New England & North West Landcare Adventure 2023

We are pleased to invite you to join us for the upcoming New England & North West Landcare Conference 2023! This event will explore the latest innovations, strategies, and best practices in landcare and conservation. We will have a variety of experts giving engaging presentations, offering interactive workshops, and engaging in meaningful dialogue. This is an excellent opportunity to learn from and collaborate with like-minded individuals and organisations as we strive to care for and protect our land and its resources. We hope to see you there!

Secure your seat at the official dinner and hear from keynote speaker, Gundi Rhoades author of the Food Solution.

Event program Event program

Overview of guest speakers Friday, May 26, 2023

All Streams

Andrew Watson: Is Farming Caring for the Land? 

The Weedy Gardener: Down the Carrot Hole and his Weedy Garden

Native Grains: Angela Pattison & Kerri Saunders

The 3 Rs: Research, Rehydration & Resilience

Aurelie Quade: Farming Past, Present and Future: The role of organic carbon

Guy Roth: Agricultural Technologies

Lu Hogan: Proactive management of land and animals in a variable climate with Ag360

Martin Thoms: Knowing your Waterways

Roger Ottery: Rehydrating Your Farm

Healthy Soil, Healthy Food

Angela Pattison: Native Grains: Field to Food on Gomeroi Country

Cameron Leckie: Gaps? What Gaps? Analysis to Inform the National Soil Strategy

Dr Oliver Knox: Soil Your Undies

Grant Hilliard: Your Farm’s Story: It’s importance and tell it so that your customers listen

South Pole: A Holistic Approach to Land Management: Carbon and biodiversity projects

Richard and Janet Doyle: Our Regenerative Journey

Community & Urban

Bronwyn Brennan: Let’s put our 'Phytocaps' on: How waste can be green

Dr Gundi Rhoades: The Food Solution

Emmanuela Prigioni: Social Enterprise Farming Around our Towns and Cities

Vicki Stokes: Returning the Pilliga to the Past: Restoring the native animals

Grant Hilliard: Your Farm’s Story: It’s importance and tell it so that your customers listen

Citizen Science & Education

Craig Little: Landcare NSW: Indigenous knowledge and involvement

Andrew Daley: Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) 

Kristy Peters: Woodland Bird Diversity in a Changing Climate: The role of native mistletoe

Wally Hammond: Aboriginal Community Support Officer, North West LLS: My role

McCarthy High School: Landcare in High Schools

Peel High School: Regen Ag in High Schools

Workshops: Saturday, May 27, 2023

TRLA Nursery:

• Nursery tour
• Indian Myna bird traps and how they work
• Workshops with Mr. Weedy: Compashi, soil bacteria, worm farm
• Weaving

Field trip to Gowrie/Duri: Landscape rehydration projects

Field trip with the Local Lands Council to Boundary Rock

Proudly funded by the Australian Government in association with the NSW Government and supported by the New England Landcare Group and North West Landcare, we look forward to seeing you there!