Upcoming events.
Gillamii AGM and Social Bowls
Join us to celebrate and review Gillamii's achievements over the year through supporting productive agriculture, healthy natural ecosystems, and rural communities.
To kick off the AGM, join us on the Cranbrook bowling green for a game of social bowls, with a prize up for grabs thanks to Elders Cranbrook for those of us who are competitive! Bowls will be followed by the AGM at the Cranbrook Sporting Club with dinner provided and the bar open to celebrate.🥂
Life on the land: Bloom Festival Exhibition
In celebration of the land coming to life in Spring, we warmly invite you to our annual Great Southern Treasures #BloomFestival Exhibition. View stunning artworks, photography, wildflowers on display, and don't miss out on the opportunity to Screen Print the iconic Cranbrook Bell onto a fabric of your choice or use a tea towel provided!
Cranbrook Croppy: Gillamii's Spring Field Day
Join Gillamii on Thursday the 21st of September for a Cranbrook Croppy visiting trial and demonstration sites,
- Direct seeded saltbush/pasture systems: Establishment techniques, economic feasibility and utilisation.
- Comparing Morava Vetch and Lupin performance as a rotation: A practical comparison of the benefits, costs and management.
- Sub-surface Catchments: Utilising sub-surface drains to capture fresh ground water and drought proof farms.
- Dam Cover Demonstration: Understanding the on farm practicalities of using a physical evaporation barrier.
- Lunch sponsored by the Community Bank Tambellup Cranbrook and a Sundowner to follow at the Cranbrook Pub.
Demonstration and trial sites have been funded by Meat and Livestock Australia's Producer Demonstration Sites, Grains Research and Development Corporation lead by the Grower Group Alliance, and The Federal Government's Future Drought Fund, supported by South Coast NRM.
Agriculture in Transition: The Role of Natural Capital
Farm Benchmarking to make GHG and Natural Capital Accounting Practical
-Agriculture in the Energy Transition: What is Net Zero/Nature Positive?
-Biodiversity on the Balance Sheet
-Transforming Food Systems: A View From Food Nation in Denmark
-Rewiring the Economy to Become a ‘Restoration Economy'
+ Much more
Details and Registration -> https://www.trybooking.com/CFVZL
Gillamii AGM 2022
Come join Gillamii in celebrating all the amazing environmental & agricultural achievements our community has made over the last year!
5pm: AGRAS T30 Agricultural Drone Demonstration on the Cranbrook Sporting Club Oval
6pm: AGM at the Cranbrook Sporting Club
6:30pm: Dinner & Drinks at the Cranbrook Sporting Club
Shade & Shelter Show & Tell
Cranbrook farmer Sam Lehmann has been hosting a series of projects that are focussed on forage shrubs and filling feedgaps. But can his ‘edible shelter’ be used to manage heat stress and improve lamb survival? Come for a look to see if this applies at your place!
RSVPS to Esther Price at WALRC on eo@walrc.com.au or text 0418 931 938
Wetlands and Wildflowers Exhibition
🌼Celebrating the arrival of Spring (Djilba)🌼
We're excited to be hosting two Bloom Festival events this spring! Join us in celebrating Cranbrook's Wetlands and Wildflowers through Artwork, Photography and Wildflower Displays. The week long exhibition is complimented by the Wildflowers and Birds Bus Tour, providing the perfect opportunity for those of you who are avid wildflower hunters and bird watchers.
🗓1st - 9th October 10am - 4pm daily
📍The Hub, 3 Dunn Street, Cranbrook.
🌻Free Event!
RCS Drought Mitigation Farm Planning Course
Off the back of a very wet year, the Future Drought Fund is supporting landholders to get on the front foot when it comes to Drought proofing your enterprise. Specifically tailored by the Gillamii Centre and RCS Australia to be relevant for the Great Southern, this course represents more than $2,000 of value and is the only one of its kind on offer in Australia. This workshop will help you and a small group of peers to convert knowledge into practical outcomes. Guided by an RCS advisor, the format encourages learning and discussion of practical implementation methods that address your current challenges whilst looking to the future.
