Wombeyan Caves Rd: Habitat restoration planting

23rd April, 2026

The last planting day of the Autumn season before winter. 

My thanks to the wonderful volunteers whose willingness to do what needed to be done made the day a success, to Nathan Frazer, our coordinator, for bringing the tools, as well as his work on the augur and the hard-working, welcoming landholders.

This Autumn, Landcare have worked on 6 properties planting trees, shrubs and rushes across

approximately 7 hectares. None of this regenerative work would have been possible without the

terrific group of volunteers involved. My thanks to you all

Robertson Rainforest Tree Planting

5th April, 2026

A productive planting day in Robertson, working together to strengthen a habitat corridor on this property.

The plants were propagated by the Young REPS team and are now in the ground where they can make a real difference.

Thank you to YoungREPs, Saving our Species and our local Landcare team for your support,

and to the landholder for their strong interest and commitment to improving the habitat corridor!

Nowra Rd, Moss Vale Tree Planting

7th April, 2026

Therapy walk planting: Another beautiful morning in the Highlands. How lucky were we to be planting in such lovely weather.

Thank you to the 15 volunteers who planted 220 understory plants in under two hours this morning. What an efficient and effective team they were! Today's planting extended the therapy walk planting undertaken this time last year through a beautiful plot of mature eucalypts. As we finished early in the day, there was time to meet the therapy horses and play with the landholder's dog after a delicious morning tea, including an apple cake made from apples grown on the property. Pretty special.

Canyonleigh: Koala Habitat Restoration using habitat hops

20th March, 2026

After much planning and preparation, we planted out the first two habitat hops and one control planting today. The motivation behind this planting trial is to see if we can improve establishment and growth rates at this challenging site.

My thanks go to the very prepared, organised and enthusiastic landholders and the dedicated, hardworking, conscientious Landcare volunteers who worked through rain showers to complete today's planting.

And of course, our hard-working coordinator, Nathan, on the augur (they are both a godsend).

I would also like to make special mention of KJ Burke, who set up some monitoring points using an app called Contextcam.

This denser form of planting is based on suggestions from ANU's Sustainable Farms information and the work of Dr Susan Simard. It involves planting a core group of 7 eucalypts of the same species together at around 2 meters apart (much denser than normal) and planting acacia and other understory plants randomly between and around them. Each 'hop' had two core groups of eucalypts. It is hoped that the fast-growing acacia will provide shelter from wind and frost while the eucalypts get established) and that the other understory plants will help create habitat faster than stretched out rows of trees. We will be back in the spring to see how the hops are progressing.

High Range Tree Planting

10th March, 2026

We had the privilege of planting at Dogue, Berrima. It was a privilege for several reasons. Firstly, at each end of the paddock where we were planting, you could see mature woodlands. We were adding to previous plantings to create an obvious wildlife corridor. Secondly, the team of volunteers were fantastic. They planted with care and skill. My thanks to all of them!

Lastly, the landholders were in there with us, sharing their enthusiasm for the environment and working alongside us to make everything happen smoothly. Fabulous! Thank you so much to everyone involved.