Greta Valley Landcare bootcamp
Peter Hazell and David Hardwick presenting outdoors.
Rehydrating Your Farm Landscape
In March this year, the Greta Valley Landcare community were the first cohort to experience the Mulloon Institute Learning Program’s newest Bootcamp – ‘Rehydrating Your Farm Landscape’. Over two days, the Institute’s Peter Hazell and Tam Connor along with Soil Land Food’s David Hardwick, led landholders through a series of informative presentations, discussions and engaging activities on how landscape rehydration benefits their farms.
Geared towards growing our understanding of how water moves through landscapes, we ran a series of fun and interactive skills-building activities to hone our understanding of landscape form, function and their interconnectedness across times and scales. We explored the fundamentals of energy and the effect on the small and large water cycles, before launching into a hydrological map reading activity.
All about the action, we headed back out to a property to assess a healthy and eroded drainage line using simple soil and terrain indicators and discussed how landscape rehydration interventions, in combination with other strategies, can help restore function. Peter stepped through the Institute’s scientific approach using modelling for in-stream structures and the benefits of community action with catchment scale works.
We rounded out the bootcamp with a review of how this understanding of a landscape’s hydrological function can apply to identifying priority issues for your property and steps that can be taken to achieving landscape rehydration that works towards your vision and goals.
“Great course. The skills and knowledge of the presenters have given us confidence to make the changes we need. Very enjoyable.” – Participant testimonial.
This bootcamp was supported by the NSW Environmental Trust and is part of a project being supported by the Carboor Bobinawarrah Landcare group through funding from the Australian Government’s Murray Darling Healthy Rivers Program.
L-R: Peter Hazell (TMI), Tam Connor (TMI), Sally Day (Greta Valley Landcare) and David Hardwick (SLF).