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| Germination ! after December 2016 |
A Community Nursery in Burra
The idea of propagating our own plants came quite early in our plans. The general feeling was that we had enough to do with simply planting the seedlings provided by the Regional Council of Goyder, and then undertaking the ongoing maintenance of those plantings.
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| The site - March 2015 |
The difficulty with that was that we quickly realised that not all of the species we wanted to plant (as listed in the EBS Plan) were on the 'readily available' Trees for Life list, and further shopping showed that some were scarce, and all were going to cost money.
Once more we had supporters - the Murray Darling Basin NRM encouraged us to apply for a grant for materials to be used in propagation. The Regional Council of Goyder also encouraged us to think about it.
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| Clean up begins - May 2015 |
A team of us visited the Murray Bridge Community Nursery to see what they saw as essential, and we came back and considered a few different sites around Burra.
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| Old Cricket nets - July 2015 - its cold! |
We looked at the old cricket nets and decided they could be converted into a shade house, and that this meant that we had the old clubrooms for training and meetings, toilets etc.
We applied for a grant from the Council, in which we described what we would do, what it would cost and what trade help we needed.
So it all came together!
One of the unexpected bonuses was that in the building and site work we discovered even more species of native plants we could encourage to spread along the creek.
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| Benches and watering frame in - October 2015 |
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| September 2015 - we have water! |
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| The site starts to look better November 2015 |
