Mulloon Creek tree planting
Max Brunswick leads the team as the tree planting finally gets underway.
After unprecedented wet conditions thwarted several attempts during to host our Mulloon Institute volunteers on site at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms (MCNF), we were delighted to finally welcome a group of volunteers on a spectacular day in November.
Volunteers travelled from as far away as Sydney and the Southern Highlands to join Mulloon Institute staff for a day of tree planting on the MCNF property, Duralla. The hilltop planting location further added to the volunteer planting effort of November 2021, and several volunteers who attended this day last year were thrilled to see the growth and success rate of these plants.
The team of volunteers included retirees, students, conservationists and a group from Abbvie. Together with Mulloon staff, they worked impressively in very overgrown conditions to install a significant number of plants under the guidance of our tree planting expert, Max Brunswick.
Our Principal Landscape Planner, Peter Hazell, was in attendance to outline the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative (MRI), our catchment scale landscape rehydration project which the tree planting directly contributes to. The MRI is jointly funded by the Mulloon Institute and the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program, with assistance from the NSW Government’s Environmental Trust.
The Yuin people are the Traditional Custodians of the land where the two Mulloon properties are located. The area is a very special place to Yuin people, who originally met with the neighbouring Nations of Ngunnawal, Gundungarra and Ngarigo in this area to share knowledge, wisdom, and stories to better know and understand their mother land and to care for Country. Mulloon Institute founder, Tony Coote, and Back to Country founder and Yuin Elder, Uncle Max Harrison, formed a friendship and shared a vision to heal Country by working together. The Mulloon Institute and Back to Country collaborate to continue this legacy and through the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative, we continue to work towards this vision with every tree we plant. We worked together with our volunteers, sharing stories and knowledge, in the spirit of this shared vision.
Many thanks to our wonderful volunteers! Your dedication and passion are humbling.
If you are interested in volunteering with the Mulloon Institute and participating in a similar event, please follow this link to register as a volunteer.