Member motivation flagging? It’s been a long year and many of our farmer groups are finding it challenging to keep members, particularly volunteers, engaged. This month, we hear from Deb Bogenhuber, ecologist, slow food proponent and co-founder and Executive Officer of Food Next Door Co-op. Mildura-based Food Next Door matches under-utilised farmland with landless farmers […]
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Project: Quality Timber Traders Industry: Forestry Location: NSW and Queensland Growing rainforest cabinet timbers is a complex process with challenges that managers of monoculture plantings do not face. With mixed species and varying growth rates, faster growing species can dominate the woodlot. This means the forest needs thinning to keep growing, and it needs to
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Glenda Holowaty of The Australian Beekeepers Cooperative Limited explains how the co-op members are a part of a new beekeeper’s journey: fostering an interest in all things bees, presenting beekeeping as a possible livelihood if chosen, and teaching our young beekeepers exemplary hive care. My 13 ¾ year old son regaled me with his tales
