Our group members have been collecting local seed and growing it on to plant along upper Middle Creek in Yinnar South. When it grows, our planting will provide shade and habitat for terrestrial and aquatic fauna and contribute to biodiversity.
In March 2019 there was a bushfire along the creek valley, and our project site suddenly got much much larger.
In mid-December 2019 we were notified that we'd been successful in gaining funds for this project from the Commonwealth Government's Communities Environment program.

During 2020 we were able to work alongside the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority on revegetating sites in the riparian zone along Middle Creek.

We also planted native vegetation on another nearby fire-affected site that is part of a developing koala corridor between Boolarra South and the Morwell National Park. We direct seeded this site as another trial of this method of planting which bypasses raising tubestock and doesn't need stakes or tree guards.

Some natural revegetation has up along Middle Creek after the fires. As well as trying to protect the emerging self-sown plants from deer and other browsing animals; we did some trial planting in the winter of 2019.
We are currently (May 2020) growing plants for this site in our greenhouse. We've had less plant losses than last year, which we're very pleased about. We think it may be due to better hygeine - we had a big wash up day for all our greenhouse tubes and trays last September.
Mirboo North High School is also growing plants for the project.
Our project funding has enabled us to run three expert-led seed collection events and to expand our library of reference material. We are now more efficient and effective in our seed collection efforts and getting better at identifying local pant species.
Subject to, and in accordance with any further COVID 19 quarantine announcements, we hope to run community planting days for this project between July and September 2020.