Noosa and District Landcare in Pomona, Queensland | Community organisation

Noosa and District Landcare

Locality: Pomona, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5485 2468

Address: 6 Station Street & 65 Pavilion Street 4568 Pomona, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.noosalandcare.org

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25.01.2022 Our next Roving Restorers - Noosa Chapter is on next Friday the 16th of October at Lake Macdonald Join Tamara and the team to help remove Lantana from a property's bushland, which is home to a resident Koala and frequently visited by Glossy Black Cockatoos A great opportunity to meet like-minded folk, share knowledge and skills, and help protect and enhance ecosystem health and biodiversity of the Noosa Shire... Register via the link https://noosaanddistrictlandcaregroupinc.wildapricot.org/ev Or contact Tamara - [email protected]

23.01.2022 Our field crew were out planting native riparian trees along Mary River yesterday at a grazing property on the outskirts of Kenilworth This planting is part of a large scale erosion restoration project that the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee and a range of stakeholders are undertaking along the Kenilworth reach of the Mary River. This stretch of the Mary River has been recognised as a major contributor of sediment discharge into the Great Sandy Strait and the ...southern section of the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon near Fraser Island. The stream bank was once a shear drop, with the bank continually eroding during extreme weather events To arrest further damage, bank stabilisation work were undertaken. This included sloping the banks and the construction of rows of vertical timber piles on the riverbank toe (see in photos). The aim of the timber piles is to slow the velocity of the water within the stream close to the river toe of the bank, helping trap fine silt, sand, gravel and seed against the piles reducing the risk of further erosion. To find out more about this project check out - https://mrccc.org.au/codline-edition-31-now-available-to-d/

23.01.2022 Volunteer opportunity now open for Noosa Landcare's Hinterhub space Email your interest to [email protected] More detail on the position below

22.01.2022 One of our first projects for Year 3 of the Lake Macdonald Water Supply Protection Program in partnership with Seqwater started today! Working alongside the landholder we helped install erosion blanket along a steep and vulnerable stream bank. During heavy rainfall events this stream can experience a significant volume of water passing through quickly! With no vegetation along the bank, the water can easily scour the banks. The lack of stabilising vegetation also increas...es the risk of slumps and bank failures. Prior the installation of the matting, signs of slumping and scouring had begun! We plan to further stabilise the bank with the planting of groundcover vegetation, like Lomandra, and deep rooted trees A diverse mix of roots systems to help amour the bank Looking forward to sharing the progress of this project! To learn more about the Lake Macdonald Program and how you can get involved visit -https://noosalandcare.org/projects/water-supply-catchment/ or email [email protected]

22.01.2022 Our next Roving Restorers event is Friday the 4th December. Come join us work on a lovely property at Ridgewood and help provide some important linkages for biodiversity to West Cooroy State Forest. Registrations to the event can be made by following this link - https://noosaanddistrictlandcaregroupinc.wildapricot.org/ev Our last Roving Restorers event was held at a property in Federal where we removed Lantana, Wild Tobacco and other woody weeds and vines along the banks of ...Middle Creek. Some words from the landholders about the event - "On Friday we had the absolute pleasure of working with the Roving Restorers to help with weed management on our property. We have big goals of building our property up with a huge amount of natives, planting our creek shoreline and removing all weeds. The latter was a daunting task in our eyes but with the help of Tamara and her group of volunteers we made light work of it! Managing to remove a huge section of weeds from our creek area and getting some amazing advice along the way. I could not recommend both the restorers and Tamara’s help and dedication more highly! It’s amazing to have programs like this to help excel our environmental rebirth. We are also excited to help volunteer as restorers soon. Thank you all so much, Donovan and Tara. "

21.01.2022 Call out to the creatives in our community! We want to help you sell your wares and spread the message that local and sustainable is best. EOI's now sought to help stock our new HinterHub center opening soon!! See below for details.

