On Sunday 12, May Mother’s Day, 150 members of the Woodend community, along with a few day trippers and visitors from Melbourne, Trentham, Lancefield and Ballarat, planted over 250 indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses to celebrate mums and create living legacies.

Special thanks go to the Landcare members who prepared the site on Five Mile Creek ready for the planting and helped out on the day and to Peter Yates and David Gossip for their hard work selecting the plants and drawing up the planting plan to ensure the site will look its best when the plants mature.

Macedon Ranges Shire Councillors Jennifer Anderson, John Connor and John Letchford attended the event as well as Joanne Duncan MP.

“I feel so lucky to live in Woodend, with places to plant native vegetation, and people to help me do it. Congratulations on another successful year”  commented Cr Jennifer Anderson, Macedon Ranges Shire Council

We hope to run another
Trees for Mum event on Sunday 11 May next year so mark it in your diary and join us on Facebook Trees for Mum Woodend, to keep up with the news.

Here are a few pictures and comments we received.

Woodend Landcare will once again be hosting a Trees for Mum planting event on Mother’s Day, Sunday 12 May.

Last year’s inaugural event saw over 150 people from Woodend and the wider Macedon Ranges community plant nearly 200 native trees and grasses.

Trees for Mum was founded in 2002 by two Sydney colleagues who had both lost their mothers to cancer and who wanted to do something memorable to make the day a tiny bit less painful.  By planting a tree they created a living legacy.

In 2012 Landcare partnered with Trees for Mum and created a resource kit to support Landcare groups across the country in setting up their own events.

This year there will be four events in the Macedon Ranges.  Two in-town plantings at Woodend and Kyneton and two large-scale planting events at Carlsruhe.

These events have all be generously funded by the Victorian Government’s 2 Million trees project and the North Central Catchment Management Authority with the support of the Upper Campaspe Landcare Network.

To get involved simply register by email treesformumwoodend@gmail or call Angela Van Dam, Event Co-ordinator on 5427 3931 or 0409 373 010.

Let Angela know your name, number of trees you’d like to plant and which site you’ll be attending. You can join the conversation and keep up-to-date with news via Facebook Trees for Mum Woodend.

There is no charge to attend these events and all planting equipment will be provided by Landcare, just bring some gardening gloves and wear sturdy/gum boots.

The events will be held at:

Woodend 

Where: North of Ruby Mackenzie Park, access via Anne Road and Tennyson Street .  Here’s a map

When: 9.30am to midday. Woodend poster

Kyneton

Where: Corner of Langley Street and Franklin Place – just down from the Scout Hut. Here’s a map

When: 10am to midday, morning tea provided. Kyneton poster

Carlsruhe

Where: 156 Carlsruhe Station Road (Map) and “Allameade”, 289 Three Chain Road, Carlsruhe (Map)

When: 10am to 2pm, BBQ lunch provided.

156 Carlsruhe Station Road poster

289 Three Chain Road poster

For further information visit http://www.treesformum.com