Landcare News and Opportunities Opportunities and awards National Landcare Program: Smart Farms Small Grants Round 4 is now open. The purpose of Smart Farms Small Grants is to support land manager practice change that will deliver more sustainable, productive and profitable food, fibre and forestry business while protecting Australia’s biodiversity; protecting and improving the condition
Welcome to the Spring 2019 Upper Hopkins LMG newsletter, my first as the Upper Hop-kins LMG Facilitator. Many thanks to Una for all of the work that she has achieved with Landcare and for the invaluable advice and guidance that she has provided to me in the last two months. I’m gradually getting to know
Cropping wetlands… it’s not worth the cost With farmers preparing to implement their winter cropping program, Glenelg Hopkins CMA is reminding landholders that it could cost more than they anticipate if they sow into wetland areas. The extended dry seasonal conditions this year mean many wetland areas or boggy paddocks are now dry, and there
Autumn Woodland Bird Monitoring On Sunday the 14th of April, the Upper Hopkins Land Management Group conducted their autumn round of Woodland Bird Monitoring. This completes five years of bird monitoring across these 3 sites. The sites being a remnant bushland site in the Ararat Hills Regional Reserve, a farm land remnant bush site on