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Checking 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 MoreRodenticides under review – an update
The APVMA have released their initial response to the review of Second Generation Rodenticides. This issue is important to the Cowra Woodland Birds Program & other bird conservation groups across australia
Read MoreLearning on country – Green Fields, Good Food & Great Communities
Brigidine College, Randwick visited us in December this year for a Food Nutrition & Hospitality Field trip. The themes of the tour being ‘Food Builds Community’ and ‘Good Soil, Good food’.
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 MoreSHOALHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL’S EARTH & ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE FIELD TRIP.
This month we welcomed Shoalhaven High School’s Earth & Environmental Science Students for an immersive day of observing, testing & experiencing how the earth’s cycles happen and, more importantly, how human management decisions impact them.
Read MoreSailing into Summer with our Grazing Group
Our grazing group met at a farm in Mandurama, Central Tablelands NSW to discuss strategies for the upcoming warmer months.
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 MoreCarp Compost Tea Results Are In
Back in July we gathered up some of the carp caught during the Canowindra Carp Muster & took it back to Emu Park farm, Canowindra to turn it into fertiliser. We did this by (sort of) following a tried-and-tested biological…
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