May 20th - 24th was National Volunteer Week. During the past couple on months we have been featuring some of our wonderful NGT volunteers in the newsletter. On the 24th of May we also held a morning tea at our Mt Gambier nursery to celebrate...
National Volunteer Week in 2024 is May 20-24th. Over the past few months we have been featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month’s newsletter. This month we have the third installment where we meet Suzy Meyers and Lynn Gilbert. Here are some words...
National Volunteer Week in 2024 is May 20-24. Over the past few months we have been featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month’s newsletter. This month is the third installment where we meet two volunteers: Suzy and Lynn. Here is Suzy Meyers, dog...
In the lead-up to Volunteer Week in May, we will be featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month's newsletter. This month we have the second installment: meet Carole Ryan of the University of the Third Age, a gardener, child sponsor, passionate supporter of...
As a non-profit organisation, volunteers are an integral part of the work we do at here at NGT. Our volunteers do vital conservation work, like sorting seeds and growing seedlings in the nursery, helping to restore degraded ecosystems through planting and weed control, assisting with...
Volunteers are worth their weight in gold! Hence, when I was invited to speak at the Millicent Field Naturalists Society 60th Birthday celebration I was chuffed, as this group contributes so much, in so many ways.The celebration commenced out at Millicent's beautiful Lake McIntyre, with...
Hello there, Tom reporting in from Walker Swamp. After a massive effort from NGT volunteers and staff we have planted around 1600 plants back into the Walker Swamp landscape. We successfully planted the remaining 700 seedlings that were kindly donated to us from Ella Plumanns Pouton at Melbourne...
To keep cool in the hot late-February weather, a dedicated group of volunteers have been working hard under the air-conditioner in our Mt Gambier Community Nursery, sorting through our mountain of seed. Regular volunteers Carole and Samuel with the seed mountain Over December and January, many seeds...
Last year we had some fantastic fieldwork days at Walker Swamp, where a crew of amazing volunteers helped to plant seedlings, install wildlife cameras, build a kangaroo-proof fence to protect new plants and much more. This year the Walker Swamp Fieldwork Fridays are back -...
With staff based all the way from Tassie, to Dunkeld in Vic and Victor Harbor in SA, there are plenty of interesting things going on every day. So we've decided to share some photos from the field every month, to give our readers some insights...
