Each month Brunswick Valley Landcare publishes a comprehensive newsletter of what’s happening in the land of landcare in our shire and beyond. Seriously how big is that cane toad!!?? This brilliant newsletter has standing items including: EVENTS AND SEMINARS, WEED OF THE MONTH, WORKING BEE lists & LINKS to fabulous resources. ZEB highly recommends…
Wren McLean – ZEB’s Replant Co ordinator We met Bunya in his mega diverse, multi-strata successional food forest. A land restoration project that uses an evolving understanding of natural succession. Over the past 6 years a previous monoculture farm paddock has been converted into a successional food forest. Restoring ecological services by incorporating native plants…
Wren McLean – ZEB’s Replant Co ordinator I caught up with Eco-Recharge bush regenerator Edward Phillips who was working with colleague Dom Trucillo in a riparian planting along Blindmouth Creek, Main Arm behind Mullumbimby. While discussing the project a vulnerable White-eared Monarch began vocalising loudly from the 15m canopy making sure its presence and its…
Head along to the TAFE campus at Wollongbar, 61 Sneaths Road this Saturday for a day filled with all things Green Living. Our star Board Member, Sebastian Crangle, will be on the 1.30pm panel discussing “Creating a Green Home” alongside Phil Dudman (ABC Garden Gugu). The Northern Rivers Green Living Expo is a family-friendly community…
Electric vehicles are making their way onto Australian roads. But when will we start to see more EVs on our farms? In what timeframe will electric heavy machinery become available? What infrastructure will be required to ensure that farmers and rural Australia are equipped to deal with this new demand? Hear from Stephanie Gersekowski, John…