Stringybark Nursery
Open Tuesdays from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm and
Thursdays 10 am to 12 noon
Open Tuesdays from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm and
Thursdays 10 am to 12 noon
Or email stringybarkcommunitynursery@gmail.com for questions/appointments (when available)
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Stringybark - June 2020 - June 2022
An amazing job keeping open and growing plants during so many lockdowns we’ve lost count. Our tasks, as always, have included sowing seed, pricking out seedlings, propagating cuttings, general maintenance and cleaning, sorting and checking stock, inventories, dealing with customers, collecting, cleaning, sorting and filing seed, keeping supplies topped up, banking, admin work – there’s probably more! We have lost and gained volunteers during this period; we have regular
core of 7/8. We continue to be auspiced by Wadambuk St Andrews Community Centre. The nursery covers membership fees for volunteers. Opening hours continue as Tuesdays 3.30-5pm
and Thursdays 10.30-12 noon - when volunteers are available.
Volunteer hours
These figures are conservative estimates based on multiples of 1 person by 1.5 hours.
June 2020 – December 2020 – 321 hours
Bear in mind we had a long lockdown during this period. Volunteers took home seeds to sow and prick out so hours may be underestimated.
January – December 2021 – 336 hours
Again, disruption by lockdowns
January 2022 – June 2022 – 200 hours
Lots of working alone and doing online orders during lockdown.
Collaboration with Men’s Shed @ St Andrews. This included improving the tension and height of the netting over the annexe and main areas, levelling the central table and setting up a contact with the shed for assistance for jobs to be done.
Developed resource manual for nursery volunteers covering most areas of operation. Emailed to volunteers and hard copy in nursery shed.
Future
Some of the challenges facing the nursery are as follows:
Availability of volunteers, especially now travel is permitted
Limited opening hours
Promoting the nursery
Moving/selling stock
Finances
Between July and October 2021 we donated $1,000 each to St Andrews PS, Strathewen PS, Wadambuk St Andrews Community Centre and Arthurs Creek Mechanics Institute for environmental projects.
An amazing job keeping open and growing plants during so many lockdowns we’ve lost count. Our tasks, as always, have included sowing seed, pricking out seedlings, propagating cuttings, general maintenance and cleaning, sorting and checking stock, inventories, dealing with customers, collecting, cleaning, sorting and filing seed, keeping supplies topped up, banking, admin work – there’s probably more! We have lost and gained volunteers during this period; we have regular
core of 7/8. We continue to be auspiced by Wadambuk St Andrews Community Centre. The nursery covers membership fees for volunteers. Opening hours continue as Tuesdays 3.30-5pm
and Thursdays 10.30-12 noon - when volunteers are available.
Volunteer hours
These figures are conservative estimates based on multiples of 1 person by 1.5 hours.
June 2020 – December 2020 – 321 hours
Bear in mind we had a long lockdown during this period. Volunteers took home seeds to sow and prick out so hours may be underestimated.
January – December 2021 – 336 hours
Again, disruption by lockdowns
January 2022 – June 2022 – 200 hours
Lots of working alone and doing online orders during lockdown.
Collaboration with Men’s Shed @ St Andrews. This included improving the tension and height of the netting over the annexe and main areas, levelling the central table and setting up a contact with the shed for assistance for jobs to be done.
Developed resource manual for nursery volunteers covering most areas of operation. Emailed to volunteers and hard copy in nursery shed.
Future
Some of the challenges facing the nursery are as follows:
Availability of volunteers, especially now travel is permitted
Limited opening hours
Promoting the nursery
Moving/selling stock
Finances
Between July and October 2021 we donated $1,000 each to St Andrews PS, Strathewen PS, Wadambuk St Andrews Community Centre and Arthurs Creek Mechanics Institute for environmental projects.
A bit about us
Stringybark Community Nursery was established following the 2009 bushfires with funding from the foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal (FRRR). It was intended at first to help fire-affected landowners in St Andrews, Christmas Hills, Strathewen & Arthurs Creek source free plants that were of local provenance for revegetating gardens and bushland. Over the first three years we distributed around 3,000 plants.
While we were lucky to secure funding to prepare the site, erect the shed and build the fence, all other work has been undertaken by amazing volunteers – installing watering systems, building shelves, stocking the nursery with pots, potting mix etc as well as regular weeding, gutter cleaning and other ongoing maintenance.
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We have also supported several local Landcare groups, schools and kindergartens by supplying them with plants for various projects. We hope to be involved in propagating and supplying plants for landscaping around the Blacksmiths’ Tree in Strathewen.
Tube stock now costs $1 per tube. We are situated behind the Community Centre in St Andrews (The Old School), next to the multi-purpose room of St Andrews Primary School. There is parking on the left immediately before the bridge off School rd. To view our current stocks click on the link below – please note they change quickly. If you have a specific revegetation project come and talk to us. For further information regarding the nursery please contact Sue Aldred 0409 409 288
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