Wardandi means ‘people who live by the ocean and walk the forest paths’. Local Nyungar elders gave permission to use the name to the Austalind Bushcare Council (who looks after the site). Some of the Council’s activities include; plant and fauna surveys, fencing, weed control, rubbish removal, guided wildflower walks and planting trees! Which is […]
Archives: Tree Plantings
Historic Vaughan Springs (Vic).
Members of the newly formed Vaughan Springs Landcare Group met up last month to plant out 120 trees at the historic township of Vaughan Springs. These trees (along with the tree guards) were very generously paid for by Peter Thompson from Thompson Family Funerals of Castlemaine. Peter has one tree planted for every service entrusted […]
Vaughan Springs, Vic.
Twenty five members of the newly reformed Friends of Vaughan Springs gathered last Sunday (June 29th) to plant out a few hundred native trees and shrubs at their local community reserve. The working bee and tree planting day was organised by Noel Muller, Ranger Team Leader of Northern Goldfields at Parks Victoria. Noel hopes that […]
Catalina Park, Vic.
Tricia Pollard from the Lake Boga and District Landcare Group have worked hard to ensure their local habitat is well managed and looked after. Tricia and her team have been working on the Catalina Project for a few years now and has enticed a number of groups (Lions Club, Bowling Club, Swan Hill Council and […]
Goondaloo Creek and Johnstone River Queensland.
Jean and Graham Ruddell from G.J Gardner Homes Townsville has partnered with Fifteen Trees to enabled 450 trees to be planted in two of the most beautiful locations in Queensland – Goondaloo Creek and Johnstone River Catchment. Kim Sellars (Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare) writes … ‘Thanks to the initiative of the Fifteen Trees program Coastal […]
Granite Creek, Bairnsdale Vic
Fifteen Trees is delighted to report that G. J. Gardner Homes (Victoria and Tasmania) will continue to support tree planting in Victoria and Tasmania – to the tune of 5355 trees in 2014. A partnering between G.J. Gardner Homes and Fifteen Trees has produced the 15 trees project for the home building company. In brief, […]
The Brisbane Ranges, Vic.
Out at the Brisbane Ranges there is a dynamite landcare group who are very proactive when it come to re-vegetating the native species of flora. Fifteen Trees has been supplying Neil Day and his group for the past 2 years with trees from Eco-Regeneration Nursery at Sutherland’s Creek. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” […]
Moonambel Primary School, Victoria
Cindy Veitch and her students from Moonambel have taken over the old oval at their school and are in the process of developing it into a native garden and reserve for wildlife. Their sustainability project will be a long term one and Fifteen Trees is delighted to be involved by supplying some of their first […]
Sustainable Living Festival 2014
Ever since Fifteen Trees was established (2009), we have proudly been a part of the Sustainable Living Festival. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] This year was no exception. It is always a great event, with unbelievable […]
ReFashion Exhibition.
It is great when 3 loves of my life come together into one space. This is what happened on Saturday at Backspace Gallery (Ballarat) when a group of women collected some well … junk … and turned it into recycled, revamped gowns. There was art, there was fashion and there was recycling. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column […]
