“We didn't want to eke out our retirement in the suburbs - my husband was used to fixing things and I was used to fixing people, so we got a property that needed fixing.”
RMIT academic Dr Ben Cooke and associate professor Ruth Lane from Monash University, interview Victorians who bought rural blocks to revegetate and turn back into bushland.
“In tree-change areas where properties are smaller, owners were carving up the landscape into tiny parcels that don’t reflect the scale of ecosystems function,” said Dr Cooke. “So you can’t be working in isolation because everything your neighbours do affects your property.” They had support from Ecotender, a now-defunct state government conservation project that assisted with purchasing plants and drawing up a land management strategy.
“Once you take away a group of pine trees the local under-story just shoots up and it’s astonishing,” says Carol. “We didn’t have kangaroo apple, dogwood, sedges, native grass, it all came up by itself.”
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