Join Cedar Grove’s Landcare group

Environmental science student Rachel Hughes said keen gardeners, families and nature lovers were invited help rehabilitate the region’s natural areas by signing up.

She said prospective members could find out more by messaging her through her Cedar Grove Catchment Restoration Project’s Facebook page, with an information session also planned for Saturday, September 16, from 10.30am.

Ms Hughes said volunteers would likely need to attend once-a-month working bees, with extra duties expected from committee members.

“I need people to come forward who are seriously interested and who have time,” she said.

Ms Hughes said the idea to start a Landcare group for the Cedar Grove and Jimboomba areas sprung from her work to help restore properties near and along Logan River’s embankment earlier this year.

She said about three properties, including her own, had been cleared of weeds, with work yet to begin on up to seven others.

She said the aim of her work, which was helped by property owners and funded by council grants, was to rehabilitate a 3.5ha corridor near the Logan River for improved wildlife habitat, water quality and flood resistance.

While she said weed spraying was left up to experts from ecological restoration organisation The World As I Am, Ms Hughes said Landcare volunteers were needed to help remove non-native species and plant saplings.

She said the group welcomed families with children, with kids able to help out, including at a tree planting day organised for next month.

“Even kids can come along and put a pair of gloves on,” she said.

Ms Hughes said she hoped interest in the group would grow so that more areas could be improved.

Visit Cedar Grove Catchment Restoration Project Facebook page at facebook.com/CedarGroveCRP/.