G.J. Gardner Homes has been supporting our community tree planting projects since 2013, and in that time, we have planted over 75,000 trees across Victoria and Tasmania due to their generous support. That impressive number comes because G.J. Gardner plants 15 native trees for every home it builds in Tasmania and Victoria.

Rob McMaster and Wayne Jones from G.J. Gardner Homes Ballarat are generous supporters of local community groups, and their tree planting projects. This year Rob, Wayne and their team purchased 960 native plants trees for the Meredith Landcare Group.

G.J. Gardner prides itself on being a practical, hands-on family affair, and in past years staff have happily gone out with their local community to plant their trees themselves. To keep the local connection, all trees are planted near the offices managing the builds, between 200-900 trees for every district. Local Landcare groups determine the best tree species for the site. The seedlings themselves are often grown by local independent nurseries who have collected seed from the region by hand (with the proper licensing, of course). The sites that have been planted have included nature reserves, parklands, roadsides, school grounds, riverbanks & rural properties.

G.J. Gardner’s core business is building homes. Safe, secure places for families to grow and thrive for many years to come. We love that alongside this G.J. Gardner is planting forests, which is very much the same thing; safe, secure places for fauna and flora to grow and thrive for many years to come.

This planting project is going to be fundamental to the protection of Dunnarts, a nocturnal carnivorous marsupial only found in Australia, and native to the Meredith district in Victoria, which is on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung.

One of the threats to Dunnarts is habitat loss and fragmentation due to vegetation clearing for agriculture. With G.J Gardner’s support of the Bamganie-Meredith revegetation project, we hope to reverse the activities of past agricultural practises of widespread clearing and provide habitat to the local Dunnart populations.

Some of the area’s original indigenous flora species include Red Stringybark, Messmate Stringybark, Broadleaf Peppermint, Manna Gum, Swamp Gum and Red Ironbark. These are some of the species planted by the Bamganie-Meredith Landcare Group.

“Thank you to G.J. Gardner Ballarat for your support of our tree planting project. Here’s hoping you can come and join us next year to do some tree planting together. “

 

Bernard Gilligan | Facilitator | Bamganie Meredith Landcare Group.

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Lou Ridsdale is a big fan of words and has been our Comms Manager since 2019.

She is a big-minded green thumb, Earth Lover, big-hearted nature freak plus a savvy media and horticulture expert, who passionately believe that everyone is capable of leading a more nourishing and sustainable life. Her passion for education + communication being the most empowering tool for change is reflected in her setting up her own digital/comms agency Hey Hoe Let’s Grow Socials. She also founded Food Is Free Inc. a unique grassroots food security platform specialising in food security education. She fell in love with trees after reading The Magic Faraway Tree as a child.

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