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Learning 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’.

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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.

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SHOALHAVEN 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.

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An Evening with the Australasian Bat Society

Sandra explained how bats grow forests while we sleep by carrying seeds far and wide before pooping them out where some germinate and become new forests. She explained her work as a bat carer, talked about bat biology, habits and their personalities, dispelling all prior notions we held of these being dirty, evil creatures – they are actually very cute, intelligent and personable!

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What I Learned at the 2025 Citizen Science Conference

Last month I travelled down to Melbourne to spend two days at the Citizen Science Conference. Being a first-timer at this event, I wasn’t sure quite what to expect so… I dragged my husband along too! As it turned out,…

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Earth & Environment Science Tour with Hunter Valley Grammar School

We had a wonderful afternoon with Hunter Valley Grammar School’s Earth & Environment Science students & their teachers. We started off in Canowindra at the Age of Fishes Museum & a surprise visit from a 2 week old poddy lamb…

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Glossies at Gooloogong Public School

Kangarooby Landcare organised a tree planting day for the Glossy Black Cockatoo over at Gooloogong Public School

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Habitat Connectivity. A collaborative approach for the Glossy Black Cockatoo

We have booked to talk about our project in the Blue Mountains on Saturday 7th June from 4pm-6pm at the Planetary Health Centre in Katoomba where we’ll focus on explaining the habits & preferences of our local population of Glossies, how & why farmers are playing an important role in boosting connectivity & what large-scale connectivity could look like for this and other species.

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Mid Lachlan Landcare’s Grazing Group is back!

Mid Lachlan Landcare’s ‘Growing the Grazing Revolution’ program has been actively supporting graziers wishing to maintain & grow healthy landscapes, stock and business enterprises since 2010. This long-standing project was built on the philosophy that there’s power in getting people together and there’s inherent value within community.

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May the force (of Fungi) be with you!

Mycology May events are happening right across the Central Tablelands Region.

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