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Plants of the Otways & Western Volcanic Plain
Cara & Matt
Growing on Gadubanud country
www.otwaygreening.com.au
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Cockatoo 2025 willow, baling twine made into string and a plastic rake

today is the last day of my show ‘I love you all the same’ @funakigallery

I am so grateful to have had this opportunity to show this body of work - thank you to Katie Scott for her trust, support and belief in what I make

thank you to Fred Kroh, for his beautiful images and video and for feeling like part of our family

thank you to my partner Matt, for modelling (reluctantly) and for his endless support of my practice

and, to my daughter Alma, being your mum has made me more certain about the urgency of making as a way of comprehending my (our) surrounds

photos by Fred @fotokroh
worn by Matt @otwaygreening

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Cara Johnson @cara__johnson speaking about her practice in the lead up to her show „i love you all the same” @funakigallery
Filmed in her studio and @otwaygreening

Video initiated, directed, produced by Katie Scott with thanks for support and funding @funakigallery

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A form for a hare 2025 river red gum fence post, baling twine

currently in my show ‘I love you all the same’ @funakigallery

photo by Fred @fotokroh
worn by Matt @otwaygreening

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Holding on 2026 hand forged iron nails, baling twine

One of the pieces in my show ‘I love you all the same’ March 14 - April 18 @funakigallery

Please email gallery@galleryfunaki.au if you’d like to come along to the opening this Saturday, where I’ll be speaking about my work ✨

worn by Matt @otwaygreening
photo by Fred @fotokroh

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To all our friends across Australia who are battling fires. Stay safe. Shoutout to @otwaygreening we are thinking of you.

Climate change is making hot days hotter, heatwaves longer and bushfires even more dangerous.

Invest in the our planet and future. Support those organisations and communities working to protect our native environment and wildlife.

Image @guardian

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Is this your #EucalyptoftheYear2025?
🔗Vote now at the link in our bio!

The tallest flowering plant in the world – the Mountain Ash – dominates the Otway Ranges.

High annual rainfall on fertile soils support rich and diverse cool temperate rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests on the Otway Ranges.

Above 488 metres elevation, tall, pure stands of Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) are relics of the vast forests that once stood in these uplands . At lower elevations, Mountain Ash is accompanied by one or more other tall gums, either Eucalyptus brookeriana, E. obliqua, E. viminalis or E. cypellocarpa.

These moist, dark forests support impressive fern gullies, Gondwana-era Myrtle Beech trees and thick, lush beds of moss. The towering titans themselves provide big hollows that are home to Powerful Owls and both Greater and Yellow-bellied Gliders.

Though few original stands remain intact, historic selective logging practices have left some ancient trees standing, surrounded by younger – but still very tall – trees and the colossal stumps of their colleagues.

To discover these incredible gums for yourself:
🌳 Visit the @otwayflytreetopadventures
Drive Turton’s Track for roadside giants
🌳 Stroll the Mait’s Rest Rainforest boardwalk
🌳 Take the loop walk to Triplet Falls
🌳 Visit the @wildlifewondersaus Sanctuary to discover the flora and fauna of the Otways.

Mountain Ash thrive in cool, wet conditions, outcompeting other plants to reach record heights. However, their reliance on specific climates makes them vulnerable to climate change. Unlike many eucalypts, they don't recover readily by resprouting after intense fires and depend on seedlings to regenerate.

These forests recover only when fires are 75–150 years apart, allowing trees to mature. Increased fire frequency threatens this cycle, endangering both the trees and their ecosystems. Without enough recovery time, these giants may struggle to survive, putting one of the world’s tallest flowering plants at risk.

🏆Vote for the Regents of The Otways to win #EucalyptoftheYear2025 and you could win!
See the comments for details!

📸: Photos 2-5 by Brett Mifsud
#NationalEucalyptDay2025 #LoveAGum

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Beginning of 2024~
Apple of my eye, OG morning tea, my queen of a cousin, calm at home, my angel in lutruwita, Abi home and creativity flowing (see @theforagedgumnut for a look)! My hair looks great, potato cakes are great, Charley Crocket on my birthday 🫠 and a picnic! Found Tassie’s second smallest micro bat on the ground in a public dunny, I love making food, seed saving, school cupboard labelling 🥹, cheerful morning at Breeze’s market garden, teaching the kids about orchids while they teach me blackjack, the girls having a feed, old mate having a chop, Bob just being a legend (can we end native forest logging now?), a last arvo at our home at the foot of kunanyi. Ooft.

I’m on a long flight and playing insti catch up

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Meet Craig everyone.

On Saturday night Craig will be teaming up with Possumpete (see previous post) to share his experience as an ecologist in the Otways and around Australia. For over twenty years he's dedicated his time to threatened bats and other threatened fauna surveys.

Recent projects include the non-invasive detection and identification of bat species and other threatened fauna from audio recordings (vocalisations), targeted field surveys, long term monitoring of threatened bat species using a variety of techniques (e.g. radio-tracking, infrared and thermal video counts), and the provision of conservation and management advice.

He's also worked on a wide range of projects across Australia in many different habitats, employing traditional (e.g. camera trap, acoustic monitoring for bats, birds, frogs and mammals, thermal and infrared video camera counts) and innovative approaches (e.g. eDNA analysis and DNA analysis from scat) to survey fauna.

Currently, Craig is working with other volunteers to deploy passive acoustic monitoring devices across the eastern Otways, Victoria to study the threatened Yellow-bellied Glider. They are undertaking analysis of the audio data using a combination of commercial software and AI.

Craig is the owner and Ecologist of Otway Ecology based in Anglesea, Victoria.

Thanks so much for taking the time to come out to the Central Otway Craig. We're lucky to have you in our hood!

Bookings via link in bio. Tickets are limited....

#bats #batman #gsb24 #biodiversity #ecologist #threatenedspecies #otwayecology #landcarevic
#corangamitecma

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I’m so happy to share that my family and I are about to take the reins at Otway Greening, a nursery that specialises in growing plants that occur naturally in the Otways and across the Western Volcanic Plain - we grow around 160 species all from seed collected locally.

the nursery has been growing plants of and for this community and region for three decades under the careful hands of Mike and Wendy Robinson-Koss - we are honoured to continue the legacy they’ve built.

if you’d like to follow our plant journey please follow @otwaygreening we officially move the nursery to our place in Bambra in a couple of weeks, on October 1st (Mike is still running the insta at the moment)

photo in Bambra bushland by Fred @fotokroh

#gadubanudcountry

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We are all set folks. The Otway Biofest 2024 is open for bookings. What a great way to start the school holidays!

Ten activities over three days across the Central Otways, coinciding with the #gsb2024.

Go to the web link in our bio, click Otway Biofest for all the details.

We'll be showcasing guest presenters, including local legends over the next couple of weeks. They include scientists, ecologists, botanists and naturalists. All sharing stories about Otway creatures like #platypus, #glowworms, #birds, #frogs and #reptiles, #plants, #possums, #gliders, #moths, #bats, #blackfish and significant landscapes like the Carlisle Heath.

Places are limited. Tickets are free! The schedule is designed so you can do a few activities, or just one that tickles your fancy.

#otwaybiofest2024 #gsb2024 #biodiversity #otways #landcarevic #corangamiteCMA #schoolholidays

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