News & Updates

Understanding your NRCMA Agreement

The Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (NRCMA) is delivers State and Australian Government investment into regional Natural Resource Management priorities through a range of on-ground projects and funding progams designed to help Northern Rivers landholder to restore, maintain or improve our natural resources. Often this support is provided under an Agreement.
NRCMA Landholder Agreements

Local Landcarers Shine at Regional Landcare Awards

Ten Northern Rivers community groups and individuals have had their contribution to Landcare recognised at the 2011 Regional Landcare Awards, held in Grafton on Friday April 1.
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Pictures Of Our Catchment Area

Have a look at the wonderful photos included in The Catchment section of this site. They were taken by one of our staff members Ingrid Pullen.

Have you taken a photograph that captures the beauty of the environment within our Catchment area. Would you like it included on our website?. If so please email a copy to us including in the email your full contact details, stating that you are the owner of the picture and give permission for its inclusion on the website.

Resources

Hastings Landcare has a small library of information on sustainable living, plant and animal identification, farm management, bush regeneration and weed control.

Together with Landcare networks in the Macleay and Nambucca we have produced resources tailored for the mid north coast including the Coast and Estuary Resource Kit, Resource Kit for Rural Landholders and the DVD Biological Farming: Its all in the soil. Other local resources that we have available include DPI’s Grasses of the NSW North Coast, Revegetating Streams in the Hastings Catchment: A guide to species and planting methods and Soil Sense: Soil Management for NSW North Coast Farmers.

Drop in and see what we have available.

Stock and waterways: A Managers Guide

Published by Land & Water Australia

This guide is designed to help you:

  • recognise your riparian land and its multiple values,
  • identify how stock access and grazing in and around your riparian land can be improved, and
  • develop a strategy to manage your riparian land productively and sustainably.





A Sustainable Future -- Biological Farming

 

A 5 min DVD on why and how the Eggert Family of Wauchope
turned their Dairy into an Organic Dairy Farm