Recovering from Pinery: How re-planting has helped heal emotional and environmental scars from the blaze
ABCA farm devastated by the Pinery fires is coming back to life a year on since project began to re-plant hundreds of trees lost on the property in Freeling. Mr Heinjus said with the help of NRM, Barossa Bush Gardens and community volunteers, they had replanted almost 1,000 trees around his property since the Pinery fire devastated the region. "We've had a lot of trees propagated for us; my mother propagated some, Barossa bush gardens propagated a lot, we planted right through winter, to get the trees onto irrigation straight away. "We've looked at the Barossa Bush Gardens and I actually went through the whole fire ground looking at what trees survived the fire," he said. "It's a long process; it's arduous, it's mentally taxing probably one of the biggest things we've seen from the fire is the community pulling together and that has been really quite humbling.
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