BCCA – Burnett Catchment Care Association

The Leucaena Network, together with DAFF, are hosting an intensive 2 day workshop designed to take out the guesswork, minimise mistakes and maximise your returns when establishing and managing Leucaena. Where: Kingaroy DAFF office When: July 9 and 10, 9am Cost: $400 +gst (includes lunch and smoko) To view flier click  here!! RSVP: Stuart Buck [...]

To the 40+ landholders who partnered with us and to undertake projects on their land to protect the rare ecosystems and species, we’d like to say well done!  Despite all the hassels with the weather over the past 12 months, and then a greater workload for yourselves and for the contractors being use, you got [...]

BMRG are running a FREE Erosion Workshops in Mundubbera on Thursday, 30th of May & Kingaroy Friday, 31 May 2013 on the impacts of erosion and management options. Learn what kind of erosion has occurred on your farm, and the best practical way to stabilise the area. Guest Presenter Grant Witheridge is a civil engineer [...]

The Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) and Burnett Catchment Care Association (BCCA) present: Pasture Recovery Workshop & Field Walk Presenters are: John Day, Soil Conservation Specialist, NBRC Damien O’Sullivan, Senior Beef Extension Officer DAFF Stuart Buck, Senior Agronomist, Sown Pastures, DAFF Billie-Jean Jacobs, Lands Protection Officer, NBRC   Where:  RM Williams Australian Bush Learning Centre [...]

BMRG are holding a FREE 2 day course presented by Grant Witheridge, on the impacts of erosion on our creeks, rivers and gullies.  Learn what kind of erosion has occurred, and the best practical way to stabilise the area. When: 9 May (8am – 5pm) and 10 May (9am – 4pm) Where: 220 Bourbong Street, [...]

BMRG are hosting a half day toolbox talk that will focus on: rebuilding paddocks after a flood event, improving soil health by increasing soil carbon, reducing waterlogging and fast tracking recovery of your paddocks to production. Presenters include, John Hall from Crop Management Australia, Tim Neale from Precision Ag and Rhonda Toms-Moran Climate Change Officer [...]

The staff at BCCA have been working hard over the past year putting together nearly 50 Reef Rescue projects with graziers in the coastal Burnett area, and almost 30 projects under the Healthy Habitats program (both in partnership with Burnett Mary Regional Group). Excitingly, most of those projects have been completed, despite the very dry [...]

At Boat Mountain Conservation Park near Murgon, which is a mixture of eucalypt forest and vine-thicket scrub, walking tracks and lookouts.  The small Park is less than 100ha and is surrounded by farmland. Join us on Sunday morning 19 May 2013 from 8am to wonder through the Park with birdwatchers from Birdlife in Bundaberg. Cost [...]

Learn how to apply Natural Sequence Farming techniques as developed at Tarwyn Park to your own  landscape. Where/When:  -Benaraby Saturday 27 April                             Calliope – Sunday 28 April                                               Jambin/Baralaba -Tuesday 30 April                                          Springsure – Wednesday 1 May Cost: Free RSVP: Dan on 0428 646 857 or email grassrootsgrazing@bigpond.com To view flier click HERE!!

The South East Burnett Landcare group are hosting a flood recovery BBQ. Come along and find out information on flood recovery arrangements. When: 19th April, Friday Where: Booubyjan Hall RSVP: By 17th April, Lawless Family 4168 6262 To view flier click HERE!!