13 Reasons to Join
Paul’s Award Winning* Plant Destakerater
Stakes were generally well stuck in the ground and often splintering, making hand pulling a very hazardous and difficult activity.After a few trials and a lot of thinking I came up with a destaking tool which just slips over the stake and gives a good grip to lift the stake out of the ground.
Tubestock Planting Guide
This planting guide is drawn from internet sources and personal experience in Landcare.
Recruiting tips
No 1. reason that people volunteer – because they were asked.
Goodness, Gracious Great Balls of… umm… Seed.
Seed balls are a fairly simple way of getting seed into an area to germinate after a good rain event.
Axe of Death
This month’s tool, a nice little hatchet to help poisoning woody weeds, you might need a blacksmith, farrier or someone with an oxy set to make it.
Tools, Tips & Tricks – Water Lance
A water lance, water jet, whatever you want to call it really, mainly used for planting long stem tubestock along waterways. Let’s make one!
Pirates of the…. Umm… Muscle Creek.
Landcare sites often have their own unique challenges, weeds, spiky plants, rocky cliffs. Urban Landcare groups have their own challenges, Muscle Creek Landcare in Muswellbrook finds rubbish of all sizes dropped in their patch, shopping trolleys dumped in the creek...