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 have now created a beautiful coastal garden habitat in a suburban front yard that is attracting a diversity of wildlife. “We didn’t like […]
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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 for Work trainees and the broader community, the Barung Seed Forest not only provides habitat for local wildlife, but it offers
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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 of Setaria and African love grass (to name a few exotic weeds), has been the “garden project” for almost two years now. Our
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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 heard and not seen, “balloon screeching” when startled. Sometimes, the only way to know there are bandicoots around are the numerous little holes found in
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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 the soil, wood, mulch or preferred substrate. Most terrestrial fungi use air currents to disperse their spores; animals