Wheatbelt Landscape Rehydration Trial & Demonstration

WA Landscape Planner Lance Mudgway has completed the final initial inspection report for Avondale, assessing it for participation in on-ground trials of landscape rehydration works in the Wheatbelt region.

The assessment forms part of the ‘Landscape Rehydration Trial & Demonstration in the WA Wheatbelt’ project, which is supported by funding from the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program.

The next stage will see three properties chosen from the seven that have been assessed, to ascertain which ones will move to the next stage and have the rehydration plans done for them.

REstore. REshape. REnew: This year’s must-see event for soil, business and farmer health

With the Talkin’ Soil Health Conference now postponed to 2023 due to Covid, we’ll instead be coming to WA to present as part of Wheatbelt NRM’s ‘Restore-Reshape-Renew’ event at the Muresk Institute on 31 March 2022. This one-day event will feature two exciting workshops about harnessing natural capital for sustainable farming futures.

In the morning, Terry McCosker OAM from RCS Australia will facilitate a discussion with local farmers about getting off the treadmill of high fertiliser and chemical costs with stories from some of WA’s most innovative broadacre farmers.

In the afternoon, the Mulloon Institute will deliver a practical, capacity building workshop on landscape rehydration taking farmers through tools and techniques to take back to their properties – reading the landscape, identifying current and historical water flows and seeing where opportunities lie in existing imbalances. This will be followed by a farm tour.

Tickets: via Humanitix