Sunday 6th July
9am on-site Farm Forestry Workshop
11am AGM- to be held at Mindaribba LALC, Metford
12> Lunch and farewell to Zoe who is leaving the position of coordinator
email rsvp to earthcarepark@gmail.com
06 June 2008
Spotted Gum-Ironbark forest - our own Tassie tiger
The Park is home to the Lower Hunter Spotted Gum-Ironbark (LHSGI) forest, an Endangered Ecological Community listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995. The Act lists species, populations and ecological communities that are endangered or presumed extinct.
The LHSGI forest community is restricted to a range of 65km by 35km centred on the Cessnock-Beresfield area. It was once widespread but now only remnants remain. Four large patches of LHSGI forest were once estimated to have covered nearly 50 000ha prior to European settlement. Today about 10% of this remains, or approximately 7 000ha.
Ongoing threats include: further clearing and the subsequent fragmentation impacts, rubbish dumping, weed invasion, coalmining and logging activities.
We are currently investigating the best way to proceed with protecting and restoring this unique local icon. Contact us to get involved!
The LHSGI forest community is restricted to a range of 65km by 35km centred on the Cessnock-Beresfield area. It was once widespread but now only remnants remain. Four large patches of LHSGI forest were once estimated to have covered nearly 50 000ha prior to European settlement. Today about 10% of this remains, or approximately 7 000ha.
Ongoing threats include: further clearing and the subsequent fragmentation impacts, rubbish dumping, weed invasion, coalmining and logging activities.
We are currently investigating the best way to proceed with protecting and restoring this unique local icon. Contact us to get involved!
Trees - workin' hard to make a living
In collaboration with Greening Australia, Earthcare Park established a farm forestry project on the northern boundary of the Park. So what is farm forestry anyway?
The mid-1970s saw the global recognition of the key role trees play on farms and wikipedia describes 'agroforestry' as: an agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.
Today - agroforestry practices have made significant inroads on critical survival issues in the 'third world' by: reducing poverty through increasing production of agroforestry products for home consumption and sale; contributing to food security by restoring farm soil fertility for food crops and production of fruits, nuts and edible oils; reducing deforestation and pressure on woodlands by providing fuelwood grown on farms.
Join us on July 6 @ 9am for a chat with a farm forestry expert, followed by maintenance work on our plot and our AGM at 11am.
The mid-1970s saw the global recognition of the key role trees play on farms and wikipedia describes 'agroforestry' as: an agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.
Today - agroforestry practices have made significant inroads on critical survival issues in the 'third world' by: reducing poverty through increasing production of agroforestry products for home consumption and sale; contributing to food security by restoring farm soil fertility for food crops and production of fruits, nuts and edible oils; reducing deforestation and pressure on woodlands by providing fuelwood grown on farms.
Join us on July 6 @ 9am for a chat with a farm forestry expert, followed by maintenance work on our plot and our AGM at 11am.
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