Signposts; Building our Community of Practice (COP)
LR hold quarterly Signposts events where members are invited to engage in joint activities and discussions around sustainable agriculture i.e. share techniques, experiences and/ or resources.
Hope Through Habitat
The Hope through Habitat project is a partnership project between LR and the Cumnock Men’s Shed. The project seeks to conserve, protect and restore local habitat to prevent loss of biodiversity.
Quick Posts; Motivation Through Media
LR Quickposts are educational articles posted in the Yeoval Satellite and Cumnock Review each month. Each article focuses on a Natural Resource Management topic such as waste management, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, water etc.
Closing the Loop at UPA
LR was engaged by the Yeoval UPA Aged Care Services in October 2020, to support their efforts in natural resource management within the centre. The centre managed waste reduction through the Council owned co-mingled recycling service and wished to incorporate organics recycling into daily waste minimisation practices.
Energetic Women in the Environment (EWE)
The EWE project aims to facilitate communication and assist with increasing resilience within the LR catchment by bringing together women from across the LRLG district. Topics vary from gardening to business management with specialist knowledge available through guest speaker support.
Protecting the Purple Patch
A $100,000 project that aimed to protect and enhance the waterway habitat of the endangered Purple Spotted Gudgeon. Evidence of the fish population was first noted in 2013 in a secondary tributary off the Little River. On ground restoration and rehabilitation works was funded through two grants from the NSW Environmental Trust and Landcare Australia.
CRIP – Local Elders
Funded through the Dept. of justice this project aimed to build resilience capacity in regional communities pre and post disaster. Topics ranged from flood, fire & drought through to a social tragedy. The like-minded group formed and spent several days together work shopping and networking with Paul Ryan a leader in Resilience training over a period of 3 months.
Rivers & Rocks
A stock exclusion fencing, regeneration and revegetation project that aimed to increase landscape resilience through the fencing off of riparian zone banks. The Australian Government and Biodiversity Fund Program aided the instalment of 150km of stock exclusion fencing along the Buckinbah and Little River waterways.