Tom Humphreys

Nature, landscape, landscaping, biodiversity, conservation, birds, animals, plants and sustainability at Cornish College. Views are my own.

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@GeneralMCNews Trump has a spare 7 billion to play with but he ain’t giving any of his away……

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The Industry and Enterprise team got a set of tools to call their own today. They also finished off setting up a new garden shed by building the timber base, levelling the ground, attaching the shed to the base and adding a crushed rock floor to store said tools.

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The dragonfruit are putting on a real display at the minute!

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The geese always tell us alllllll about their night and what they’re going to do for the day every morning #geese

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Not the normal view across our wetland but it was a very impressive crane!

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Excitingly! The first sod was turned in the new space for our VCE Industry and Enterprise – part of the Design Futures initiative. We’ll be building wicking beds, market gardens, aboriginal food gardens, food forest, Hügelkultur, composting, and plant propagation. #gardening

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How lucky am I to be enjoying some indigenous foods inspired wattle seed cookies from the Cornish Acacia cafe while building a new playground in the year 7 area. The perfect shady spot under the gumtrees for a playground as well 😀#cornishcollege #playground

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Engaged and happy Industry and Enterprise students showing initiative, ingenuity and teamwork making more progress on the bike track. #cornishcollege

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Since we’re now building bike tracks at school I need to do my own research! Na not really, being an avid bike rider already no need to twist my arm to make tracks. Some very beautiful forest up at Erica and it certainly recharges the batteries for me.

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Team work makes the dream work! Research had begun on building wicking beds but we’ve since pivoted to improving and enhancing the bike track that enters the rear of the College. Why the pivot? Because it was important to them and they all get to learn another set of skills

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Another landscaping project completed in the Primary space designed and built by myself and the newly qualified Joshua Hurd. Building with natural materials such as rocks and logs creates the perfect environment for Cornish primary students to explore and play. #landscaping

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Evaluating, researching, collecting data and using trail cameras to find out why our casuarinas are growing at different rates and how some have been attacked. The last couple of weeks we’ve been instigating some of the measures to help get them growing to their best potential.

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Things are growing well at home in my new wicking beds and my pallet garden beds. #gardening #veggies

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Australian Wood ducks with chicks by the Senior Studies Centre. Not a bad way to relax watching these guys go about their business while studying for VCE exams. #ducks

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It seems one of our girls has been a bit sneaky and raised some chicks 🐣 A happy find this week 😀 #chickens

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It’s been fantastic to have Jasmine the work experience Vizsla onboard this holiday work campaign! A dedicated follower of fashion also. #vizsla

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Why is it always a Brown Goshawk that gets caught in our chicken run? Beautiful bird though!

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Was flicking through my photos and found this little fella again. This baby Tawny Frogmouth was very fortunate not to be ran over with the mower and is certainly one of the cutest things we’ve found on campus at Cornish College #bird #BirdsOfTwitter #tawnyfrogmouth

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This week saw the 100 acre club make its return having been postponed during Covid. 100 acre club is a group of parents who volunteer their time to work on the land at Cornish and this week we planted over 100 native plants. Why should the kids just have fun? 😀

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Bit of an impromptu sheep fashion shoot because they’re so inquisitive and enjoy a bit of a scratch on the head from time to time.