August Tree Huggers Weekend 2009

After falling in love with the Woodford Folk Festival site at 2008’s Folk Festival, you just cant keep me away from the place. I Leapt at every opportunity to come back here including joining the sites own land care group aptly named the Woodfordia Tree Huggers.

Each month an enthusiastic group of volunteers head out to the site located just out of the town of Woodford about an hours drive north of Brisbane City, QLD, Australia. Arriving Saturday arvo, we all gather at festival hall to meet and get to know our fellow team members over a few drinks. The Variation of folks here is incredible. For those of you thinking we’re “just a bunch of hippies”, well, we maybe at heart, however when you get to know your new friends here, the variety of skills and knowledge you discover is astounding.

On Sunday morning, we are give a small task to complete. This time round we split up into groups to complete some more mulch dispersion around the festival site and out in the day camp area, cleaning up around the sedge pond and clearing a stagnant water drain.

Whilst Tim and I attempted to get the drain flowing again we discovered one of the local creatures living in the mud. Hopefully we made his habitat a bit more homely after the clean up. Also as we hunted for the origin of the drain we discovered Robbo’s Damn, something we had heard about but never seen until now.

After just a few hours of fulfilling labour, its time to pack up and head back to festival hall for the provided BBQ lunch. Its amazing how much can get done with a decent number of people in such a short time. Not to mention a chance to get away from the city and meet some positive like minded people.