New staff learning the ropes
When restrictions on travel and hosting groups finally eased this year we took the opportunity to bring our expanding team together for a tour of the Home Farm and Duralla, allowing newer staff to learn more about what we’re doing on-ground in terms of landscape rehydration via the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative and more broadly about the Mulloon Institute’s story and journey so far.
Key sites that were visited included a newer leaky weir and the hilltop contour site at Duralla (where the volunteer tree planting day was held), and Peter’s Pond (leaky weir) and the Step Diffusion System (a hillside ephemeral waterway) both at the Home Farm.
It was a great day with many staff getting to meet face-to-face for the first time after months of working remotely and only knowing each other via computer screens. It was also an exciting opportunity to really appreciate how far we’ve come as an organisation – one that is growing and maturing and working hard to roll out landscape rehydration around Australia. We look forward to being able to open to the public again and resume field trips to our farms!
The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is jointly funded through the Mulloon Institute and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. The initiative is also assisted by the NSW Government through its Environmental Trust.