Yuma from Ngunawal country. This week it was Landcare Week and to celebrate, Landcare ACT organised a conference for environmental volunteers. Our local government coughed up the money for the conference and many of their terrific parks and conservation staff, as well as a host of other experts, ensured it all went smoothly and shared their knowledge with us. A big thank you to everyone involved.

I particularly liked the field trips and the session on story telling, the latter being a subject very close to my heart. I haven’t written much about my garden conversion or landcare activities recently, so here is a quick and dirty update.

Above is a photo of my personal landcare project. Hasn’t it grown? I’ve had to fence it to keep the rabbits out. My True Love asked me whether I going to tell the story of how I came a gutser on the fence today? A passerby raced over to help me up. Some people are really kind. There’s not much more to tell. I’m fine. But that wasn’t quite what I had in mind.

Check out this Red-browed finch (below). These sassy little finches are becoming regular visitors to my yard. It is very difficult to photograph my little visitors with so much paraphernalia in the way. I digress.

Finally, there was much excitement today as my True Love photographed a Fuscous honeyeater at our official landcare session. Perhaps Fuscous honeyeaters visit a lot? It is hard to tell when we are normally heads-down, bums-up working. Anyway, it’s a great story. Can’t wait to share it with our whole team.

I told someone at the conference about my art and my website. I probably should have reviewed my website first. My stories have been a bit dreary lately and my artwork is hard to find. Hope I didn’t put them off. And my (3am) grammar is terrible! The moral of this story must be fewer words, right? Here goes.

Family Ties
Fruits of our labour.
Roll out the Welcome Matt.
Your story of resilience and strength.
Your vulnerability.
The Difference you make.
Our time to grow.

How was that?

More importantly, how’s my blog family going? I’ve been rather preoccupied lately, but that’s another story.

Take care, everyone.

Kind Regards.
Tracy

30 thoughts on “Land Sharing”

  1. It’s good to see how your patch is coming along Tracy. Glad your tumble wasn’t too serious. I used to really enjoy Landcare gatherings to hear what others are doing and what works well

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    1. Thanks, Jo. I’m really happy with it. It is starting to fill out nicely and now that I’ve worked out what’s eating my plants, I think it will lush up this year. If you’ve got a square metre patch of neglected lawn, I’m sure you could create a little bit of habitat too.

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    1. Thanks, Pauline. It’s been very exciting to see so many birds visiting the area. My neighbours are definitely noticing the difference too, and jumping on the bandwagon. It creates a great sense of community.
      The wire did a job on my leg but I don’t think it ripped my trousers. Weird. 🙂

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  5. I admire the work you are doing Tracy. It’s wonderful to see how it is coming along. And the bird captures are wonderful! I have to ask what’s a gutser? I’m assuming you fell, if a kind stranger helped you up?

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  6. The landcare site is impressive, Tracy, and as has been proven elsewhere, “build it and they’ll come.” You made an attractive habitat, and the creatures come to enjoy it…except for the unwelcome rabbits.

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  7. It is always good to hear from you, Tracy. You gardening is going well and that is important. Progress is progress and small steps are the best ones. Stand back and admire it. Yup. Looking good!

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    1. D, Seemed a perfect descriptor for what was a spectacular fail and thought others might enjoy the colloquialism too.
      Only planted two themeda. At least 3 more have popped up. Could get quite crowded in that spot. The birds tend to like some space grasses between tussocks so will have to keep an eye on that.

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  11. I so admire what you’re doing Tracy. Your commitment to your environment, and by extension, everyone’s, is inspiring. Love the poem. So glad you’re rewarded by beautiful birds moving in. Now … just stop falling over.

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