We’ll be busy down at Five Mile Creek at the end of Campaspe Drive.
Delicious morning tea will be provided.
Jobs: Something for everyone, all support helps
Bring: Boots, gloves and a whipper snipper if you can
For more info contact Kate on 5427 2312 or woodendlandcare@gmail.com
LIFE – Landcare Is For Everyone – is the slogan for Landcare nationally and during Landcare Week (2–8 September) events are taking place around the country.
Woodend Landcare will be providing advice on indigenous plants and handing out FREE native plants at the Woodend Farmers’ Market on Saturday, 7 September from 9am to 1pm.
Kate Daniel, Woodend Landcare President, believes that Landcare Week is a great time for members of the community to get to know their local Landcare group.
“We receive quite a few calls and emails from locals asking for advice on what plants grow well in Woodend, so we thought that a spring plant stall would appeal to our community,” said Kate.
“We always welcome new people who might be interested in volunteering with us, and Landcare Week is a great time for newcomers to come along and see what Landcare is all about.
“People can also come and find out about a new program we have to reduce numbers of Indian Myna birds in the Macedon Ranges,” added Kate.
Thousands of Landcare groups across Australia work voluntarily all year round to protect and restore our country’s precious natural resources.
Woodend Landcare has around 250 plants to give away, including native lily, acacia and eucalypt.
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.
On Sunday 12, May Mother’s Day, 150 members of the Woodend community, along with a few day trippers and visitors from Melbourne, Trentham, Lancefield and Ballarat, planted over 250 indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses to celebrate mums and create living legacies.
L-R: Bob Sullivan, Mark Horner, John Newell and Peter Yates with Bill Hebb in the background.
Special thanks go to the Landcare members who prepared the site on Five Mile Creek ready for the planting and helped out on the day and to Peter Yates and David Gossip for their hard work selecting the plants and drawing up the planting plan to ensure the site will look its best when the plants mature.
Macedon Ranges Shire Councillors Jennifer Anderson, John Connor and John Letchford attended the event as well as Joanne Duncan MP.
“I feel so lucky to live in Woodend, with places to plant native vegetation, and people to help me do it. Congratulations on another successful year” commented Cr Jennifer Anderson, Macedon Ranges Shire Council
L-R: Cr John Letchford, Cr John Connor, Kate Daniel Woodend Landcare and Cr Jennifer Anderson
We hope to run another
Trees for Mum event on Sunday 11 May next year so mark it in your diary and join us on Facebook Trees for Mum Woodend, to keep up with the news.
Here are a few pictures and comments we received.
“Thank you for organising such a great event, it was a real pleasure to come along and join in. Please also pass on our thanks to the Landcare people and anyone else involved.” Alex Evans, Melbourne (attended Woodend event)
Carracher family and Mark Horner
“Was a fantastic event. We loved it.” Maxy Fisher, Springhill
“What a great event. Mum always thought giving flowers were a waste so I think she would have approved giving back to mother nature.” Joanne Kalamaras, Clifton Hill (attended Woodend event)
Hunt family
Gaye Raeburn plants a local black gum as a memorial to her late mother. Gaye is joined by her daughter Clare and granddaughters Amber and Rosie.
Woodend Landcare 