Change to end of year working bee
Author: Woodend Landcare
Last Working Bee of the year – 24 November
It been a great year for Woodend Landcare. Please join us this Sunday (9am, 24 November) to celebrate and pull out the odd weed or two. We will be working along the south side of Five Mile Creek – between Wood and Bowen Streets. We will stop work at 11.30am for morning tea – a special thanks to all our incredible and hard working volunteers! Hope to see you there.
Woodend Landcare Stars on Postcards
The travel and lifestyle TV show, Postcards, visited Woodend this week to highlight some of the wonderful food and leisure options available in town. They included the lovely walk along Five Mile Creek, which has been the focus of Woodend Landcare’s revegetation work over the past 30 years.
Presenter, Brodie Harper interviewed Woodend Landcare’s Nicole Middleton about the community group’s activities as they took a stroll along the Creek path and we thought we would share what Nicole spoke about.
“There are many reasons why people should join a community group such as Woodend Landcare.” Nicole explained. “Some of these include getting out in the fresh air, doing some exercise, helping to protect and enhance the local environment, meeting new people and socialising. Our caterers, Chris and Kate, put on a delicious morning tea for everyone who helps out at our Sunday working bees”.
“People can get involved with Woodend Landcare by coming along to one of our Sunday or Thursday working bees or signing up as a financial member.” Nicole continued. “Working bees are advertised on posters around Woodend, on our Woodend Landcare blog and facebook pages and in the Woodend Rotary’s New Woodend Star magazine”
Other members of Woodend Landcare were present to demonstrate planting an endangered Black Gum (Eucalytpus aggregata) seedling within the site of a recent planting event – check out some of the pics below. The Black Gum BioLink Enhancement Project is funded by a grant from Macedon Rangers Shire Council together with Bendigo Bank. Black Gum is an endangered gum tree within Victoria, as it only grows with 4km of Woodend.
The episode of Postcards featuring Woodend will air early in 2025 – we’ll let our followers know when.
Working bee this Sunday
A reminder that our monthly working bee is on at 9am this Sunday 27 October to tackle the weeds growing along Five Mile Creek near Bowen Street. Hope to see you there!
Working Bee – 27 October 2024
Join our working bee at 9am this Sunday 27 October to tackle the weeds growing along Five Mile Creek near Bowen Street.
Woodend Landcare Planting Day – Sunday 13 October
Planting day – Help protect our black gum
9am–12pm | Sunday 13 October | Five Mile Creek near Jeffreys St.
You may have noticed areas between the Woodend Tennis Club and Jeffreys Street have been prepared for revegetation over the last 12 months. There are a number of mulched areas and some have already been planted with understorey plants, thanks to the 1st Woodend Scout Group.
The aim of this project is to protect the Black Gum (Eucalyptus aggregata) trees. In Victoria this eucalyptus species only grows within 4km of Woodend, so you could call it Woodend’s floral emblem. Many mature trees at this site were blown over during the wind event of June 2021 and the remaining trees are in danger due to soil compaction and future climate extremes.
To protect the remaining black gums we are providing them with a buffer of understorey habitat and weed-free, mulched ground to enable self-propagation. Starting at 9am, on Sunday 13 October, Woodend Landcare, with help from our local Scouts, Council staff and anyone who would like to join in, will be planting a further 700 indigenous plants in these areas.
This planting will complement that already undertaken by the Scouts near the Scout Billabong. The project will continue until all the mulched areas are progressively filled with plants over the next few years. It is a important action in the Woodend Five Mile Creek Master Plan, developed with Council in 2022 (see here).
Everyone is welcome to come along and help create another beautiful area of habitat along our creek.
October Working Bee
If helping our native vegetation by removing invasive weeds is more your thing, Landcare will be holding its monthly working bee on the south side of the creek between Bowen and Wood Streets at 9am on Sunday 27 October.
Other local news and events
Aussie Bird Count – 14-20 October. Council is running two one-hour walks to introduce you to some local feathered friends, and get you all set to start counting using the Aussie Bird Count App. One of these walks is along Five Mile Creek on the 13 October from 10-11 am. Click here to find out more.
Council environment events in October:
- Farm walk – rotational grazing: 11 October, Barfold
- Aussie Bird Count Walks: 13 October, Woodend and Kyneton
- Discover what’s on your roadside: 17 October, Tylden
- Protecting paddock plantings: 18 October, Hanging Rock
- Citizen science flora survey: 25 October & 1 November, Kyneton area
- Farm walk – Highland cattle: 7 November, Newbury (near Trentham)
Check out the Environment Events and Healthy Landscapes pages to find out more and register.
Newham Landcare – Biodiversity and Bushfire Risk events. A evening talk and field day with CFAs statewide Vegetation Management Team on the 25 and 26 October. Click here for more info and to register.
Wombat Forestcare Newsletter – September 2024. Features articles about the Eastern Pigmy-possum and the vegetation of the Wombat Forest. Click here to view.
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