Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 7 – Assisted Regeneration – Dave Rawlins
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Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 7 – Assisted Regeneration – Dave Rawlins

Dave Rawlins is a bush regenerator and ecologist working on a property in the headwaters of Marshalls Creek at the Pocket. The 40 ha property was once cleared for bananas and grazed. It was heavily run down being degraded from intact rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest to areas of bare soils and landslips. The current…

Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 6 – Regeneration & Sequestration – Simone O’Brien
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Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 6 – Regeneration & Sequestration – Simone O’Brien

Simone is the co-owner of a 10 acre property in Blindmouth Valley.  She has been the custodian since 2017 and has been working to steadily regenerate the land with others who have bush regeneration and permaculture knowledge. “As a custodian of the land one of the best things I can do is reparation because this…

Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 5 – Rotational Grazing (Cows) – Joey Ruigrok 
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Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 5 – Rotational Grazing (Cows) – Joey Ruigrok 

Joey co-manages a 10 acre property with his ex-partner, neither of them are farmers rather artists with an ideological approach to sustainability, creativity, art and culture.  “I discovered that our neighbours small herd of 7 cows had completely depleted the grass in her 4 acre paddock in winter and there was nothing for the cows…

Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 4 – Lauren O’Reilly from Free Range Permaculture
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Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 4 – Lauren O’Reilly from Free Range Permaculture

We found Lauren working in her productive food garden in Blindmouth Valley during the Decade of Ecological Restoration, she is a permaculturalist whose job is to teach people how to build and work with soil to grow wonderful food and flowers.  “Regenerative for me means organic, taking as little from the land as possible and…

Decade of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 3 – Native Regeneration on Mevlana Community
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Decade of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 3 – Native Regeneration on Mevlana Community

Wren met with Michael Murray, shareholder of Mevlana for 25 years, at the eastern end of the community lands where a large coastal melaleuca swamp forest has been regenerated. “We removed camphor, lantana and other weeds so that the native vegetation could again dominate the site”  Like other wetland forest ecosystems, a large amount of…