Yass Landcare Group is holding a plant stall on Saturday outside Miller’s Pharmacy on Comur Street.
The stall will hold hundreds of native plants from Yass Landcare’s Community Nursery at great prices and promises to be the groups biggest plant sale yet, as they doubled their production this year thanks to major grant funding.
“We’ve been producing plants for 3 or 4 years now,” said Jeremy Wilson, President of Yass Landcare.
“We do a whole range of stuff, from natives to ornamentals, to vegetables,” he said.
The Nursery, a joint project of Yass Landcare and Yass Community Garden, is down behind the Men’s Shed on Yass Valley Way, but the Nursery is far from the only project Yass Landcare has underway.
The Local Land Services have provided funding for a repeat of the “Paddock Tree Project”, which provides local landholders with a planting kit to establish individual trees in their paddocks.
“With climate change, we’re getting such high temperatures; grazing animals are desperately seeking shade during summer from around 8 or 9 o’clock in the morning till quite late in the afternoon.”
“These paddock trees are being embraced by landholders all over the place, realising what a huge benefit they are,” said Jeremy.
The Group will have achieved its objective of 1000 new paddock trees in the Yass area by mid-June, with paddock trees considered crucial for native wildlife, providing important shelter for birds, reptiles and insect life, as well as valuable shelter for livestock.
Volunteers meet at the Nursery every second Saturday and fourth Tuesday of the month from 9.30 -12.30 to do work including seeding, sorting and tending the tube stock.
Anyone is welcome to join.
For further information on Yass Landcare, contact Sonya Duus, YAN Coordinator coordinator@yan.org.au or call Jeremy at 0427 059 142.
Max O’Driscoll
