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Fire Resilience Workshop - Making your Property Fire Safe and Sustainable
 
Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) will be hosting a FREE 3 hour workshop on preparing your home and property in the face of the ongoing threat of fire on Sunday the 27th of May from 1-4pm. Gardening personality Chris Ferreira and bushfire consultant Rohan Carboon from the award winning “The Forever Project” will be down on the South Coast discussing various techniques to create a safer sustainable environment using best practice so that you can prepare for fire.
 
This event would suit landholders big and small and even townsfolk. As many of us are awaiting rain and the seasons seem to be changing, I urge you to attend one of these workshops as the information provided will be invaluable in helping prepare for the event of a fire.
 
Topics covered by Chris and Rohan will include property layout, design & retrofitting a home and fuel load management.
 
Other topics to be covered include
  • Creating fire safe and drought resilient landscapes
  • Bushland management
  • Fire, biodiversity & threats to local flora & fauna
  • Managing weeds and feral animals after a fire
  • Planting for shading and cooling – using locally native fire-retardant trees
  • Understanding Australian Standard 3959 for construction of homes in bushfire zones
  • Fire breaks / wind breaks
  • Mulching – introduction to the numerous options including the latest technology
  • Climate change impacts – including increased fire frequency and impact on bushland
  • Dieback hygiene
 
All workshops are FREE with refreshments provided. Booking is essential, to assist with catering. Please bring a pen, paper and a clipboard to take notes. Contact Jenni Loveland admin@ohcg.org.au or click here to book online. Venue Plantagenet District Hall, Lot 250 Memorial Rd Mt Barker
 
If you can’t make it to this event, Chris and Rohan will also be running similar workshops on the morning of Saturday the 26th of in Denmark contact Donna Sampey so@denmark.wa.gov.au and also in the afternoon of Saturday the 26th of May in Bornholm, Albany. Contact Craig Carter https://torbaycatchment.org.au/book-your-event/
 
The times and venues for all the workshops are on the flier. The workshop is presented by Oyster Harbour Catchment Group with funding from State Natural Resource Management
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We acknowledge the Minang and Koreng people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respects to the Elders, past, present, and emerging and to the wider Noongar community. 

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Our Groups Story >
      • Meet our Committee of Volunteers
      • Meet Our Staff
      • Our Fellow Community Groups
    • Catchment History
    • Natural Resources
    • Threats >
      • Erosion
      • Cats: Feral, Stray and Domestic
      • Feral Rodents
      • Invasive Plants
    • Natural Wonders >
      • Lakes and Wetlands
      • Biodiversity >
        • Seagrass meadows
        • Spiders
        • Western Ringtail Possum
  • PROJECTS
    • Regional Landcare Program
    • Looking Forward, Looking Back: farm planning
    • "uPtake" fertiliser trial
    • Healthy Estuaries WA >
      • Nutrient Mapping
    • Taking Past Learnings into the Future
    • Ranges Link
    • Past Projects
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Membership
    • Newsletter
    • Citizen Science and other volunteering opportunities >
      • Annual Western Ringtail Possum tally
    • Albany and Surrounds Feral Cat Working Group >
      • Albany and Surrounds Cat Blog
    • Accuspread Field Day Registration
    • Red Card Feral Animal Shoot >
      • Team Registration
    • Grazer Matcher
  • CONTACT US
  • RESOURCES
    • For Youth and the Youthful at Heart