Mid Lachlan Landcare
supporting sustainable agriculture and restoring the environment
Archives
Rodenticides 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 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 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 MoreEarth & 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…
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 More10 ways to increase farm biodiversity without costing too much.
Wendy Bowman, chair of Mid Lachlan Landcare and Beef Producer from Canowindra gave a 5 minute lightning talk on 10 ways to increase farm biodiversity without costing too much during the 2025 Central Tablelands Landcare Muster
Read More
Mid Lachlan Landcare 