Welcome to Landcare Broken Hill
Landcare is a national network of thousands of locally-based community groups who care for our country by creating sustainable land management. This unique partnership between communities, government and organisations is achieving great things. Through Australia’s people and communities, the Landcare movement is making a big difference in caring for our country.
Established in 2009, Landcare Broken Hill had an initial primary purpose to assist in the care and maintenance of the Regeneration Reserve which surrounds the perimeter of the City of Broken Hill. It is an affiliated member of both Western Landcare NSW Inc and Landcare NSW Inc. Since April 2019, Landcare Broken Hill has been effectively relaunched with a far wider, all encompassing approach aimed at achieving vastly improved integrated environmental management of all aspects and areas of the City and its surrounds. The relaunch came with a hallmark project - Greening the Hill Mk. 2 - which is a community-wide initiative, successful because of its network of partnerships established across all sectors of the Broken Hill community and beyond. Its aim is to renew and re-green the gardens and City for the benefit of all.
Landcare Broken Hill acknowledges the Wilyakali people of the Barkindji Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work. We recognise and value their continuing connection to Country and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
Landcare is a national network of thousands of locally-based community groups who care for our country by creating sustainable land management. This unique partnership between communities, government and organisations is achieving great things. Through Australia’s people and communities, the Landcare movement is making a big difference in caring for our country.
Established in 2009, Landcare Broken Hill had an initial primary purpose to assist in the care and maintenance of the Regeneration Reserve which surrounds the perimeter of the City of Broken Hill. It is an affiliated member of both Western Landcare NSW Inc and Landcare NSW Inc. Since April 2019, Landcare Broken Hill has been effectively relaunched with a far wider, all encompassing approach aimed at achieving vastly improved integrated environmental management of all aspects and areas of the City and its surrounds. The relaunch came with a hallmark project - Greening the Hill Mk. 2 - which is a community-wide initiative, successful because of its network of partnerships established across all sectors of the Broken Hill community and beyond. Its aim is to renew and re-green the gardens and City for the benefit of all.
Landcare Broken Hill acknowledges the Wilyakali people of the Barkindji Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work. We recognise and value their continuing connection to Country and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
Greening the Hill Mk. 2
Landcare Broken Hill has set out to revitalize the interest of the Broken Hill community to be in the vanguard again, as it was with the Greening the Hill initiative 1936-1958, when the Regeneration belt was created. With that Regeneration Reserve initiative, the City and its citizens became national and global leaders. We can do it again. Every single person can have a role to combat the drought, green our City and concurrently do our bit to fight the effects of climate change. Broken Hill can show the rest of Australia how it should be done – again.
There is a need for Greening the Hill Mk. 2 now, due to the continuing drought and all the unpleasant manifestations of it. The extraordinarily hot summer we are experiencing; the constant concerns about water and the sustainability of the Murray-Darling River system; the large increase in the number of dust storms Broken Hill has experienced; the general browning of the City as more and more gardens are disappearing into gravel alternatives; and as plants and trees are seen to be dying all over the district. The urgent reasons for this project are many – all of which provide Landcare with a duty to act now – and to enlist the widest community support across all of Broken Hill.
Greening the Hill Mk. 2 projects include:
Landcare Broken Hill has set out to revitalize the interest of the Broken Hill community to be in the vanguard again, as it was with the Greening the Hill initiative 1936-1958, when the Regeneration belt was created. With that Regeneration Reserve initiative, the City and its citizens became national and global leaders. We can do it again. Every single person can have a role to combat the drought, green our City and concurrently do our bit to fight the effects of climate change. Broken Hill can show the rest of Australia how it should be done – again.
There is a need for Greening the Hill Mk. 2 now, due to the continuing drought and all the unpleasant manifestations of it. The extraordinarily hot summer we are experiencing; the constant concerns about water and the sustainability of the Murray-Darling River system; the large increase in the number of dust storms Broken Hill has experienced; the general browning of the City as more and more gardens are disappearing into gravel alternatives; and as plants and trees are seen to be dying all over the district. The urgent reasons for this project are many – all of which provide Landcare with a duty to act now – and to enlist the widest community support across all of Broken Hill.
Greening the Hill Mk. 2 projects include:
- Ensuring a healthy Regeneration Reserve
- Propagation nursery
- Vegetation for visitors
- City Landcare Mates
- Aboriginal knowledge gardens with native plant education
- Green schools
- Reinvigorating parks and nature strips
- Communal garden
- Public art installations
- Education on natural resource management
- Scientific studies
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation of emissions
How to get involved
We need you! Landcare Broken Hill is dependent on our wonderful volunteer members and community partners. A membership application form is located via the link below - fill this out and return it via email or post, and you'll be signed up as our newest member! There is a $10 membership fee which goes towards keeping our Landcare projects going. If you are interested in getting involved with our work, putting forward a project idea, or helping us with a financial or in-kind support, please do get in touch!
We need you! Landcare Broken Hill is dependent on our wonderful volunteer members and community partners. A membership application form is located via the link below - fill this out and return it via email or post, and you'll be signed up as our newest member! There is a $10 membership fee which goes towards keeping our Landcare projects going. If you are interested in getting involved with our work, putting forward a project idea, or helping us with a financial or in-kind support, please do get in touch!
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Keep up to date
There is always a lot going on with our exciting Landcare Broken Hill group!
You can stay up to date with all the goings-on via Facebook or Soundcloud (where we upload our weekly podcast recorded with ABC Broken Hill).
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LandcareBrokenHill/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-296305727
Please join us for our next Community Meeting
Last Tuesday of every month at 7pm at the Centre for Community at 200 Beryl St, Broken Hill
Last Saturday of each month at 12pm at the Imperial Lakes Nature Park at 19276 Barrier Hwy (left turn at entrance just after 110km sign heading east toward Wilcannia/Sydney - please use caution when exiting the nature park into the 110km zone.
There is always a lot going on with our exciting Landcare Broken Hill group!
You can stay up to date with all the goings-on via Facebook or Soundcloud (where we upload our weekly podcast recorded with ABC Broken Hill).
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LandcareBrokenHill/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-296305727
Please join us for our next Community Meeting
Last Tuesday of every month at 7pm at the Centre for Community at 200 Beryl St, Broken Hill
Last Saturday of each month at 12pm at the Imperial Lakes Nature Park at 19276 Barrier Hwy (left turn at entrance just after 110km sign heading east toward Wilcannia/Sydney - please use caution when exiting the nature park into the 110km zone.
A very warm thank you to all our members and community partners who make this all possible!