Torbay Catchment Soil Testing Program expressions of interest are now open for 2025/26!

Soil testing has given more than 2000 growers control of their fertiliser decisions: cutting fertiliser costs keeping production high preventing nutrient losses correcting soil pH You’ll receive: Soil sampling and chemical analysis of all eligible paddocks on your farm. Colour coded maps showing nutrient status and soil acidity for all...

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Soil Health Assessment Workshop – April 2025

We love learning about soil health with like-minded people!! It was a great day out with David Hardwick from Soil Land Food and the team from Healthy Estuaries WA. In addition to the nutrient mapping results Healthy Estuaries WA participants recently received, additional tests of parameters that relate to soil...

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Western Ringtail Possum Spotlighting Guide

As part of our Climate-Resilient Conservation of Urban Western Ringtail Possum Populations project, we have created a handy Western Ringtail Possum Spotlighting guide for the Torbay Catchment area to help raise awareness and to encourage more citizen scientists! Link to printable brochure

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Helping to save the black cockatoos!

It was a great morning to install some cockatube nesting hollows, creating vital habitat for EPBC species, in particular the endangered Carnaby cockatoo. Most natural hollows are around 80yrs old, occurring on trees of around200 years, which are becoming increasingly rare and so we need to help by providing artificial...

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Accu-spread Field Day

Thanks to everyone who came to our Accu-Spread field day, where specialist Russell Nicholl provided a hands-on workshop demonstrating how to test and calibrate fertiliser spreading equipment. we were joined by local farmers who had their spreaders calibrated, saving them from wasting fertiliser and money, and making sure the right...

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Revegetation Tour with Keith Smith

Thanks to Keith Smith for taking us on a fabulous revegetation tour of two local properties including his own! We were able to see firsthand how a property can be successfully revegetated to provide crucial habitat for our local fauna, including the endangered black cockatoos and western ringtail possums. Keith...

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Guided Spotlight Walk

What a fabulous evening with possum expert Hannah Bannister, where we learnt all about our critically endangered western ringtail possum, followed by a spotlight tour in Elleker where we were lucky enough to spot some possums! Thanks to everyone who attended, and to Hannah for sharing her possum knowledge, and...

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Bunuru Newsletter

February to March 2025 Seasonal Update The fading of the moodjar (Nuytsia floribunda) and the blossoming of the marri (Corymbia calophylla – pictured above) signals the start of the hot Bunuru season with little to no rain and hot easterly and northerly winds followed by a cooling afternoon sea breeze...

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