Natural Areas Restoration

Natural areas Restoration is at the heart of what we do. We offer full environmental restoration services including, weed control, revegetation and flora surveys. With over 7 years experience working a range of different ecological communities from dune systems to escarpment rainforest and beyond we can tailor a package to suit your needs.

Servicing the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands. We currently manage natural areas on a number of sites in Berry, Jamberoo, Kiama, Foxground, Broughton, Cordeaux Heights, and Culburra Beach. Our operational area is from Milton in the south to Shellharbour in the north and west to Moss Vale.

Bush Regeneration

We pride ourselves on our thorough weed control services that focus on restoring native species. Using the Bradley Method we work from the good areas to the bad incrementally removing weeds and encouraging natural regeneration of local species. We use a variety of techniques in a holistic approach to natural areas restoration including hand weeding, cut and paint, scrape and paint, brushcutting and where necessary spot spraying. You can see some examples of our weed control work below.

We are committed to minimising our use of herbicides and while we do use herbicide we primarily use it in low risk application methods and only use foliar spraying as a last resort. If you would prefer a fully organic approach we can do that too.

Processing Waste

All the non-viable organic waste we produce is processed on site. When clearing large expanses of dense weeds such as Lantana camara and Ligustrum sinense (Privet) we cut materials down into small pieces that are unlikely to reshoot and use them as a mulch to surpress regrowth of weeds and feed the nutrients back into the system improving soil life. Our whole process is dedicated to regenerating natural systems and removing organic matter from site also removes nutrients. Where possible we avoid piling of materials as large piles of dead plant materials not only poses a fire risk but can also harbour weed seeds making weeds that germinate within them difficult to deal with. If needed we can remove organic matter or make small burn piles of weeds and burn them off at appropriate times pending permits.

Any weed materials such as madeira vine tubers that are likely to regrow are bagged and removed from site.

Revegetation

If you’ve got areas where canopy extension is required or you are wanting to plant windbreaks or wildlife corridors we can assist in planting out those areas. With an extensive knowledge of local flora and ecology we will determine the right plants for the job. We are able to do job specific growing through our nursery collecting seed from on property to ensure we get the best provenance. But if time is of the essence we keep a stock of provenance seed for a variety of species and grow small batches of local trees, shrubs, grasses and groundcover species. We are also able to source a wide range of local species from local growers of native species.