Weaving Back the Banks
A lomandra planting initiative to save rivers and the oceans they feed
If you're an ocean lover, creek lover, land lover or simply just a lover of being alive and not yet OBSESSED with river health, now might be a perfect time to begin. Will you come and weave the river back together with us?
On February 28th, along with tens of thousands of others, we endured the most catastrophic flood in Australian recorded history. We have stared directly in heartbreak at the thousands of tonnes of top soil slipping into the river, the Eucalypts and the Casuarinas falling, clogging the system for future heavy rainfall events and suffocating the ocean. And they continue to fall each day. Choking reefs - the lungs of planet earth. In response, we've brought our plans forward. We are not helpless to these events, nor are we innocent in them. Right now we are sitting in a critical window where much of the weed is washed away, the banks are exposed and the opportunity is sitting right there to put back into the banks the mighty trees and grasses that hold the river whole.
Volunteer
WEAVING BACK THE BANKS: a planting initiative to put lomandras back on the banks, starting with the regen initiative The Prana Farm with it’s 600metres of Richmond River banks and working our way upriver onto private land held by custodians who are willing to caretake their banks and their newly planted babies.
Our work is to keep our mighty rivers clean and our oceans alive. It's not too late but the time for action is on top of us.
Next Planting Date: To Be Announced
Make a Donation
If you’re afar but still want to be involved, consider donating. Every $10 buys 10 baby lomandra.
Each baby lomandra can grow up to a whopping 2 metres in diameter, connecting it’s roots underground to other lomandra, literally weaving riverbanks back together! That’s one helluva grass. 10 lomandra, for just $10, can weave up to 20sqm of bank! Now that is value for money!!
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