First Water in our Landscape workshop was wonderful and wet!
Posted on 26 April, 2017 by Connecting Country
Almost constant rain provided the very appropriate backdrop to our first Water in our Landscape workshop, Turning your Dam into Habitat, on Friday the 21st of April 2017. Despite the water, a full house attended the event hosted and presented by local wetland ecologist Damien Cook in Fryerstown. Participants were treated to a walk around Damien’s property where he has been working on renovating dams, creating habitat and restoring a eroding creekline.
Frances Cincotta from Newstead Natives was also at the workshop with plants to sell and lots of information to share about wetland species from our area. For a full write up of the workshop with lots of useful tips about turning dams into habitat and copies of the resources given to participants, please CLICK HERE.
The small frog pond with Swamp Wallaby grass
Damien kicks off the workshop by talking nutrient cycling, and inviting frogs and fish.
Learning about water ribbons around the medium sized dam
Attendees take a break from the rain and share stories over a cuppa
Swamp Pennywort was one of the plants for sale at the first of our Water in our landscapes workshop series
An attendee inspects a shallow frog pond
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