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FARM MANAGER - with Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, which promotes regenerative agriculture and holistic farming practices and are run organically using biodynamic principles.
LANDSCAPE PLANNER - with Mulloon Consulting Contracting & Certifying who demonstrate and share regenerative methods of land management. Closes: 14 August 2020.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER - with the Mulloon Institute, a world class research, education and advocacy organisation in the regenerative agriculture sector. Closes: 28 August 2020.
Tom and Martina Shelley from Birkenburn Farm near Bungendore hosted a cultural burning workshop with Cultural Fire practitioner Den Barber during July, as part of their ongoing commitment to environmental projects that includes large-scale tree-planting, creating wildlife corridors and controlling erosion.
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Activities have been busily underway in both southern Queensland and in the Southern Tablelands as the MCCC team dove into site assessments, facilitating workshops and providing quotes for landscape rehydration works.
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Drought across the Southern Highlands since mid-2016 has exasperated pastoral conditions for landholders reliant on pasture growth and clear water supplies to maintain stock numbers.
So, how have the leaky weirs established at The Mulloon Institute (TMI) fared during that extended dry period?
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One of two new weather stations commissioned from Environdata has been successfully installed at the Home Farm property by Research Coordinator Luke Peel and Hydrologist Tony Bernardi with a second installation planned at Duralla in the coming weeks.
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On-ground work on the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative (MRI) continued during July once we had accessed logs for the leaky weirs following a shortage caused by the bushfires. Project Coordinator Peter Hazell has been very much ‘back in the creek’ directing another stage of the MRI.
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The Mulloon Institute’s living laboratory, Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, has been awarded the very first ‘Ecological Outcome Verification’ certificate from Land to Market Australia.
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The Mulloon Institute is excited to announce that Allan Savory, founder of the globally recognised Savory Institute and of Holistic Management, has agreed to be guest presenter at this year’s Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture.
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What better way to support The Mulloon Institute than by buying one of the heifers we're selling TOMORROW via Auctions Plus?
We are super proud of how we’ve managed to put 1kg on them each day as a result of running them under our biodynamic pasture-fed chooks at Duralla with low stress stock handling. Holistically managed focusing on principles of building biodiversity on Mulloon Creek Natural Farms. Only being sold due to a change in management situation.
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Bungendore landholders Tom Gordon and Martina Shelley will be hosting a ‘Cultural Burning Workshop’ at their Birkenburn Farm this winter with Cultural Fire practitioner Den Barber and members of the Koori Country Firesticks Aboriginal Corporation (KCFSAC).
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June has seen exciting developments for MCCC with upcoming landscape rehydration trials in Western Australia, plus site visits and site assessments closer to home, including the Kangaroo Valley, Harefield (near Wagga Wagga) and detailed planning for Mulloon Creek Natural Farms.
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Are you passionate about restoring and rehydrating the landscape on your farm or catchment but don’t know where to start? Did you know that we can bring the work of the Mulloon Institute to you?
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TMI’S Board has now completed its Strategic Plan for the next three years. This was a substantial piece of work that commenced several months ago (pre COVID-19) with a workshop. Our CEO, Carolyn Hall and consultant Richard Forbes pulled it all together and presented it at our June Board meeting where, following much discussion and analysis, it was approved with a resolution to move quickly on its implementation. No doubt it is ambitious, but with so much interest in our work and in regenerative agriculture more broadly, the Board is confident that the timing is right.
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We farewelled Farm Manager Michael Fitzgerald this month and his wife Wendy. Michael has been with MCNF for over four years and has overseen a virtual doubling of egg production during that time. He has embraced TMI's landscape rehydration and regenerative agriculture principles and will continue to be a great advocate for our work in his future agricultural activities. We wish Michael and Wendy all the very best for the future.
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Our partners HydroTerra are currently working with us to develop a monitoring strategy and assist with the turnkey implementation of the specified system. The key has been establishing the indicators of catchment health and productivity, then documenting the requisite parameters required to calculate these indicators.
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MRI Project Coordinator Pete Hazell has been successful in securing logs and rocks for the next stage of on-ground works in the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative. Another four leaky weir structures will be installed along Mulloon Creek at the Duralla property during July with logs from Tumbarumba and rocks from Nerriga.
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Research Coordinator Luke Peel has been busy with our Science Advisory Council members and HydroTerra finalising drafts for the ‘TMI SAC Framework paper’ and the ‘Monitoring Plan and System Specifications’ document. These will form the basis of the research being undertaken and detail the monitoring design and implementation that will establish TMI’s long-term monitoring plan.
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The Mulloon Institute is a registered Australian not-for-profit organisation with Deductible Gift Recipient status, meaning that donations of $2 or more are tax deductible. Your financial support will allow us to grow our resources and help achieve an even stronger outcome for the environment, for farming and our society.
Please consider supporting us before the end of this financial year by donating today.
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