Resilience - Summer 2023

Deputy Chair overview

We're currently reviewing the Mulloon Institute’s Vision and Mission and exploring how we’re fulfilling the wonderful legacy granted to us by the Coote Family. We are in tip-top shape, allowing us to move into 2024 with determination and vigour.

CEO overview

Carolyn's had a huge few weeks networking and promoting our work. Click on the titles to read a roundup of her recent diary of events:

National Press Club Lunch: Cultivating Change,

Nurturing Farming’s Future.

World Soil Day breakfast at Parliament House.

AgriFutures Carbon Conversations.

Dr Masayuki Komatsu visits Mulloon.

National agenda

Water for restoration

The 'Proposal for a National Code for Landscape Rehydration & Restoration' aims to help rejuvenate ecosystems, biodiversity, soil health and agricultural productivity through landscape rehydration and restoration.

“What we need is a national approach… rather than rely on six different agencies in every state and territory to apply their own set of regulations."

Dr Gerry Bates, Mulloon Law Committee

ABC Landline, 12 March 2023

We're taking action!

We celebrated this year's National Agriculture Day by showcasing our landscape regeneration work to a national audience on Channel 7's The Morning Show!

2023 Annual Report

Our annual report is an important

time for reflecting on how we are

delivering on the original direction

of our late founders – Tony and Toni

Coote.

We encourage all members and supporters to seek opportunities to help us fulfil our goals. This year, please help us sow a message of hope!

The story of water on Earth

'The Water Story' is a new educational resource that acknowledges the life-giving force of water. It looks at how it moves and cycles, and how it can help us restore our landscapes for a more secure future.

Communities of Practice Project

The Mulloon Institute’s ‘Communities of Practice Project’ (COPP) is working with land managers around Australia to strategically improve water cycling and manage climate risk. Backed by the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund, producers will rapidly gain skills in natural infrastructure and farm-system solutions that are proven to hold water in the landscape.

Landscape Rehydration CoPP kicks off in Inverell, NSW.

Mulloon Rehydration Initiative

More frogs at Mulloon!

The number of frogs observed in this year’s MRI frog survey has increased! CEO Carolyn Hall and Board Member Kathy Kelly were there searching for them with frog expert Sam Patmore.

Science & Monitoring update

Bird life and frogs are abundant at this time of the year, with herons, rosellas, finches and the odd cheeky wombat joining the team during field work recently.

Illustrating the floodplain

ANU Design students are using their creative science communication skills to visualise our MRI monitoring transects and soil core sites through a timber and textile model!

Beyond the back fence

New South Wales

Workshops in NSW this quarter have included:

Guyra (Northern Tablelands) – 3 day bootcamp integrating theory and practice with a series of small structures built in an eroded flowline.

Mandagery/Eugowra (Central West) – 1 day workshop for local farmers and land managers who were affected by severe flooding in spring 2022.

Northern Territory

The Landscape Rehydration Field Day and Contour Grading School was about sustainable rehydration land practices and how to construct contour banks and landscape rehydration earthworks.

[Image © Mike Clarke]

Queensland

Mulloon has participated in a collaborative workshop in Townsville to discuss land restoration and ecological fitness as part of an innovative trial project removing noxious weeds from the town’s water supply.

Victoria

Mulloon is collaborating with Bush Heritage Australia and Deakin University on a large-scale research project at Turnip Creek, trialling the impact of land management practices on landscape hydration,

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms

Summer update

Springtime was all about rain and cows on the farms this year. This update looks at our herd improvements and moisture retention after a dry winter.

Holiday closure details

Media

Australian Regenerative Food & Farming Map, Sustainable Table, Oct 2023

'Food for the Future', ABC Landline, September 2023

Events

Recent Workshops & Visits

Rehydrating your Farm Landscape, Inverell NSW, September 2023

Drought & Innovation Hubs visit, Mulloon NSW, October 2023

Eugowra 'Slow the Flow' workshop, Mandagery NSW, October 2023

Generation STEM Showcase, Queanbeyan NSW, November 2023

Upcoming events

All upcoming workshops, bootcamps and events are listed on our website and our social media.

We look forward to seeing you out there soon!

Find an event near you

As we take the National Code Proposal to all major environment and planning groups and leaders in Australia to seek their support, we encourage all of YOU to help us in sending the Code to local leaders in YOUR communities as well.

With all their backing, we’ll be approaching Minister Plibersek and the Australian Government and encouraging them to publish the Code and push it out to the states. There is a long way to go, but we have a plan and strategy to solve these regulatory constraints!

Thanks, and have a safe and happy Christmas.

Cheers,

Matt Egerton-Warburton

Deputy Chair, Mulloon Institute

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