Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc | Community organisation

Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc

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25.01.2022 Come and join for a great day of giving back to the Community and the Environment

22.01.2022 Great to welcome Adrian Zammit to Tumut Landcare Nursery for a tour and meeting with Riverina Highlands executive and Murrumbidgee Landcare EO and RLC. Absolute cracker of a day!!

22.01.2022 Another big newsletter has just been released - check it out for lots of great opportunities to take advantage of over the last few months of the year!

22.01.2022 Our latest newsletter has landed! If it's not in your inbox, follow the link below to have a read, and sign-up if you'd like to receive future issues.

20.01.2022 Who doesn't love a beautiful gecko? This article has some great pics and stories from the CSU team of researchers monitoring lizards in the lower Murrumbidgee. Look out for the sneaky microbat the team found too!

19.01.2022 Interested in seed collection? Come along to a FREE workshop with Kyeamba Landcare! Learn all the techniques, in a fun afternoon of practical activities. Full details at the website below, RSVP essential.

18.01.2022 Hooray, our latest newsletter is here! Click below to read the May newsletter, and find out about all the exciting events coming up!

18.01.2022 ANU Sustainable Farms are looking for a Research & Extension Officer to join their team. Based in Wagga, it is a good opportunity to join a team doing great work in our region.

17.01.2022 Check out our new newsletter! Lots of great news, resources and events - including some in-person field days! https://mailchi.mp/991de59d61ef/mli-e-news-oct-675759

16.01.2022 Reminder of our AGM & paddock walk this Wednesday.

15.01.2022 A great story about Landcare in our region!

15.01.2022 Join us on the evening of Thurs 17 June for pizza and a fascinating talk by Geoff Williams, Director of the Australian Platypus Conservancy. Geoff will highlight the features that make the platypus so special, explain its conservation needs and how to go about helping these animals. We'll also learn some hints on how to spot platypus in the wild and the possibilities for becoming involved in monitoring these special creatures in our local area! Click on the link below to register.

15.01.2022 Did you know that the perennial native grass native millet is significantly more nutritious than wheat? It is also easy to grow, harvest and mill into flour. And it's gluten free!

13.01.2022 A chance to have your say

09.01.2022 ErinEarth is hosting a Family Fun Day on Sat 5th June from 9:30am 1:00pm. The family fun open day is a chance for you and your family to get to know the plant...s in your local area. Take your time to wander the serene environment with an espresso coffee in one hand and homemade cake in the other. Kids will enjoy the scavenger hunt and adults will love the native plants in our garden. Locally propagated plant seedlings will be available for sale. Entry is by individual gold coin donation. The ErinEarth garden is a large urban woodland garden in Wiradjuri Country, helping you to discover and learn about sustainable living. With a dream to be walking lightly on the Earth, this large water wise native and food garden is cared for by regular volunteers. The special theme this June is 'How's the Serenity'. We will have some music playing, bees flying, birds chirping... you know the drill. We will also have an information board about NAIDOC week in 2021 and how you can heal country by planting locally native species in your backyard.

09.01.2022 Don't forget to register for one of our dung beetle paddock walks that are on next Monday and Wednesday. Charles Sturt University researchers lead the Dung Beetle Ecosystem Engineer group in all things dung beetle. Come and join us for a fun morning, morning tea included!

09.01.2022 Reminder about our Lunchtime Powerful Pollinator FREE Webinar this Thursday at 12pm. We are partnering with Wheen Bee Foundation to discuss: Find out how po...llinators can play a role in healthy grazing and cropping enterprises Discover how to encourage pollinator populations on your property An overview of our new planting guide and how it can be used on farm. Hear from Anna Carrucan from Wheen Bee Foundation, Professor Saul Cunningham ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society and our very own Ecologist Angelina Siegrist. This webinar will be recorded. If you are unable to attend the live event, please register to receive the recording, or sign up to our newsletter. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/powerful-pollinators-the-ro

09.01.2022 Win win! When Agriculture and the environment come together. Wonderful Peter!

08.01.2022 Applications now open for Young Farming Champions!

06.01.2022 Our March newsletter has just landed! Click the link below to read it, and subscribe so that you don't miss an issue.

06.01.2022 Come along to this FREE one-day workshop to learn about how a drone can help make your farming easier! Ben Watts from Bralca will help you understand how to safely operate a drone on your property, how to use camera controls and set fail-safe boundaries, and the CASA requirements you need to know about to allow you to operate under the free license category. Register your place now!

05.01.2022 tree planting on Tarcutta Creek last weekend

04.01.2022 A great resource, at a great price!

04.01.2022 Interested in learning how to identify and manage soil constraints on your property? Tune in to this webinar for some hot tips!

04.01.2022 What a beautiful new poster celebrating the wonderful wetland bird diversity in the Murray-Riverina regions! Have you seen any of these birds around your farm d...am? You can download the poster via the link below and there are a limited number of printed copies available through the Murray Local Land Services office, call (02) 6051 2200. https://buff.ly/2K67QJK Well done Murray Local Land Services, Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group & PeeKdesigns!

03.01.2022 Hay Plains Landcare Group - AGM coming up Landcare is a grassroots movement built on communities and individuals taking collaborative action for the benefit of the environment. Landcare groups organise projects, support volunteers, seek funding and develop partnerships.

03.01.2022 TESTS AVAILABLE: Assessing your feed and water quality for improved stock productivity Landholders in the Riverina Local Land Services region are invited to tak...e part in a project to assess the value and quality of their existing on farm stock feed and water sources. As well as providing advice, this project will increase your knowledge of the value and quality of current livestock feed rations coming from grain, forage, silage and or hay through the provision of prepaid DPI feed quality service test kits. This service would be beneficial to understand quality of pasture or crop before harvest for silage or hay production. Also, prepaid DPI water test kits will be available to each landholder to assist with better understand the water quality of farm dams and/or bores and/or streams. This learning is to show how to improve livestock productivity by balancing stock nutrient requirements with what is supplied from available on farm feed and water supplies. This project operates on a first in best dressed basis so please get in touch as soon as you can if you'd like to take part. The below conditions apply: Landholders must be a ratepayer in the Riverina Local Land Services region Free kits are limited to the value of up to $200 per landholder (not per holding) Once allocation is exhausted landholders may be placed on a waiting list Landholders that are interested should contact their closest Senior Land Services Officer: Geoff Minchin - Temora (0429 842 489) Martin Preuss Wagga Wagga (0455 729 318 Sally Ware Hay (0429 307 627) https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au//2020.21.-Flyer-Assessing-your-

02.01.2022 Enjoy a morning of family fun at the wetlands with Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare these school holidays!