End-of-the-Year Working Party – Sunday 16 December 2018 Join us to help remove English Ivy, Japanese Honeysuckle and a few other woody weeds that grow in and around the drainage line close to the Hackett reservoir. Come early for an introduction and give as much time as you want.You need…
Watering Party @ The Fair – Sunday 21 October 2018, 9am – 1pm Make a splash at The Fair and help to water the trees, shrubs and Everlasting daisies planted on National Tree Day! Come when it suits you and give as much time as you like. Where: Nature reserve…
Spring Working Party @ The Fair – Sunday 16 September 2018, 9am – 1pm. Come along and give a hand at the FoMM Spring working party. Choose your pet activity: Help tackle Paterson’s Curse, place Cootamundra Wattles debris around the National Tree Day plantings or spread wood chip mulch across…
Working Party @ The Fair – Sunday 19 August 2018, 1pm – 4pm. Join the Friends of Mt Majura working party and help cut and layer Cootamundra wattle debris around the National Tree Day plantings; use buckets to collect wood chip mulch and spread it over bare sites. Give as…
Weeding With a View. Horehound Blitz – 17 June 2018, 1pm to approx. 4pm Please give a hand and help remove pesky horehound at an old sheep camp with a view. Give as much time as you like. Horehound is a common perennial weed often found at old stock camps…
Little Planting Working Party – Sunday 20 May 2018, 1-4pm Come and help plant some Native boxthorns (Bursaria lasiophylla) along the gully off the lower Hackett reservoir. We will be planting a number of Native boxthorns which are important habitat plants for native insects, little spiders and local woodland birds.…
Mulching Working Party @ The Fair – Sunday 18 March, 9am – 12 noon Join our working party at The Fair, North Watson and help spread wood chip mulch around plantings and across bare sites. Wood chip mulch suppresses weeds, “conditions” the soil, retains moisture and reduces erosion particularly when…
Working Party @ The Fair – Sunday 18 February 2018, 9am to 12 noon Please give a hand at the FoMM working party at The Fair, North Watson. Work will include treatment of woody weeds around the deep gully north of the planting area and mulching the trees and shrubs…
Welcome to the December 2017 FoMM newsletter. Many of us have been busy lately removing Paterson’s Curse seedlings, including a group of Joey Scouts last Monday evening, and spraying Serrated Tussock at The Fair regeneration site. The good news is that FoMM is meeting with Parks rangers and contractors next week to…
Spring Working Party @ The Fair – Sunday 15 October 2017, 9am to 12pm Join the Friends of Mt Majura spring working party at the Fair. We will be hand digging weeds, watering plants, (more) mulching and other maintenance jobs at the National Tree Day planting site. Many hands make…
