This year, Fifteen Trees was delighted to be contacted by Tessa Deliopoulos at the Victorian Planning Authority (VPA) to plant 30 trees on the behalf of her department. The 30 trees were a part of a larger 300 tree project at Yea (Vic). The VPA works with councils and local communities, landowners and developers to plan for strategically important precincts in Melbourne and regional cities.
Thank you Colleen, Tessa and the VPA for the trees for one of our on-going projects.
We planted 300 plants on a farm at Yea with assistance from the Year 12 VCAL students from Yea High School.
The students did a great job and landowners Rachel and Peter were very grateful for the help and to VPA for for supplying 30 of the trees.
Chris Cobern | Landcare Coordinator | Upper Goulburn Landcare Network
VCAL Class of 2018
Once again thank you Tessa and the VPA for your support of our tree planting projects. As you can see, your trees have gone to a great location in the foothills of Victoria.
Fifteen Trees can plant any number of trees for your organisation or department. We can also plan a tree planting day for your team and give you a range of locations to plant. Tree planting days need time to organise, so if you are interested for 2019 please contact us at <[email protected]> or via our contact page.
Sláinte – Colleen
Yea = 300 trees / VPA 30 trees
According to Sustainability Victoria, the average Australian lifestyle produces 15,000kg of carbon per year. If that sounds like a lot, it is! Over its lifetime, a tree can collect and store 268kg. This means, we each need to plant 58 trees per year to bring our individual carbon production down to zero. A little tricky for most of us to do in our own backyards, and this is where ‘A Subscription for the Planet’ comes in. (Feature image from Mt Worth Landcare).
Individual actions really do matter! Individually we can really only make small differences to the world around us, but collectively our numbers add up. And if enough individuals are involved then forests can be grown!
