Tag: plants
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Home microforests basics
This online event will be hosted by Edwina Robinson Tue 17th Sep 2024, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm AEST Register online What’s on offer Making a home microforest is easy when you know how. Your home microforest can be as small as a car space! I’ve made a bushy slice of paradise in my front garden…
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14th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference
The Australian Network for Plant Conservation will hold the 14th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference (APCC14) in Toowoomba from 13-17 October 2024 at the Oaks Toowoomba Hotel. The conference theme recognises how the many Little Things that we do – in science, land management, and community-based conservation – can grow into the Big Things that can save our biodiversity heritage. APCC14 will…
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Wild about my garden
The Toowoomba Field Naturalists Club Inc. (TFNC) in conjunction with Gardens for Wildlife (G4W) are inviting you to participate in the project called: “Wild about my garden”. The project is supported by a donation from the family of Joan Kolbe, a former TFNC member. The aim is to get young people and those who are young…
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Amaroo cultural burn
Join Amaroo Environmental Education Centre for a day of knowledge sharing with Cultural fire practitioner Robbie Williams from Fire Lore. Robbie will explain how traditional burning practices have been used for millennia to maintain healthy ecosystems, carbonize soil, reduce fuel loads and minimise bushfires. Robbie will then conduct a cool Cultural burn in the Amaroo…
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Plant books launch
1:30 pm Saturday, 15 June at Toowoomba City Library – Two new books on the native plants of our region will be launched: Plants of Southeast Toowoomba’s Bushland Parks and Wattles of Toowoomba and the Condamine Catchment.
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Planting Day – a huge success!
Machinery was used to cultivate the soil to a depth of 30cm and a layer of 10cm of compost was incorporated into the soil. The process aims to simulate the ground level of a forest ecosystem. The soil was then evenly raked over in preparation for planting. Stage 1 planting took place on 1 April 2023.…
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Microforest creation
Why create a microforest at Hancock St Park? This project has received funding support from the Queensland Government’s Community Sustainability Action grant program and an environment grant from Toowoomba Regional Council. Hancock St Park is an endangered ecosystem (classification 12.5.6: https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/regional-ecosystems/details/?re=12.5.6). The park is a tiny spec of the original natural world, of Rangeville Toowoomba. It is an…
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Hancock Street Park Microforest
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Friends of the Escarpment Park (FEP) have been successful in obtaining funding from the Qld Government and the Toowoomba Regional Council to develop a Microforest on a 580sqm grassed parcel of land. The land is managed by Toowoomba Regional Council and is adjacent to Hancock Street Park. The project will follow the Miyawaki method of…