Mid Lachlan Landcare
supporting sustainable agriculture and restoring the environment
Category: Connecting Community
Healthy Rivers: The Murray Darling Basin Authority’s Consultation & Submission Process.
The Murray Darling Basin Authority is currently running consultations with the community about their basin management plan. Find out how to get involved and make a submission here.
Read MoreChecking in on one of our Glossy Black Cockatoo Plantings
Tracee re-visited one of our Glossy Black Cockatoo planting sites with land holder Ash. Here’s how the plants are going.
Read MoreEucalyptus Day & Beyond – Life Around A Gum Tree Teaching Resource
Life around the gum tree is an interactive bingo style ecology game that’s perfect for families, primary aged students & anyone wanting to learn more about the life gum trees support.
Read MoreWill’s Working Bee
2025 has been a great year for on-ground working bee’s which, thanks to our Glossy Black Cockatoo planting project resulted in 60 volunteers (approximately 240 volunteer hours) across 6 planting events! Brilliant stuff, but that wasn’t enough for you apparently and we’ve been asked to provide MORE working bee’s which is totally amazing.
Read MoreSoil Microbiology on Farms
By late November, with around 10 test strips left I headed out with Grazing Group leader Scott Hickman to a farm in Carcoar and to a farmer who’se been doing quite a bit of experimenting of his own in the soil biology space
Read MoreA Closer Look at the Bugs in Our Backyards. A Citizen Science Project
A new Citizen Science project led by the Invastive Species Council & Invertebrates Australia launched on iNaturalist this year. Bugs in My Backyard Week ran from 17 – 23 November 2025 creating the first springtime snapshot of bugs across Australia. I joined the project as an individual this year to get a feel for the nuances and challenges around recording bug life.
Read MoreTalking Pollinators at Cowra’s Little Magpie Gallery
We were thrilled to be invited to open the Birds, Bees & Blooms exhibition at the Little Magpie Gallery here in Cowra last week. My mind went immediately to the subject of pollination and how I could bring such a broad and vital topic to life in no more than 15 minutes for this art-loving crowd.
Read MoreBioblitz 2025 – Surveying Cowra
The ‘Great Southern BioBlitz‘, or ‘GSB’ for short, is an international period of intense biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within several designated areas across the Southern Hemisphere in Spring. We had a lovely &…
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