Recently Elizabeth Goodfellow - member of the Bowning Bookham Landcare Group and YAN Climate Ready Revegetation Project Manager spoke at the ACT Environmental Volunteers Conference. This conference united volunteers, community organisations, experts, and policy makers, fostering idea exchange, experience sharing, and mutual learning. 

Under the theme "Resilient Environments, Resilient Communities," the event delved into innovative approaches, local insights, and cutting-edge research in environmental conservation. It addressed climate change challenges and nurtured a sense of connection with nature. 

Elizabeth was the speaker at the popular session on how the ACT and its surrounding region can become climate ready. Highlighting YANs climate ready revegetation project and how YAN can work together with groups across the region to prepare for the future. 

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More information about the Climate Ready Revegetation Project can be found here

Boorowa Landcare group hosted an inspiring afternoon for regional grazing groups to get their heads together and plan how we can work to help support farmers and graziers. Members of the Bowning Bookham Landcare Group’s Landcare on Farms grazing group ideated with other passionate groups to swap ideas, thoughts and create plans on how we can assist each other in the common goal of caring for the land we work and which supports our agricultural businesses. 

Through collaborative efforts like this we are working together to ensure the food and fibre we are producing from our farms is done in a way which is both sustainable, profitable, and better for the consumer and community as a whole. 

Our Landcare on Farms group has a solid calendar of activities planned for the coming months. If you are interested in joining the Landcare on Farms Group on-farm, please feel free to email bblandcaregroup@gmail.com for all the details. 

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More About the Landcare on Farms group

The Bowning Bookham Landcare group invites farmers and graziers in the district to join the Landcare on Farms group. This is an active and passionate group of farmers who is working and learning together to better their farm businesses, the properties that they run and the landscape as a whole. 

The group meets regularly throughout the year with farm walks and other formal activities and training. The group aims to share ideas, help members plan and manage the upcoming season and provide peer support in decision making and problem solving. 

A sunny winters day saw a wonderful group of volunteers join in our Community Planting Day. Over 300 native plants were carefully planted and protected by this industrious group and all before lunchtime! 

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This new planting aims to join the remnant vegetation along the Black Range road to other larger areas of remnant vegetation throughout the property and beyond allowing wildlife to move along this corridor, provide habitat to birds and insects and also providing shelter for the livestock on the property.

We would like to extend a huge thank you to those who joined us on the day and our nursery volunteers who propagated and cultivated the tube stock used in these plantings. 

We were blown away by the incredible enthusiasm from our community members with individuals of all ages working together towards a common goal.

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this wonderful event!

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This Community Planting Day is a part of the Bowning Bookham Landcare Groups  Habitat Hops: From Burrinjuck to Bango Project. For more information or to get involved please click here.

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We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Landcare community planting day! Together, we planted hundreds of native plants and trees, helping to revegetate local grazing country and create future habitat linkages. 

We were blown away by the incredible enthusiasm from our community members, who turned out on a sunny winters day. It was heartwarming to see families, friends, and individuals of all ages working together towards a common goal.

We would also like to express our gratitude to our dedicated nursery volunteers who grew these plants. Hopefully there is satisfaction in seeing them in the ground. 

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this wonderful event!

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This Community Planting Day is a part of the Bowning Bookham Landcare Groups  Habitat Hops: From Burrinjuck to Bango Project. For more information or to get involved please click here.