JULY 2025
HATFIELD Meat Masterclass
Want to learn a new skill or sharpen an old one?
Join us for a fun and interactive day featuring expert demonstrations in butchery..
Butchery demo & Q&A with Mal Cimino, Meats on Market Balranald
Hatfield Recreation Hall, Hatfield, NSW
Sunday 6th July (10am start)
Half side of Beef, a full Sheep & half side of Pork Tea & Coffee provided by Salvation Army Rural Chaplain’s Smoko & Lunch provided by Hatfield Recreation Reserve Support Services & Agricultural related services present
For registrations contact, Claire Butler 0409 206 871
To express your interest in future Meat Masterclass events contact our Landcare Coordinator, Danielle Connolly on 0467 050 122.
Landcare Broken Hill
National Tree Day - Native GardenWorkshop
Celebrate National Tree Day 28th July Australia with Landcare Broken Hill by getting your hands dirty and learning how to create a native garden suited to our arid region
This practical workshop will cover how to plan, plant, and care for local native species in your own garden.
Join us lakeside at Imperial Lakes on Saturday 27 July for an afternoon of knowledgesharing and community connection
Imperial Lakes Nature Park, Broken Hill NSW
Event details and ticket links will be announced soon.
Keep an eye on our socials
Saturday 27th July
BACK BETTER THAN EVER ENTRIES
Western Landcare’s Life & Light Photo Competition will soon make its return, with entries opening on July 1st 2025.
Our famed region wide competition for amateur photographers promises to be better than ever, with absolutely amazing prizes up for grabs.
We are enormously grateful to our new partner and this year’s major sponsor, Aurelia Metals, as well as Cobar Shire Council & Western Local Land Services.
Keep an eye on our socials and website for more information.
JULY ST
COMMUNITY EVENTS
12th July
Daylight - 4pm
Wentworth Angling Club -
Fishing Competition, Fort Courage, Wentworth
12 - 13 July th
Balranald Pony Club Camp, Balranald Pony Club
26 July 4pm th
Homebush Rec Club AGM
Homebush Rodeo, Rodeo Grounds
25th July
Schools Tree Day
27th July
National Tree Day
WESTERN LOCAL LAND SERV
FREE feed and water testing - NOW
AVAILABLE!
Feed testing covering pasture, hay and grain helps you plan accurate feed budgets, check nutritional value and avoid wasting money on poor-quality products. Water testing ensures your stock stay healthy - especially important as quality can shift quickly in dry conditions
Testing is free Water tests incur postage costs or drop off at any Western LLS office
For more information contact Courtney Lallard (Broken Hill) on 0499 924 501 or Christine Plummer (Buronga) on 0408 241 200.
30 - 31 August st Wentworth Show, Wentworth Showgrounds
For more details including entries HERE
‘BRUNCH WITH FRIENDS’ at Australian Inland Botanic Gardens
23rd August 9:30am to 1pm
More information HERE
Photo: Heads Down, Bums Up by Jane Jones Life & Light Entrant 2023
REGIONAL LANDCARE COORDINATOR REPORT
Western Landcare NSW (WLNSW) welcomed Winter to the Western Region through a variety of memorable meetings and events that you can read about in the June 2025 Western Landcare Life Newsletter
Western Landcare’s inaugural Community Conversation Camp held at Kinchega National Park on the weekend of June 14 and 15 lead to exciting connections and important collaborations being formed. The topic on the table was Biodiversity & Conservation: What’s happening in Far West NSW?
Thanks to funding from Landcare NSW (LNSW) and Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT), we were able to host this important pilot project to explore camping as an alternate information delivery platform for the Western region community With many services reporting ‘engagement fatigue’ due to the long-distances landholders must travel to attend natural resource management (NRM) meetings, this event explored a ‘back to basics’ approach to modern day attendance – discuss land, on land.
Photo: Nviro Media
Photo: Andrew Hull
Landholders, land managers and a variety of landcaring stakeholders joined our team for constructive conservation conversations around the campfire and across a 50-seat table over delicious bush tucker meals created by David Doyle and his Wontanella team With heated Kinchega dining areas and Shearers’ Quarters, you’d be forgiven for calling this a ‘glamp’, rather than a camp
WLNSW is exploring a new way forward Members will soon receive an email containing a Strategic Plan draft, our new Constitution, and Minutes from the recent 2024 AGM along with a Notice of AGM to be held in Cobar later in the year.
The WLNSW Strategic Plan draft was re-written in response to external factors that are rapidly changing local landscapes and impacting communities across 40% of NSW. The United Nations 30x30 targets are trickling down to the Western region so we encourage you all to keep up to date HERE and keep this important community conservation conversation going…
We look forward to seeing you around the next campfire!
Stay warm.
Mel
Want to find out about our future events, projects or how to join Western Landcare NSW? Reach out to your Local Landcare Coordinator, HERE.
Photo: Nviro Media
Photo: Mel Gates
NAIDOC WEEK
7thJuly
DaretonOpeningDay
CHACClinic,51SturtPlace, Dareton
9thJuly CommunityDay
DaretonPublicSchool, SchoolRoad,Dareton
7 9,11 July th, th ScratchBoardCraft Sessions
BrokenHillCityLibrary,40 BlendeStreet, BrokenHill 8July MorningTea/Lunch 146ChlorideSt,BrokenHill
11thJuly
ThePoundYard,Anson StreetBourke
RSVP:MaureenBatesMcKay 0447297291
NationalNAIDOCCommitteeonthisyearstheme
As we enter 2025, NAIDOC Week marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honoring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience. The 2025 theme, "The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy," celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and thelegacyofourancestors.
The NAIDOC journey began as a movement for recognition and rights, sparked by Indigenous communities who saw a future built on justice and equality Overthedecades,ithasgrownintoapowerful national celebration, a testament to the enduring strengthofAboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderpeoples
‘BRUNCH WITH FRIENDS’ at Australian Inland Botanic Gardens
As we commemorate this 50-year legacy, we also look forward, honouring the next generation who will carry the torch, shaping the future with courage, insight, and deeprespectforourroots.
23rd August 9:30am to 1pm
GuidedbythewisdomofourEldersandthegroundwork laidbyourforebears,eachNAIDOCWeekreinforcesour vision for an Australia where Indigenous voices are not onlyheardbutleadtheway.
More information HERE
Photo: Ancestral Lines, Jeremy Morgan Worrall, NAIDOC Poster 2025