The Mulloon Institute’s new Landscape Rehydration Learning Programs are being developed through an exciting collaboration with Soil Land Food.
Read MoreStaff from the Mulloon Institute spent time with station owners in the Mt Garnet area recently to deliver the first in a series of workshops as part of Terrain NRM’s Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project.
Read MoreLandscape Planners Sam Skeat and Joe Skuse recently toured around north west NSW delivering a series of ‘Landscape Rehydration’ introductory workshops in partnership with North West Local Land Services.
Read MoreThe NSW Government has proposed changes to allow farmers to restore streams on their property through landscape rehydration techniques, without the need for council approval.
Read MoreMulloon Consulting is seeking:
Landscape Planner / Project Manager with sound technical skills in hydrology for landscape rehydration, who is passionate about effecting change in regenerative environmental and agricultural practices.
Landscape Designer to generate innovative management solutions, including detailed designs for surface and groundwater management.
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Read MoreMulloon Creek Natural Farms continues to experience well above average rainfall this year, close in fact to double the long-term average! Egg collecting has been increasingly difficult with multiple boggings and the team look forward to drier conditions to allow for infrastructure upgrades.
Read MoreCreek works have been on pause while we watch the floodwaters pass under the bridge. But this hasn’t stopped the planning and it hasn’t stopped the planting. We aim to get about 2,000 plants in this summer along both the creek and the ridges.
Read MoreWe are sad to inform you that Yuin Elder, Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, passed away on the 11th December 2021. He was 85 years old. He was a great friend to the Mulloon Institute, and especially to our founders Tony and Toni Coote.
Read MoreWhen 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 do.
Read MoreWe’re super excited to announce that our flagship project, the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative, is a top three finalist in the Banksia Awards’ NSW Biodiversity category! The Banksia Awards are the most prestigious sustainability awards in Australia and the longest-running sustainability awards in the world.
Read MoreDespite the damp and muddy conditions with fairly consistent drizzle, 20 hardy souls helped us plant 200 trees on the hillside site, including many fast growing wattles. Many participants were from Canberra and others had joined us from Cooma and Sydney.
Read MoreOrchids, lizards and wombat holes. A day in the life of our scientists working on the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is far from boring!
The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is jointly funded through the Mulloon Institute and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
Read MoreLandscape Planner Joe Skuse recently led a highly successful workshop in the Capertee Valley, NSW on assessing the health of land, tackling erosion and rebuilding fertility using simple techniques.
Read MoreSome imaginative students and staff from Australian National University and the University of Wollongong have taken a deep dive into the art of model-making, kick-starting our ‘Modelling Landscape Rehydration for Catchments, Communities and Curriculum’ citizen science project.
Read MoreWith the wettest period on record and Covid lockdown limiting our ability to access the field instruments, we’ve been concentrating on working with key partner HydroTerra to get our data management and reporting system operational for the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
Read MoreTMI Chairman Gary Nairn and CEO Carolyn Hall had the pleasure of attending the World Soil Day Event breakfast at Old Parliament House in early December, by invitation from the National Soils Advocate the Hon Penny Wensley AC.
Read MoreAs we head into summer La Nina controls the weather so one day it is warm, the next cold, but regular rain is the norm. Not something to complain about unless you are a crop farmer trying to harvest, or in the case of Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, trying to instal new infrastructure and repair roads. Our last 12 monthly rainfall is almost double the long-term average so quite a change from just two years ago when we had record numbers of drought months!
Read MoreAt this workshop, we brought together the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative landholders to learn how grazing management can help their landscape rehydration objectives and also benefit the overall project.
Read MoreFlooding on the floodplains! With the farm inundated from the highest rainfall ever recorded in the catchment and the farm flooded out, this year ANU Environmental Science Field School invited the Mulloon Institute on-campus for a critical thinking workshop.
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