Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Who wants a free Solar Oven …?

PETER BERG of Wavell Heights in Brisbane is something of a backyard inventor. As you can see from the photos, Peter has built a solar oven in his small surburban backyard. Peter assures us that the oven works efficiently with the oven being raised and lowered electrically from its steel platform. “The problem,” says Peter, “is, that [...]

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Sunshine Coast Council helps Barung Landcare into a new nursery site

SUNSHINE COAST Council will sign a commercial lease with Barung Landcare for the lease of land in Landsborough for a new plant nursery. Barung Landcare is committed to building a native plant nursery in Landsborough that will supply the surrounding area with tube stock from locally collected seed. President of the Barung Landcare Association, Eric Anderson said [...]

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What’s Flowering Now?

Plumeria (frangipani) Plumeria is native to Central America, Southern Mexico and Greater Antilles. The most common frangipani is plumeria rubra which is a deciduous shrub to a medium tree. Flowers can vary in colour from white, cream, pinks and oranges to reds. They also come in multiple colours. Rubra has the most fragrant flowers. Plumeria obtusa [...]

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Relax and Discover

HOPEFULLY we can all relax a little during the holiday season and spend time in the bush as well as at the beach. At least it’s cooler under the trees in the middle of the day. Take time to wander along the many paths through our national parks and forested areas. You may see a [...]

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In the Wild Seasons Wishes …

WELL, HERE we all are at the start of another year (as our calendars tell us) and I’d like to say congratulations to everybody out there doing their bit to restore habitat and ecological connections, on the Hinterland, on the Sunshine Coast and throughout South East Queensland. First up, thanks to the first Australians, the Traditional [...]

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River School Calendar supports turtles

CLASS SIX at the Ananda Marga River School, with the help of Karen Shaw (Brush Turkey Enterprises), have designed and produced a calendar to raise funds for the Bribie Island turtle volunteers. The class had earlier been to Bribie Island and helped with sand dune revegetation and turtle fencing projects, and the students wanted to do [...]

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$60,000 in grants awarded to three Hinterland environment groups

ALL THREE of the major environment groups in the Maleny region – Lake Baroon Catchment Care, Barung Landcare and Green Hills – received funding in the recent round of grants from the Federal Government’s Caring for Country program. The CFC program attracted fifteen hundred applications of which they were able to fund less than a quarter, [...]

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What’s Flowering Now?

Cassia Javanica INDIGENOUS to Indonesia Cassia javanica is considered to be one of the most spectacular flowering trees in the world. Belonging to a large genus of over 500 species of herbs, shrubs and trees. C. jarvanica is in the same family as Delonix regia (Royal poinciana). C. javanica is more cold tolerant than some cassias, yet [...]

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Wonderful Wildlife

IN LANDCARE, we mostly have a strong emphasis on planting, connecting, and generally looking after our vegetation in all its forms. This is not surprising given that carbon based life forms, including us of course, depend on plants for our survival. Plants also hold the country together; a bare landscape quickly erodes. However, we generally relate [...]

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In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

The fun of Discovery … AFTER MORE than two decades of walking through the Rainforests of the Blackall Range it’s still possible for me to come across a plant I haven’t seen before, which is such a buzz! On a bushwalk recently I was lucky enough to see two plants I hadn’t seen before, Hairy Helicia (Helicia [...]

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