Sunday 2 March is Clean Up Australia Day – Come and join Woodend Landcare and the 1st Woodend Scouts as they Clean up Woodend

Where:      Rotunda near the Swimming Pool

When:       9:30 to 12:00 Sunday 2 March 2014

BYO:          Gloves, sturdy shoes and sun protection

Five Mile Creek will again be the central point for a Clean Up Woodend event. Depending on numbers, we’ll be cleaning up the pool/skatepark/library precinct, the Children’s Park, Racecourse and Gilbert Gordon Oval.

Every item of rubbish collected on the day is one less to be flushed into our waterways when it rains again. Last year we amassed a huge amount of junk in Woodend, with 12,700 items being pulled out of creeks and rivers throughout Victoria.

Anyone is welcome to come down and lend a hand for an hour or two in the morning

For any further inquiries, contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com

 Clean up Australia Day website

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat to visit us at today’s Macedon
Ranges Sustainability Festival.  Weeds, plant suitability, mynas and the
weather were the topics for the day on the Landcare stand.  Ron talked myna trapping for most of the day while other Landcarers gave advice on Woodend weeds and natives.

Over 25 people signed up to follow our blog posts; everyone who signed up today went into a draw to win one of four snazzy Landcare water bottles. The winners have been notified by SMS.  Congratulations to:

1. Carmel
2. Jacqui
3. Leigh
4. Anita

It was also great to see three new families sign up as  members of Woodend
Landcare.  This was a terrific community event and we’ll be there again next
year.

Woodend Landcare President Kate talks mynas

Woodend Landcare at the Sustainability Festival

Woodend Landcare President Kate talks mynas

Mynas, weeds and weather are the talk-of-the-town today

Treasurer Krista

Why not come along to the Macedon Range Sustainable Living Festival in Woodend and say hello.  We’ll be providing advice on indigenous plants and Myna trapping as well as showcasing Woodend’s worst weeds.

You can enter a draw to win a snazzy Landcare drink bottle and we’ve got stickers and temporary tattoos for the little ones.

When: Saturday, 8 February 2014 10am to 4pm

Where: Out the back of the Woodend Neighbourhood Hub, 47 Forest Street Woodend

More info and a full line up of talks, tours, entertainment and presentations: Visit the festival site here