AGA (Apprentices Plus) is a not-for-profit organisation, focusing on meeting the needs of the young people that they train and employ. CEO Mark Knox and his team believe in also helping out the needs of local communities. As such, this year AGA have provided Steven Joblin and his Flowerdale landcare group with 75 trees for one of their planting projects.
This planting took place in on a residential block in Flowerdale that was destroyed in the 2009 fire. The trees donated by AGA have been used to create a screen along a fence line as habitat for native insects and birds. Previously there had been a pittosporum hedge (a species that readily escapes into the bush), so thanks AGA. The seedlings planted on this site are all indigenous to the area.
Steve Joblin | Flowerdale Landcare Coordinator
This year, Fifteen Trees and our supporters have provided Steve and his Landcare team with over 3,000 native trees for their re-vegetation projects. Numbers add up so thank you AGA for your 75 trees. We are delighted to have been able to help out Flowerdale after the devastating fires in 2009.
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CAVAL annually support our community tree planting projects by purchasing trees for us to distribute to community groups to plant. This year, we planted 90 trees on their behalf at Hindmarsh in South Australia and another 10 at the Kaarakin Cockatoo Conservation Centre in WA.
Tambo Bluff Landcare Coastcare Inc. recently welcomed extra sets of hands to their planting day when the team from G.J. Gardner Homes joined the local Landcare group to help plant native trees and shrubs.
‘This is a picture of my favourite tree on our campus, a Lemon Scented Gum (spp. Corymbia citriodor), and even though it isn’t endemic to our area, it thrives. I love the scent that it gives off on a warm, humid day after a rain shower’. Keitha Theodore.