- 12 hours ago
The St Arnaud Field Naturalists Club hosted a “Natural Seed Collection and Storage” Workshop at the St Arnaud Raillery Hub Community room on Wednesday 15th April.
The Buloke and Northern Grampians Landcare Network kindly sponsored the event.
The Workshop was presented by Mr Lindsay Ezard, a well-known St Arnaud resident, who has been in the native seed collecting and selling business for over 20 years.
Lindsay gave a very informative presentation and later back at his shed, showed us some methods and demonstrated tools and equipment he uses to separate, store and scarify seeds.
A couple of examples of the interesting information gained from the workshop:
Buloke and casuarina seeds are only viable for three months after harvest. Sow with a very light covering of sand.
The commercial value of seeds is notable.
Orange picking bags make good seed collection bags.
You need to know the common and botanical names of the species you pick seeds from.
Ethical seed collection requires permission, if it is not from your own land holding.
If you missed this event and need more information about this and other events that the St Arnaud Field Naturalists will organise in the future, please contact
the St Arnaud Field Naturalists Club by email starnaudfieldnats@gmail.com .