The impact

The Tamworth Landcare Nursery now employs one part time site supervisor and has up to 8 volunteers on any given nursery day. They provide plants for local groups, working bees, National Tree Day events, local council street trees and for our own Bush Regeneration business. The nursery also provides carbon offset trees for local individuals and businesses and is set to expand this opportunity with a new carbon offset dedicated Landcare site.

The nursery team not only propagate and grow plants endemic to our region but have also been collecting seed for climate ready plants from surrounding regions west of Tamworth through National Landcare Programme funding. They grow native foods and native medicinal species from across NSW with a view to sell them commercially. Our Grassy White Box threatened ecological communities are supported by the nursery through the growing rare herbs and lilies from these sites to redistributed.

The future of the nursery is one as a wholly self-sustaining business with the potential to improve TRLA's financial sustainability through profit with a weekly market stall at the local growers markets, the provision of bush regeneration services to industry and for community projects and our the carbon offset program.