Mid Lachlan Landcare
supporting sustainable agriculture and restoring the environment
Category: Connecting Community
A 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 &…
Read MoreThe Bush Goddess Presents ‘Wilding’ at Cowra’s Civic Centre
Wednesday evening saw around 50 of us gather in Cowra for a showing of the film ‘Wilding’ organised by ‘Bush Goddess’ Pennie Scott. Wilding is based on Isabella Tree’s book of the same name that doccuments how their failing farm…
Read MoreSupporting the next generation of young women in Agriculture with the Cowra Show Society.
Earlier this month Tracee & I were invited to join the Cowra Show Society at their opening night cocktail party as guests of Emily Hill who was in the running to become Cowra’s 2025 Young Woman. Emily is my youngest…
Read MoreGlossies at Gooloogong Public School
Kangarooby Landcare organised a tree planting day for the Glossy Black Cockatoo over at Gooloogong Public School
Read MoreMuster Moments – Reflecting on the Canowindra Carp Muster
We had an amazing time at our first Carp Muster & riparian clean up back in July and can’t wait to do it all again (if we can find a funding partner – anyone want to take that bait…)
Read MoreWe did it, over 1000 trees & shrubs are Growing for the Glossies!
Back in May we set out to plant 1000 trees and understory species on private land in an area between Conimbla and Nangar National Parks, the idea being that eventually this landscape will re-connect, strengthening both local and regional connectivity across the Western Woodland Way. By the end of July we’d completed our mission and everything was looking great!
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