A couple of weekends ago we spent a sunny Sunday morning out at the Cotter catchment planting trees. It was organised by the mountaineering club, and run by Greening Australia – it was sponsored, at least in part I think, by Snowgum, so we got 10% off vouchers for our efforts.

The Greening Australia guys picked out a slightly trickier than usual site for us, seeing as they figured we had all climbed Everest and all. So we were planting the side of hill, an area of old pine plantation that had been burnt out by the fires.

They kitted us out with picks and shovels, buckets of trees, a bit of water crystals and fertiliser – and little white wind guards for every second tree. We had to dig the holes, although there’d been some sort of earth ripper thing through a few months back which had dug small furrows where we dug – so it was pretty easy going.

All in all we planted somewhere around 700 trees in about three hours or so, that was with 25 odd people. Not a bad effort. And to top it all of they cooked us sausages, just about the best sausages I’ve ever eaten I reckon.

There’s plenty more trees to be planted, so hopefully we’ll find time to get out there again, if you get the chance I highly reccomend it.