21.01.2022 Whilst still young [yes, many years ago!] I clearly remember this bird. It was the bird with the ‘squeaky’ wingsit made a noise when flying, and also had a distinctive crest on top of its head. I saw them on the occasions I went out west. The crested pigeon [Ocyphaps lophotes] was initially a rural bird that has managed to transition into an urban bird. It is now fairly common around our cities. These birds feed mainly on seeds, but will take insects, only feeding on the gr...ound. They need to drink each day, so are found close to water. We were very fortunate to see a pair of these stunning birds ‘dancing’ at our Pomona depot recently. I think this is the mating dance, and it showed the rich plumage of this pigeon. This combined with a ‘hooting’ sound coordinated with the bobbing is pretty cool ~Phil Moran Have you seen any birds in your backyard lately? Why not submit a bird count for @birdlifeaustralia Aussie Backyard Bird Count this weekend! Because every bird counts! To find out more and submit your count visit - https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/

20.01.2022 It’s a cruel world This little fella is an assassin bug. They are in the family Reduviidae...I have not been able to ID the species of this individual. [Anyone enlighten me?] There are more than 300 species of Australian assassin bugs in the Family Reduviidae... The Assassin bugs are terrestrial, ambush predators. They use their proboscis to impale their prey, and then they inject a saliva that turns the insides of the victim to a liquid, which is then sucked up via the proboscis. The proboscis is both a lance and a straw! I have been stung by an assassin bug and it was quite memorable. I am not listed in their usual list of prey, that being spiders, caterpillars, even snails. ~Phil

20.01.2022 The Hinter Hub is now officially OPEN! It has been quite a journey, but Tuesday 1st December saw the official opening of Noosa & District Landcare’s Hinter Hub in Pomona. Around 50 people braved the humid conditions to celebrate with the Noosa Landcare family this milestone event. NDLG’s Chair, Kim Barnes did the acknowledgment of traditional owners. Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart was on hand to say a few well-chosen words about the organisation, its value to our local community ...and to unveil the sign proclaiming we are now fully open to the public. Clare noted that Noosa Landcare's has been operating out of this building for 27 years, and it has now had a major makeover. New painting inside and out, expanded nursey area and complete renovation inside have made a huge difference Clare said. Further Pomona is in a position to capitalise on the upgraded Noosa Trails network, and the Hinter Hub fits in perfectly. The Hinter Hub Manager Belinda Wedlock said A big thankyou to all the very talented local artisans who took up the call out to supply their locally made and environmentally conscious wares for our retail space. It’s a wonderful celebration of everything that is special about our community. The people and their amazing skills, a terrific way to support small enterprises and some just starting out. So, now you all know where to get your Christmas gifts.

20.01.2022 It was a great morning yesterday at the Susan River Grazing and Pasture Workshop hosted at the Susan River Homestead DAF Grazing Officer, Damien O'Sullivan spent the morning sharing his extensive knowledge and experience of pasture and grazing management, highlighting how we can better utilise natures free inputs - Sunlight, CO2, H2O, dung beetles and even nitrogen (in the atmosphere) - supporting diverse and dense pasture groundcovers and the benefits of increasing carb...on and organic matter in your soil. In just 1% increase in soil carbon, you increase your water holding capacity by 2% in your soil! This means your pastures can make better use of the rain , rather then it running off or evaporating. Biosecurity Officer, Andrew, also gave a talk on Biosecurity on the Farm and the Fraser Coast Regional Council services available to assist landholders with feral animal and weed problems they may have. The knowledgeable Biosecurity team are able to help with weed I.D. and advice on control methods for your property. They also have a range of feral animal and weed control equipment you can hire for free! Contact council today for more information or to arrange a consultation with the Biosecurity team 1300794929 Thanks to all that came along for the morning and for the Susan River Homestead for their wonderful hospitality! This workshop was supported by the Natural Resource Investment Program and is part of a workshop series with in the Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management and Noosa Landcare ‘Improving Wetlands in the Susan River Catchment' Program. For more information on this program and how you can get involved contact Ilana - [email protected]

18.01.2022 Team Lake Macdonald! This morning the Roving Restorers- Noosa Chapter visited a Land For Wildlife property in Lake Macdonald. The team helped tackle Lantana within a beautiful patch of open Eucalypt forest, home to a resident male Koala and frequently visited by Glossy Black Cockatoos and an array of other bird life. We are so grateful for the support of all the wonderful volunteers that have participated in the Noosa Chapter so far! This program has showed to have so m...any benefits, from environmental to social! Each event we meet new faces, share interesting and inspiring conversations, support a landholder in need of a hand and get to see some of nature's wonders Not to forget the hard work these volunteers do too, whether it be planting or weeding, to help rehabilitate our local bush land and wilderness! If you would like to register your interest for our next event, to be held at a property at Pomona on the 30th of October , please contact Tamara at [email protected] or watch this space for the event link coming soon The Roving Restorers Noosa Chapter is in collaboration with Hinterland Bush Links and is proudly supported by Noosa Council

