Recently, Nature Glenelg Trust teamed up with the Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources and TAFE Mount Gambier to deliver two advanced seed Workshops led by Neville Bonney. These Workshops were aimed at people who already had a good knowledge of seed collection but wanted...
Recently botanist, Andrea Kodym told me that it was well and truly time to start bagging my heads. Although I was born and raised in Tasmania, that wasn’t what she meant. What Andrea was referring to was the fact that time was running out to bag...
Nature Glenelg Trust would like to invite interested community members to a light supper and launch of the Friends of Cross- Border & Community Nursery on Wednesday 18th December. Commencing at 6:30 pm, the supper and launch will be followed by a Workshop hosted by...
Students from Tension Woods College recently made a great contribution to the development of the Community Nursery Project - Display Garden out the front of the DEWNR building in Mount Gambier. The students who are part of the School's youth environment group helped myself and...
Nature Glenelg Trust together with The Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources is pleased to offer two field based seed collection workshops led by highly experienced seed collector & bush regenerator, Neville Bonney. [caption id="attachment_3886" align="aligncenter" width="224"] Book now for two upcoming seed collection workshops![/caption] These...
The Sowing the Seeds of Success Forum held recently in Hamilton was well received with more than 60 people attending from various parts of Victoria and South Australia. Linda Broadhurst kicked off proceedings with a talk titled: Improving the past, present and future of Australian restoration...
Dr Linda Broadhurst, a Research Scientist with the CSIRO, will be a keynote speaker at NGT's "Sowing the Seeds of Success" Forum in Hamilton on the 22nd of October. For more than a decade Dr Broadhurst’s research has focused on how vegetation fragmentation is influencing...
Recently I travelled over to Warnambool with NGT volunteers, Rowena Hamer and Jonathan Tuck, to meet with local native plant enthusiast and author Kevin Sparrow. While preparing his latest book, Plants of the Great South West, Kevin had discovered the presence of populations of Exocarpus syrticola (a species...
Among other things, Nature Glenelg Trust's Cross Border Community Nursery Project is funded by the Australian Government to work with community groups, schools and government organisations to establish eight Display Gardens throughout the South East of SA and Western Victoria. The aim of these gardens is...
Thanks to the very skilled assistance of Dan (the man) Anderson and our very talented volunteer, Jonathan Tuck, we had the new Greenhouse erected in about four days. This was a pretty good effort considering we were beset with turbulent weather for most of the...
