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Reconnecting with the land

Engaging with the younger generation in Far West NSW

July 2022 EDITOR'S PICK Education Youth Native Vegetation Urban and Peri-urban Workshops

Supporting School Projects

Helping begin new environment projects by providing advice, on the ground assistance and connecting schools with environmental education resources and networks.

June 2020 Urban and Peri-urban Youth Education Landcare

Woodland Birds School Education Program

This is part of the program: Bringing Back the Regent Honeyeater, a flagship species for our forests, farms, rivers and woodland birds.

May 2020 Native Vegetation Biodiversity Monitoring Habitat Youth Education Landcare Resources

Hastings Landcare & Wauchope TAFE Link Up

TAFE students visit Landcare Groups for a guided tour and to get their hands dirty

April 2020 Youth Landcare Biodiversity Education Community

Grow Well, Live Well

Grow Well, Live Well: A partnership of community groups engaging youth, the elderly and other community stakeholders

June 2019 EDITOR'S PICK Youth Mental Health Community

Supporting our neighbours

Working with our neighbouring Landcare networks to support their good work

June 2019 Biodiversity Monitoring Workshops Community Youth Urban and Peri-urban Publicity Education

Weaving Magic At Murrin Bridge

A Day Weaving Baskets

June 2019 Youth Native Vegetation Cultural Heritage Community

Flying Kites to Save a Parrot

Setting up a kite making stall at the Harden Kite festival proved to be an extremely beneficial awareness raising strategy for the plight of the Superb Parrot

June 2019 Youth Education Community

Wiradjuri Artist in Schools

Bringing nature and culture to the classroom

May 2019 Youth Education Cultural Heritage

PLC Sydney

Girls talk turtles and fight the War on Waste.

April 2019 Youth Education Aquaculture

Teach the Teacher

Teachers from six of Cowra and Canowindra’s local schools spent a day with Mid Lachlan Landcare learning why Cowra is such a fascinating educational hot-spot.

March 2019 Youth Education

Bird Watching Breakfasts with Chaddy

Engaging the Condobolin community with their local birds

May 2019 Youth Biodiversity Education Habitat

Initiating Boomerang Bags in Condobolin

A movement to foster sustainable behavior around plastic use

March 2019 Urban and Peri-urban Youth Community

Green Army & Central West Lachlan Landcare Partnership

Over 18 months, Skillset Environment and Central West Lachlan Landcare partnered to deliver the Green Army Programme in the Parkes and Forbes Shires

March 2019 Youth Biodiversity Education Local Government Community

Inspired Young People Win National Award

Two young Shoalhaven students, with support from Shoalhaven Landcare, entered their environmental research project in a national competition, and they won.

April 2019 Youth Biodiversity Habitat

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Learning about indigenous plants & their traditional cultural uses

March 2019 Youth Education Cultural Heritage Community

Community Capacity & Engagement in Landcare

Sustainable agriculture & natural resource management, capacity building

March 2019 Youth Education Community

Organic Market Garden Mentoring Program

A mentoring program for young growers to learn organic market gardening in a hands-on commercial setting

February 2019 Pest control Community Youth Soils Planning Education

Education Tours take on local students’ needs

Each year, hundreds of senior interstate, city and coastal students studying Food Technology, Biology, Agriculture and Earth and Environmental Science attend Mid Lachlan Landcare’s education tours in the Cowra/Canowindra region. Learning the fossil history, land and water uses, the students appear most interested in the sustainable and regenerative practices happening in conjunction with agriculture and food production.