2020-21 Grassroots Grants Recipients
Applicant | Project name | Project focus | Council area |
Sixth Creek Catchment Group Incorporated | Re-establishing biodiversity in sustainable riparian habitats of the Sixth Creek | Sixth Creek Catchment Group (SCCG) will work with Friends of Merchants Road and and Friends of Lower Sixth Creek to continue long term rehabilitation of Sixth Creek with weed control and revegetation work | Adelaide Hills |
Echunga Community Association Incorporated | Echunga #LoveYourCreek | Rehabilitate 2.8 hectares at the headwaters of the degraded Echunga Creek catchment and adjacent riparian land by undertaking weed control and re-planting with native tubestock | District Council of Mount Barker |
McLaren Vale Grape Wine and Tourism Industry Association Incorporated | Sustainable vineyards in the McLaren Vale wine region | The project will support grape growers through events and online and hard copy resources through the nationally accredited Sustainable Winegrowing Australia Program | City of Onkaparinga |
Prospect Hill Bushland Group | Banking seeds for the Bull Creek Range | Seed collection from regionally rare or less-common species in the Bull Creek Range, for banking and propagation as an insurance against fire events and climate change | District Council of Mount Barker & Alexandrina Council |
| Mark Andrew Koolmatrie (Tribal Expertise Facility) | Aboriginal knowledge/values for Fleurieu Swamp species | The grant will produce a published and internet-accessible PDF and hard copy format Guide to Aboriginal Knowledge and Values in Fleurieu Swamps, for use by visitors and landholders | Alexandrina Council |
McLaren Vale Biodiversity Project Incorporated | Community-led landscape-scale habitat restoration | A pool of 500 volunteers working at community field days to plant 6000 native tubestock over 6ha,undertake weed control and maintenance of creeklines | City of Onkaparinga |
Encounter Lutheran College Incorporated | Block 69 revegetation: butterflies, birds and bugs | Installation of fencing to create a 10 acre sanctuary of Sedge Grass wetland - which is home to the highly threatened Sedge Skipper Butterfly.Will include protection and revegetation of Gahnia Filum tubestock, through planting and weed control with signage | City of Victor Harbor |
Willunga Basin Trail Incorporated | Building capacity for ongoing trail maintenance | This project will deliver a training and development program for work team leaders. It will provide a dedicated trailer for storing and carrying all tools and equipment | City of Onkaparinga |
Willunga Environment Centre Incorporated | McLaren Vale cellar door tree trail | Volunteers and staff will work with cellar door staff to place information tags on native trees at participating wineries in the McLaren Vale wine region. The tags will show the importance of the tree in relation to climate evidence and biodiversity | City of Onkaparinga |
Emily McAllan | Berry Road swamp restoration | Collect baseline data and work with industry professionals to undertake fish, plant, fauna and aquatic survey. A video, management plan and event will occur to deliver the information to the local community | Alexandrina Council |
| Friends of Black Hill & Morialta Incorporated | Morialta threatened species habitat protection | Approximately 100Ha of high quality intact bushland in known threatened species habitat safe guarded from new woody weeds in 2020. Update weed maps of these sites to direct any required follow-up works | Adelaide Hills Council |
| Climbing Club of South Australia Inc | Morialta Crag Care | Deliver in Morialta Conservation Park the ongoing protection of approximately 3Ha of bushland cleared of woody weeds, 250 seedlings planted for critical habitat for the threatened Cunningham skink with follow up works to maintain and expand the area. | Adelaide Hills Council |
| Normanville Natural Resource Centre Incorporated | Heritage Fleurieu coast tree trail interpretive signage | The project will deliver interpretive signs to engage visitors with the natural heritage of the district, communicating the tree's contribution to the environment including size, shade and oxygen provided and amount of carbon dioxide removed | Yankalilla Council |
Neale Dyster and Angela Neville | Controlling Montpellier Broom outbreak following a prescribed burn | Controlling a mass outbreak of the introduced weed Montpellier Broom in a 17 acre target area that underwent a prescribed burn to protect and enhance the native understorey | District Council of Mount Barker |
| Clayton Bay Nursery and Environment Group | Terry Way Reserve woody weed control | Community education on how manage / remove invasive environmental wattle Acacia saligna.'Friends of Terry Way Reserve' group has formed and will be supported to control Acacia saligna | Alexandrina Council |
