How Barrm Birrm got its name
Dogs love Barrm Birrm - what dog doesn't like stepping out along a dirt road, surrounded by all those fresh scents, and what dog owner...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 28
- 2 min
Why protect Barrm Birrm?
Barrm Birrm, place of many yam roots, is the glorious bushland at the top of Gap Road, where the bitumen finishes. It is an...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 19
- 2 min
Gisborne High students help out in Barrm Birrm
Students from Project Ready at Gisborne High School have been coming to help clear the regrowth of gorse from the creek that runs down...
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rosscolliver
- Sep 17
- 2 min
Public attention
It was a foul Saturday morning, and I was watching the rain drifting past my windows, listening to Radio National's 'Blueprint for...
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rosscolliver
- Aug 24
- 2 min
Buy Back Barrm Birrm
For Riddell’s residents, Barrm Birrm, place of many yam roots, has been a place to get away from the world. It's close, it's beautiful,...
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rosscolliver
- Jul 18
- 2 min
The seasonal colour blast
The Correa has been in flower in Barrm Birrm since June, pale yellow bells scattered through the low plants. I planted a couple of the...
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rosscolliver
- Jun 20
- 3 min
A good question
“Why is the gorse growing with other plants, and not much out on the open areas?" Each Friday for the last couple of months, students...
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rosscolliver
- May 28
- 4 min
A regular walk
I've been thinking for a while that I must post more often what's out in Barrm Birrm. I had been walking a lot in the second half of...
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rosscolliver
- May 18
- 2 min
Giving freely
Alice Miller students, with two bags holding many, many small gorse plants Students from Alice Miller school have started coming Fridays...
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rosscolliver
- May 8
- 2 min
Free range kids
More than a few of us had the good fortune of growing up in a world without so many screens, where the suburbs edged up to creeks and we...
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