Limestone Coast Grassroots Grants
The Limestone Coast Landscape Board's Grassroots Grants program supports individuals, volunteers, community groups and other organisations working on a not-for-profit basis, with local landscape management projects.
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2022/2023 Grassroots Grant Recipients
Applicant | Project Name | Project focus | Council Area |
Holdfast Art Project | Holdfast Art Project | Exploring the crucial role algae plays in marine ecology by engagement and education of the community using art, research, presentations, underwater film, documentaries, drawing on Beach and exhibitions. | District Council of Grant City of Mount Gambier |
The City of Mount Gambier | Weed Control | Identifying and implementing actions to help restore, enhance and protect the heritage landscape values within the Crater Lakes Precinct. | City of Mount Gambier |
Grant High School | Walking with Seasons | Students participate in a one semester unit focusing on Science and HASS curriculum to incorporate Indigenous perspectives within the local community and context. | District Council of Grant City of Mount Gambier |
Naracoorte Lucindale Council | Restoration of Naracoorte Creek | Restore the natural environment through removing weed species from the creek and riparian zone and planting endemic species to improve habitat and amenity. | Naracoorte Lucindale Council |
MURRABINNA S33 BLACKFORD LTD | Back to Blackford - Back to Country | A 'back to country' project, enhancing, strengthening and sustaining connectedness to family, community and place through constructively and proactively working together to improve the environment at Blackford using Aboriginal message stick framework and six seasons planning. | Kingston District Council |
Avenue Tree Group | Avenue Fire Recovery - Green is the new Black Rnd 2 | Supporting landscape scale fire recovery and increasing community awareness of, and involvement in landcare initiatives through planting and guarding program. | Naracoorte Lucindale Council |
The Trustee for Nature Glenelg Trust | Updating knowledge on critically endangered southern bent-wing bat cave habitat | Audit of key southern bent-wing bat caves to gather up-to-date information on access, maintenance, and other issues relevant to human and bat use. | Naracoorte Lucindale Council District Council of Robe Wattle Range Council District Council of Grant City of Mount Gambier |
Grain Producers SA | Growing Great Grain on healthy soil | Production of a series of videos to capture and promote the sustainable practices used by Limestone Coast farmers to keep their soils and grains healthy. | Coorong District Council Tatiara District Council Kingston District Council Naracoorte Lucindale Council Wattle Range Council |
Mundulla Common Working Group supported by Tatiara District Council | Mundulla Common Enhancement, Wetland Understanding and Community Engagement | Ongoing weed control encouraging regeneration of native species to improve wetland & creek health in the Mundulla Commons. | Tatiara District Council |
Port MacDonnell Landcare Group | Springcare: Community caring for karst springs and fens of the lower limestone coast | Community-delivered water quality sampling and wetland restoration activities at nationally endangered karst spring sites, associated fens and coastal wetlands. | District Council of Grant |
MacKillop Farm Management Group | MFMG Farm Discussion Groups | Implementation of a farm discussion group model in the Limestone Coast, engaging local primary producers and helping these producers to adopt and implement sustainable land management practices. | Coorong District Council Tatiara District Council Kingston District Council Naracoorte Lucindale Council District Council of Robe Wattle Range Council District Council of Grant City of Mount Gambier |
Nature Foundation Limited | Geegeela Nature Reserve Spring Biological Survey | Investigate and identify threatened flora and fauna species within Geegeela Nature Reserve to inform effective conservation management strategies. | Tatiara District Council |
Millicent High School | The Meeting Place and On Country Connections | Maintenance, upkeep and development of the Millicent High School Indigenous Garden as a community meeting space and link to local indigenous heritage. | Wattle Range Council |
| MacKillop Farm Management Group Incorporated | Measuring sandy soil fertility performance with organic amendments | This trial aims to measure the most cost-effective conventional and alternative method/s for maintaining healthy soils in a grazing system, and to increase the knowledge and skills of the agricultural community so that they can maintain healthy soils in their production systems. | Wattle Range Council |
| Friends of Canunda and Beachport Parks | Protecting Lake Frome wetlands from Spiny Rush | The plan is to maintain and enhance the agricultural and wetland values in the Lake Frome catchment by controlling spiny rush. | Wattle Range Council |
| Newbery Park Primary School | Newbery Park environmental and Aboriginal cultural program | Working on country to revegetate key landscape habitats while engaging students in Aboriginal culture and creating an awareness of environmental issues. educating and partnering to sustainably manage our landscapes. | DC Grant/Wattle Range |