Sunday 26 February Working Bee: Willow Attack
This important tidy up is to tackle the willow regrowth after our funded willow blitz last year. Controlling the spread of this weed of national significance is crucial for healthy waterways. We hope to target Five Mile Creek from Romsey Road downstream to the new Shirley Park bridge. There are some larger multi stemmed willow clumps requiring cutting off, poisoning and carting away which will need quite a few hands. We will also do the same to any small willows starting at the Romsey Rd end of the creek and working downstream. Other tasks include plant guard removal and maintenance, and whipper snipping in plantings.
- When: Sunday 26 February 2017
- Time: 9am till 12 noon
- Where: Meet at the weir on the North East edge of Ruby McKenzie Park in Tennyson street.
- Parking: Tennyson St or Ruby McKenzie Park
- Bring: secateurs, gloves, whipper snippers, sun protection, water bottle and durable clothing and boots
- Morning tea is provided and the tool trailer will be onsite
All welcome. The working bee will be cancelled if the day is total fire ban. For further details contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com or call David on 5427 4117.
Twilight Working Bee Success
Friday evening on the 3rd of February was a ‘I love my town’ kind of night in Woodend. Delightful weather, purposeful work at the landcare working bee, and loads of friendly faces – what more could you want? David, our tireless Working Bee Coordinator, said; “I was really pleased with the turnout, the work done and the socialising afterwords so a great bee to kick off the year.”
A huge thanks to everyone who came along – and especially those who attended their first Woodend Landcare working bee. We truly appreciated having some new faces to meet and lend a hand. And we got a stack of work done – rubbish along the creek was cleaned up, blackberries removed, oak saplings eradicated from our plantings, long pasture grasses whipper-snipped, and a dangerous overhanging tree limb was cut up. A horde of happy kids helped, played, climbed and thoroughly enjoyed the BBQ lovingly prepared by our catering team. Check out the photos below from the evening… we are super impressed by how huge the poa grasses from our 2016 Trees for Mum and 2015 community plantings are now!
This is what the planting sites looked like a year ago – come and see how they have changed!
2017 – Plants establishing
Property Planning Workshop
Sun 26 March to Sun 9 April | 9:00AM to 4:00PM | Tylden Hall
Learn how to manage your property and plan for a sustainable agricultural business. This three day workshop will give you the tools to prepare a farm management plan specific to your property with ‘one-on-one’ guidance from an expert facilitator, including a visit to a local farm. CLICK HERE for more information and to book.
“Power” Tools to Effect Change Workshop
Saturday 18 Feb | 1.30-4.30 pm | Woodend Neighbourhood House
Fellow Landcarers, Alice Aird and Helen Scott, have asked us to share the details of a community workshop coming up in February:
“As you know, last year was a busy one for many of us working for change in our Shire. Encouraged by the success of reinvigorating democracy and electing a progressive Council, there is an appetite among the community for building and maintaining momentum for social change. If you are curious or interested, diarize this first workshop of a series on the theme of boosting community campaigning and collaboration in and around Macedon Ranges: “Power” Tools to Effect Change. This workshop will outline practical and versatile tools relevant for those interested in environmental issues like climate change, sustainability, food localisation…or anyone working for social and policy change. If anyone would like information explaining more about the workshops contact Alice Aird at airda@bigpond.com and Helen Scott at orseda@bigpond.com.”
Quarry Road Wildflower Poster
For those that have not seen it, we are proud to share our new wildflower poster. CLICK HERE to download a copy.
Come along and plant with your mum or for your mum on Mother’s Day at this free event.
work restoring this historic site from an overgrown mass of blackberries to the tranquil open space it is today, which makes it the perfect choice for Trees for Mum 2017.
Woodend Landcare 