Woodend Landcare invite you to come along and lend a hand at the Slatey Creek working bee on Sunday 25 August.
Time: 9.30am to midday-ish
Where: Slatey Creek Reserve, Ashbourne Road, Woodend. The nearest house to where we’ll be working is 58 Ashbourne Rd
Jobs include: Checking tree guards, whipper snipping, burn-off, cutting and painting weeds.
Tasty morning tea provided and better still, no rain forecast.
Hope to see you there.
Contact: Kate Daniel, 5427 2321
Last year on Mother’s Day over 150 people planted native trees and grasses at Five Mile Creek Reserve. (click here for a map)
One year on and this planting site needs a little love from us all. If you can spare a few hours on Sunday morning from 9.30am, 26 May, we’ll get the site spruced up on no time at all.
Please bring your own gloves and we suggest you wear sturdy boots – it might be wet. If you’ve got a whipper snipper, please bring one but don’t worry if you haven’t – all help counts. We’ll provide a yummy morning tea for everyone.
Jo Clancy (Woodend Landcare), Trevor Barker (Upper Campaspe Landcare Network) and Mini the dog at the plant site for Trees for Mum Five Mile Creek Reserve in Woodend.
http://www.mrsgonline.org.au/events/sustainable-living-festival/
Workshops, presentations, children’s activities, entertainment and exhibition stands including Woodend Landcare. Come along and say g’day. 10am-4pm Woodend Neighbourhood House, 45 Forest Street (Daylesford Road) Woodend
We’d love some help with our spring plantings.
We’ve got around 700 new indigenous plants to get in the ground this spring so, the more the merrier. We’ll provide refreshments but you’ll need to bring a hat, gloves and wear sturdy boots.
Registration will be set up opposite 11 Campaspe Drive, along Five Mile Creek, and planting will be from 9.30am-1pm, or later, depending on how we go.
Fingers crossed we’ll have good weather and a great turnout.
For more information or to join Woodend Landcare contact:
Peter Yates (President of Woodend Landcare group)
Phone: 03 5427 3221 Email: pandaY@bigpond.com
Are you like me, a bit fed up with the wetness? I like working outdoors and I certainly have lots to do in my garden. But this soggy winter is really putting a stop to what I want to do.
So I had a look at the rainfall data to see if I was just imagining that it was abnormally wet. Surprize, surprise, it has been abnormally wet!
After years of drought, it all changed in 2010 with all time record rainfall of more than 1200mm. Since then, 2011 was also a very wet year and 2012 is the same. The difference with this year is that the ground is already saturated from the previous years. But to add to that, we have had far more wet days than in any recent years, so with little sunshine, there has been much less evaporation.
In the four months from April to August 2012, we have had some precipitation on 89 days out of 123. Looking back at previous years, that figure is consistently about 65 days. So we have experienced almost an extra month of rainy days in the last 4 months!
So if you are like me and feeling a bit miserable, you do have some justification.
One thing is for sure – it will be a great spring and summer this year for all things green.
Peter
Woodend Landcare 