Bring your land to life with Reef Catchments upcoming Field Day. From home gardeners to large properties, listen to presentations and demonstrations from rural and urban garden gurus. A fun family day out to learn all about:

🌱growing vegetables and herbs 🌱weeds 🌱technology🌱animal health 🌱machinery

🌱river health 🌱small crops 🌱bees, poultry, cattle 🌱growing fruit trees 🌱soil health

🌱irrigation 🌱business diversification and more

COVID SAFE EVENT

Please note this is a COVID safe event. If you are unwell, please stay home. Providing contact information, social distancing and frequent hand sanitising is a requirement of entry to this event.

Registration is essential for this event, book via Eventbrite or by calling the office 4968 4200. This is a Reef Catchments event proudly supported by Glencore.

PARKING

Parking is accessible via Peoples Street, Finch Hatton, onsite with thanks to the Finch Hatton School P&C. A gold coin donation toward the P&C is greatly appreciated.

FOOD & DRINKS

A sausage sizzle will be provided by the Mirani Sugar Valley Lions using local ingredients, Golden Chilli will provide a vegetarian option of authentic Thai food and MAD Cow Coffee will provide the coffee for the event.

PROGRAM

10:00 Welcome to country and smoking ceremony, Yuwi Aboriginal Corporation

10:30 Katrina Dent, CEO, Reef Catchments: Formal Welcome

10:45 Dakota Brown, Glencore Spokesperson

11:00 Kirra Tully and Gillian Barbat, Greater Whitsunday Food Network: Agritourism, Food network supporting local producers and strengthening the region's food culture

11:15 Maria Ferraro, Mackay Regional Pest Management Group Weeds and biosecurity. Carlos Bueno, Reef Catchments on water mimosa and pest fish in waterways

11:30 Tegan McBride, Sustainable Agriculture Project Officer, Reef Catchments: Regenerating Agriculture

11:45 Sue McCormack, Mackay Natural Environment Centre: Plant this instead

12:00 Judy Langdon, Waterlot Farm: Journey into Holistic Farm Management

12:00 Brad Lawson, Extreme Green: new remote controlled flail mower

12:15 Greg and Caroline Sandral, Just Got Laid Poultry Supplies and QStockfeed

12:30 Alan McLean, Central Queensland Soil Health Systems, Regenerative Farming Through Improved Soil Health

12:45 Shine Metzel, Mackay Community Garden: Growing food in your home garden

13:00 Chelsea Jarvis, Northern Australia Climate Program, La Niña and what it means for your season

13:15 Maighan Grant and Neville Overall, Auscan Worm Farms: Worm Composting with the best backyard pets!

13:30 Emma Rush, Drought and Flood Response and Recovery: Drought & flood Agency, objectives and overview of potential assistance

13:45 Central Queensland Beekeeper Association: Beekeeping and bee friendly plants for your garden

14:00 Andrew Howley, Fire in the Landscape: What is good fire and what is bad. / How to be prepared

14:15 Nancy Pratt, Mackay and District Goat Group: Market for goat meat and products and caring for your goat.

14:30 Molly O’Dea, Sugar Research Australia and Grace Richards, Mackay Whitsunday Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership

14:45 Aaron Regan, Reef Catchments: Fire Safety

15:00 Tegan McBride, closing thanks

15:15 Roxanne Morgan, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mandy Jeppessen, Sustainable Grazing Officer, Reef Catchments: Balancing risk - aligning animal production with pasture production. Pasture monitoring and forage budgeting. Planning calving for the green date.

15:45 Tegan McBride, closing thanks

16:00 Event Finish