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When the initial surprise of our phonecall to Y.O from Montville wore off, the lucky winner of our electric car raffle rang the Barung office to make sure she wasn’t dreaming!
On Tuesday 26th March,...
I don’t know about you but we were planning on a water delivery for the beginning of December, worried about the possible drought we were warned that would eventuate in the 2023/24 Summer. The plants at...
Nestled in the heart of Maleny, a remarkable initiative is taking shape. An Electric Car Art Union promises not just the chance to win a sleek, fully electric MG car worth $50,000 but also the opportunity...
By Suzie Haddock
We live on an acre with the house and garden right at the front.
Two thirds of our land is a wildlife corridor with a creek running through it.
We have at least 35 species of birds (including...
Retro Barung
By Mandy Lupton
In 2022, volunteer Peter Milton in collaboration with Megan Lee undertook the mammoth job of extending digitising of the collection of Barung newsletters from 1994 – 2019,...
We have moved!
The Nursery team and our dedicated volunteers have had a busy season moving our retail nursery operations from Porters Lane to the new Nature Centre on Parklands Drive, North Maleny.
In...
As part of a South East Queensland-wide rainforest conservation and threatened species recovery effort, we continue to focus on a very special threatened species called the Southern Pink Underwing moth...
There’s something about seeing a coastcare, dunecare, bushcare, landcare or other ‘care’ group sign when visiting somewhere new, and thinking to yourself ‘I’m part of that movement, that change back in...
Over the weekend of the weekend of the 17-18th of September, we hosted our inaugural Gardens for Wildlife Open Native Garden Trail where we were joined by a number of our members to explore a diversity...
What’s in stock?
The Maleny Community Nursery at Porters Lane is currently flush with a range of quality native plants.
Thanks to our members and volunteers who helped us to collect seed!
Piccabeen...
Join us for a fundraising screening of the award-winning film The Message of the Lyrebird on Thursday October 20! Hear from local speakers and explore ways you can get more involved in the recovery and...
words by Frances Harper
Jinibara country
The journey for my garden started during Covid isolation in March 2019. The below pic shows the area we created that is about 20 metres between side boundaries,...
Over the last couple of years, donations from the community, local businesses and organisations have enabled us to commence the build of our new Nature Centre as well as the design and planting of our...
words by Tigerlily Boyce
Wildlife that have learned to thrive in our urban environments can often be seen as welcome residents or be a point of conflict with humans for a variety of reasons. Bush, brush...
What’s in stock?
The Maleny Community Nursery at Porters Lane is currently flush with a range of quality native plants.
Perfect for your native Garden for Wildlife
The nursery is especially...
As part of our Landcare-led Bushfire Recovery Grant, Barung Landcare has been able to establish a Rainforest Resilience project which is supporting landholders to protect and restore rainforest vegetation...
When we look up at the sky on a clear and starry night here in the hinterland, it is hard to imagine that there are millions of people all over the world that have never even seen a star. In fact less...
Words by Tigerlily Boyce
From rainforest to wetlands, creating mini ecosystem pot plants is a great way to provide habitat, food and shelter for an array of wildlife in small areas, such as a balcony...
Words by Mandy Lupton
Jinibara country
Header image – Banksia robur
I moved fulltime to my 3000m2 property on Jinibara country a couple of months before Covid hit in early 2020. My property...
with Jenny Gursanscky
Kabi Kabi country
Jenny and her partner started their native Garden for Wildlife journey at Moffat Beach in 2017. Replacing the front lawn with native species over time, they...
Planted in late 2020, the Barung Seed Forest is an evolving wonderland of native habitat that has been created as a forest for the future.
Designed and created by Barung Landcare staff, Skilling Queenslanders...
What’s in stock? A stunning selection of fine ferns!
The Maleny Community Nursery at Porters Lane is currently flush with beautiful native ferns! Come in and view the range of stock available before...
The survival of the Southern Pink Underwing Moth (Phyllodes imperialis subsp. smithersi) is not only dependent on high quality, well established rainforest, its caterpillar is solely dependent on one species...
Words by Yvonne Holmes
Waste Action Maleny (WAM) is a community organisation dedicated to doing waste better in the Maleny region.
After a highly successful National Recycing Week at the end of 2021,...
Words by Jill Cutting
Ideal for removing unwanted plants whose roots have developed past the point of where they can be hand-pulled without risking a hernia, we were recently introduced to the Tree Popper!
The...
Wordy by Tigerlily Boyce
What was previously an impenetrable wall of Lantana over two metres tall, along with with Privet, Wild tobacco, Devils fig, Camphor laurel, Fishbone fern, surrounded by a field...
Words by Tigerlily Boyce
The Northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) is a common visitor in backyards along the east coast of Australia, often without detection. Bandicoots are noctournal and usually...
Words by Theresa Bint
Many folk would be aware that mushrooms are the fruiting body or spore-bearing part of a fungus with the vegetative part – the mycelium – being a fine network of fungal hyphae occupying...
Due to the significant support of the Barung community through fundraising, we are proud to announce that stage one of the Barung Nature Centre is underway!
What will stage one cover you ask?
Stage...
Last year we re-launched our Gardens for Wildlife program with a guided walk and series of talks at the Barung Seed Forest at the Maleny Community Precinct!
Since the launch in October we have welcomed...