Nursery production workshop

Nursery productions workshop / Wet Tropics Images

The workshop, held at the Nintiringanyi Cultural Training Centre in Gimuy in August, brought together more than 50 participants from across the Wet Tropics restoration community to discuss all aspects of seedling production. We’d like to thank everyone who came along, the collaborative atmosphere was fantastic, and the day was highly productive.

The purpose of the gathering was to share knowledge about nursery production processes and identify information gaps and opportunities for collaboration, to ensure seedling production and supply are not limiting factors in scaling up revegetation across the Wet Tropics region.

The morning session featured presentations from six different nurseries covering a wide range of topics, including nursery challenges, balancing priorities, organic practices, tree production records and databases, and seedling dispatch standards for revegetation.

The afternoon session covered seed storage, forecasting seedling production, and various aspects of seed collecting, including permits, guidelines and seed sourcing strategies.

Both sessions were followed by group activities, where participants divided into four groups to discuss the types of nursery information that could be shared and identify opportunities for collaboration to support seedling production.

The areas identified in these group sessions focused on three key topics:

1. The creation of nursery production guidelines

2. Nursery forum/platform for asking questions and troubleshooting

3. Seed collection support

A nursery production workshop report is currently in preparation and will include summaries of the presentations and more details about ways to address the three opportunities listed above. A link to the report will be provided in the next edition of New Leaf.

To see a list of presenters and topics from the workshop, go to the Nursery Production Workshop Agenda.