| St Michael's Lutheran School, Hahndorf, Incorporated | Hahndorf Creek Restoration Project Stage 2 | This project is Stage 2 and will enable the school to complete the restoration of their entire section of the Hahndorf creek. This will include fencing, weed control, spraying of weeds, along the creek line, planting of 150 native tubestock and monitoring | Adelaide Hills Council/District Council of Mount Barker |
| Eastern Fleurieu R-12 School - Ashbourne Campus | EFS Ashbourne Bush School biodiversity project | The project will develop a masterplan to develop the Ashbourne Campus bushland. Biodiversity improvement will include the creation of a wetland habitatand through the building and installation of bat, bird and possum boxes.Students will be involved in the project and be engaged as citizen scientists | Alexandrina Council |
| Jane McKenzie | Weed control from Mount Robinson Reserves and roadsides | The project will control all mature and juvenile weeds in the 2.5 hectare Mayfield Road Conservation Reserve. Social media will be used to engage with the community to increase participation at field days | Yankalilla Council |
| Wine Grape Council of South Australia Incorporated | Extending EcoVineyards in the Hills and Fleurieu. | Six new demonstration sites will be established to showcase the use of native insectary plants in and around vineyards. One hectare of native grasses will be planted at each site with each EcoGrower receiving a photo point, microbat box and predator perch. A field day will be held in Spring 2020 and Autumn 2021 to share the planned activities and results with the broader community | Adelaide Hills Council |
| Gavin Malone | Reed Swamp Regeneration Lot50 Kanyanyapilla | L50K is a reed swamp demonstration site where weed control and native tubestock plantings will continue. This ecological asset is made available to the public through ongoing open days, field days and other cultural events. Four informal mentorships have been undertaken at L50K with young people entering into, or undertaking, land regeneration formal training or projects | City of Onkaparinga |
| New Springs Landcare Group Incorporated | New Springs bushfire habitat recovery | Purchase of 2000 paddock tree and shelter belt native seedlings for distribution to our New Springs Landcare Membership base. A minimum 20 properties in the upper Onkaparinga catchment | Adelaide Hills Council |
| Angas River Catchment Group Incorporated | Peppermint Box Woodland rescue and restore | This project will engage a contractor to control Aleppo Pines, Bridal creeper, Scabiosa over a 12ha reserve and following up with revegetation of native tubestock to prevent weed reinfestation | District Council of Mount Barker and Alexandrina Council |
| Trees For Life Incorporated | Weed control at Bushland Park | A contractor will be engaged to assist the volunteers of Friends of Lobethal Bushland Park to reduce the bulk of the dense populations of the noxious weeds Montpellier Broom, Tree Lucerne and Blackberry and to reduce fuel loads and improve biodiversity | Adelaide Hills Council |
| Goolwa Coastcare Group | Goolwa Coastcare actively managing priority coastal remnants | 30 hectares of priority coastal vegetation will be improved via targeted weed control works. | Alexandrina Council |
| Goolwa to Wellington Local Action Planning Association Incorporated | Strathalbyn Natural Resource Centre supporting the community | The project will deliver a resource for the community to access environmental information and support. Citizen Science projects will be undertaken and support will be given to local schools around biodiversity and sustainability projects. Four workshops and a forum will be held for local environmental community groups | Alexandrina Council |
| Rotary Club of Victor Harbor | Biodiversity Enhancement of Hindmarsh River surrounds | The project will undertake the removal of pest plant and animals from the Hindmarsh River and follow up with replanting of medium and lower layer to support the remnant large River Red Gums | Alexandrina Council |
| Nicholas Dommenz | Griffin Gully watercourse and swamp restoration | The project will undertake revegetation of the Griffin Gully watercourse by planting tubestock sourced from Trees For Life and with the assistance from volunteer growers | Yankalilla Council |
| Finniss Catchment Group Incorporated | Finniss River Riparian Improvement | Weed control along 670m of the Finniss River followed by regular working bees with follow up weed control and strategic revegetation | Alexandrina Council |