Posted on May 10, 2012 by Colleen Filippa

Welcome to those who are concerned about our environment and looking to reduce their carbon footprint by supporting tree planting.

Please have a close look at Fifteen Trees. With us, you directly support our  rural communities and the environment. The indigenous trees are planted by  schools, environmental networks, landowners and Landcare throughout all states of  Australia.

Once your trees have been planted, you are then able to view them and read the comments by the planters.

The number of trees planted (to date) with the assistance of Fifteen Trees supporters – 9442.

 

 

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Mahon Property, Central Highlands, Victoria

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Colleen Filippa

It is lovely to find more people getting on board to help get trees ‘into the ground’ this autumn. Celine Bonin and Ineke Humphrys have both contributed $49.50 to have 15 trees planted on their behalf. Actually Ineke gave a gift of 15 trees to her friend Therese Healy, then, jumped online again a week later and had another 4 trees planted for Joan Dickson.

Super IT wiz Kara Ferris from Simply Geeks has also given a gift of trees. She has had trees planted on her customers behalf to help collect their computer’s carbon emissions for one year (one tree for every two computers will do it).

Every now and then, I get asked to donate for a special event – this time round I was asked to plant trees on the behalf of the Ballarat East Network when they held a community meeting in March. This dynamic residents group are keeping an eye on their local area to ensure all the new housing developments are in keeping with ‘neighborhood character’.

Image by Felicity Nichols

All 60 trees were planted by L. Mahon who writes ‘Most of the plants have done really well. We deep ripped first to give them a good start. We are very happy with them, thank you kindly to Fifteen Trees.  Sincerely – Lisa’

Not sure what ‘deep ripped’ is … but I’m sure Lisa knows what she is doing!

Slainte – Colleen

 

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Linux Conference Ballarat 2012

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Colleen Filippa

The linux conference (open source software) is held yearly at various locations around Australia. This year the conference was held in Ballarat. Being green focused, Sae-Ra from the group contacted Fifteen Trees to discuss options about how to run the conference with a small footprint. As a result, delegates, when registering for the conference, had a ‘tick’ the box option to buy a tree for planting in the local area. One hundred and twenty two people decided to take up this option and as a result, 122 trees were planted in the Ballarat district across 3 locations. The Vanderbeeks and Zoutendijk families each planted out 60 native trees and the remaining 2 (fruit) trees were planted at Creswick North Primary School.

Below are some of the comments and photos taken by the 3 groups.

“Living on the Goldfields of Central Victoria requires an ongoing commitment to re-planting and restoring the native flora post the big land clearing efforts of gold seekers more than 100 years ago. Thanks to Fifteen Trees, our native re-establishment plan has been given a boost with 60 native trees.. This will help build the native flora for more birds and other native animals. It is already a popular site for animals and, thanks to a nice rainy autumn season, all 60 plants are thriving. We would like to thank the nursery and Fifteen Trees for supporting our initiative and for the very high quality seedlings”. C. Vanderbeek

Photo by Jill Karena.

“We are eternally grateful to those who make these trees available for us - apart from about six old gums and two younger ones there were no other trees on our property. We now have close to a thousand trees at various stages of growth from seven years to six months .Thank you ever so much”.  G & G Zoutendijk

Youngest grandchild gets involved in tree planting.

Thank you to the organisers of the linux-conf – and of course thank you to the delegates who chipped in $5.00 each to have a tree planted on their behalf.

Slainte – Colleen

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An Urbanite’s Quest.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Colleen Filippa

After meeting Neil Faragher at the Sustainable Living Festival in February, and then meeting up at a very cool Coburg cafe (two monks) I found out more about Neil’s “quest to plant 1000 trees in a year“. I loved the idea and am happy for Fifteen Trees to support Neil in his quest (gotta love a quest). Neil will be digging into the dirt over the next 6 months to help mitigate his own emissions and in the process learn about trees, our native countryside and meet some of the groups out there looking after our native heritage.

Neil Faragher.

Please think about supporting Neil and keep an eye on his blog to watch his progress. Neil has set himself some basic rules, one being that the trees he plants ‘have to be trees that would not otherwise have been planted’. So, if you decided to support Neil, please put ‘1000trees’ in the comment section when you pay. The cost of having one tree planted on your behalf is $5.00.

For a brief time (from now until end of Spring), you can support tree planting in a small way by helping to pay for the planting of just one tree. A small but significant gesture that will support Neil and more importantly support our native environment.

Slainte – Colleen

 

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Avalon, Victoria.

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Colleen Filippa

“Colleen, here is the photo of the 60 donated trees that were planted this year. Thank you for your efforts and your marvelous program to help green our area”.  Joanne Sloothaak

Hidden in every plastic sleeve is a native tree.

Out on the western planes of Ballarat, 60 trees where planted by Joanne and her family, made possible by the supporters of Fifteen Trees. These trees would not have been planted without the generous donations of individuals such as Emmaline Southwell (as a gift for Patricia McGarrity) and the 12 woman who bought one tree each during the ‘Honouring Women In Moreland’ Awards Night.

A few of the woman at the Moreland event, also bought one of my tree necklaces (from Run Around the Garden) which also entitled them to one tree planted on their behalf.

Silver tree on reclaimed timber (Maton Guitar)

Some of Joanne’s trees (30) where also supplied by Richard Hayden from Hayden’s Real Estate (Ballarat) who has once again supported Fifteen Trees. This is Richard’s second year with Fifteen Trees and has now help to plant 60 trees.

Thank you to all involved, and a particular hello to the women I met at the Moreland evening.

Slainte – Colleen

 

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