Dry Season Preparing for Spring and Summer

SOUTH Gippsland Landcare Network is holding a ‘Dry Season Preparing for Spring and Summer’ event at the Buffalo Hall on Monday August 18 from 9.45am – 2.30pm presenters include Dale Grey (weather outlook), Fiona Baker (setting ourselves up for spring), James Paulet (on six new soil-moisture probes and weather stations and how farmers can use them), farmers Chris Nixon and Trevor Caithness on strategies they used to get through the three-year drought in East Gippsland. There’ll also be a visit to Ross Batten and Madeline and Bernard Buckley’s farm. Register on the landcare website at www.sgln.net.au