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 will once again be hosting a Trees for Mum planting event on Mother’s Day, Sunday 12 May.
Last year’s inaugural event saw over 150 people from Woodend and the wider Macedon Ranges community plant nearly 200 native trees and grasses.
Trees for Mum was founded in 2002 by two Sydney colleagues who had both lost their mothers to cancer and who wanted to do something memorable to make the day a tiny bit less painful. By planting a tree they created a living legacy.
In 2012 Landcare partnered with Trees for Mum and created a resource kit to support Landcare groups across the country in setting up their own events.
This year there will be four events in the Macedon Ranges. Two in-town plantings at Woodend and Kyneton and two large-scale planting events at Carlsruhe.
These events have all be generously funded by the Victorian Government’s 2 Million trees project and the North Central Catchment Management Authority with the support of the Upper Campaspe Landcare Network.
To get involved simply register by email treesformumwoodend@gmail or call Angela Van Dam, Event Co-ordinator on 5427 3931 or 0409 373 010.
Let Angela know your name, number of trees you’d like to plant and which site you’ll be attending. You can join the conversation and keep up-to-date with news via Facebook Trees for Mum Woodend.
There is no charge to attend these events and all planting equipment will be provided by Landcare, just bring some gardening gloves and wear sturdy/gum boots.
The events will be held at:
Woodend
Where: North of Ruby Mackenzie Park, access via Anne Road and Tennyson Street . Here’s a map
When: 9.30am to midday. Woodend poster
Kyneton
Where: Corner of Langley Street and Franklin Place – just down from the Scout Hut. Here’s a map
When: 10am to midday, morning tea provided. Kyneton poster
Carlsruhe
Where: 156 Carlsruhe Station Road (Map) and “Allameade”, 289 Three Chain Road, Carlsruhe (Map)
When: 10am to 2pm, BBQ lunch provided.
156 Carlsruhe Station Road poster
For further information visit http://www.treesformum.com
Our neighbours at Newham Landcare have organised a talk by Dr Beth Gott, an ethnobotanist from Monash University specialising in Aboriginal plant use in South East Australia.
They would like to extend an invitation to Woodend Landcare members to attend this talk at the Newham Mechanics Institute on Friday, 10 May at 7pm. Gold coin donation. Light supper provided.
Full details can be found in the attached poster. Download it here
For further information please contact Helen Scott, Newham and District Landcare Group on 5427 4900.
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