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Bounding 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 &…
Read MoreUtilising the Power of Microbes to Turn Carp into Fertiliser
I turned my Laptop on and ‘Zoomed’ into the last Carp Muster planning meeting a few weeks before the big event only to find that I’d (and my that I mean us at Mid Lachlan Landcare) had been deligated the job of managing the dead Carp. What a great opportunity!
Read MoreBook Notes: For the Love of Soil by Nicole Masters
For the Love of Soil is a truly marvelous book, filled with case study notes, personal anecdotes, digestive metaphores and practical hints and tips as to how best to learn about and fall in love with the soil you live on and manage.
Read MoreSoil’s Alive! Springtails Under the Microscope
2024 has been a year of encouraging our community to get up close and personal with their soil’s macro and microorganisms.
Read MoreOur Soil Microbiology Project Goes Global!
We know it’s a big week for our friends over in the USA but did not expect to wake up this morning and find nearly 1000 of them had landed on our little old website! Turns out the good people…
Read MoreSoil’s Alive – Exploring the unique soil microbiome of the Mid Lachlan Region
Over the course of eight weeks between May and June, Mid lachlan Landcare sampled the microbiome of twenty eight unique sites spanning from public (Cemeteries, Travelling Stock Reserves) to private (Cropping and Grazing farms). With each site being sampled an average of four times we ended up with one hundred and fifteen sample plots, each of which played a small yet important role in uncovering the rich and diverse microbiome of the Mid Lachlan region.
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