Community Planting – Connecting People with Place

Posted on 20 June, 2014 by Connecting Country

Twenty people banded together happily on Sunday morning (15 June 2014) to help a local Taradale landholder to realise his on-ground works with Connecting Country.

Roughly five hundred local indigenous plants were planted at two sites on the beautiful property over the course of the morning, which will extend and enhance the wildlife habitat corridor which follows the Coliban River. It was a day for Connecting Country volunteers, members and staff to come together and experience firsthand the restoration work that local landholders and our works crew do in the shire. And also to make new friends and swap stories over a lunch of sausages, burgers, muffins and hot drinks.

It was also a great opportunity to hear Tanya Loos – coordinator of the new Habitat for Bush Birds project – talk about some of the special woodland birds in the local area, and the habitat features that they require.

Our next community planting day will be on the Sunday the 20^th of July 2014. We will be providing a free bus ride to site and are meeting in Castlemaine outside the Ray Bradfield room in the Maxi IGA car-park at 9am for a 9:15am departure. After the planting and over a BBQ lunch, the landholder will give a talk about the property and the work he is doing with Connecting Country. We will be returning to Castlemaine by bus at 1:30pm.

Please RSVP by Thursday 17^th of July to bonnie@connectingcountry.org.au to secure a place on the bus, and for further details about the day.