Jodie Goldring

During my residency I went to Working Bees at Eastside Community Garden and met some of the people who have their own plots and who come to help out with the communal growing spaces. When I visited, a new project had been initiated called “Adopt a Tree” where people choose a tree to care for in parkland at the entrance of the garden. This care involves keeping the perimeter of the tree free of buffel and couch grass, through an empowering activity the wider community has embraced called “buffel busting”! String around a tree identifies adoption and the hope is that over time the circles of care at the base of each tree will meet up to create a chain of care protecting these trees from the heat of buffel fire…

I also met Amiuus Lennie, who is horticulturalist at the Araluen Arts Precinct and he chose buffel grass as the plant he has a reciprocal relationship with. My chat with him was interesting indeed!

I have included a few photos of my walk with the Friends of Larapinta Trail who kindly picked me up and guided a group of us along part of Section 8 & 9 of the Larapinta trail. See image of the map of our route. It was great to get back out onto the Larapinta Trail!