We have invited a few emus to live on Raakajlim. Job description: “Eat, walk and poo”. And now we have giant Quandong-filled poo all over the place!

Gazania are evil weeds with wind-dispersed seeds. It would be really helpful if nurseries stopped selling this weed!

We had a wonderful experience with Rhae from Regenerative Communities, exploring Embodied Landscape drawing.

Here is a bird list for Raakajlim, as well as lists of birds you can expect to see in the Victorian Mallee.

White-winged Fairywrens in the garden, a secret herbarium, Piss Ants on the radio and remembering Eileen Ramsay on International Women’s Day.

We took a little break for a couple of months. But the goings on at Raakajlim in the Mallee of north west Victoria are just too exciting not to share …

We’re excited to share with you this 3D model of Buffel Grass so that you can identify and report this devastating weed.

Could these seed bowls be a restoration game changer? Year 8 students from Carey Baptist Grammar are testing the technology.

The root systems of plants in the Mallee include underground storage organs. The cultural and ecological importance of these is extraordinary.

Way back in October 2022, the Murray River flood started to lap at the bottom of our fence. It took four months, and some clever trickery, but we are now back in business with our electric fence!

A World Wetland Day shout out to all the Wetland Ecologists out there. Thank you!

I didn’t think I would be ever be sharing photos of ducks on Raakajlim Creek. A truly extraordinary flooding event.

Raakajlim Creek has flooded for the first time in 50 years. But it’s not all good news for our conservation property.

This identification sheet will help you spot the rare Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.

This identification sheet will help you find the “hero ant” that looks after the rare Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.

We’re trying to establish a colony of Sugar Ants so we can observe how this hero ant raises the caterpillars of the Arid Bronze Azure butterfly.

The Caper White butterflies have arrived, bees are swarming, a weekend for Malleefowl, a Giant Scavenging Water Beetle and Swallowtail butterflies.

The Judy-Phil-Fiona direct seeding machine, mysterious cuckoo spit and the secrets of the Invisible Plant revealed.

Jazz finding quail, our weeding volunteers, monitoring Ogyris habitat, a multitude of Springtails and a brand new Pine Woodland.

The 2022 tree-planting extravaganza with Carey Baptist Grammar. Where did the trees come from and what will they become?