18.01.2022 How about this rain?! Soil moisture is great and we are in peak growing season .......its the best time to get out and plant some plants!! The digging is the easiest it's going to be! So get the gumboots on, head down to the Hinter Hub tomorrow morning and grab some lovely native plants to get into the ground.... OPEN - 8.30am till 2pm Station st Pomona (opposite the pub)

17.01.2022 Jack, Jill and the Leverets ..... No, not a rock band from the sixties, rather the rather cute male, female and young [under a year old] ‘Hare’. Lepus europaeus, the European or Brown hare is common in the Noosa hinterland. ... They are not rabbits, which are a restricted invasive animal under the Biosecurity Act 2014. The hare is larger than a rabbit, with head and body about 550 mm compared to 400 mm for the rabbit. They have longer ears with black tips, are faster than rabbits [how is 43 MPH?] and live most of their lives as a solitary animal rather than in groups. Importantly, hares do not dig burrows like rabbits, which can cause serious erosion issues. The first successful introduction of a hare into Australia occurred in 1862 at Westernport Bay in Victoria. The following year another hare colony was established on Phillip Island by the Enlightened Acclimatisation Society of Victoria for the use in the sport 'coursing'. Hares released on the mainland thrived with limited hunting pressure. There you go! Fun fact for the weekend

15.01.2022 Our next Roving Restorers event is at Middle Creek in the Mary Catchment on the 13th November. Join like minded restorers by registering for the event here - https://noosaanddistrictlandcaregroupinc.wildapricot.org/ev

15.01.2022 Meet Ben, Dallas and Ruby - relatively new members of our Noosa Landcare family. All three have been with us for a couple of months now and are undertaking their Cert III in Conservation & Land Management Traineeships as part of our Kabi Kabi First Nations Traineeships Program. The program is in partnership with the Kabi Kabi First Nations People and the Department of Transport & Main Roads.... Ben, Dallas and Ruby join Lawrie and Kane to take our current Kabi Kabi trainees now to five. We love having them all work with us, and enjoy sharing our knowledge, stories and laughs (and there are lots) with each other.

14.01.2022 ***FREE TALK*** Organised & Hosted by the Burgess Creek Project Bushcare Team. Join Australia's leading Glossy Black Cockatoo experts Danielle Teixeira PhD, Dr Gabriel Conroy and Janet Carew for an informal talk about Noosa population of Glossy Black Cockatoos.... Event Details: Sat 07 Nov - 9-11am Rainbow Park, Sunrise Beach (Noosa) - South end of the park, opp 27 Rainbow Crescent. . Andrew Peacock/Footloosefotography

14.01.2022 Getting very close! Our new Hinterhub centre has been a hive of activity in the last week. Painting inside and out, new window hoods underway, internal fit-out construction, weeding of Station Place for new improved garden beds and shade sail poles going in!... We have also appointed our new Hinterhub Manager and support staff, and have many AMAZING EOI's for product stocking coming through from our region's talented creators!!! Very exciting!! Big thanks to the Noosa Community Training Center's Skilling Qlders for Work Construction Team AND our own NDLG Skilling Qlders for Work Team - who knew they had so many secret talents!!!!!

