Watershed Landcare Incorporated

Mudgee Small Farm Field Days

Watershed Landcare will once again be at The Mudgee Small Farm Field Days. We will have informative displays, information about our group and projects, kids activities, workshops and, of course, the Watershed Landcare Lecture Series!
  • When 15 Jul, 2016 12:00 AM to 16 Jul, 2016 11:59 PM (Australia/Sydney / UTC1008)
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Information available all day – Watershed Landcare Waterwise Garden (L9):

  • Watershed Landcare – Learn about Landcare projects and field days as well as equipment for hire. Sign up and become a member today!

  • Plant identification from your paddock/bushland – bring along a specimen to the Watershed Landcare botanist/grazier Christine McRae (bring a GOOD sample, including leaves/roots/stems/flowers/seeds if possible).

  • Waterwise Garden – come and see a beautiful display garden of waterwise and salt tolerant plants for the Mudgee district, including a native Microlaena lawn sample.

  • Serrated Tussock and the innocent native bystanders – learn how to spot the difference with display plants at Watershed Landcare.

  • Locally grown native tube stock for sale.

  • Kids Passport activity.

Plant Sales

 

Workshops

– Watershed Landcare Waterwise Garden (L9):

Friday

1-2pm

Understanding grasses - Have you ever tried to identify something in your paddock and got stuck on trying to work out what a ligule, a floret or a spikelet is? Come along to this hands on session aimed at increasing your grass literacy skills.

David Allworth -

Eco Logical Australia

Saturday

1-2pm

Seed collection, germination and broadacre tree planting – David will show you how to use things out of the rubbish bin to germinate eucalypts; seed collection, knowing when seed is ripe, direct seeding into pots, using Potti-Putki for planting and ground preparation.

David Allworth -

Eco Logical Australia

Field Days Lecture Series

Location: Straw Bale Building (L8)

Speakers organised by Watershed Landcare

Doug PurdieStress Free StockmanshipSustainable BuildingDiego Bonetto

FRIDAY
10.00am How can we support greater landholder collaboration on landscape-scale conservation and sustainable agriculture? - This presentation introduces a new landholder collaboration project that has recently commenced with NSW Environmental Trust funding in the NSW Central Tablelands. It will present some of our preliminary findings on models for collaboration that have been successful in this region as well as in other parts of Australia and the world. Harriet Pfeiffer - University of Sydney and Alex Baumber - University of New South Wales
11.30am

Basics of stockmanship - Bruce will show entertaining examples of how stockmanship can change animals, including weed eating and grazing management. Helping the animals, and you, have less stress.

Bruce Maynard -

Stress Free Stockmanship
1.00pm

Solar Passive House Design and How It Saves You Money - The secrets of designing a home that's warm in winter and cool in summer. How making a few simple changes to your house design will save you money.

Sam Vivers -

Strawbale Building Assoc & Viva Homes
2.30pm Backyard Beekeeping - Keeping bees on a small scale is easy and something most people can do. Keeping bees is a rewarding pass time that helps the environment by providing pollination and as a bonus you get your own honey! Doug will walk through the types of hive, the basic equipment and the do and dont's of backyard beekeeping. Doug Purdie - The Urban Beehive
4.00pm Weeds as a money making venture - It is common amongst growers to curse the weeds. Yet perceptions are changing and the benefit of pioneer species are nowadays debated while monocultures prove to deplete soil nutrients. This talk will look at a number of common pesky plants that while you spend effort and time to eradicate, might just as well go a step further: harvest and sell. The market is there, the clients are awaiting, just package and send off. Diego Bonett
SATURDAY
10.00am Backyard Beekeeping - Keeping bees on a small scale is easy and something most people can do. Keeping bees is a rewarding pass time that helps the environment by providing pollination and as a bonus you get your own honey! Doug will walk thru the types of hive, the basic equipment and the do and dont's of backyard beekeeping. Doug Purdie - The Urban Beehive
11.30am Weeds as a money making venture - It is common amongst growers to curse the weeds. Yet perceptions are changing and the benefit of pioneer species are nowadays debated while monocultures prove to deplete soil nutrients. This talk will look at a number of common pesky plants that while you spend effort and time to eradicate, might just as well go a step further: harvest and sell. The market is there, the clients are awaiting, just package and send off. Diego Bonetto
1.00pm

Solar Passive House Design and How It Saves You Money - The secrets of designing a home that's warm in winter and cool in summer. How making a few simple changes to your house design will save you money.

Sam Vivers -

Strawbale Building Assoc & Viva Homes
2.30pm Belinda's 5000 km Adventure - Solo female trail rider Belinda Ritchie set out for adventure, but has found it's the people she's met on the way that's made her trail ride so special. Brisbane-based lawyer Belinda Ritchie was inspired to emulate the bush pioneers by tackling the Bicentennial National Trail with three horses Rube, Clincher and Trump.

Belinda Ritchie – 2014 Young Australian Adventurer of the Year