Tag: FEP
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Microforest Open Day
Your chance to experience a Microforest – an urban contribution to creating a native habitat stepping stone in the landscape by planting what was once there. Toowoomba’s Friends of Escarpment Parks invite you to celebrate the success of their Hancock Street Park MICROFOREST at an OPEN DAY Saturday 4th October. What an amazing accomplishment https://fep.org.au/projects/microforest-project/ Join…
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Hancock Street Microforest
The signs are up promoting the Microforest Open Day which will be held on Saturday, 4 October from 10 am to 2 pm. As the project evolved from inception in 2022 to final planting in 2024 and the upcoming celebration the story was recorded by Ann Alcock in a blog. The material from that blog…
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The Escarpment Park Friend – Sep 2025
This issue of the FEP Newsletter has annual reports from each of the parks where volunteers work and a summary of database records of hours worked. Other content includes a brief summary of Greg Spearritt’s presentation about mistletoes at the AGM, details of the upcoming Microforest Open Day, a piece about fungi, accounts of bushland…
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FEP Annual General Meeting
The FEP AGM will be held on Saturday, 30 August at 10 am in the Toowoomba City Library Community Rooms, Level 3, 155 Herries Street. We will welcome Greg Spearitt, our guest speaker, who will talk about Condamine Country Plant Group’s book project and also present on Mistletoe species. This will be followed by our President’s,…
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FEP Stall – 17 Aug
FEP will be sharing a stall with Condamine Country Plant Group this Sunday 17 August from 8 am – 1 pm at the Queens Park Craft Market. We will have our plant books for sale and will be very happy to chat about the work FEP does. Members and their friends and family may like…
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FEP AGM – 30 August
You are invited to attend FEP’s 2025 AGM: When: 10 am on 30th August 2025 Where: Darling Downs Environment Council Buru Dain Dan Eco Hut Address: 1A Heller Street, Rangeville We are pleased to advise the speaker will be Greg Spearritt who will talk about a project he is undertaking as part of the Condamine Country…
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Local Field Trip Opportunities
All FEP members are invited to join Crows Nest Community Nursery volunteers in plant field trips, led by Lisa Churchward. Lisa is the manager of Crows Nest Community Nursery, and a very experienced and knowledgable plant person. Trip 1: Goombungee Tip: Thursday 7 August. Please meet Lisa at 1.20pm at the Goombungee Bottle Tree Park toilet block. We will…
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Renaming of Park in honour of Dr Swarbrick
Friends of the Escarpment Parks approached Toowoomba Regional Council to request that a 2000m2 piece of land opposite Lovers Outlook on Prince Henry Drive be renamed in honour of FEP founder, Dr John Swarbrick. Members and friends of FEP are encouraged to support the renaming by responding to the Council using the QR code or…
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Leopard Ash park visit
FEP will be hosting a Park Visit to Leopard Ash Bushland Park on Saturday 14th June at 9 am. For more details about the park including a map click on the link above. Leopard Ash Park is a small bushland park (0.5ha) located between 16 and 18 Charmaine Court in Kleinton. It was saved from the bulldozers when the…
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The Escarpment Park Friend – May 2025
This issue has news from the committee, plant list for Williams Park, report on the Redwood Park Madeira Vine challenge, information about distinctions among Native, Indigenous and Endemic Plants, and more.