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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’.
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 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 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…
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!
Read MoreBelubula River Riparian Project
The Belubula river in Canowindra is being beautified and preserved thanks to a collaboration between the Canowindra Garden Club, Canowindra Connections and Mid Lachlan Landcare. The first planting included trees grown by Sue Johnson who sadly passed away last year
Read MoreRoots, Shoots & Gum Boots – A Family Day Out for the Glossy Black Cockatoo
Over 300 trees & shrubs were planted at our third Glossy Black Cockatoo planting day. This event was a real family affair and with many hands making for light work, we were back in the shearing shed enjoying our sausage sizzle & cake in no time.
Read MoreGetting Trees in the Ground for the Glossy’s
We’ve been out planting trees for the Glossy Black Cockatoo across a stretch of land from Conimbla to Nangar national parks. These plantings were in Eugowra & just outside of Manildra. We were planting She Oaks (Allocasuarina verticillata), Eucalypts and some complimentary understory species
Read MoreMycology May – Pottery & Fungi Foray
A timely drop of rain brought out a few fungi which we hunted down with great enthusiasm during our Mycology May event. We uploaded some of our findings to iNaturalist to help build on what we know of this site. Then, once our foray time was up, we shared our discoveries with the rest of the group before heading into the pottery shed.
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