2024 on reflection |
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In 2024 The Crossing Land continued providing free Firewise Landscapes workshops in our region and fire affected community. Aboriginal staff helped plant trees, collect local seed and grow seedlings. They also helped improve succession and biodiversity in our existing shelterbelts and refuge areas and maintain those areas as part of our firewise summer preparations. Young people on school and university gap year programs with The Crossing Land assisted this work and learnt about past fire and our cool mosiac burning in the area. Our total tree plantings now reach over 28000 with a strong focus on creating moister refuge gully and shelterbelt areas and increasing water retention in our shelterbelts with the use of swales. Thanks for Firewise support from The National Parks and Wildlife Foundation who received funding from the Australian Government through the Preparing Australian Communities local stream.
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From the Visitors Book
Firewise Workshop participant (Oct) – ‘Thank you, thoroughly enjoyable educational experience. Very light on the BS and very high on good relevant science.’ (former Forestry School and Fenner School professor ANU)
International gap year student (Oct) – ‘I came into this place with a limited understanding of what permaculture is and I left with a more nuanced view of sustainable agriculture’
Yr 9 student (Sept) ‘good instructors, taught us many things in a supportive way…the food was great and the people were nice’
Firewise Workshop participant (Aug) ‘The regional experiential information was invaluable. We have been unable to get such practical well thought out information from any other source’
Yr 9 student (July) ‘the camp was fun because there was never nothing to do and there was lots of delicious food’
Firewise Workshop participant (June) ‘such an informative, practical and useful workshop in a beautiful setting with delicious food’
Firewise Workshop participant (May) ‘Amazing and informative, great flow through the day, super welcoming’
Yr 9 student (May) ‘thank you for all the new skills and appreciation for nature you have brought to us’
From The Visitors Book Continued…
Yr 10 parent re youth holiday adventure (April) ‘she loved the mentors and all the activities and the chance to build new friendships. She appreciated the respect they were afforded by the adults. By all accounts her friends all felt the same way’
Firewise Workshop participant (March) ‘Really great to see what’s possible with time, perserverence and knowledge’
Yr 10 student (March) ‘fantastic, inspiring and beautifully serene’
International gap year student (March) ‘I loved the different ways of learning and living I got to experience from chats in the kitchen, to gardening and wood chopping lessons’
Family stay (January) ‘we simply cannot get over the kindness and wealth of knowledge that you have been so willing to share with us’
The Crossing Land Calendar 2025
As well as our returning school courses this year there is also the opportunity to book holiday stays for families and special weekend and holiday camps for young people who don’t get the chance to come here with their school.
There are also some great workshop opportunities for adults including a Permaculture Course over two regions with some of the elders in Australian Permaculture such as Rowe Morrow and John Champagne as well as Aaron Sorenson, a very experienced designer of educational gardens.
And excitingly Andrew the Bird Guy is coming south for the first time to run his acclaimed bird language retreat down at The Crossing Land.
- Saturdays from 11 January, 3-6 night Family Holiday stays in the January and April school holidays with exclusive use of the camp (bring some friends along with your family to this special place on the Bermagui River)
- Saturday 8 March 2025 free Firewise Landscapes Workshop
- Friday 28 March Unique Canberra Southern Tablelands and South Coast Permaculture Design Course with 6 teachers and 10+ properties – 12 days of 3 day weekends – March to June
- May & September – some school booking opportunities still available (5 day programs that grow active land carers through journeys into conservation and sustainability including Duke of Edinburgh explorations)
- Friday 23 May Yr 7-8 Landcare Adventure Weekend
- Wednesday 10 July Yr 9-10 Go Wild Holiday Adventure
- Friday 8 August heritage fruit tree grafting workshop
- Thursday 6-9 November south coast bird language retreat – on the path of the wild naturalist with Andrew the Bird Guy
See our website at https://www.thecrossingland.org.au/
And click on one of these pages below to book any of our programs, or workshops
If you have any questions about the programs or workshops we are running this year, please contact us on (02) 6493 3400 or email stay@thecrossingland.org.au
Firewise Landscapes work identifying species, collecting seed and planting at The Crossing Land.
Thanks to Kane, Sinatra, O’Shay and Jordan for your help this year.
Donations or Bequests?
The Crossing Land Education Trust is a deductible gift recipient with donations greater than $2 being tax deductible.
Our non-profit charity grows active land carers on journeys into conservation and sustainabilty.
Donations can be made to support our work and contributing to a more sustainable future for young people:
BSB: 641800
Account no: 200415194
Account name: The Crossing Land Education Trust Fund
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