Wet Tropics Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator in Atherton, Queensland, Australia | Community organisation

Wet Tropics Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator

Locality: Atherton, Queensland, Australia

Address: 47-67 Maunds Road 4883 Atherton, QLD, Australia

Website: www.terrain.org.au/Projects/Wet-Tropics-Agriculture

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25.01.2022 Pasture cropped Barley paddock in the Riverina! Worm Juice and compost extract at sowing, 10 units of N. Foliar of worm juice, compost extract and trace minerals. Hot diggity dog, it’s looking fine and the profits should too!

25.01.2022 Digging Deeper workshop - Group 2 A day spent in the heat at the base of Bartle Frere, participants learnt about about Soil Health with Simon Matttsson. The hosts place was a lovely grazing farm, [ex-dairy] with the cows listening in. The day was the introduction to the nutrient cycle, introducing the microbes involved which generated great discussion within the group. ... All participants left with great enthusiasm to get stuck into their own soil, and get a soil sample done. Can't wait to see the soil test come back and we can learn how to interpret them. #Landcare, #NLP, #soillandfood, #TerrainNRM, #soilhealth

25.01.2022 Monday Cuteness!! Ella & Locky showing us all just how big these pineapples are!! Thanks for letting us share your picture Sean... maybe a few more years and then they can come and help pick them!

25.01.2022 .....AND that's a wrap up for our Digging Deeper into Soils - 2 Day Bootcamp last week held @ Bibbaringa Collaborating w/ yet another great bunch of innovative ...farmers, graziers & croppers. Working towards robust soil ecosystems - A healthy & wealthy biodiverse soil biome creating resilient crops & stock for a better bottom line. Next face to face course rolling up is the Regenerating Rural Landscapes - 2 Day Bootcamp held also @ Bibbaringa @ the end of OCT. . . . #soilhealth #soilartisans #soilskills #diggingdeeper #regenerativeagriculture #soilasset #profitablefarms #soillife #soil #soilstests #composts #feedingyoursoil #regenerativerurallandscapes #soilorganicmatter Holbrook Landcare Network Corowa District Landcare Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre West Hume Landcare Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group Baranduda Landcare North East CMA

25.01.2022 Our first AGM with attendees in person and also online. It makes a lot of sense given the size of the Wet Tropics region! Chair Keith Noble says questions fro...m the floor relating to funding, funding criteria and Reef Credits were insightful and reaffirmed Terrain's commitment to securing new funding sources. It was great to have representation across many areas we work in and to catch up afterwards with those who came in person. Thanks again.

24.01.2022 You're invited to attend our upcoming Soil Carbon Sequestration webinar in conjunction with LawrieCo. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_UYFHYdkWQcaYyLRa5gSMIg Feel free to share!

17.01.2022 "Which model do you want your food to be produced from? The answer is pretty simple to me." - Gabe Brown, Kiss the Ground Movie Sending so much love and gratitude to Maggie Eilleen for bringing this beautiful vision of possibility to life. The rest is up to us. #ChooseRegeneration.

15.01.2022 We have a new $200,000 grants round for projects that will improve critical rainforest habitat. We're doing something a little different this time and contac...ting 250 landholders from across the Wet Tropics region whose properties border world-heritage areas and meet criteria ranging from being within the region’s top-six cassowary corridors to being a potential littoral rainforest refugia from sea level rise and storm surges. This grants round is also open to recovery team members. It's part of our Building Rainforest Resilience project, funded through the Australian Government's National Landcare Program. Find out more here: https://terrain.org.au/rainforest-grants/ #rainforest #worldheritage #wettropics #cassowary #NLP #landcare #Mabiforest #littoralrainforest National Landcare Program Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Wet Tropics World Heritage Area Girringun Aboriginal Corporation Cairns Regional Council Tablelands Regional Council Cassowary Coast Regional Council Conservation Volunteers Australia Rainforest Reserves Australia Mission Beach Cassowaries BirdLife Australia Tropical Vet Services C4 - Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation- Box 132 MissionBeach Rainforest Rescue Tree Kangaroo and Mammal Group TREAT Atherton Tablelands Barron Catchment Care