13.01.2022 Congratulations Lawrie! Lawrie is our first Kabi Kabi First Nations Cert III Traineeship GRADUATE through our partnership program with the Department of Transport and Main Rds and Kabi Kabi First Nations People. Lawrie has been with us for well over a year now learning the ropes of the conservation and land management industry and progressing through all of his modules and required learnings of the Cert III qualification.... 10 trainees over 5 years will progress through the Kabi Kabi First Nations traineeship program and we love having them in our team. Lawrie is not going anywhere however - we are keeping him on within our professional Field Crew. We train them to keep them

12.01.2022 Our Hinter Hub nursery are looking to re-purpose used 6-pack carriers, boxes and paper bags to help our customers carry their goodies home! If you happen to come across these or have them laying around home, please collect and drop them into the Hinter Hub in Station Street Pomona. It would be much appreciated! Thanks

12.01.2022 This is a Little grebe, or Australasian Grebe [Tachybaptus novaehollandiae] next to her nest in our dam (Excuse the poor quality pic!) They have an incredible ability to hold their breath and will dive down when you come near hence another common name a ‘Diver’ What is really cool is their nest. It is made of vegetation that they drag together to make a floating platform! In this case she has used Water primrose [Ludwigia peploides]. ... As these plants reproduce vegetatively, they have started to grow again even whilst being used as a nest! The adult birds drape vegetation over the blue eggs as further camouflage. When hatched the striped young are able to swim immediately, however they are looked after for approximately eight weeks. They follow their parents around sometimes hitching a ride on their backs. When breeding starts again, it is all over for the chicks they are driven out be the parents Truly fascinating little birds!

10.01.2022 *****BEST BUNCH EVER***** Full staff training afternoon here at Noosa Landcare and we took the opportunity to take a staff photo as we are never all in the same place at the same time. Almost but not quite our full crew in the photo, 7 staff away......a good try though!

07.01.2022 We have been lucky enough to be working with Soil Agronomist and Educator, Alan Coates to help landholders of the Lake Macdonald Catchment dive deeper into their soils! Last week we visited a partnering property of the Lake Macdonald Catchment Water Supply Protection Program, grazing cattle to undertake detailed soil testing on the property's pastures. It was a great morning discussing pasture and grazing management, fertilisers, soil balancing and much more.

07.01.2022 Noosa Landcare is really excited to partner with Blackstar Coffee Roasters in the launch of the #Coffeefortrees project that plants trees in both Australia and Africa. Blackstar Coffee initiated this project voluntarily and should be congratulated as a business for their efforts to give back to the environment. Check out the video below and try their coffee

06.01.2022 Yesterday we had the pleasure of joining Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee team for a morning investigating the water quality of the Lake Macdonald Catchment as part of their Mary River Catchment Crawl The Lake Macdonald Catchment is one of our program areas, where Project Officer Ilana is working with Seqwater and local landholders to help deliver safe and healthy water to our community, while also improving the productivity and health of the landholders propert...y! The Catchment Crawl event is a great way to help monitor and track how water quality is responding to changes in land management and where improvements are still needed! For more information about the Lake Macdonald program and how you can get involved visit https://noosalandcare.org/projects/water-supply-catchment/ or email [email protected]

06.01.2022 Our Summer E-news issue is out! This issue sees contributions from Noosa Landcare staff and members, plus a NEW Junior Landcare section for the kids to enjoy! You’ll find Noosa Landcare member, Geoff Black’s article on his experience of regenerating the land a wonderful read. You’ll also find updates on what Noosa Landcare has been up to these past few months with articles on the new Hinter Hub, the Keep it in Kin Kin program and much more. ... Happy reading! https://noosalandcare.org/summer-2020/

04.01.2022 One of our gun supervisors [Ben] took this picture recently. Ben told me he thought adults did not feed at all; they have no mouth parts. I was intrigued, so I thought we should find out a bit more about this critter. My colleague at the Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network, Richard Bull supplied the following. "It is a female Ghost moth. The larvae are witchety grubs and burrow in the roots or trunks of hardwood trees. After mating, immediately after emergence, the female...s fly high over the surrounding terrain dropping thousands of eggs as they fly. On hatching, the larva has to be lucky enough to be right beside a correct food tree species and will bore into the bark and live on the other 10,000 larvae missed the spot and die of starvation! Such is life (and death) in the moth world. You are right that they do not feed." ~Phil See more

04.01.2022 Tuesday 10th November saw members of the Friends of the Noosa Botanic gardens visit the Rural Future Centre, the home of Noosa & District Landcare Group [NDLG] in Pomona. The Friends assist with maintenance of the best kept secret in Noosa the Botanic gardens on Lake Macdonald Drive. They also conduct guided walks and have a fledging propagation team. It was the latter in particular that were keen to visit our Nursery operation and have a look at how Owen & Jazzy and their... volunteers cope with producing thousands of high quality plants! The Friends brought the big cheese, Jill Brownlee and NDLG committee member Paul O’Hare with them for the tour. Paul is also active with Macadamia preservation. After the tour Geoff Black [another NDLG committee member] took the group for a wander in Cooroora Creek Park in Pomona. This, not so well kept secret, is a fantastic resource for locals and Geoff and the Bushcare group have been working in the park for many years. A good day out and we were happy to share our experiences with them.

