• Encourage and assist local landowners and property managers with weed control and bush regeneration

• Catalogue and share information about local native rainforest species

• Provide access to local native seedlings and seed stock at Dandarrga Native Nursery

 

 

 

Our current projects include propagation and planting of local rainforest and pioneer species, and privet control, along local waterways:

the Blicks River at the Dundurrabin Community Centre,

at Tyringham, 

Deep Creek, Dorrigo

Bielsdown River, Dorrigo

Rocky Creek, Dorrigo (with Mountain Top Landcare)

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Dandarrga Native Nursery

 

        

 

We manage a native nursery at the Dorrigo Showground. Working Bees since September 2017 have refurbished three existing greenhouses, built a shade tunnel and added composting bays and gardens. Grants and donations have since been used to install rainwater tanks and automatic irrigation.

The Dandarrga Native Nursery has been open for business since 11th December 2017.

We operate on volunteer labour, donations, goodwill, and shared resources, and we are receiving income from grant funding, donations and tree sales. We are training local unemployed people in collaboration with Centrelink and the local job agencies. We meet and network with many local people interested in native plants. We are delighted at the generous donations of local native seed, cuttings,  seedlings, compost materials, books, advice and support. 

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Bellingen Shire Council have generously granted us some start up

funds from the Environmental Community Levy Fund to purchase

nursery equipment. We are very grateful! Much needed tubes,

trays and labels have been purchased and are being put to good

use growing rainforest and other native species.

 

March 2018 

Wettenhall Environment Trust

Many thanks to the Wettenhall Environment Trust for a small grant for community education. We aim to record and share data about our local native flora species, and show how they fit into the web of life in our region. We are hosting free weekly Rainforest Species ID workshops at the nursery, and will use the grant to develop further workshop material and fund workshops in 2018, as well as publish our data online and train local unemployed people as citizen scientists. See our first instructional video here.

On 16th March, Dr. Jacky Williams gave a public presentation on Planetary Stewardship and Landcaring. Jacky is an environmental scientist based at UNE. She has had a long history of working in rural communities - from forest activism, landcare chair and coordinator and managing a regional natural resource management organization, before deciding to explore more in-depth research of the issues and barriers for rural communities in looking after Country.  Download her presentation here.(pdf)

   

   

Update June 2020

Bellingen Shire Environmental Community Levy Fund

A small grant from Bellingen Shire Council's Environmental Levy Community Fund in 2019 helped with installing irrigation, and providing native soil and more tubes for the Dandarrga Native Nursery.

A generous grant in 2020 has helped fund our new rainwater tanks and automatic irrigation system.

Many thanks to our generous GoFundMe donors for the majority of the financing, and to Sandy Eager of Bellingen Landcare Inc for setting up the GoFundMe page!