{"id":7368,"date":"2023-07-10T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:33:22","slug":"case-study-lp43-holiday-fun-to-reach-a-new-group-of-landcarers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/case-study-lp43-holiday-fun-to-reach-a-new-group-of-landcarers\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study LP43 &#8211; Holiday fun to reach a new group of Landcarers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the school holidays, many parents are struggling for ideas to entertain their kids, and desperate for simple solutions which can get the kids out of the house &#8211; and off their screens! At the same time, many Landcare groups are grappling to attract new members, especially from the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>Could there be a solution that gets children outdoors, connects them with nature, provides an affordable and fun school holiday activity, AND attracts younger people to Landcare? Surely not?!<\/p>\n<p>Well, the solution is simple &#8211; adapt our Landcare workshops to a younger audience! For the school holidays, we helped each child to build their own frog hotel to take home. A round-robin structure always works well for these days, so we called on our members to help and were lucky enough to get volunteers offering to run a seedball making session, and our friends at Wagga Council running a water bug session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Holiday-fun-to-reach-a-new-group-of-Landcarers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Case Study LP43 &#8211; Holiday fun to reach a new group of Landcarers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the school holidays, many parents are struggling for ideas to entertain their kids, and desperate for simple solutions which can get the kids out of the house &#8211; and off their screens! At the same time, many Landcare groups are grappling to attract new members, especially from the younger generation. Could&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","tag-schools","pmpro-has-access","category-90","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7372,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}