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.


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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!


Latest News



Why Soil Microbes Run the Underground Economy - By Dr Aurelie Quade

Do you know what the Euro, the Australian dollar, the Yen, the British pound and the Dirham have in common with soil carbon, total carbon, organic carbon, recalcitrant carbon and labile carbon? They are all forms of currency.

“Soil microbes are not some benevolent gifts from nature. They are genius economists, not trading in dollars, but in carbon.”


TRLA Small Grants Recipient's

2026 TRLA Small Grants Recipients Announced!!

We are excited to announce the recipients of our 2026 Small Grants Program, with over $21,000 awarded to support local environmental and community initiatives across the region.

This year’s program attracted a strong and diverse range of applications from schools, Landcare groups and community organisations. The quality of submissions was outstanding, reflecting the passion and commitment of our community to improving the environment, building resilience and strengthening local connections.


Just A farmer Screening

Join the Upper Peel Landcare Group for a heartfelt afternoon at Nundle Memorial Hall, featuring a screening of the powerful Australian film Just a Farmer. This moving story explores resilience, grief, and the often-unspoken realities of life on the land, shining a light on the mental health challenges faced by farming families and the importance of reaching out and supporting one another.


Nursery Weekly Sale!

This coming week we are selling our Lemon scented Gums for just $3.50!

Remember we are located at 300 Wallamore Road West Tamworth. Mondays, Wednesday & Fridays between 8:00am - 3:00pm. 




Murray Darling Basin Authority Projects

 A team from the Murray Darling Basin Authority (including its CEO Andrew McConville and a number of key technical staff) visited a number of the project sites along Water Gully on 19 April. This visit was part of an information gathering exercise to inform the current revision of the Murray Darling Basin Plan due to be released later this year, with the group wishing to better understand water issues and water management options in the Upper Namoi watershed catchment area.


Have your say on waterway approvals

Have you tried to get planning approval for works to protect or rehabilitate your riverbank from flooding?

As part of the Riverbank Rehabilitation Project, Local Land Services is undertaking work to better understand the challenges landholders experience when seeking approvals for waterways and riverbank works across NSW.

This project includes an anonymous survey to capture insights on the time, cost, effort and approval processes landholders navigate when undertaking riverbank rehabilitation works, and to identify where improvements could be made to better support landholders in the future.

Our members often say that when you become part of Landcare, you’re not just joining a group, you’re becoming part of a family. The concept is so compatible with Australian culture it’s hard not to get involved! By becoming a TRLA member, you’ll be supporting our work, learning new skills, becoming part of the solution, and helping to make a difference for the future.

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together we can make a difference

funding support

Did you know (TRLA) run an Annual Small Grants program for Landcare activities connected to the Tamworth region.

Volunteer Landcare and Grassroots Community groups can apply up to $2,500 for activities that meet an objective of TRLA’s strategic plan with eight successful projects being awarded funds from across the region.

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