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Want to improve mineral cycles, soil fertility, drought resilience, pasture and crop health and productivity on your patch? To find out more about the fundamentals of how soil and plants function, come along to Watershed Landcare’s Sustainable Soil Management workshop where we will explore the chemical, physical and biological properties of fertile soil. The workshop […]
Are you interested in keeping bees but don’t know where to start? Join us for a 2 day Backyard Beekeeping course with Bruce White OAM. The Mudgee Bee Group will be hosting a Backyard Beekeeping course in October and invite novice and experienced beekeepers, as well as people interested in starting up their first hives, […]
After a booked out workshop last held last year, Watershed Landcare have invited grazier, enquiring farmer and soil specialist, Bruce Davison back to our region to present another Sustainable Soil Management workshop in June. Bruce Davison has an advanced diploma of agriculture and advanced diploma of agribusiness management. Bruce has also trained in soil chemistry […]
Students from the University of Sydney tour farms in our region to study regenerative agriculture practices Long before the term ‘Regen Ag’ was coined, many farmers in our region have been implementing innovative, ecological approaches to land management and are now promoting and encouraging the adoption of regenerative landscape management practices to help build healthy, […]
As the weather starts to cool and pastures become dormant it’s a critical time to think about managing groundcover through the winter months. Management decisions made now can impact pasture recovery in spring and beyond. Groundcover is any material that covers the soil, including gravel, living and dead plant material, dung and biological soil crusts. […]
Capertee Valley project providing habitat for one of Australia’s rarest birds With only 350–400 mature adults remaining in the wild, the regent honeyeater is one of Australia’s rarest birds. The striking black and yellow birds were once widespread along the eastern Australian coast, from as far north as Rockhampton to Melbourne in the south. Extensive […]
Local graziers are taking advantage of support while planning for what is forecast to be a tough winter season. Grass budgets, setting critical dates and adaptive planning dominated discussion when members of Watershed Landcare’s Grazing Group met recently. “Members are preparing for a tough winter and are having to make different decisions because they don’t […]
Expert speakers in the pest animal and weeds field will gather for two workshops next week to be held in Gulgong on Wednesday 27 March and in Pyramul on Thursday 28 March. Landholders in both areas have requested a focus on serrated tussock. This is an invasive weed of pastures, with the potential to infest […]
Local landholders and pest managers will be introduced to some cutting edge remote sensing technology at two Watershed Landcare workshops to be held on 27 and 28 March in Gulgong and Pyramul. A team from New Zealand’s Encounter Solutions will be discussing their long-range wireless sensor networks for rural and rugged areas, with applications for […]
Mid Western Regional Council will be hosting a Carp Muster at the Putta Bucca Wetlands on Sunday 17 March. Carp have a detrimental effect on water quality and their feeding habits are destructive to plants, which provide critical feeding, spawning and nursery habitat for native fish. Carp are benthivorous fish that feed in and on […]
