Trust for Nature Property 2009

17/8/2009 & 28/8/2009

Deb & Julians property at Earlstone . Large Trust for Nature Covenant job .

Jim Begley DPI Grant

Total size 35ha. (80kms of direct seeding at 5 kms per hour )

Site well prepared -sprayed twice . Rows close together .

Soil damp, sticky and greasy .

Mud plugging the pipe and thick dead onion grass wrapping around the press wheel were a time consuming problem in the previously uncropped section . Much smoother in the old cropped paddock .

No stock have been on the property for several years.

Previously successful direct seeded vegetation in patches across the site.

Hand planting of taller trees.

Wider range of species than usual sown.

Germination reported by October .

Property SOLD in 2010

New Seed Production Area

15/10/2010John Broadhurst at Earlston near Violet Town is creating a SPA with help from the Dookie Seedbank and Jim Begley. Seed will be collected off this site for future revegetation projects .

2000 plants have the hand planted in the milk cartons you can see in the background .

We were seeding 2 ha . John came with us to guide us around.

The site had been sown with native grasses earlier in the year and was looking good .

This lovely flat fertile site has been rested from grazing for a number of years ,used to be a lucerne paddock .

Creeks and billabongs around this site were looking great after many dry years.