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A project funded by the Federal Government, being run by NCCMA is addressing soil health locally. The project is centred around the Loddon Cropping Group at Serpentine, with 15 farmers receiving grants totally $140,000 this growing season to do a variety of works on their farms from sowing new pasture species, to adapting farm machinery, […]

The LPLN has been successful in gaining funding to bring 40 melbourne dwellers to visit our landcare groups and get their hands dirty planting some trees. The group will arrive on Saturday 4th September and we will bus them out to 4 locations to plant trees for the afternoon (2000 trees in total). In the

I was fortunate to attend the National Landcare Forum in Adelaide in March this year. I was able to attend due to sponsorship from the North Central Catchment Management Authority (NCCMA) and the North Central Landcare Group. The theme of the Forum was celebrate, communicate and invigorate – and I can confidently say I did

On the 5th of February a meeting was held between members of the Wedderburn CMN and members of the Victorian Malleefowl Recovery Group (VMRG). Two of the objectives of the meetings were; firstly a revision of the alignment of the work of the WCMN with the National Malleefowl Recovery Plan and secondly discussion of the

It was an instructive experience to attend the first National Invasive Cacti Forum held at the Waite precinct of Adelaide University. Some of the positive points I was pleased to note were: There were highly qualified and experienced representatives from WA, SA, NSW, ACT and QLD present. Wheel cactus was high on the agenda but

The Loddon Plains Landcare Network is up and running and looking forward to a great year in 2010! The Network has secured a $10,000 Second Generation Landcare Grant for use in what could be considered a practical and also symbolic network wide activity in Spring. The activity will involve up to 40 volunteers working with

The group arrived at Dimboola for lunch after a wet trip through Minyip and the endless plains of a variety of well growing crops.The Starricks’ farm at Marango was our stop for the afternoon; they run Boer goats on the river flats. The river was running for the first time in five years and the

A hard session of planting done, the planters take a break. See the previous article by Mal Brown on aspects of the Northern United Forestry Group. Photograph by Mal Brown

IntroductionNorthern United Forestry Group (NUFG) is a community-based collective of 45 farming families committed to establishing permanent systems that bring about sustainable land use change. The group’s focus is to establish low-rainfall (In 2004 NUFG received the National Landcare Research Award for its research into suitable native trees for farm forestry on Victoria’s northern plains.

Ten o’clock in the morning of the 24th of November at Northern United Forestry Group’s (NUFG) Kamarooka Project site on the Hay family farm saw the beginning of an information day when representatives from the Norman Wettenhall Foundation (NWF) met with the executive committee of the Loddon Plains Landcare Network. The committee’s objectives for the