We're State Landcare Award winners!
The South Wagga Public School Drama Lamas started out as a drama group and now they are experts in sustainable agriculture. Their achievement was affirmed on the morning of the 2nd September 2015. At the Breakfast of Champions as part of the NSW Landcare Conference, the Drama Llamas were applauded as Junior Landcare Team Award winners.
CONGRATULATIONS DRAMA LLAMAS!
Each week for a whole term the students met after school to consider and discuss issues facing farmers trying to balance food production with looking after the natural environment. With their new-found knowledge the students developed the characters, script and animation concepts and story boards for three short films.
Each film investigates how one of the ingredients for their hamburger is produced and the work the farmer does to manage the natural environment at the same time. With filmmaker Nathan Smith, the Drama Lamas visited three Riverina farms.
Henty district Landcare members, Peter and Alison Campbell grow wheat and canola at Pleasant Hills. The students investigated soil microbes, biodiversity, stubble retention, tree lines and paddock trees. Kyeamba Valley Landcare members, Peter and Bundle Lawson run cows at Kyeamba. The students investigated native grasses, rotational grazing, dung beetles and regenerating native
remnants. Sam and Prue Pincott run Holbrook Paddock Eggs. The students investigated rotational grazing with chooks and cows taking turns, paddock trees, chook dirt baths and the role of Marema dogs in protecting the chooks.
As well as learning much, the work of these students is to be shared with students far and wide as thefilms will be distributed direct to schools and through social media and youtube.
Watch all three videos now - http://www.vimeo.com/landcare
- Grass-fed beef at the Lawson's farm - https://vimeo.com/138023700
- Eggs from free roaming chooks at the Pincott's farm - https://vimeo.com/138081591
- High quality wheat and canola at the Campbell's farm - https://vimeo.com/138281879
