Landcare Adventure 2025
Landcare Adventure is a biennial regional Landcare event rotating across the Northwest and Northern Tablelands Landcare regions.
Capacity building - LEP 23-024-RLC
The issue
- To provide relevant community-based active learning opportunities
- Interpreting scientific and technical information that engages attendees from a range backgrounds and enterprises
- Developing a professionally presented forum highlighting achievements and opportunities Landcare provides for our communities
- Recognising that major community events require appropriate resourcing, planning, assessment of risks and logistical constraints and requires significant teamwork and contingency
- Measuring the return on investment, given many outcomes are values-based and relevant to the delegate's personal experience
The solution
- Organisers - Gwydir and Macintyre Resources Management Committee (Inverell); Glen Innes Natural Resources Advisory Committee (Glen Innes); Granite Borders Landcare Committee (Tenterfield) and Southern New England Landcare Ltd (Armidale) with investment from Landcare New South Wales Community of Practice funding, New England Landcare Network and Gwydir and Macintyre Resources Management Committee Incorporated
- Speakers, topics and field demonstrations enabled discussion and observation from basic theory to implementation
- A prominent theme for Landcare Adventure is natural resource management and agriculture however, an alignment with ‘the person’ recognises that people manage and interact with natural resources
The impact
Attendance from Landcare Australia, Landcare NSW, New England Landcare Network and the four regional Landcare groups highlighted community support through Landcare spanning National to local levels, complimented by industry displays
What did you get out of Landcare Adventure 2025?
"Knowledge, physical observation, boots on-ground. Structured learning, relevance. Complimentary activities - theory yesterday; today hydrology part of the system with interconnected benefits. I enjoyed the variation in topics and speakers. I've been in Landcare for 20 years but you don't have to be a landholder to be in Landcare". Michael Colvin, Guyra.
"Good networking, knowledge and on-ground activities. Properties are different with different practices. Field trips are good versus photos but covering the same theme. Great opportunity with speakers who are experts in their fields. I'm not from a farm, and have been in Landcare for three years, and am creating backyard projects". Ella Mazoudier, Clarence Landcare committee.
Key facts
- Landcare Adventure has been successfully running for 22 years, rotating between Northern Tablelands and North West Landcare regions
- Learning is a personal outcome, based on exposure to various information sources, level of enquiry, observation, experience, often changing across our lifecycle.
- 120 attendees networking, observing and discussing topics of interest over two days
- Post event Survey results demonstrated about 20% new attendees to the Landcare Adventure 2025
- Collaborative activity