Croydon Conservation Society

Your Community link to Local Conservation

• Welcome
  • CCS our Strategic Statement
  • 1964 to 2014 Golden Jubilee CCS
  • Join or contact us
  • Maroondah’s conservation history
• Chemicals around home
  • Treated Pine CCS tests a first in the World.
  • is your backyard fit for vegies?
  • Not treated pine? the alternative…
  • Zero/ Roundup weedicide
• Local Town Planning
  • Response to Croydon Major Activity Centre draft
  • Croydon Central re-development
  • I want to object
  • Our green spaces help us
  • Hill tops in Maroondah
  • Tree Removal & Habitat corridors
• Trees
  • Illegal tree removal
  • SCHOOLS Book our tree..free
  • Downloadable Letter ..What trees do
  • Tree Value
  • CCS mapping trees of significance
  • trees and creatures
    • Frog census
    • Want Frogs?
• Environment
  • Tarralla wetlands 1999
  • Snap, send solve
  • how a weed spreads
  • Local Air Quality monitor
  • plastic rings and creatures
  • Wildlife & Birds
  • Global Warming
  • Fracking…explained
• Conservation topics
  • Possum boxes
  • Critters of Maroondah mug shots
  • Ringwood Lake
  • Conservation Hero
  • Eating healthy
  • School Trees poster
  • 24 Hr Wildlife help
  • Hello Possums
  • Polluted local creek?
  • No bread for ducks
  • Kittens & Puppies
  • I want a habitat garden
• VOLUNTEER
  • Other local conservation/ environment groups
  • Action Groups
  • Reserves – join in planting

is your backyard fit for vegies?

Free soil testing is available from the EPA using the following link. If your garden has previously been surrounded by old treated pine as edges for raised beds, it will most likely have a high Arsenic content.

https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/for-community/get-involved/citizen-science-program/gardensafe

• About the Croydon Conservation Society

  Croydon Conservation Society is a non profit community volunteer group, who since 1964 have been actively “conserving” the best of our local environment for us all to share, as well as planting native species in many locations to keep us and our local native inhabitants alive and flourishing!
• Join the Croydon Conservation Society

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  Contact the CCS

  Please contact the Croydon Conservation Society so we can strengthen our local environment.

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