Joan and Eileen Bradley developed the Bradley Method of bush regeneration.
“We shall never get as big a kick out of something sown or planted as we get out of the plants which we have simply allowed to grow themselves; true natural regeneration, in all its beautiful variety.”
— Joan Bradley from the book “Bush Regeneration
They developed a system.
Joan and Eileen Bradley, who were among the Association’s founding members, observed that the methods being used to clear weeds from bushland were not working. They and other members developed a system of bush regeneration that is still used today.
The Association published Joan Bradley’s seminal Bush Regeneration in 1971.
Bringing Back the Bush by Joan Bradley, a handbook edited by association members, was published in 1988 and is still used today.
The idea spread.
Now known as the Bradley Method of Bush Regeneration, it spread from Mosman to Lane Cove, to Willoughby, to Beecroft.
In Beecroft it was taken up by the National Trust in the management of the Ludovic Blackwood Memorial Sanctuary. They adopted the Bradley method, employing Joan to supervise the work and to develop its training program.
Members of Mosman parks & Bushland Association supported the Battlers for Kelly’s Bush and introduced them to bush regeneration.
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