Cassinia Environmental

How many Swift Parrots can you spot in the last photo? 🦜

What a treat to have flocks of these beauties have lunch with us while on site at our conservation property in Emu.

There were at least 30 hanging around! The joys of being out on the field.

Sometimes traditional seeding methods don't cut it.

Particularly on sites with less forgiving terrain, like our undulating Amphitheatre property that rises from 359m to 642m!

Cassinia's NatureLab created a solution with the 'Dozer Seeder', combing a direct seeding attachment with a bulldozer to enable seeding on slopey and rocky terrain.

It was first used at Amphitheatre in 2022 and is back to assist with remedial planting on the beautifully hilly site this year.

We'll leave no stone unturned to get to every corner of a landscape that needs restoration. Literally!

This project is funded by the Victorian Government’s Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action $77 million BushBank Program and Land Life Company. The BushBank program is restoring more than 20,000 hectares of land across Victoria to create healthy wildlife habitat and capture carbon.

Step 2 is a highly sophisticated process... clearly. 🦯

Over Summer, we wrapped our sixth harvest at our 35 hectare orchard in Tarrington, Victoria, making us the largest producer of edible wattleseed in Australia. A unique part of what we do that doesn't get much airtime.

Why wattleseed?

- It requires planet-positive farming which drives carbon sequestration and nitrogen fixation
- It's an ancient superfood! Used by Indigenous Australians for thousands of years, it's a nutrional powerhouse.
- The trees are naturally drought-tolerant, meaning the healthy grain crop thrives with the landscape

This tree-hitting action is a labor of love from a crew passionate about growing this environmentally sustainable superfood.

You can purchase our wattleseed or become a wholesale partner at: www.australiannativewattleseed.com.au

30,000 seedlings to go! 🫪

That’s how many native Mallee trees and shrubs we’re planting this year at our Merrinee - Stage 2 site up in North East Victoria.

(In addition to 438kg of seed over 580km of seeding lines!)

It’s year 1 of this project that will see a total 1,119 hectares of land restored, playing a vital role in expanding the adjacent Murray Sunset National Park.

Here’s a little insight into the process... ➡️

This project is funded by the Victorian Government’s $77 million DEECA Victoria BushBank Program, restoring more than 20,000 hectares of land across Victoria to create healthy wildlife habitat and capture carbon.

Any grass aficionados out there? 🌾

We had our first Autumn grass seed harvest a couple of weeks ago, and this is what we collected from a BushBank private landowner site!

Can you identify the grass?

A look behind the scenes at Tulillah. 👇

Ahead of our large-scale BushBank revegetation project at this whopping 1,500 ha site, our team hit the red dirt for a flash cultural survey with the First People of the Millewa-Mallee.

Tulillah sits within a highly significant cultural corridor with neighbouring properties to the east and north containing many registered cultural heritage sites

This survey is one step, but a cultural exclusion zone, use of cultural sensitivity overlays and the continued engagement of the FPMMAC will ensure this project is handled with care and respect.

Thanks to the FPMMAC team and cultural rangers for guiding us! We're honoured to walk this path together. ❤️💛🖤

This project will be funded by the Victorian Government’s Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action $77 million BushBank Program. The BushBank program is restoring more than 20,000 hectares of land across Victoria to create healthy wildlife habitat and capture carbon.