Small Grant Supporting Our Members

28 October | Last year we launched an exciting new grant aimed at supporting our members’ projects.

The TLF Plant Grant was designed for members with existing projects in our Project Bank that included a revegetation component. Members were invited to apply for up to 300 native plants, appropriate to the local site conditions, for the purpose of enhancing native biodiversity.

13 projects from across the State received funding, putting more than 3,180 native plants in the ground during the 2024 planting season! But these projects are more than just planting trees; they are working towards larger goals such as restoring degraded land, enhancing remnant native vegetation, improving waterway health and soil quality, and creating habitat corridors.

We are proud of our members’ commitment and look forward to seeing the long-term benefits of these important projects.

Funded Projects:

Ellendale Landcare - Revegetating Jones River - Willow, hawthorn and blackberry removal and replant native riparian vegetation
Russ Trust - Regeneration after plantation
North Esk at St Leonards Rivercare Group - Riverbank and riparian regeneration on the North Esk River
Circular Head Landcare Group - Windbreak planting on Scopus Farm
Friends of Huon Island - Huon Island Native Habitat Restoration Project
Cassie Wedgewood (Individual Membership)- Lucaston Creek
Seymour Community Action Group Inc - Restoring and protecting native vegetation
Quamby Bend Landcare - Shelter belt and wildlife corridor
Samantha Connew (Individual Membership) - Stargazer native vegetation and biodiversity project
Tasmanian Student Landcare Association - Restoring French Street Gully
Quamby Bend Landcare - Mitchelson Landcare follow on
Rachel Roberts(Individual Membership) - Forth viminalis forest rehab
Weldborough Landcare - The Chook Pen

Thank you to everyone involved in making the first TLF Plant Grant a success! We hope to continue to offer this grant annually, as donations allow.

If you are interested in grant opportunities like this, we invite you to become a member and submit a project expression of interest to our Project Bank.

Testimonials from our Members

"The goal [of this project] is to turn former farmland pasture into a shelter belt. We would like to thank Landcare Tasmania and their donors for enabling this ongoing project that commenced in 2020. We now have planted a total of 300 trees, all being covered under three separate Tasmanian Landcare Fund grants."

- Allison Peacock (2024)

"The planting is especially important to prevent our soils from eroding during storm events and providing habitat for the local platypus. I would like to give a big thank you to Landcare Tasmania and the donors to the Tasmanian Landcare Fund for providing the plants, guards, stakes and weed mats."

- Michelle Cassar-Smith (2024)

"This is an area of remnant woodland on a very windy farm in far NW Tasmania. The aim is to enhance the remaining trees with a mix of both local Eucalpypt species and understorey wattles and tea trees... Thank you to Landcare Tasmania for the opportunity to complete this project."

- Sue Jennings (2024)

"Really pleased with this planting...This is part of an ongoing project, planting further trees to improve riparian zone along entire length of property [on the North Esk River]. So further help is always appreciated. Thank you."

- Tara Coker (2024)