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The plan for 18/1/2024 is to tackle hand-weeding maintenance within the Billabong precinct. Megan and Graeme will “supervise” given John’s absence at the dentist’s. Last Week Last week, we worked alongside Julie’s place in the NW corner of Furness Park. We … Continue reading →

The plan this week is to return to the top corner of Furness Park (FP-11) to stamp out a resurgence of the weeds up there. There is an incredible number of Prickly Lettuce plants coming up (again). Interestingly, Prickly Lettuce is the … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 7th December, is to continue our maintenance weeding in Kalang Park along the main track north of the oval. Depending on numbers, we might dispatch a small group to finish off last week’s work at the Pakenham … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 30th November, is to do some more maintenance weeding in Kalang Park towards the Pakenham Street end from the point where the creek is closest to the creek back to the Noticeboard area and Pakenham Street itself … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 23rd November, is to do some maintenance weeding in Kalang Park towards the Pakenham Street end from the point where the creek is closest to the creek (major Brome outbreak) through to the plaque – and also … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 16th November, is to do some maintenance weeding along the track north of the Blacks Walk bridge before making further inroads into BW-31. The objective is to do a quick weed in BW-35, BW-27 and BW-33 before … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 9th November, is to reprise our plan for last week – to finish the weeds in BW-32 and also make some inraods into BW-31. Last Week Due to an unusually small attendance last week (people away … Continue reading →

The plan for Thursday, 2nd November, is to wrangle the returning weeds in BW-32 and also BW-31 (if time and human resources permit). BW-32 is the area we took over from Council adjacent the Blacks Walk children’s playground abutting new … Continue reading →

Last week, we didn’t quite finish off at Furness Park FP-11 – so didn’t get a chance to visit FP-14 for a bit of TLC around the community working bee plantings. Greenlink has donated a box of excess stock Carex … Continue reading →

Our plan for Thursday morning of 19th October is to return to “far Furness” for regular maintenance hand-weeding in FP-11. If time and people resources permit, we may also do some weeding around the recent Community Working Bee plantings in … Continue reading →

Our plan for Thursday morning of 12th October is to do a little more weeding out KP-9 below Waratah Crescent amd mulching the exposed bed towards the western end. There’s about 2.5m3 of mulch there already – we’re hoping for … Continue reading →

Given we had several people unavailable and some working shorter days than normal, we didn’t have the capacity to work on the KP-5 bed as well as the KP-8 patch as ambitiously planned last week. It seems we may be … Continue reading →

The next working bee is another planned for Kalang Park on the south side of the creek and just west of the Laurel Grove bridge. We will also hand-weed a former Community Working Bee site nearby – a little to … Continue reading →

We’ll spend another day working on the eastern end of the Billabong precinct in Kalang Park. We got a great deal done on our first day there (7/9) with excellent attendance and a beautiful warm morning for the work. Conditions (last … Continue reading →

We’ll be working on the eastern end of the Billabong precinct in Kalang Park. Depending on numbers, the aim will be to weed out most of the pond areas. Conditions (last updated 6:30AM 7/9/2023) The weather this morning (Thursday) is not … Continue reading →

Posted on August 23, 2023 by John Mc We’ll be working again in Kalang Park off Pakenham Street on the south side of the creek on Thursday morning 08:30-11:30. We’ll be weeding in KP-17 building on the great work we did on 24/8.  We also give … Continue reading →