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Yass Landcare Group: Paddock Tree Field Day
Yass NSWAustraliaSunday, 11 November 2018 - 12:30pm to 6:30pmJoin Yass Landcare on a bus tour to Boorowa/Hovells Creek Landcare to learn from their Paddock Tree Project.
With guest speakers Dr Damon Oliver (from Office of Environment and Heritage) and Sustainable Farms' Dr Mason Crane.
MEET: behind the Yass Memorial Hall, Banjo Paterson Park for departure at 12.30pm (return by 6.30pm)
BRING: Enclosed footwear, hat, sunscreen, water, and long pants...
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Woomargama, ‘Woomargama Station’, The effects of restoring creeklines on your farm for farm health, native fish and broader biodiversity
Woomargama NSWAustraliaFriday, 22 February 2019 - 5:00pm to 8:45pmJoin Sustainable Farms (and our partners Holbrook Landcare and Murray LLS) for this field day as part of our 2019 Summer Series.This family friendly field day will focus on works you can implement to restore creeklines on your property. Our host for the day is Clare Cannon, who has had great success improving the environment and natural assets on her...
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Winter Bird Surveys 2018
Our team of field ecologists has been conducting regular wildlife surveys at the same sites in the woodland ecosystems west and northwest of Canberra for nearly 20 years. This year’s surveys produced a number of very interesting and unusual records. The recent dry conditions seemed to be affecting bird communities and we saw many insectivorous species, such as Flame Robins,...
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Tony and Vicky Geddes
YallockHolbrook, NSW
Tony and Vicky Geddes
“Without the treelines, with a nude landscape, if you get out here on a hot summer’s day, it gets pretty oppressive; or a freezing cold winter without some form of shelter across the landscape, you look at it and think, that’s...
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Sustainable Farms Newsletter
A pdf copy of the first Sustainable Farms newsletter, electronically distributed to our mailing list on 16/10/2018.
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Sustainable farming in the face of climate change
Professor David Lindenmayer has had a busy month (from interviewing Tim Flannery, traveling to Brazil for a conference, and working on papers analysing Sustainable Farms woodland bird data). Last week, while our team were in the field on vegetation surveys, David and young farmer of the year Anika Molesworth (who runs a farm near Broken Hill, NSW) were interviewed...
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Sam and Claire Johnson
WindermereMurringo, NSW
Sam and Claire Johnson
“We tend to go in with the opinion that we haven’t got everything worked out but somehow it will work. It just may not work how we thought it would but we can just change and it will all...
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Riparian Restoration Brochure updated 2019
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Researchers collaborate to help Australian farmers
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) will play an important role in a five-year initiative that aims to improve environmental, economic and social outcomes in rural Australia by helping farmers better manage their natural assets.
The Sustainable Farms initiative is informed by 20 years of ecological research undertaken on farms throughout the south-eastern wheat-sheep belt of Australia. This research...
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