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25 August Working Bee, new committee and local environment events

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25 August Working Bee

Our monthly Working Bees resume at 9am on Sunday 25 August 2024 with some important weed control along Five Mile Creek between Thomas Court and East Street. All are welcome to lend a hand, have a chat and and enjoy a tasty morning tea. Hope to see you there!

New committee and 2023-24 Annual Report

Woodend Landcare are pleased to welcome some new faces to our committee at our recent AGM.

The 2024-25 Committee is:

  • Peter Yates – President
  • David Gossip – Vice President & Sunday Working bee organiser
  • Nicole Middleton – Treasure, memberships & other governance
  • Sarah Frankland – Secretary & minute taker
  • Dave Bower – Thursday Crew organiser & Water Watch
  • Doug Dalgleish – General member
  • Anthea Ryall – General member
  • Mark Horner – General member
  • Heidi Fisher – General member
  • Jessica Parker – General member

Sadly we are letting Linda Vale have a well-earned break from secretarial duties after some 20 years. Linda not only did the minutes, but she has been a regular attendee at our working bees too. Linda will not be disappearing and we will no doubt be calling on her to help our new secretary when she can. Huge thanks to you Linda for your incredible contribution.

You can read more about our work over the past twelve months in our 2023-24 Annual Report here.

More great local environment events

25 August – Upper Campaspe Landcare Network – Presentation by Mr Max Campbell on Biodiversity, Holobionts and Symbiosis – more info and RSVP here.

5-11 September – Connecting Country – Feathery Festival – The Message of the Lyrebird Film Fundraiser, Guided Birdwalk, and Talk by Tanya Loos – more info and booking here.

7 September – Wombat Forestcare – AGM and guest speakers Aviya Naccarella (Deakin Uni) and Emily McIntyre (Melbourne Uni) on ecological interactions mammals, fungi, plants & soil – more info and booking here.

13 September – Biolinks Alliance – Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium – more info and booking here.

20 September – Newham Landcare – AGM and guest speaker Professor Tom Griffiths AO on ‘This continent of smoke’: fire in our lives and landscapes‘ – more info and RSVP here.

Donate to Woodend Landcare: Help us enhance our local environment

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Woodend Landcare is a not-for-profit, environmental community group run by a team of dedicated volunteers. We aim to enhance the natural environment within and around Woodend through, improving biodiversity corridors, restoring waterways, and protecting endangered species, all-the-while increasing the liveability of our town.

We are always happy to accept inexperienced newcomers at our working bees, new members into our group and financial donations from individuals, businesses or other groups who are unable to donate their time to help our cause.

There are numerous ways donations can made to Woodend Landcare:

1. Tax Deductible Donations via Landcare Victoria Fund

Go to Make a gift for nature today. Enter “Woodend Landcare” when asked which group you wish to support.

2. Non-tax Deductible Donations

  • Cheque donations via the post (Cheques payable to: Woodend Landcare Inc; P.O. Box 297, Woodend, VIC 3442)
  • Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) or online bank transfer (Contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com for our bank details)

3. Container Deposit Scheme (CDS)

Donate the money raised from recycling your 10c cans and bottles at a Visy CDS drop-off site. Simply download the CDS Vic North app to your mobile, and on the Donations tab, select Woodend Landcare. Our Woodend Landcare Zone ID: C2000016665 or show our barcode (see picture) and your donation will come through to us. 

4. Ritchies IGA Community Benefits Program

When Ritchies IGA members nominate Woodend Landcare as the organisation they support, IGA will donate a proportion of their shopping total to Woodend Landcare, at no charge to the shopper.

5. Bequest

Leave a legacy in your will. (Contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com to chat about options).

Banksia Planting this Sunday

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Join Woodend Landcare for a planting day with a difference to finish our Pollinator Corridor Project. This Sunday 16 June (starting 9am), we aim to plant 165 banksia and monocot seedlings along Five Mile Creek starting from Jo’s Bridge, between Bowen and Wood Sts.

We’ll split up into teams (each with a wheelbarrow of seedlings and equipment), and wander along the creek, planting as we go.

If this sounds like fun, come along and join us.

Woodend Landcare Working Bee – this Sunday 24 March

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Due to the small turn out at our last working bee, we didn’t get everything done that we’d hoped to do. We’ve therefore decided to move this weekend’s working bee from Ruby Mac to the same spot as last time (near Wood St) to finish the task. Hope to see you all there.

When:     9:00am–12:00pm, Sunday 24 March 2024    

Where:    Five Mile Creek, between Wood and Pykes Streets. 

We have updated our calendar too. Click here to open Landcare Calendar Jan-Dec 2024 in PDF

Clean-up Australia Day 2024 Report

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Woodend Landcare had a small but enthusiastic turn out for our Clean up Australia working bee on Sunday 3 March 2024.  We had five new volunteers attend for the clean up and twelve in total. We achieved some weeding and cleared baby oaks. Importantly, we collected two bags of rubbish between the Children’s Park and Bowen St – preventing it from washing down Five Mile Creek. Below you can read our End of Clean Up Report.

We were super impressed by the Woodend Girl Guides who cleaned up around the Woodend Children’s Park and the Macedon-Woodend Cubs who focused on the area along the creek behind the Information Centre and around Gordan Gilbert Oval. From all reports they collected HEAPS of rubbish.

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Next Working Bee

Our next working bee is on Sunday 24 March 2024 along Five Mile Creek near Ruby Mackenzie Park. More details coming soon. Hope to see you there!