Woodstock,’ she
said.

Foxon-Hill moved to Australia 19 years ago from Leicestershire in the United Kingdom. ‘We
both grew up among cattle farms and canola crops. We have found the Cowra-Woodstock
region to be very familiar to us and our upbringing.

‘When we immigrated to Australia, we were a family of five, with two young girls and a
father-in-law, looking for employment and education stability. The Blue Mountains gave us
this, but our children are now adults (one working in London and the other graduating as a
primary school teacher) and we are looking to focus on doing more of what we love, and
that means moving to our block in Woodstock,’ she said.

Existing Mid Lachlan Landcare Coordinator, Tracee Burke will be handing over some of her
tasks to Foxon-Hill. ‘We are pleased to find someone with the skills Amanda has to assist
with our activities,’ said Burke.