Mid Lachlan Landcare

Running a natural dyeing workshop in a natural park without spilling anything.

The Billy Goat Hill Appreciation Society has formed to look after this important Box Gum Remnant in the middle of Cowra

Fine Art Fungi (FAF) was an inclusive and uplifting art exhibition illustrating the importance of fungi. It was part of the Central Tablelands Local Land Services (CTLLS) and Central Tablelands Regional Landcare (CTRL) Mycology May program.

Landholders plant 1000 Allocasuarina diminuta for the Glossy Black Cockatoo

Mycology in May is a community-based event in the NSW Central tablelands involving discussions, education workshops and field walks with national and international mycology experts.

Mid Lachlan Landcare is proposing to use satellite imagery and mapping systems to facilitate their Growing the Grazing Revolution members with weekly estimates on pasture biomass and groundcover.

International fungi researcher, Dr Alison Pouliot, visited Central Western NSW to reveal the important role fungi plays in soil health, the food chain and in agriculture.

Local Farmers Breeding winter active Bubas bison dung beetles

Field day held in Cargo on managing horses to keep them, and the landscape they are kept in, healthy

How we can work together to save money, plant trees and help each other

Field day held in Cargo on managing horses to keep them healthy and the landscape they are kept in healthy

Field day to look at the practical use and application of compost tea on a farm scale

Mid-Lachlan Landcare has run 2 pest animal and weeds roadshows aimed at building local landholder capacities to manage their pest animal and weed problems more efficiently with knowledge and support provided by Mid-Lachlan Landcare, Central Tablelands Local Land Services, the Department of Primary Industries and Cowra Council.

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.

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.

‘Farmers must prioritise, avoiding putting themselves under intense pressure in long dry times as it can impact their wellbeing,’ said Dubbo Agricultural Consultant, Mark Gardner who recently spoke to a group of farmers at a Canowindra woolshed meeting organized by Mid Lachlan Landcare.

Mid Lachlan Landcare has been identifying numerous sites inhabited by the Threatened Squirrel Glider and Landholders had expressed an interest in knowing more about this species.

Mid Lachlan Landcare offers Regenerative Agricultural Education Tours to urban students of all ages connecting people to sustainable food and fiber production and strengthening links between city and country.

Monitoring grazing management: Don’t think, know! Are we achieving profitable and ecological land management within our farming business?

Reinstating the shrub layer in woodland communities to improve biodiversity

Re-introducing Paddock Trees into farms

Species Specific Nest Box Project