Treeplanting
Familiar Faces Return . ANZ Risk Management Team
31st May 2011. John Tilley was surprised and delighted to host 15 tree planting volunteers from the ANZ Risk Management Department on his Strath Creek Property. Janet had told him a few people were coming around to plant some trees in his 2ha steep hillside revegetation project. Very casual , landcare was organising the BBQ…
Read MoreSorting , Cleaning & Cataloguing Seed
Seed collected for the Lorax Project is currently being sorted , cleaned , weighed and catalogued ready for storing in the Goulburn Broken Indigenous Seedbanks coolroom. This seed will be available to community groups and local nurseries for propagation and use in future re vegetation projects across the bushfire areas. This fresh , diverse and…
Read MoreGumboots Essential for Aquatic Planting
6/12/2010 Kinross Farm Flowerdale 20 volunteers from the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory . Parkville (Biotherapies & Human Viral Vaccines plus 11 volunteers from the Department of Planning and Community Infrastructure. Spring Street Office. Janet & Karen Brisbane . Our very first aquatic planting day , yes we were actually planting sedges , rushes and reeds ,…
Read MoreSchool Holiday Stand In
28/9/2010- Catching up on a few past events.Chris , Cathy and Janet had family commitments during the school holdays , thank goodness we could call on Tim from Treeproject to stand in for us at this tree planting day in Mont View Street in Wandong . A team from the ANZ bank plant 300 seedling…
Read MoreBicycle ride to Buxton
5 November 2010 Landcare / Treeproject Partnership Janet & Chris from Landcare plus a small but super dedicated team from ANZ ‘ Group Treasury Department’ helped plant around a dam in Buxton today creating frog habitat with grasses and shrubs. Just as well this was a small group of workers because Chris and Janet were…
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Warm Mud for EPA
20/10/20101041 Eucalyptus Road Glenburn.10 volunteers from the EPA . Chris & Janet from Landcare.Beautiful sunny , warm day.Before lunch planted native grasses around the new dam to stablize the soil and create habitat for birds & frogs.The EPA crew ( Caroline organised all this ) shared a sumptous picnic lunch on the back patio .…
Read MoreWhere did all these plants come from ?
Where did all the trees we have been planting come from ? Actually most of what we have been planting are not trees but are understorey plants . Shrubs , low bushes , ground covers , herbs and grasses. ( nothing too fire prone ) Our plants had been grown from locally collected seed by…
Read MoreA nice letter
Mr. Chris CobernFire Recovery Landcare CoordinatorUpper Goulburn Landcare NetworkShop 5/10 High StreetYea, Vic., 3717 Dear Chris, RE: FIRE RECOVERY PROJECTS We would like to express our appreciation and thanks to the Management and Staff of the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network for the assistance rendered to us since the ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires. As you are aware,…
Read MoreWet Feet
27/8/2010 Treeproject / Landcare Partnership Tree Planting Day. 17 ANZ volunteers De driving the Treeproject bus . Chris & Janet from Landcare. Davis Property. Glenburn. The project for the day was to plant and guard 300 understorey plants in the bare patches amongst the manna gums along the Yea River at the bottom of Gail’s…
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