Life and Wildlife on the Banks of the Murrumbidgee
Ever since I went to the Friends of Grasslands workshop in 2014 I've been itching to try my hand at revegetating native grasses, rather than only trees and shrubs. Of course, that's not all that easy to do. Sue McIntyre has some good suggestions, but we are mostly forced to deal with weeds where we can,... Continue Reading →
Farming, like nature, is messy. It's nice to see the smooth green grass of spring covering the hills and disguising the rocks. The modern golf course look. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily what you need either for wildlife or for grazing stock. Sheep love to have a variety of things to eat, including clovers, grasses,... Continue Reading →
In my short career as a radio journalist for 2XX in Canberra, I had precisely one news scoop. That was, tah dah, the discovery of a new species of wildflower, weirdly called the "button wrinklewort", at the Queanbeyan Municipal Dump in 1983. It seemed sort of cool that someone had found a new flower, even... Continue Reading →
One Bend In The River 