Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) host working parties on the third Sunday each month at various sites on Mount Majura. In August we will hold another mulching session, this time in the nature reserve east of The Fair. Put on your garden gloves and give a hand: When: Sunday 16…
Enjoy an informative walk with local ecologist Michael Doherty on National Tree Day, Sunday 26th July; learn how to identify Mt Majura’s major trees, see where they occur, and hear how they survive fire and drought. The walking route will take in most of the tree species on the mountain…
Where the wombat roams….* Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) will host another mulching session around the Hackett water tank. Come along, push a wheelbarrow, or carry buckets and warm up spreading mulch on top of previously treated Chilean Needle Grass. When: Sunday, 19th July, from 1pm to 4 pm Where:…
In 2013, Friends of Mount Majura began work to rehabilitate the 10ha degraded grassy woodland remnant in the Mount Majura nature reserve east of The Fair, a medium dense residential estate in North Watson. Volunteers replaced woody weeds with local native trees and shrubs, carried out work to improve soil…
Join bird enthusiast Peter Miller to spot, listen to, and learn about birds as we walk through woodlands on the lower slopes of Mount Majura. When: Sunday 14th June, 8am – 10am Meet: 8am sharp at nature reserve entrance and carpark off Mackenzie St, near Grayson St, Hackett. Bring: Sturdy…
Join the Friends of Mt Majura for a warm-up mulching session near the Hackett water tank at winter solstice on Sunday, 21 June, from 1pm to 4pm; bring garden gloves and a shovel or garden fork if you have one; residents living nearby are especially invited to give a hand…
If you think Privets are an environmental disaster, think again: Callery Pear, Pyrus calleryana, the darling of horticulturists and landscapers, is on the march to invade our nature reserves and local bush land. In September, Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) wrote to Suzanne Orr, the Minister for Climate Change, Environment,…
Join us at Mount Majura Nature Reserve for a community planting day and help to restore the critically endangered Box–Gum Grassy Woodland. When: Sunday, 24th May 2026, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm Where: Mount Majura Nature Reserve, east of Ted Noff’s (construction site); a 800m walk from the car park…
Come along and join the Friends of Mt Majura to search and destroy the woody weeds that we missed at our work party in February. We will work in the grassy woodland around Blue Metal Road and the Hackett House Track – see the work area on this map –…
The Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) will host another woody weed working bee, this time near the Antill Street entrance to the nature park. All welcome. Novice weeders will be shown how to identify and remove woody weeds. When: Sunday, 15th March, 9am-midday. Meet: At the Antill Street entrance, next…
