Mid Coast 2 Tops Landcare will use a grant of $128,000 to fund upgrades to MidCoast Council's plant nursery at Kolodong, allowing them to expand operations at the site to cater for bushfire and flood recovery revegetation projects.
Currently, the day to day operation of the nursery is funded through the Council's environmental rate, with the support of community volunteers.
The $128,000 grant, which has been made possible through the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery program, supported by the Australian Government's Bushfire Recovery Program for Wildlife and their Habitat, will provide the nursery with new irrigation systems, shade tunnels, improved seed storage, and plant propagation facilities.
This grant will significantly increase the capacity for the nursery to provide local native plants for bushfire and flood recovery revegetation projects into the future, undertaken by Landcare, Council or the community.
Increasing the capacity of the nursery will also assist us to implement the many tree planting initiatives outlined in our newly adopted Greening Strategy.
We'll be working with Mid Coast 2 Tops Landcare to launch a volunteering program to support the expanded capacity of the nursery. Workshops and volunteering opportunities will be offered early in 2022.
Right now Mid Coast 2 Tops Landcare is seeking volunteers to collect seed to help rebuild the nursery's local seed bank, which was lost to mice over the winter.
Look out soon for a registration portal with nursery information, planting requests and volunteers registration.
