We have 360 seedlings to plant at our next working bee on Sunday 6 April 2025. In the reserve behind the Woodend Tennis Club, we will be looking to protect the rare Black Gums of Woodend. In time, the plants will create important habitat for local birds and animals. We would love to have many hands to help with the planting day. Morning tea is provided!
9am–12pm | Sunday 13 October | Five Mile Creek near Jeffreys St.
You may have noticed areas between the Woodend Tennis Club and Jeffreys Street have been prepared for revegetation over the last 12 months. There are a number of mulched areas and some have already been planted with understorey plants, thanks to the 1st Woodend Scout Group.
The aim of this project is to protect the Black Gum (Eucalyptus aggregata) trees. In Victoria this eucalyptus species only grows within 4km of Woodend, so you could call it Woodend’s floral emblem. Many mature trees at this site were blown over during the wind event of June 2021 and the remaining trees are in danger due to soil compaction and future climate extremes.
To protect the remaining black gums we are providing them with a buffer of understorey habitat and weed-free, mulched ground to enable self-propagation. Starting at 9am, on Sunday 13 October, Woodend Landcare, with help from our local Scouts, Council staff and anyone who would like to join in, will be planting a further 700 indigenous plants in these areas.
This planting will complement that already undertaken by the Scouts near the Scout Billabong. The project will continue until all the mulched areas are progressively filled with plants over the next few years. It is a important action in the Woodend Five Mile Creek Master Plan, developed with Council in 2022 (see here).
Everyone is welcome to come along and help create another beautiful area of habitat along our creek.
If helping our native vegetation by removing invasive weeds is more your thing, Landcare will be holding its monthly working bee on the south side of the creek between Bowen and Wood Streets at 9am on Sunday 27 October.
Aussie Bird Count – 14-20 October. Council is running two one-hour walks to introduce you to some local feathered friends, and get you all set to start counting using the Aussie Bird Count App. One of these walks is along Five Mile Creek on the 13 October from 10-11 am. Click here to find out more.
Council environment events in October:
Check out the Environment Events and Healthy Landscapes pages to find out more and register.
Newham Landcare – Biodiversity and Bushfire Risk events. A evening talk and field day with CFAs statewide Vegetation Management Team on the 25 and 26 October. Click here for more info and to register.
Wombat Forestcare Newsletter – September 2024. Features articles about the Eastern Pigmy-possum and the vegetation of the Wombat Forest. Click here to view.
Woodend Landcare is a not-for-profit, environmental community group run by a team of dedicated volunteers. We aim to enhance the natural environment within and around Woodend through, improving biodiversity corridors, restoring waterways, and protecting endangered species, all-the-while increasing the liveability of our town.
We are always happy to accept inexperienced newcomers at our working bees, new members into our group and financial donations from individuals, businesses or other groups who are unable to donate their time to help our cause.
There are numerous ways donations can made to Woodend Landcare:
Go to Make a gift for nature today. Enter “Woodend Landcare” when asked which group you wish to support.
Donate the money raised from recycling your 10c cans and bottles at a Visy CDS drop-off site. Simply download the CDS Vic North app to your mobile, and on the Donations tab, select Woodend Landcare. Our Woodend Landcare Zone ID: C2000016665 or show our barcode (see picture) and your donation will come through to us.
When Ritchies IGA members nominate Woodend Landcare as the organisation they support, IGA will donate a proportion of their shopping total to Woodend Landcare, at no charge to the shopper.
Leave a legacy in your will. (Contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com to chat about options).
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.
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