Member's Bus Tour 2024
by Claire Weekley
27 Oct 2024
Our annual members’ bus tour took place on a beautiful Sunday with dozens of members taking part. At Wollert Community Farm, we visited Curly Sedge Creek with Conservation Lead, Charlotte Gordon, and planted curly sedge as part of a revegetation project. FOMC President Nick Williams, showed us the Farm’s indigenous seed production facility with wildflowers in full flower.
In the afternoon, we visited our partners, Upper Plenty Merri Catchments Landcare Group, and helped tackle woody weeds like gorse, hawthorn, blackberry and briar rose at their Dry Creek revegetation project.
It’s always a delight to share and learn about the activities occurring in the upper Merri with our members and to keep the issues in the upper catchment front of mind:
The impacts of housing and industrial (Beveridge Intermodal Freight Terminal, Wollert Incinerator) developments;
The need for the State government to act quickly to protect and restore biodiversity as part of the marram baba and (proposed) wallan wallan Merri Regional Parklands.
Photos by Claire Weekley & Polly Bastow