planting with Woodbury Boston students

Planting with Woodbury Boston – 28 July

Last Friday, 28th July, TCG had the opportunity to team up with Woodbury Boston School to undertake a planting day.  We were lucky enough that it just happened to coincided with the National School Tree Day. It was a real team effort with around 60 students, staff and helpers from Woodbury Boston providing...

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Meet our new Life Members – part 2

On the 24th of June, at a Volunteer Function, TCG awarded three new Life Memberships for outstanding contribution. Geoff Prince & Kaye Stott Geoff and Kaye work together as a team. They have been volunteers for the Torbay Catchment Group for many, many years providing free web services. And by...

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Meet our new Life Members – part 1

On the 24th of June, at a Volunteer Function, TCG awarded three new Life Memberships for outstanding contribution. Graeme Heighton Graeme is a well known Executive Committee fixture, having served for no less than 15 years. He is currently TCG’s longest standing committee member and his contribution over the years...

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TCG’s new Life Members

What a great night it was last Saturday night, when almost 40 people attended the inaugural TCG Volunteer Appreciation and Thank You Dinner.  The evening commenced with social aspect where people had time to network and catch up with friends they hadn’t seen for a while. This was followed by a...

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Possums and catchment planning – well attended

TCG recently held two well attended events, one at Little Grove and the other at Torbay.  Both events covered the same two topics – the critically endangered western ringtail possum and the latter segment was aimed at finding out what people value or love about the area.  The information gathered...

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Plastic free July planning day Albany

July is the month where various organisations will be challenging people to go plastic-free.  The Albany Community Environment Centre is doing their bit and in the will be holding a planning meeting on the 17 June at the Vancouver street Cafe. To find out more about what they have planned...

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Learn about chromatography!!

This Thursday 25 May TCG’s in conjunction wiht UWA will be running a chromatography workshop. This will be run as part of our  biofertiliser trails.  The trial are underway and soil samples collected at the second site will be used to run a  chromatography workshop. Participants will have the opportunity...

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Better Pastures – DAFWA workshop

Better pastures – DAFWA workshop Do you want to improve the performance of your kikuyu pasture, improve the legume content and improve winter productivity? This workshop is for you. Tuesday 9 May 8:30-3 DAFWA office 444 Albany Hwy, Albany Bookings and more info: davidb@southcoastnrm.com.au or 9845 8529

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