For every direct booking, we set aside a minimum contribution of $25 towards to paying for projects to help restore and protect the natural environment on the farm.
Mount Roland Land Care 1000 Trees Project
Since 2022 we have been proudly partnering with our local community Landcare group Mount Roland Land Care, to support their 1000 Trees Project. As part of our contribution we are building a shelter bed on along our north west boundary. Its hoped the shelter bed will provided much needed habitat once the plantation on the other side of our boundary is cleared. Money from guest contributions ($925 from 2022, $1475 from 2023 and $1700 from the financial year ended 2024) has been used to install fencing to protect the new trees and shrubs from all of our four-legged vegetarian friends. To date more than 30 community members have been involved in our community planting days and have planted more than 500 trees and shrubs to start this ongoing project. Our next planting day is planned for May 2025 where we will be planting 300 trees.
We are planning to use future funds to build an enclosed nursery to grow more native seedlings for planting from seed collected from the farm and other neighbouring land.
Creek Restoration Project.
A key ongoing project is restoring the creek that runs along the northern boundary of our farm.
In 2016 serious flooding swept northern Tasmania, leading to significant erosion along the creek. This, combined with continued stock access to the creek has led to degradation of this section of the farm.
In late 2020 we were honoured to receive a Landcare grant to enable fencing of the creek and gullies running into it and to begin the re-vegetating the area with indigenous plants.
Over $500 in contributions from guests in 2020-21 assisted this project by providing funds for:
