Hunter Indigenous Plants specialises in local native plants, revegetation, community education and sustainable eco-gardens.
We also are regular stall holders at the Newcastle Farmers Market held most Sunday’s at Broadmeadow Showground.
Our aim is to deliver the following services using fully qualified and trained staff and to achieve ‘best practice’ management of these services:
• Contract indigenous seed collection
• Contract plant propagation, production & supply
• Site assessments, flora and fauna surveys and property vegetation plans
• Design, preparation & implementation of planting, restoration & rehabilitation projects
• Monitoring & maintenance of land management works & services
• Bush regeneration
• GIS mapping for land management
• Community, school and household sustainable eco-gardens & food production gardens
• Guided eco- excursions for our community, students and small groups of visitors
• and the delivery of natural resource management training and educational programs for community groups, schools, business and government
Our previous work experience includes seed collection, plant propagation, production and supply, revegetation services and community education since 2005 with the following local Councils:
• Lake Macquarie City Council
• Maitland City Council
• Newcastle City Council
• Port Stephens Council
We have been selected as a preferred Nursery supplier for the Hunter- Central Rivers CMA Regional Tree Supply program 2012-2014.
Other customers have included private landowners, schools, landcare groups, golf courses, land development companies and the mining industry.
Seed collection
Our contract seed collection service is based on the ‘Florabank’ guidelines and twenty years experience and knowledge in this field. We recommend customers to use our seed collection service for the following reasons:
• to ensure local indigenous seed will be used for revegetation purposes
• to maintain the genetic integrity of the site or local area
• to ensure appropriate amounts of local seed are collected (as indigenous seed is a valuable resource and should only be used in a sustainable manner) to achieve revegetation purposes
• to ensure appropriate species and species diversity are used for revegetation purposes
• to ensure only mature seed is collected
• to provide efficient and reliable seed sorting and storage
• to ensure all appropriate seed collection licences and OH&S procedures are provided and maintained
• and to ensure appropriate records of seed collection are kept and stored in a data base
Plant propagation, production and supply
We emphasis the following features in relation to our plant propagation, production and supply:
• The use of local indigenous plant species (only local indigenous seed or plant material will be used in our native plant propagation and production for revegetation whenever possible)
• Competitive price (a price structure that is competitive with most Sydney-based and Hunter plant production nurseries)
• Quality (plant production quality will be maintained at the highest standard possible by fully qualified and trained staff)
• OHS/ WHS procedures (Occupational Health & Safety will be a priority and appropriately maintained and improved to ensure the well being of our staff)
• Environmental management (systems of environmental management will be used to reduce the environmental impact of our activities as much as possible. We adopted an Environmental Management System Plan in May 2012. A copy is available.)
• Experience and knowledge (a previous 20 years experience and knowledge in the environmental/ horticultural fields will be used in our advice to our customers, and with our management of plant propagation and production)
• Personal Customer Satisfaction (we will endeavour to collect and grow any local species you require, and consult with you to plan our propagation, production and supply to meet your organisation’s various site revegetation programs)