12.01.2022 Investing in new tools to tackle the threat of feral cats on our native wildlife Last week, the Australian Government announced it had committed $2 million t...o upscale the production of two feral cat control tools, the Curiosity bait for feral cats and Felixer Grooming Traps. The Curiosity bait for feral cats is a small sausage with a hard plastic pellet containing a humane toxin (para-aminopropiophenone, or PAPP). The bait has been designed to minimise the risk to native animals. A hard pellet limits access by animals other than cats. The Felixer Grooming trap is an innovative and automated tool to help control feral cats and foxes. This tool uses sensors to distinguish target cats and foxes from non-target wildlife and humans and sprays the targets with a measured dose of toxic gel. Across Australia the toll of feral cats on our remarkable wildlife is significant. According to Australia's leading scientists each day, more than 3.1 million mammals, 1 million birds and 1.7 million reptiles are killed by cats across Australia. More information about these tools and feral cats can be found at http://environment.gov.au//feral-animals-austra/feral-cats : Felixer cat traps being trialed at Pullen Pullen reserve. Credit: Dr Alex Kutt Feral cat. Credit: Hugh McGregor

11.01.2022 Come along and learn about brewing compost tea for agriculture!

11.01.2022 We have some pumpkins for sale on 251 Halifax Road. Ingham

10.01.2022 This scale model shows how mangrove forests protect the coast /Hãy xem rng ngp mn có th bo v b bin th nào? Rng ngp mn là thành phn ti quan trng c...a h sinh thái bo v b bin nhiu ni ti Vit Nam. Mô phng n gin này cho thy rõ chúng có th gim thiu tác ng ca sóng ti b ê nh th nào. iu này cho thy phát trin rng ngp mn s giúp con ngi tit kim c khon u t xây dng cng nh bo trì các công trình kiên c. Thêm vào ó, rng ngp mn cng to ra h sinh thái có li cho nuôi cá tôm. Hà Lan cng tác trên toàn cu bo v rng ngp mn và tng cng bo v b bin #BuildingWithNature --- Mangrove forests are an essential component of the coastal defense systems in many places in Vietnam. This simple model from Dutch research institute Deltares makes it very easy to understand how mangroves protect the coast from the impact of waves. This means that you need to invest less in hard structures for protection, and you need to spend less on maintenance of such structures. Besides this, mangroves provide important ecosystem services, for instance for fisheries, as well. The Netherlands works worldwide to restore mangrove forests and improve coastal protection. #BuildingWithNature See more

07.01.2022 The sting behind the Stinging tree - something different to read but very interesting for all the people that like spending time in the bush trying to avoid Stinging trees. Here is why we should keep avoiding them.

06.01.2022 Meet the O'Kane family on the latest Digging In podcast. Chris talks about he and his brother Michael's fallow crop trials on their cane farm at East Feluga nea...r Tully, what they're putting in their fallow crop mixes and why they're focusing on soil health. He also talks about on-farm water monitoring as part of the Wet Tropics Major Integrated Project and draft horses - yes draft horses! His grandfather's time working the same land... Listen online, or download and tune in at your own leisure: https://terrain.org.au/digging-in-podcast-wtmip-3/ This podcast is part of the Wet Tropics Major Integrated Project, funded through the Queensland Government's Reef Water Quality Program. Tully & District Chamber of Commerce Corporate Nature CANEGROWERS Meaghan Scanlon - Member for Gaven Queensland Environment Department Tully Ponyclub Fnq Tully Sugar Limited Tully Cane Productivity Services Herbert Cane Productivity Services Ltd Ingham Mossman Agricultural Services Australian Sugar Cane Farmers #cane #sugarcane #fallowcrops #fallow #healthywater #soilhealth Wet Tropics Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator Regenerative Agriculture Australia Farmers Supporting Farmers on their Regenerative Journeys Regenerative Farming

04.01.2022 As we always say we are growing soil first. Organic farming is a ongoing investment. Australian grown, organically grown, delicious pumpkin seeds!

02.01.2022 There has been lots o discussion about Dung Beetles in our latest Digging Deeper workshop. Here is a video that Terrain produced in 2017. https://youtu.be/XYqN-46K3q0

01.01.2022 "The evidence is mounting that regenerative agriculture is one of the great stories of hope....[It] has some of the best solutions to solving a lot of our plane...tary ills." Charles Massy runs a 4,500-acre sheep and cattle property at Cooma. "I caused immense damage to this country, perhaps at least a few thousand years' worth," he told Australian Story. He knew that to survive he would have to change. He sold only half the farm and began studying regenerative agriculture, a system of farming which doesn't push the land beyond what it is naturally capable of sustaining without chemical inputs, a system that values a complex and healthy soil. As he watched his land recover, he went back to university in his 50s to do a PhD in human ecology. As part of his thesis, he interviewed 80 of the top regenerative farmers, hearing stories of remarkable turnarounds in landscapes, birdsong and lives. By 2000, Mr Massy himself had become fully regenerative and has now planted 60,000 trees. More on this story tonight on Australian Story, 8:00pm (AEST) ABC TV + iview. https://www.abc.net.au//charlie-massy-regenerativ/12438352