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 have received our third and final delivery of seedlings and cardboard plant guards for the Pollinator Corridor Project. Run by Upper Campaspe Landcare Network (UCLN), this project aims to bolster understorey and ground cover plants along riparian biolinks such as Five Mile Creek. When complete, we will have planted approximately 700 indigenous understorey seedings along Five Mile Creek as part of this project.
Locally native shrubs, herbs and grasses provide important food and shelter for small birds and insects, which are the main pollinators in natural ecosystems.
To enable all these seedlings to be planted before winter, we have scheduled an extra working bee on the Sunday 26 May. This gives us two more bee’s before we take a break for winter. See the flyer below for working bee details. Hope you are able to join in and help us get the seedlings in the ground.
Woodend Landcare was thrilled by the turn out to last Sunday’s Black Gum Slatey Creek Reserve Working Bee. Twenty-two (19 adults, 3 children) fabulous volunteers helped with a huge amount of woody weed and rubbish removal. We also planted about 35 plants as part of our Pollinator Corridors Project. A huge thanks to all that showed up to lend a hand – having new faces coming regularly to our working bees means a lot to our committee. Special thanks to our amazing catering team – Kate and Chris for the tasty morning tea.
*Save the Date*
Our next working bee is on Sunday 26 May at the Jo Clancy Bridge along Five Mile Creek. Hope to see you there!
FYI Here is our updated 2024 calendar:
We look forward to seeing you at our next working bee at Slatey Creek Black Gum Reserve on the 28 April 2024. Also, Piper Creek Landcare are hosting a Seed Ball making workshop this Saturday morning (20 April). Please RSVP to piperscreeklandcare@gmail.com if you would like to attend.
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.
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!
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