{"id":10634,"date":"2026-05-01T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:05:52","slug":"case-study-landcare-lives-on-with-landcare-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/case-study-landcare-lives-on-with-landcare-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study: Landcare lives on with Landcare Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Hay Plains Landcare has growing community volunteer participation at the Hay Landcare Nursery with weekly Landcare Alive, incorporating Special Monthly Activities throughout 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are the backbone of Landcare, yet many groups are experiencing a steady decline in volunteer participation. Regular volunteer participation is essential in a nursery setting, where consistent, hands-on tasks must occur week-to-week to ensure healthy plant growth and the reliable production of seedlings for future environmental projects. Hay Plains Landcare set to reverse this trend by initiating their Landcare Alive weekly nursery sessions, creating a welcoming, purposeful space through regular nursery activities to attract consistent weekly volunteers. In addition, Special Monthly Activities were introduced as wellbeing events to entice new participants to the nursery environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thin\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Murrumbidgee-Landcare-Inc-Landcare-lives-on-with-Landcare-Alive-Case-Study.pdf\">Case Study: Landcare lives on with Landcare Alive!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tag-line\">Capacity building\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0LEP23_036_LLC6_8<\/p>\n<p>Author: <em>Jenny Dwyer<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10633&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Hay Plains Landcare has growing community volunteer participation at the Hay Landcare Nursery with weekly Landcare Alive, incorporating Special Monthly Activities throughout 2025. &nbsp; Volunteers are the backbone of Landcare, yet many groups are experiencing a steady decline in volunteer participation. Regular volunteer participation is essential in a nursery setting, where consistent, hands-on tasks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[395,394],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lep-case-studies","tag-landcare-alive","tag-volunteering","pmpro-has-access","category-341","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10635,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions\/10635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}