04.01.2022 It's NAIDOC Week here in Australia, celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country This years NAIDOC theme is Always Was, Always Will Be. Find out what's happening near you and get involved www.naidoc.org.au

03.01.2022 2020......It's been an interesting year all round! For Noosa Landcare, we have risen to the challenge of working throughout the year, as best we could through all the uncertainty that existed and Covid changes we needed to make. We actually became busier, and put more staff on the payroll, bucking the trend of many industry sectors.... We have been working on some amazing projects throughout the region - from Hervey Bay right down to Ipswich. The scope and variety of work we have been doing will surprise most. A few spots still are available for our workshop this week to get an overview of what we have been up to this year. Come along and be amazed!! Register here - https://noosaanddistrictlandcaregroupinc.wildapricot.org/ev

02.01.2022 Our Keeping It In Kin Kin (KIIKK) project has been progressing well with work on four properties completed since kicking off in July. In this time we have planted 3000 plants: * 1800 rainforest seedlings on over 600 metres of creek bank for stabilisation and riparian restoration; and, * 1200 eucalypts, wattles and other tall forest species to help remediate 3000 m2 of sheet erosion.... We have also organised the installation of over 600 metres of cattle exclusion fencing to reduce riparian degradation. In the coming months 3 properties currently in the planning phase will utilise approximately 2500 plants, with a further 7 properties coming online over the next 6-8 months. Properties included in the project are those within high priority sub-catchments as identified through rigorous scientific analysis. A positive start for a long-term project to reduce the sediment load entering Lake Cootharaba and the Noosa River system! This project is supported by funding from Noosa Council and the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment's, National Landcare Program - Smart Farms Grants.

02.01.2022 The other Singapore daisy... The Sunshine Coast community will be well aware of the nasty weed Sphagneticola trilobata, or Singapore daisy . It is a rampant, highly invasive perennial ground cover that is choking many areas across Noosa and SE Qld. It is notorious on the coast, tolerating harsh salty conditions, but also infecting areas of the hinterland, particularly near watercourses. It is difficult to kill. With small infestations hand removal is often the best way to g...o. This involves removing all parts of the plant and putting them in black plastic bags ready to take to the tip. Never put Singapore daisy in the ‘Green waste’ area, and always make sure it goes into the general waste bin on the footpath, or in the big blue ones at our local transfer stations. With diligence and perseverance, even quite large infestations of Singapore daisy can be dealt with in this manner. There are chemical treatments available, but expect to do follow up work for quite some time to achieve good results. There is also another daisy that is much more friendlya native plant called Wedelia spilanthoides (Old folks like me may notice the genus of this plantWedelia, used to be the Genus of the weedy one). This is a magnificent little plant occurs on ridge tops in Eucalypt country. It is delicate and very pretty. In its native habitat it clambers amongst other plants such as the native grasses Cymbopogon refractus [Barb wire grass], and Themeda triandra [Kangaroo grass]. For most of the year you may not even notice its presence until about now (Late spring/autumn). At this time this daisy paints a real picture as its yellow flowers cover most of the hillside. It is a great example of the delicate relationship between native plants and their environment. ~Phillip Moran

01.01.2022 And they are off! Another batch of plants heading south to a phyto-remediation project. Many hands make light work!

01.01.2022 Our next Roving Restorers - Noosa Chapter is on next Friday the 30th of October at Pomona Join Tamara and the team to help remove Lantana, woody weeds and weedy vines from bushland. A great opportunity to meet like-minded folk, share knowledge and skills, and help protect and enhance ecosystem health and biodiversity of the Noosa Shire Register via the link https://noosaanddistrictlandcaregroupinc.wildapricot.org/ev ... Or contact Tamara - [email protected] See more