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For Thursday 6/2, we’ll spend another morning in Furness Park FP-15 – between the track and the top of the creekbank. The strip needs further maintenance weeding and maybe rolling back the trad. Cath may start the direct-sowing experiment too. … Continue reading →

For Thursday 30/1, we’re continuing on in Furness Park – this time close to Main Street at FP-15 between the track and the top of the creekbank. The strip needs a maintenance weed and controlling the return of the Wandering … Continue reading →

So, for Thursday 23/1, we’re doing another encore in Furness continuing the long-overdue general weed in FP-11 – Panic Veldt hell in the middle sections. We’ll spend one more session there – with our final step being to add leaf … Continue reading →

We trust everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. All the best for 2025 ! As for Thursday 9/1, we’re back in Furness doing a long-overdue general weed in FP-11 – Panic Veldt hell in the middle sections. … Continue reading →

Thursday 19/12 is our last working bee for 2024! After Thursday, we’ll resume the fun on the 9th of January, 2025! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all those not coming tomorrow! As for Thursday 19/12, we’re back … Continue reading →

To tickle the prickles in KP-24 (adjacent the bowls club carpark) is our main focus for the 12/12/2024 working bee. There is some really good news in the eastern patch following our earlier work there – the grasses are booming. … Continue reading →

This week, Megan will be our Team Leader because John M needs dental treatment – had to take an appointment clashing with the working bee. Because of equipment delivery-to-site issues, we’ll work at the Billabong – nearest site to the … Continue reading →

This week, we will spend one more work day in Blacks Walk – in BW-7, BW-6 and BW-1.  The BW-1 work would be to pull out any weeds appearing in the new planting only.   BW-7 is quite weedy so we may … Continue reading →

This week, we are continuing weeding in Blacks Walk in BW-27 and BW-33 – we’ll start at BW-33 and move south along the track. BW-33 is the little island bed we’ve been recovering. There is a large tree down in … Continue reading →

This week, we are weeding in Blacks Walk in BW-27 and BW-35 – we’ll start at the northern end and move southwards hopefully reaching BW-35 and we’ll tackle that too. We will be targeting flowering weeds in the area and … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to Kalang Park KP-5 (the bed we’ve been looking after on the south side of the creek between Laurel Grove and Main Street). We will be targeting flowering weeds, Fumitory and more emerging Great (rip-gut) … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to Kalang Park (KP-17) – north of the oval along the south track. We will be targeting flowering weeds, Fumitory and emerging Great Brome as priorities. Closest parking available would be adjacent the Bowls Club … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to Furness Park in the top NE corner. This is one where the thistles etc have gone completely berserk given the favourable conditions. We need to get them out before the seed ripens. There should … Continue reading →

The drainage works for the 60 Main Street development we mentioned in our September newsletter are well underway. Access from the northern track through to Main Street is now blocked due to work abutting the bridge. Access to the path … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to Kalang to continue working at the site we attacked the Fumitory at a fortnight ago. This week, Panic Veldt becomes the numero uno target – it’s starting to seed so we have to act … Continue reading →

The northern end of FP-14 was chosen by us as the National Tree Day planting site for 2023. Council were not happy with that at the time because the site was not fully prepared – we bravely said we’d look … Continue reading →

This week, we are back to Kalang with one primary target – Fumitory (again) which is threatening to smother some of our indigenous plantings (pink dots). We’ll set up camp at the pink X. Provided we have the numbers, we … Continue reading →