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Grannies Ginger Nut Biscuits, Citizen Science and bees – 2015 National Tree Day Mt Gravatt SHS
By: Laurie Deacon 6am: I am up baking Grannies Ginger Nut Biscuits. It’s exciting. It’s going to be a big day. 9am: I join Mt Gravatt State High School teacher Andrew Walsh, long time champion of environmental sustainability, and my … Continue reading
Hard work, laughter and fun building Pollinator Link
By: Laurie Deacon Thanks for your care and inspiration in local area folks, especially to Griffith Mates leaders Sienna, Amir, Imeshika and Kimmim … and our really local man Sheamus!! Indeed a great day was had at our local Mt Gravatt … Continue reading
Living (Pollinator Links) in The Shires
By: Michael Fox The Pollinator Link vision is spreading to the western suburbs with publication of my article about native Blue Banded Bees. Living in The Shires is a quality production with interesting stories/trivia about the local history like the … Continue reading
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Pollinator Link at Biodiversity Seminar Series
By: Michael Fox I joined two other speakers at the Brisbane Biodiversity Seminar Series to share our vision of urban wildlife corridors – Pollinator Links. Download PDF copy of presentation My presentation shared the need for and complexity of creating … Continue reading
Tomatoes need the Blue Banded Bee Buzz
By Sandra Tuszynska Australia has over 1500 identified native bee species. Only about 16 of these are social bees, living in extended family systems. The rest are solitary or semi-social bees and they are essential pollinators of native plants as well as food crops. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Banded bees, Buzz pollination, flowers, pollination, tomato
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Feasting on juicy Large Fruited (native) Raspberries
By: Laurie Deacon The Pollinator Link garden is also a bushfood garden allowing us to harvest a feast of Large Fruited Raspberry Rubus probus. The native raspberry plants came from the B4C Nursery. Great fruit larger than what you will … Continue reading
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Tagged bushfood, butcher bird, Large Fruited Raspberry Rubus probus
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Worm News – Mother’s Day – clearing drains and saving worms
By: Laurie Deacon We had sixteen workers on Mother’s Day! Pretty good for Mother Earth being Mothered! The team ranged in age from 70 years old to 7 years old! And did they work! 43 hours done in one Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged Griffith Mates, Living Mulch, Mt Gravatt SHS, worms
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The Water-Less Way of Growing a Garden
By Sandra Tuszynska Most of us find it too time consuming to have a garden. We are used to seeing gardening as something laborious, and which takes time to water and weed. So imagine a garden design where these tasks are … Continue reading
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Tagged water-less garden beds, water-less gardens, wicking beds, wicking garden beds
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Pollinator Link thriving with Griffith Mates help
By: Michael Fox What can a community achieve? Engage some friends and neighbours, involve Griffith Mates students, source donations of mulch and logs from Dale at Climb n Grind, plants for restoration from SOWN, then allow time for nature to work … Continue reading
The Shortest Hike in the World
The Shortest Hike in the World. via The Shortest Hike in the World. A backyard adventure story shared by Jane on Mildly Extreme
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