Learn to clean your own ground.
Workshops and an eight-week course for people who live near the burn, with a stipend for residents of the burn area. Course graduates get first call on paid crew work.
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Seats left update as people sign up. A course drops off this list the day it starts.
Seed collecting walk
Collect native grass seed on the ridge for next year's sites.
Sunday 9 a.m. to noon · Free
Making char
How we turn cleared brush into char in a low-smoke kiln, and why it matters in soil.
Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. · $10
No fee stops anyone.
Every paid workshop is free if you ask, and the long course pays residents of the burn area to take it.
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Winter planting crew
Plants willow stakes and native grasses on creek and trail sites through the rains.
December to March, 3 days a week, $22 an hour
About sixty neighbours help.
- Field days: laying straw, planting, pinning wattles
- Soil sampling on test days, after training
- Lab work: sieving and logging samples
- Seed collecting on the ridge
- Office help, writing and translation