Last Working Bee

Following our training from Cath and Nicky, we had a final session at Furness Park FP-11. We continued being very mindful of seed on weeds – cutting heads off before pulling them out – so as to help reduce the weed seed spreading from our weeding work. We also practiced being careful when taking weeds out to minimise the soil disturbance – trialling the mini trowels and other approaches.

We iced the cake by providing additional leaf litter in the barer areas to finish up the work. The hot weather we’ve had – and the further hot days expected ahead – will encourage more natural leaf litter as trees like our eucalypts drop leaves to reduce water loss and to also mulch themselves to reduce water loss from the soil.

We did leave some heavily weedy areas to provide continuity of habitat and due to our time constraints. We’ll work on those at subsequent visits when other parts of the area have improved to provide better habitat and we have had opportunity to improve safe accessibility for our team “in and under”.

Conditions

(last updated 06:30 30/1/2025)

Thursday should be overcast with a small possibility of rain in the morning.

Rain:  There is a 5% chance of rain early becoming 0% from 11:00.
Storms/Weather warnings: None.
Temperature: It should be a comparatively mild 15-20 degrees (“feeling” 2-3 degrees less) while we work.

Wind:  low strength SE becoming, SSE then S winds freshening to medium strength while we work.
UV:  up to 7 while we work, so sun protection is an absolute must.

Cloud cover: is predicted to be 58% at 08:00 falling to 45% by 11:00 while we work.
EPA Air Quality: Good.