Our first shelterbelt working bee

We had been talking for a while about creating a shelterbelt, or a wildlife corridor from the forest behind the farmland and housing along Abels Bay Road to the coastal strip along the Huon River that is the area we work in.

The idea, of course is to allow animals, especially small birds, who need shelter in order to be able to better evade predators as they move from one area to another.

One of our members offered her property as a trial area so one threateningly rainy day a few of us went to work, and planted about 50 trees, shrubs and grasses of various sorts, all endemic and grown at the NRM native plant nursery at Huonville.

We were lucky with the rain, and ran out of plants to plant just before the rain came.

Instead of our usual cakes, we had a fantastic lunch of hot soups, freshly baked bread and focaccia.