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Thousands of Native Trees Green the Wheatbelt

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Healthy Environments

Nearly 4,000 native trees and plants were given away as part of our 2021 Free Trees activity last week.

The popular activity saw more than 200 people visit Beverley, Cunderdin, Mukinbudin and Northam to take part in the annual event. Despite supply issues this year (impacted by Covid-19), 25 native species were given away including varieties from the acacia, eucalypt, callistemon and melaleuca families.

Free Trees is also a great opportunity for us to get in touch with our Wheatbelt communities and discover what they are doing in their patch. Visitors ranged from large-scale landholders right through to backyard conservationists.

Ashely and Melanie from Grass Valley purchased a farm a few years ago and they are undertaking a long-term revegetation project. They said, “We love your free trees because we know that we’re getting plant species that are endemic to our area.”

Claire from Northam echoed this sentiment but has different motivations, “I live in town on a quarter acre block. This is my fifth Free Trees event and every year I add more native species to my garden. They attract amazing birdlife and it’s great to see an increase in biodiversity on my small property.”

We want to say thanks to our nursery partners Katanning Environmental Nursery, Noongar Land Enterprise, Parnells Nursery, Plantrite and Toodyay Friends Of The River for growing the seedlings that will be greening the Wheatbelt.

This Wheatbelt NRM project is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

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