Planting day at Cockpit Sun 26 Sept 2010

We had a perfect day for planting this morning with it being overcast and not too hot and with showers forecast for the next few days. Thanks to Jimbo who backed his truck with the trees and equipment halfway up the slope; it wasnt such a hard slog to carry the trees into their positions for planting. Thankyou to Jimbo Tavener and Wayne Derby who got on the hole borers and Alison & Lindsay Ford, Ben Hayes, Lou Tavener, Dick Massicks and Allan Tavener who got in and planted the 55 trees who had. Thankyou too to George Nebauer who got in and whippersnipped the low area and driveway - it looks great and it wasnt easy with the long grass throughout.  We must also thank the Forestry Dept who supplied us the trees at no cost.

Ignore the date shown on the pics - Jimbo's camera wasnt set right

Sept 10 Next planting day

The next working bee will be at Cockpit will be Sun 26 Sept 8.30am. This will be another planting day. We have around 55 trees to go in the ground so we should only be there a couple of hours if we get a few to help. The area being planted is steep and you need to be sure footed. We'll supply trees, gel and fertiliser as well as the post hole borers.
If you can't handle the steep slope there is a lot of mowing, whippersnipping etc needed on the lower slopes if anyone wants to do that while we plant. Morning tea afterwards

Planting Day at Cockpit Sun 5th Sept 2010

2010

Well at last we had a fine weekend to get on with our planned plantings which had been delayed for several weeks. The area being planted was real 'billy-goat' country and very steep. Despite this 55 mixed Norfolk native trees were planted. Thankyou to Dick, Wayne, Luke, Laurel, Lou, Lexi & Brianna who made up our small but effective team!

Planting days upcoming Sept 10

While we have the showers around - it is planned that the next 2 working bees... Sun 5th Sept 9am and Sun 26 Sept 9am will be spent planting trees within C1 of  Cockpit in the Cascade Reserve. We have around 120 trees to plant so we'll aim for about 60 each time. Helpers always welcome - we'll have a hole borer going but if you have spades or shovels they'll be useful too. Thankyou to the Norfolk Island Administration for the trees. We'll supply fertiliser and water crystals. We'll finish with morning tea afterwards. Hope to see you there

Norfolk Landcare to be a partnering organisation for the Duke of Edinborough program

Norfolk Landcare has agreed to be one of the partnering organisations for the Duke of Edinborough program which will begin in Norfolk Island in the coming weeks. We are very excited to be a part of the program and have started planning environment projets and initiatives which might be suitable.