The Native Spirit Nursery is dedicated to the impact we will make on the environment by restoring large areas of cleared land with biodiverse native forests, with our millions of native plants. We also wish to accommodate the home gardeners, all over Australia who want to order their native plants online. As a 100% native plant nursery, we are able to focus on revegetating Australia with many beautiful native plants across 160 different species.
The founders of the Native Spirit Nursery are traditionally from the Wheatbelt area, which provides a connection to the country and a strong desire to repair and look after the land.
The Wheatbelt is an area of land 15 million hectares in size, which has been primarily cleared and used for agriculture over the last 200 years. Several reports have confirmed approximately 10% of that area is now severely affected by salinity and is expected to increase considerably over time.
Salinity is caused by the lack of trees on the surface, the replacement of native vegetation with different water use patterns and the rise of groundwater. Land that is affected by salinity is no longer arable for agriculture and is harmful to many plants and animals.
It takes considerable time, careful management and resources to return such damaged land back to a biodiverse native forest. It is critical to restoring the land as it is necessary for a sustainable and healthy future on the planet.
For the Nursery to be able to supply the millions of native plants to revegetate thousands of hectares of salt-damaged land, fills us with a sense of pride that we are being proactive in making a substantial impact on the environment as an Indigenous lead and developed initiative.
Whilst our plants will be repairing the damaged land and restoring the natural biodiversity of the region, they will also be contributing to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converted into carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are required by large carbon-emitting companies that are committed to lowering their carbon emission footprint.
We work with Carbon Offsets Australia, which is another 100% Indigenous business closely affiliated with D2A and the Nursery, to supply them with the plant stock required to deliver their large-scale revegetation projects in return for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).
To contact Carbon Offsets Australia to discuss your ACCU needs, visit their website by clicking the button below.