You will have more time to focus on your own farming business, referring to your own priorities to make a drought management plan which deals with:
✔ Soil Health and Moisture
✔ Water Management
✔ Grazing Management
✔ Ecosystem Services
✔ Goal Setting
✔ Tools to manage Climate Variation
✔ Mitigation and Recovery Strategies
Members receive discount on booking
* Cancelled* Saltland Masterclass Bencubbin
Skills development and the latest knowledge and technology in saltland management for the north eastern Wheatbelt.
* Postponed to July - RCS Drought Mitigation Farm Planning Course
There’s no doubt this incredibly wet year has dispelled the spectre of drought for a time. At Gillamii we received funding for a drought project just as the season broke and we’ve used this opportunity to create a unique session that enables farmers to get stuck into some critical planning for that next dry period. Specifically tailored by the Gillamii Centre and RCS Australia to be relevant for the Great Southern, this course represents more than $2,000 of value and is the only one of its kind on offer in Australia.
Balijup Sanctuary Fauna Monitoring Camp
Don't miss this unique opportunity to be a part of conservation in action! Participants will work with licensed Wildlife Ecologists, Green Skills Denmark, and Gillamii over four days on a range of citizen science monitoring activities including trapping, nest box monitoring and bird surveying.
Gillamii AGM
You are cordially invited to Gillamii's AGM
Join us for dinner and drinks on October 20th, and see what the team at Gillamii has been up to over the last financial year and hear from DPIRD Climatologist Meredith Guthrie.
Our community and members are what drive our group, so come along and be a part of our AGM to help drive future direction and focus.
Building Biodiversity for Resilient Farming Systems
An opportunity to see biodiversity woven into a productive farming system at Murray Wells, the home of farmer and ecological restoration specialist Wendy Bradshaw.
Guided field walk to a range of sites where biodiversity restoration has been attempted through revegetation and establishment of perennials
Q and A with Internationally recognised soil microbiologist Walter Jehne on the link between biodiversity and rainfall
Kent Broad: The value of carbon and its co-benefits above and below ground
Dr Nicole Chalmer: The role of biodiversity in the farm ecosystem
Svetlana Micic: Supporting beneficial invertebrates for farming, reducing pesticide use and increasing invertebrate biodiversity
Paul Sanford on maintaining perennial systems maximising soil health benefits
Catered Sundowner to follow!
Farm Planning: Drought Mitigation and Water Management *postponed*
*Postponed until February 2022*
It is the year to plan for on farm water management and drought mitigation, and we aren't just talking dams and catchments!
Registrations are now open for this unique farm planning opportunity. Facilitated by the experienced RCS Training team covering a host of topics and tools to assist your business through challenging conditions. Develop a Drought Mitigation Plan with realistic, practical actions and be eligible to receive funding to implement an action as a demonstration site.
Masterclass in Saltland Management for WA - Bencubbin
Bencubbin Master Class in Saltland Management
Skills development in the latest knowledge and technology in saltland management.
Workshop Includes
• Local farmer knowledge and site visits
• Group challenge on a real site
• Saltland Genie Web App - Access to key resources, including: decision making tools, reference material and publications
• Water and soil monitoring, training and analysis
• EM38 training and result interpretation
• Saltland pasture economics
• Fully catered
Grazing Tour and Chat
Grazing Cereals for Lambing Ewes: Farmer chat and Serina Hancock - Murdoch
Summer forage and improving soil health - Super Sweet Sudan Trial: Peter Bostock - Pioneer Seeds and Wendy Bradshaw
Pests and resistance update and intensive grazing for RLEM control: Svetlana Micic - DPIRD
Enhancing legume content in Kikuyu pastures and pasture Q&A: Paul Sanford - DPIRD
Pasture/ Crop selection and management to minimise cost and risk: Angelo Loi - DPIRD
Nibbles and drinks to conclude the tour
Carbon Regional Forum
Gain an understanding of Australia’s Carbon Farming Industry and discover collaborative opportunities for landcare groups and land managers.
Tenterden Fox Shoot
2021 Tenterden Fox Shoot - Surrounding areas encouraged.
Prize pool of over $3000!