Kath McGuirk and Elizabeth Goodfellow have just confirmed arrangements for a conversation with Nola Hancock from Macquarie Uni at our August 16th meeting.

Nola will talk with us about our options for selecting and sourcing climate-adaptive plants for our area. The idea of this is to source seed smartly so that all these plants we add to our properties are likely to survive the climate shifts that Steven Crimp talked about last month and do so for a long time to come. Nola was part of the team that developed the climate-ready vegetation guide that you can access here: http://www.anpc.asn.au/resources/climate_ready_revegetation#.

We’re also going to have a Nursery Planning Day with Nola Hancock and Linda Broadhurst on Fri 17th August to figure out an action plan for how we get the mix of seed/plants that we talk about at the meeting on Thursday night.  That’ll be 10am to 4pm so put it in your diary if you’re interested and let Kath McGuirk at [email protected] if you would like to attend.  This event will be added to face-book as well.

Hi everyone, Well , it’s been over a month since our very successful about ‘Join the Climate Conversation’ in Yass on 25^th May 2018, and we’d like to say a big thank you for your participation - whether it was as a Speaker, Stallholder, Student or Landcare member.

The planning committee were thrilled with the attendance & have had excellent feedback about the day.

Speakers and stallholders & students all had positive comments about the day and we hope to keep spreading the word that together land managers hold solutions to reducing the impact of the changing climate.

Below are 2 links to the shorter versions of the footage that was compiled about the day.

Please feel free to circulate amongst your networks on social media – lets ‘like’ and ‘share’ as much as we can to keep the conversation going….

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-oA7iwfI1dV6_lq5KlkdtZ2FJHciEZS8/view?usp=sharing_eip&ts=5b3b42b0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13MISpUMjVZ56WC_9kfz8N89Q5fy1ifFZ/view?usp=sharing_eip&ts=5b3b42d3

The organisers have submitted an abstract to present this event at the National Landcare Conference in Brisbane in October 2018, to showcase what Landcare groups can do when resourced and supported well & how effective they are in working with industry, business and community.

There is also a longer film of the day (8 minutes) which we will launch at the conference, and as it features many of the public, stallholders & speakers, we hope that you can use within your networks also.

Thanks again for being involved -

Kind Regards

Linda Cavanagh

Landcare Co-ordinator