Key to our organisation is capacity building within our landholder network that encourages the adoption of sustainable and regenerative grazing management practices that deliver on financial, social and ecological outcomes. We are also committed to providing natural resource management education for all ages that aims to connect people with food production and strengthen the links between urban and rural communities. Mid Lachlan Landcare is also dedicated to building resilience across the landscape through on-ground works and education aimed at improving biodiversity and a better environment for all.
In what ways would you like to see the Australian landcare movement March Forward?
This week marks the end of our first-year job-sharing one full-time Landcare Coordinator role. It also marks 18 months of working together. With that realisation my shoulders relax, I breathe out and break into a smile. It’s been a challenge, and we did great!
Over this past year Tracee & I have learned how to march forward together by observing nature and noting that everything has its pattern, it’s time to shine, to set seed and to retreat. That there is no discordance in the ebbing and flowing of a healthy box gum woodland, thriving paddock or eclectic garden, only cycles that re-invigorate and support each other as nature progresses towards its goal.
While it’s fair to say that sometimes we learned these lessons the hard way, one persons flow catalysing the others ebb and subsequent despair, but over time the conditioning that shaped those judgemental, self-defeating perspectives has been shed, like a skin that no longer fits, leaving us revitalised and comfortable as we march forward together.