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September Newsletter 2022
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Green Skills is running the annual Albany Kite Fiesta on the 25th September 2022 in the Albany ANZAC Peace Park on the foreshore, from 10am - 2pm.
Bring the kids and get out into the park to fly a kite, connect with nature and be healthy - with kite making, fresh air and fresh fruit & vegetables snacks for all!
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Time to Renew your Green Skills Inc. Membership
Please remember to renew your annual Green Skills Inc membership for 2022-2023! To renew just go online HERE for a form and pay via direct deposit, or pop into an office in Perth, Albany or Denmark to pay with cash.
If you would like to know more about what Green Skills has been doing in 2021 and become a new member, the 2021 Green Skills Inc Annual Report and Green Skills Spotlight 2021 documents can be downloaded from our website and a membership application form can be downloaded HERE.
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Giving a Hand for Country: Noongar Rangers at Tootanellup
https://youtu.be/bfSD0rMx5rs
Our new YouTube video focuses on the Noongar Ngowanjerindj Ranger team planting out 8000 trees and shrubs on the fifty hectare Tootanellup property west of Mt Barker (Western Australia) in August 2022. Robbie Miniter, chair of the Gnowangerup Aboriginal Corporation, is interviewed and shares his thoughts about broader benefits of eco-restoration and the depth of his connections to this county. This Green Skills property is dedicated to promoting eco-restoration, education and cultural connections. Green Skills is partnering with Carbon Positive Australia and Dr Geoff Woodall in this restoration project. The video was made by Denmark photographer Mike Hemmings. It invites people to become involved in supporting this exiting project, which forms part of Gondwana Link. For further information contact Green Skills Denmark office Ph +61 8 98483310 Email denmark@greenskills.org.au
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Green Skills Welcomes Our New State Manager - Ian Beeck
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Ian Beeck (with his 3 children)
New Green Skills State Manager Ian Beeck is an award-winning journalist and editor, working in a variety of newspapers and currently still working in radio, who has also published three novels – the latest a biography of local World War II hero and Lancaster bomber pilot Murray Maxton.
Ian has also worked in the community and not-for-profit sector including managing an organisation that assisted pre and post-release prisoners, an Indigenous employment and training company, working with youth-at-risk teaching them how to grow garlic and the art of bee-keeping, and working at Headspace to name but a few.
Born and bred in Albany, Ian is a voracious traveller having visited 49 countries and has lived in New York City, following the September 11 attacks, and Portugal.
He lives in Albany with his three children.
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DENMARK COMMUNITY GARDEN NEWS & EVENTS
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Denmark Kwoorabup Community Garden
Click HERE - a short new-release YouTube Denmark Community Garden video
The Denmark Kwoorabup Community Garden is located adjacent to the Denmark Community Resource Centre in the south coast town of Denmark in Western Australia. The garden was established in 2019 by Green Skills in partnership with the Denmark CRC, and provides a wonderful opportunity for people to learn about growing organic vegetables and fruit. The fun and educational events and workshops are open to all. People interested in participating can contact the Denmark Community Garden's project manager, by email at Basil Schur, or phone Green Skills (98483310) or the Denmark CRC (98482842) office.
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The Denmark Community Garden events program is supported by the Shire of Denmark Sustainability Program and Denmark Community Resource Centre
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Women's Environmental Leadership Australia
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The National WELA 2022 program came to a close with a brilliant week long retreat at Commonground retreat centre near Seymour Victoria. Another 21 women leading across Australia positive change addressing climate and environment challenges have built their networks, confidence and capacity to increase their impact. Louise Duxbury continues as lead facilitator for the WELA National Program through Green Skills.
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GREEN SKILLS ECOJOBS ALBANY DOING RESERVE FENCE REPAIRS AND FIREBREAK MANAGEMENT
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Matt Kirkman on the ride-on-mower working for the City of Albany, clearing fire breaks for fuel reduction works, on the Bilaboya Reserve, Albany. Contact Albany office Green Skills Ecojobs PHONE: 98421334, if you are needing a contractor to come do your firebreaks for this season.
Ecojobs Albany takes on many types of landscaping and small maintenance tasks, contact the Albany office if you are looking for a contractor for your small repair job. Photo above: Matt is fixing City of Albany reserves gates, helping to secure the access gates after vandalism.
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Tootanellup Eco-Restoration Works ongoing
Green Skills is continuing to work with Carbon Positive Australia (CPA) on its exciting Tootanellup eco-restoration project through this winter and the coming spring seasons.
In August, a team of Tambellup Noongar Rangers will help plant more than 10,000 local trees and shrubs at Tootanellup as part of eco-restoration on the property. The team will work with Dr Geoff Woodall, CPA and Green Skills on this revegetation program, now in its second year. Future plans for Tootanellup are ongoing ecological surveys and the planning for the construction of an eco-education facility, with funding support from The Koorabup Trust. A big thanks to all our numerous community donors and the hours of volunteer specialist input into environmental monitoring and eco-reports by Steve and Geraldine Janike.
Just a bit of history about the project: In 2020 Green Skills received support from the Koorabup Trust and Gondwana Link Pty Ltd to undertake a feasibility study for the potential for conservation property acquisition in the Forests to Stirling section of Gondwana Link. This property assessment project lead to the purchase by Green Skills Inc of the 50 hectare conservation property, Tootanellup, an outstanding and high-conservation worthy rural property strategically located between wetland and nature reserves west of Mount Barker in WA's south west. Green Skills has reported on the first year of activities at the Tootanellup Eco-Restoration Project, captured in a 3 minute YouTube video - click here to watch.
In February 2022 Green Skills coordinated a Bio Blitz wetland survey of the adjoining Tootanellup Lagoon reserve. A report on this is available at https://greenskills.org.au/download/tootanellup-wetlands-investigation-2022/
Green Skills continues to seek ongoing donor support to bring the long-term vision for this Tootanellup initiative to fulfillment. You can be part of this exciting new conservation opportunity by donating now. Background information and a donation form for the Tootanellup property can be downloaded at https://drive.google.com/.../1wr1aUoTtAKRSeq1MaHT.../view...
Watch Green Skills new YouTube video that captures going on country at Tootanellup with Noongar Elder Lynette Knapp - click HERE
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