Published September 3, 2010

The Mudgee region is just outside the eastern boundary of one of the predicted plague locust risk zones, mapped on the Australian Dept. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry website. However many farmers further west, who grow the wheat for our bread and pasta, are likely to be seriously affected.

Published August 27, 2010

Watershed Landcare are coordinating a chemical control campaign for serrated tussock in the Piambong area and are calling on landholders who would like to take advantage of this opportunity to get on top of any adult, seeding plants on their properties.

Published August 20, 2010

Here are two upcoming events where landholders can learn about opportunities that exist in the growing industry of renewable energy production.

Published 13 August, 2010

A group of Watershed Landcare members, known as the Mudgee Microscope Group, have collated results as part of a soil health project funded through the Central West Catchment Management Authority Small Grants for Community Groups program. The grant enabled members of the Microscope Group to quantify how soil health properties are affected by management in pastures and vineyards.

Published 30 July, 2010

Local landholders interested in farm forestry opportunities are being encouraged to take part in an interview with researchers who are looking at the viability of a bio energy industry based around plantation biomass in the Central Tablelands region.

Published July 2010

All food we take home from the supermarket is a product of a plant, growing in soil, somewhere in the world.
What we eat, whether that’s fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat, or any of the more processed foods is made up of nutrients that originated from soil.

Published July 2010

I’m a working mum, time poor but with strong personal goals of sustainability…. How can I (and others with different limitations; mobility / small spaces) reduce my contribution to landfill and methane emissions?

There is a solution for everyone.

Published July 2, 2010

Landholders in the Piambong area - it’s not too late to get involved in Watershed’s Serrated Tussock Project.

The project is now offering landholders on-farm vegetation surveys with our “grazier-botanist” Christine McRae. Working with landholders, we’re aiming to map out the density and distribution of serrated tussock (if present), along with particular desirable species that are good competitors against the serrated tussock seedlings.

Published June 25, 2010

There’s nothing like stretching out on a soft, green patch of lawn on a sunny weekend afternoon.

The perfect lawn would be green all year round on less water, grow in sunny and shady spots, frost hardy, soft to lie on and won’t invade garden beds...

Published 18 June, 2010

Our water storage, Windamere Dam, located 30km upstream of Mudgee (on the Cudgegong River) is currently storing about 60,000ML - this is 16% of the dam’s total capacity (one Megalitre ML is 1 million litres, think Olympic sized pool).

State Water estimates in its latest Conservative Water Storage and Usage Budget that the dam will store somewhere between 3%-17% over the next 7 years. This is the balance of inflows from rainfall run-off over its 1000km2 catchment, and usage by current water users in the Cudgegong Valley. Current water users in the Cudgegong Valley include Council (urban), stock & domestic, irrigators (with High or General Security licences) and water conservation (i.e. environmental flows).