Did you get a chance to step out and experience the wildflowers this winter?
As part of the recent Outback Bloom Festival, NACC NRM’s Biodiversity team were fortunate to host a creative community engagement event with visitors and students from Yalgoo Primary School!
Held annually in Mullewa, the four-day festival celebrates native flora and community, welcoming tourists from near and far to make the most of our region’s famous wildflower season.
NACC NRM’s Biodiversity Project Officer Georgia Cella and Coastal & Marine Project Officer Joshua Burney kicked off the Friday morning activities with an eco-paper making workshop! About 30 attendees, including students, teachers and helpers learned to make their own biodegradable and plantable eco-paper embedded with native seeds. The group used recycled wastepaper and a selection of seeds including everlastings, swan river daisies and straw flowers, which will bloom when planted in soil! Eco-paper is a great option for reducing waste, it creates important habitat for pollinators, and it enriches soil as it breaks down.
While getting creative, participants also learned about one of our key projects, Restoring the Eucalypt Woodlands of the WA Wheatbelt. Once widespread across southwestern WA, Eucalypt Woodlands are now listed as a critically endangered Threatened Ecological Community (TEC). They play an important role in supporting native flora and fauna, and even provide the habitat needed for our much-loved wildflowers to thrive and put on their colourful displays each year.
The Outback Bloom Festival was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate our regions wildflowers, connect with the community and highlight the importance of looking after the landscapes we call home. We hope everyone left with a little more knowledge, creative inspiration and some native seed paper ready to bloom!
This project is jointly funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust and NACC NRM, a member of the Commonwealth Regional Delivery Partners panel.
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