Pop - up Plant ID sessions

Funded by the Biodiversity Conservation Trust through the SE Landcare Private Land Conservation Matters program. Hosted by Upper Snowy Landcare with support from experts Nicki Taws (Greening Australia) and David Eddy (SE Local Land Services). 

Four informal Pop - up Plant ID sessions were held on 12/11/23, 26/11/23, 1/12/23, 16/12/23 to welcome landholders in Adaminaby and Berridale to learn more about our native flora and to identify grasses, forbs, shrubs and trees and discern them from exotic plants (weeds). 

The benefit of these events for landholders includes, learning about native plant species and will empower them to share this knowledge and to be more conscious of the requirements of native plants and animals, boosting their biodiversity knowledge. 

The same benefits come from the knowledge of weeds and their capacity to harm our native environment and agricultural systems

Attendance • Gegedzerick TSR 23 attended across both sessions. • Adaminaby 16 people attended across both sessions. 

We believe that these pop up plant identification sessions should be a permanent part of the Snowy Landcare Calendar. 

Feedback: We sent the online PMLC Feedback survey to the people and staff who attended the event in March 2024. Learnings from this event • 

We would have benefited from closer connections to the BCT staff and getting the BCT to target BCT landholders to increase their participation at this event. •

We need to develop better ways to communicate with members outside Landcare.

 Pop-up session Gegedzerick TSR, Berridale – 12 Nov 2023. Pop-up session Adaminaby – 26 Nov 2023 photos below.