The record high temperatures, drought and raging fires this 2019/20 Summer season have caused enormous losses of habitat, wildlife (animals and plants), and general damage to our treasured ACT landscape and woodlands. Caring people in many locations sprang into action by providing containers with water on the kerbside of their…
Join the Friends of Mount Majura for a woody weed hunt at the north slope of Mount Majura. Please schedule at least two hours of your time for this event as we will be working in a fairly remote area. Please RSVP so that we know how many tools to…
Give a hand at a bush cleanup on Clean-up Australia Day Sunday, 1st March from 10 am to 12 noon. Meet at the volunteer registration point, nature park entrance Ian Nicol Street / Tay street east of The Fair, North Watson; click on this map. Bring gloves if you have…
Come and give a hand at our work party and help with mulching, watering and placing debris to protect our plantings. Hear about our new exciting “Seeding Nodes” project to bring back native wildflowers to Mt Majura. When: Sunday 16 February 2020, from 9am to 12noon Where: Meet nature park…
Give a hand and help to water the young plants planted in 2019. If weather conditions are suitable (not too hot) we may also carry out some mulching. When: Sunday 19 January 2020 from 8 am to 10 am Where: Mt Majura nature reserve east of The Fair estate; volunteer…
Come along to the last work party in 2019 hosted by Friends of Mt Majura on Sunday 15th December; gift an hour or more to Mt Majura and help to mulch, water, and place debris at our project site in the nature reserve east of The Fair. Morning tea and…
Working Party @ The Fair – Sunday 17 November 2019, 9 am to 1 pm Join our work party and help to mulch, water, weed and place debris at FoMM’s project site in the nature reserve east of The Fair. Give as much time as you like, choose your favourite activity, learn…
Come for a Sunday afternoon stroll through Mount Majura’s bushland with local plant ecologist Michael Doherty. We will enjoy learning about flowering plants of the grassy woodlands and forests in this nature reserve. When: Sunday 17 November from 2 pm to 4 pm. Meet: Nature reserve entrance, off Mackenzie St…
Join the Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) work party on the morning of Sunday 17th November and help to mulch, water, weed and place debris at the FoMM’s project site in the nature reserve east of The Fair. Give as much time as you like, choose your favourite activity, learn…
Coming up Weed Swap: Weekend 2 & 3 November 2019, from 8.30am to 4.45pm Weed Swap is a joint initiative of the Australian Native Plants Society and the ACT Government to encourage residents to remove woody weeds from their gardens, safely dispose them and select free Australian native plants as an…
