{"id":1706,"date":"2016-08-19T04:02:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T04:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:12:05","slug":"lowno-chemical-weed-control-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Low\/No Chemical Weed Control Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Chemical-Free-weed-Control-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Chemical-Free-weed-Control\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Chemical-Free-weed-Control-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Chemical-Free-weed-Control.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The South East Wetland Carers Network is hosting a half-day workshop about reducing or eliminating herbicide usage in and around wetland sites. The closest workshops are in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eurobodalla Shire<\/strong>\u00a0on Thursday <strong>25 August<\/strong> from 8.45am\u20131pm, Eurobodalla Botanic Gardens, Princes Hwy, 5kms south of Batemans Bay<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bega Valley Shire<\/strong>\u00a0on Friday <strong>26 August<\/strong> from 8.45am\u20131pm, Bermagui Library &amp; Community Centre, 9 Bunga St, Bermagui<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mia Dalby-Ball from Acacia Environmental Solutions will provide an overview of techniques to reduce or avoid herbicide usage including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Designing weed free habitats<\/li>\n<li>Thermal weeding (including in wetlands and waterways)<\/li>\n<li>Steam treatment<\/li>\n<li>Fauna (goats etc)<\/li>\n<li>Salts and more &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your local council weeds officer will provide information about \u201calert\u201d weeds to watch out for and answer questions specific to your area. Morning tea and lunch will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings are essential so please contact Michael Andrews on\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mandrews@conservationvolunteers.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">mandrews@conservationvolunteers.com.au<\/a>, or\u00a04228 9246 or\u00a00427 826 484<\/p>\n<p>And to ensure that\u00a0the presenters cover topics of relevance to you, please let\u00a0Michael know:<br \/>\n&#8211; what weeds you are most concerned about in your area, and<br \/>\n&#8211; what landscape types they occur in.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops will also be held in Milton and Kiama Downs in early September so speak to Michael if you&#8217;d like to attend one of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South East Wetland Carers Network is hosting a half-day workshop about reducing or eliminating herbicide usage in and around wetland sites. The closest workshops are in: Eurobodalla Shire\u00a0on Thursday 25 August from 8.45am\u20131pm, Eurobodalla Botanic Gardens, Princes Hwy, 5kms south of Batemans Bay Bega Valley Shire\u00a0on Friday 26 August from 8.45am\u20131pm, Bermagui Library &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9,4,12,37,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}