Empower is a Festival running from Saturday July 7- Thursday July 12 at the Tanks Centre in Cairns. Its mandate is, "EmPowering individuals and communities to take responsibility for securing a sustainable, prosperous future for their natural and built environments"

Registrations are now open for the 18^th annual Queensland Landcare Conference to be held in Mackay, 22 - 25 August. Hosted by Pioneer Catchment and Landcare, the conference will explore how landcare is helping to make a difference in areas such as cultural heritage; social capacity and well-being; climate change; natural resource management; and more. 

Joe Butland has approx. 150 - 200 Eucalyptus Grandis seedlings (300-500mm high) in 2 litre plastic bags, and Geoff Dickinson (DPI&F Forestry & Horticulture Scientist) has about 200 Grevillea robusta trees to give away.

PhD university student is looking for interested farmers to help with a project on insect pollination of crops in different land uses on the Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland. This will involve the planting of a small 50m x 50m crop of Pak Choi (chinese cabbage or Brassica rapachinensis) on their property and allowing access to the crop to survey insects for 3-5 days when the crop flowers.

(for the 'Biodynamics FNQ' group)

Learn energy dowsing, geomantic gardening, connection to the devic 

realms, Towers of Power and paramagnetic rock dust for enhanced growth, etc.

Saturday July 28th 2007

Mareeba area

Bookings: Hilary Smith, email - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

There will be entry-level information for growers looking at Certified Organic opportunities at a farm field day to be held this Sunday 24 June. The Organic Producers Association of Far North Queensland (OPAFNQ) is hosting this field day at Angela and Phillip Reitano's Certified Organic farm at Garradunga, via Innisfail. The Reitano's live adjacent to Eubenangee Swamp , one of the natural wonders of the Far North where they grow a range of tropical fruits and vegetables.