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2020 AGM

Last Sunday, our group held the 2020 Annual General Meeting at the Ludlow historic settlement. A new president and committee were elected including Des Donnelly (President), Peta Taylor (Treasurer), Bill Biggins (Secretary) and committee members Holger Topp, Evelyn Taylor, Pat Worrall, Tonina Pinneri, Nick Hornibrook, Kathy Rutgers and Alan Coyne. Special thanks for the outgoing committee members including Carole Walpole, Ian Walpole, Lesley Culleton and Lyn McMahon....

Tuart seedlings for sale

It has been an exhausting year for the Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group. Of the 50,000 tuart seedlings ordered in August 2019, we have 2,000 lest for sale to the public. Now be warned, the seedlings can grow to 30 metres in height so they are not suitable for your suburban backyard. Not if you want good relations with your neighbours! They are perfect for a larger or rural property and great for shade and windbreaks.We are selling the remaining 25 (63 seedling trays) at our cost price ...

New Group logo

At our recent committee meeting, one of our members Cherise Woodhams of De La Terre, presented her designs for our new group logo. The designs were unanimously approved. Thank you Cherise for resolving a long standing search for an appropriate design. ...

Forest restoration report

To all of the students, teachers, parents and volunteers who worked on the planting of tuart seedlings in Lochart Block June 2019. The “Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group” is extremely grateful for your planting efforts and would like to share with you the progress of your tuart seedlings. See the full report here...

Planting season 2020

The Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group will commence planting on Saturday, 6 June 2020 at the `Lochart Block`, off Tuart Drive, Ludlow for a period of six days only. Our objective is to plant 16,000 tuart seedlings during the six days. There will be 8 teams of 2 people each session. That's 8 teams x 2 (three hour sessions) x 6 days = 288 hours of planting time. That's 167 seedlings per team. Easy! Due to the COVID 19 physical distancing, we prefer teams from the same ...

Ludlow greenhouse

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Ludlow Festival (Cancelled)

We have decided to cancel the Ludlow Festival. Our decision is based on the uncertainty about large gatherings of people due to coronavirus. ...

Sabrina Hahn visits Ludlow

Last Sunday (Australia Day), we were honoured with a visit to the Ludlow Mill Settlement by Sabrina Hahn (gardening guru ), who drove all the way from Perth to meet with our president and other members of our landscaping committee at Ludlow. After a brief lunch, Sabrina was shown around the Settlement and was able to give us advice as to which plants we should remove, and which plants would be advisable to introduce, considering the changing climate. Sabrina has shown a great interest in what we...

City of Busselton Grant

In 2019, the City of Busselton advised our grant application to provide funds to restore the roof of the former truck shed was successful. The funding, under the category `Community Enhancement` has enabled us to re-roof the building and install a 130,000 litre rain water tank to provide portable water for the Ludlow mill compound. The installation of the roof and guttering, including connection to the rainwater tank was performed by the Bunbury Regional Prison team and supervised by LTFRG membe...

CEP Grant

Our application to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science for a $20,000 grant under the Communities Environment Program (CEP) has been successful.  This project will restore approximately 2 hectares of degraded land on both sides of the Ludlow River between the Tuart Drive and Ludlow Road, North bridges by infill planting of native species endemic to the area and sourced from local nurseries.  The project site was once part of the old Moriarty farm which was cleared of almo...

Plantrite Grant

Plantrite native nursery have offered one of their Grown for Purpose in-kind grants https://plantrite.com.au/grown-for-purpose/ for our revegetation project at the Ludlow settlement. Plantrite will supply $3,000 of native plants for winter 2020. The plants will be used by our Landscaping Sub-committee to revegetate around the Ludlow River and along Ludlow North Road, adjacent to some of our settlement houses. The plants will be ordered by the end of December 2019, ground prepared in th...

Bluey

This is Bluey. Bluey has a story to tell and we will bring it to you soon....

War on toxic lily

The arum lily is investing parts of Western Australia. See the video https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/conservationists-battle-toxic-arum-lily/11527978...

Today Tonight on Ludlow

Follow this link to the Today Tonight story on Ludlowhttps://www.facebook.com/TodayTonight/videos/2386885748300457/...

We want our stuff back!

The recommissioning of the Ludlow mill is progressing well and it is time bring back home some of the Items of plant and equipment that have been relocated to safe havens over the past few years. Of course, we take the charitable view that the items were relocated to a safe place by well intentioned people to preserve them for posterity. Well done and thank you!If you do have any former Ludlow plant and equipment or similar period items, we will gladly accept them, bring them back to life and pu...

Tuarts listed

The tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) Woodlands and Forests of the Swan Coastal Plain have been listed as Critically Endangered. The Minister for the Environment, the Hon. Sussan Ley MP, has amended the list of threatened species and ecological communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to include 34 species and three ecological communities, transfer nine species between listing categories, remove six species and retain two species in their curre...

Millennium Kids Inc.

Thank you Shire of Capel. We had an amazing time tree planting with Ludlow Tuart Forest Group. Thanks for letting us stay at the hall.From Ebonie and the MK Crew....

Our ABC visits Ludlow

See the full ABC story here...

Local supporters

On Wednesday this week we had a visit from Rob Williams, Manager of the MM Electrical Busselton branch. Rob organised a donation of electrical switchgear enclosures from Legrand and 500 metres of electrical cable.It`s these local relationships that will ensure our success at Ludlow. This donation will be used to re-wire the old Moriarty stables, chemical store and vehicle parking shed. ...

A Timber History

Local researcher, Don Briggs is writing `A Timber History of Western Australia`. Click here for an introduction to the story and we will bring you more when available....

Caretakers wanted

The Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group is seeking expressions of interest from people to act as short term caretakers at the Ludlow mill and settlement.  Register your interest here...

Look at them now!

Here is a recent photo showing the progress of our tuart seedlings at the Boyanup Botanical Nursery. It is a pretty sight. Planting will commence mid year so there is plenty of time to sponsor a seedling and help us restore the Ludlow forest. Sponsor a seedling here. ...

Call the Police

Today, we erected around 60 signs at the Ludlow mill and settlement site to encourage the public to call the Police if they see any suspicious behaviour. Hopefully the signs will also discourage those  people who have been vandalising our buildings and stealing various items which we now need to replace....

Sponsor a seedling

Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group now have this special opportunity for the public to sponsor tuart seedlings. In 2018, Cristal Mining donated 30,000 tuart seeds to our Group and a subsequent contract was awarded to Boyanup Botanical nursery to germinate the seeds and have them ready for planting in the Ludlow, Lockhart Block mid 2019. Sponsorships can be for one, or multiple seedlings at $10 each. If you would rather sponsor by the hectare, we can accommodate that too! Sponsors can have the...

Annual Report

The 2018 Annual report of the Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group was released today. Read the full report here....