Online florists Little Flowers has teamed up with Jamberoo Mountain Farm to replant live Christmas trees on their property after the holidays to highlight how much we spend and waste.

After Christmas Day, Little Flowers will collect Christmas trees from customers and take them to the Robertson property at the top of Jamberoo Mountain Road to replant them, free of charge.

Little Flowers owner Sarah Regan had the idea to replant Christmas trees years ago and has finally made it a reality with the farm’s owners, Lachlan and Nicole Feggans.

Research commissioned by Little Flowers found that Australians are expected to spend $333 million on live Christmas trees in 2023, with an average cost of $152 each. While 2.07 million are expected to be purchased, nearly a million will end up in the bin or out on the curb after Christmas Day.

Jamberoo Mountain Farm is a regenerative property that focuses on improving soil fertility, building soil structure and restoring ecosystem processes destroyed through years of livestock grazing. The property sits among beautiful rainforest that was cleared in the late 1800s for agriculture, but thanks to the difficulty in removing the forest, the majority of it remains.

“The system that we use is a time-controlled grazing approach and what that allows us to do is to move the animals around the farm, use them to spread their fertility and build the soil as that process happens,” Lachlan told The Bugle.

The farm is well known for its Jamberoo Mountain Farm Eggs sold around the Kiama LGA, but the farm also produces cattle and other food products.

Lachlan said his farm’s regenerative processes have been successful to the point where Jamberoo Mountain Farm is ready to move onto the next phase of its regeneration plan, which is to start reconnecting fragmented parts of the rainforest. He’s aware that Christmas trees aren’t native to the Southern Highlands, but they will form part of a broader biodiversity approach to help reintroduce other native flora and fauna to the area.