Our calendar of events for 2019.
Please feel free to come along to any of our events. We like to be social and have good coffee and cakes.
April 27 Johns Hill Landcare AGM
May 19 Bob James Emerald Quarry Reserve - National Volunteer Week - planting
June 22 Puffing Billy Grass Garden - planting
July 28 Pepisland - National Tree Day - planting
August 17 Butterfield Reserve - planting
Sept 15 Avonsleigh Common - Landcare Week - planting
Oct 19 TBA
Nov 10 Butterfield - walk
Join Landcare and Healesville Environment Watch Inc members to revegetate the banks of the Grace Burn, Healesville.
The Johns Hill Landcare seed collecting team - Noel Gross, Julie Thompson and Sheila Hampson - begins work in late spring and normally knocks off at the end of summer. This year they have continued through winter with a project to identify ferns and 'fern allies' (look alikes)and to collect spores. Noel, Julie and Sheila meet for coffee each Tuesday and then go on long walks to peer into the forest looking for specimens. They are working on with Michelle at the Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater Nursery on propragating the ferns, using the knowledge of former JHLG Committee member Sue Harris. They are also developing a fern book from their extensive research. The work so far is already drawing interest from different environment groups. It is a wonderful project emanating from a group which, from sheer interest, is extending its knowledge in pursuit of propagation of indigenous species.
