Mulloon Institute's visit to WA
In March/April Science Officer Nolani McColl and CEO & Managing Director Carolyn Hall travelled to Western Australia to meet with Landscape Planner Lance Mudgway and progress the WA Community Stewardship grant project – ‘Landscape Rehydration Trial & Demonstration in the Wheatbelt of WA’, which is supported by funding from the West Australian Government’s State NRM Program.
During the trip, the team presented at Wheatbelt NRM’s ‘REstore. REshape. REnew’ conference, where more than 70 people joined Terry McCosker OAM, various Wheatbelt farmers and the Mulloon Institute for a day of exploring soil, business and farmer health. TMI staff facilitated an interactive session of learning landscape rehydration tools and techniques and took participants on a tour of proposed works at the Muresk as part of the WA Community Stewardship grant project.
While they were in the Wheatbelt, TMI also supported the Muresk Institute in piloting an interactive Q&A webinar session with Year 12 students from the Western Australian College of Agriculture Cunderdin and provided a landscape demonstration for Curtin University students studying the Associate Degree in Agribusiness on the Muresk campus.
L-R: TMI’s Nolani McColl and Carolyn Hall catching up with Lance Mudgway in Western Australia.
At Muresk Institute, Lance Mudgway (TMI) shows Agribusiness Associate Degree students from Curtin University how water flows in the landscape, naturally and after clearing and erosion.