The Forktree Story
Every post since we began, in order. The first steps were taken when the property was purchased in April 2019. This is the full journal of how the project has unfolded since.
2019
- Beginnings
- TAKING STOCK
- BUILDING BLOCKS
- SECOND LIFE
- LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF FORKTREE
- TANKTASTIC
- WAR OF THE WEEDS
- FENCING BEGINS
- PREPARING TO PLANT THE FIRST GULLY
- AT THE STARTING BLOCK...
- FIRST BATCH OF SAPLINGS MAKE THEIR WAY TO FORKTREE
- FIRST SAPLINGS IN POSITION
- ROO-PROOF FENCE
- THE FIRST WINDBREAK TAKES SHAPE
- WORKING CONDITIONS
- FOUR STEPS TO VICTORY
- TAKING A STAND WITH TREE GUARDS
- MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK
- WESTERN WINDBREAK COMPLETED
- CHU SUPPORT FOR FORKTREE
- BEACONS OF HOPE
- AND IT'S A WRAP...
- HARNESSING SOLAR POWER
- SOWING THE SEEDS OF CHANGE
- THE POTENTIAL OF TREE PLANTING
2020
- REFLECTIONS ON THE BUSHFIRES
- PARCHED...
- THIRSTY WORK
- WATER WAYS
- MOBILE WATERING
- WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
- FORKTREE FRIDAYS
- RUBBLE RUBBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE
- PURGE ON PLASTICS
- ON YOUR MARKS...
- GET SET...
- GO!
- GRAND DESIGNS
- RECYCLE AND REUSE
- STAKE REMAKE - BRINGING PLANTING AND RECYCLING TOGETHER
- OLIVE ERADICATION
- ROO CHALLENGES
- THE GREAT REVEAL
- CHU VOLUNTEERS RETURN TO FORKTREE
- RAINBOW MAGIC
- FENCING CHALLENGES
- LONE RANGER
- HELPING HANDS
- WHAT'S IN A NAME?
- IT'S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP OF THE HILL...
- PERFECTING THE PROTOTYPE
- FOOD FOR THE FUTURE
- CREATING A CANVAS
- FLEURIEU FOG
- NEST BUILDING
- SOIL TESTING
- NURSERY TAKING SHAPE
- WIRED
- "Trees are more important now than ever before"
- ANNESLEY JUNIOR SCHOOL VISIT TO FORKTREE
- FEELING GOOD
- Thank you, Trees for Life and Rotary!
- Rainbow magic returns
- Teamwork with Tatachilla Lutheran College
- Spring has sprung...
- ripe
- Wrapping up Planting Season 2
- FORKTREE PROJECT GRANTED CHARITY STATUS
- Tatachilla task force
- thank you, TYMALINE BUILDING SERVICES
- endorsement from sa minister for environment and water
- repelling invaders
- Laying the foundations
- Woodwork from waste
- War of the Weeds Returns
- gathering seed
- sowing seed
- Green facilities
- collaboration with prince's trust australia
2021
- Party Trick
- Greenhouse effect
- Green shoots of recovery
- CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY!
- UNDERSTOREY FOUNDATIONS
- Signs of the past
- It's got to go...
- The great wall of forktree
- Hakea moth
- Volunteer power
- excavators,spades and rakes
- Thank you!
- A job well done
- Annesley Junior School returns to Forktree
- Rare Chequered Copper Butterfly at Forktree
- Slope stabilisation with native plants
- BRING BACK THE GLOSSIES!
- CELEBRATING WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY AT FORKTREE
- From rubble to tracks
- Stake out
- elegant parrots at forktree
- Tatachilla Outdoor Ed on the case
- Power planting with Conservation Volunteers Australia
- It's a Newday....
- Land of the giants
- string theory
- "WHY CARING FOR THE PLANET IS GOOD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH"
- schools national tree day
- national tree day at The forktree project
- Old planks given new life
- Table mountain
- Three men and a bobcat
- Seed orchard set up
- URBANITE
- top dressing
- Tabletastic
- THE TATACHILLA TASK FORCE RETURNS
- Technology for Sustainability
- Another Rare species recorded at Forktree
- Rubble update
- Smashing climate action
- great work by p.a.c.
- Green economics with Scotch College
- And then there was none...
- Hi-tech solutions for water management
- Hard Yacca
- Ancient wisdom, modern action
- Forktree's First Threatened Bird Species
- A Second Generation
2022
- Nursery update
- Benchmark for success
- Technology for nature
- maths for real life
- Priming the canvas
- Blackwood High Outdoor Ed Superstars
- Underwater Origins
- Pipe Dream
- Improving water efficiency step by step
- New friends at Forktree
- Lesser Wanderer
- Caterpillar Foster care
- Forktree's 40th Lepidoptera species
- From big things little things grow
- "J.A.R.V.I.S., I need more power...."
- Energy boost from zen and salesforce
- school planting season round up
- creative design - from tanks to beds
- Breaking down barriers
- Seed orchard reticulation
- Every cloud...
- Like a phoenix from the ashes
2023
- student feedback
- Weather wall
- Seed bed up and running
- remarkable resilience
- Pizza base
- Camping canvas
- Let planting season commence!
- Timber tops
- CHANGE MAKERS: CELEBRATING OUR VOLUNTEERS
- innovate to create
- Term 2 wrap up
- NEWDAY LEADERSHIP AT FORKTREE
- SYSTEMS Thinking at The forktree project
- The power of collaboration and collective purpose
- FRIENDS of forktree planting day for national tree day
- digging deep
- Top deck
- Making the bed
- Operation Flinders @ The Forktree Project
- Forktree @ The Festival of Nature
- NATIONAL RECYCLING WEEK @ THE FORKTREE PROJECT #1
- national recycling week @ the forktree project #2
- national recycling week @ the forktree project #3
- national recycling week @ the forktree project #
- Grass seed harvest
- Seed cleaning
- The wonders of wallaby grass
- the circular economy loop
- Fifty+SA article on Tim Jarvis and The Forktree Project
2024
- "Ecological Makeover" - Yankalilla regional news
- Native Grass Generation Game
- The Forktree Project on SBS News
- "Wild at Heart"
- report card!
- Nature Play SA at The Forktree Project
- Stage 2 Geography and Outdoor Ed camp at Forktree
- high-rise hollows
- star party
- the home straight for planting season 2024
- Thin Crust
- Potential
- Seeding Frenzy
- Seeds of Hope
- Celebrating Our Volunteers in National Volunteers Week
- PLANTING PREP
- Planting Prep
- World Environment Day at The Forktree Project
- Growth Spurt
- Blaze of Glory
- Growing an Inclusive Space
- Newday Returns to Forktree
- Friends of Forktree Planting Day 2024
- ZEN Energy Power Boost at Forktree
- Manna from Heaven
- Nature Play SA and Hallett Cove South at Forktree
- Crows Kick Goals for Biodiversity
- Forktree Project Open Day October 2024
- Precious Jewels
- Deloitte Taskforce
- Welcome, Bush Heritage!
- Welcoming The Clontarf Foundation to Forktree
- Seeds of Hope
- Engineers Without Borders at Forktree
- Kicking Goals with KESAB
- Thank You, Volunteers!
- The Power of Team Days at The Forktree Project
2025
- Hempcrete Magic
- Tintastic
- Working with The Fleurieu Swamp Restoration Network
- World Environment Day 2025 at The Forktree Project
- Hotels for Trees at The Forktree Project
- Regenerative Design on Earth Overshoot Day
- Friends of Forktree Planting Day 2025
- From Rubble Pile to Kitchen Pride
- Role Models in the Field