Connecting Country
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Taking root and branching out: Soundwork tells 30-year story of local landcare group
Have you ever been to a ‘Listening In’? It’s like a film screening only they say the pictures are better and it feels more intimate. As part of Landcare Week, the immersive audio documentary Taking Root in Barkers Creek will be presented at the Phee Broadway Theatre on the evening of Wednesday August 6. The…
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Come plant with us!
National Tree Day is coming up on Sunday July 27. National Tree Day is a call to action for all Australians to get their hands dirty and give back to the environment. To celebrate, Connecting Country is partnering with the Friends of Campbells Creek and others to bring you a community planting day and nature…
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Local Landcare heroes celebrated
Founding member of Golden Point Landcare Group, Marie Jones, has been awarded the prestigious Joan Kirner Landcare Award. Marie was one of several local residents recognised for their contributions maintaining and restoring the natural environment at the 2023-2024 Victorian Landcare Awards at Marvel Stadium on July 18. The Joan Kirner Landcare Award honours a long-term…
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For the next generation
Connecting Country is co-hosting a National Tree Day community planting with Mount Alexander Shire Council and Post Office Hill Action Group on July 30. The day is a chance for the Mount Alexander/Leanganook community to take direct on-ground conservation action to restore and enhance local biodiversity. This event has been made possible due to the…
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Second birthday sale for Good Op Shop
The Good Op Shop at Castlemaine will celebrate its second year of being open with a mini sustainability expo and sale on Saturday. Six local groups will hold stalls in the courtyard to share information about their sustainability and conservation work. “We wanted to share the amount of amazing work that is going on in…
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Mysterious marsupials
La Trobe University researchers have caught on camera one of Victoria’s most elusive and threatened marsupials – revealing there’s more brush-tailed phascogales living in central Victoria than previously thought. The study, recently published in Austral Ecology, used nesting boxes combined with heat-sensing cameras to determine how prevalent the extremely shy, fast-moving creature is in the box-ironbark…
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Video celebrates local landcarers
A new ‘Landcare Celebration’ video pays tribute to the hardworking and passionate volunteer groups across the Mount Alexander region. The Connecting Country video was funded through a Mount Alexander Shire Community Grant and features a number of landcare volunteers talking about why landcare is important to their community and the vast diversity of projects across…
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Healthy landscapes
Connecting Country has been successful in round three of the Smart Farms Small Grants program and will receive $49,623 to develop a targeted Healthy Landscapes guide and on-farm workshops. The guide and workshops aim to provide local farmers and other land managers with practical tools to better understand their land and make informed management decisions…