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Contents
This newsletter issue covers:
Field Day Report for our weekend in Somersby NSW (April 2025)
The Planting Weekend, Woodford
Yarning garden project update
Chocolate lilies
Euphorbia hirta in Art and Story
Vacancies
Field Day Highlights
Brenden Moore who is a Biripi man and the Aboriginal Education Officer for the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney gave a great welcome to country. He had brought a lot of native plants and spoke about the traditional uses of them. Then he surprised us by bringing out his didgeridoo and explaining all the sounds he made on it.
After a tasty lunch we went into our host Jill’s garden and listened to Ben Davis-MacAndrew who spoke on wild pollinators. He had his native beehive with him and explained the behaviour, conservation, identification and habitat of these amazing workers and other native pollinators.
Jill File, the owner of the property, showed us black soldier fly larvae and explained their uses and benefits. Jill also showed us around her natives that she has planted.
We enjoyed an afternoon tea; did weaving with Astare; then finished the day with with storytelling by Nina Angelo who is a local elder, artist and has just written a book on her family experience fleeing the Holocaust.
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