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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 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 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 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 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 MorePaddock Walk at Nanami
Fantastic day today with Central Tablelands Local Land Services and Eugowra Catchment Landcare learning all about plant ID with botanist Dan Clarke from Arcane Botanica. I forgot to get pictures of most of the amazing things we found but did…
Read MoreBounding Into Spring with our Grazing Group
Friday 29th August had us at Cooyong in Crowther for our ‘Bounding into Spring’ grazing group meet up. Cooyong is a 600 Ha mixed farming business consisting of a prime lamb operation using planned grazing management principles incorporating irrigation &…
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