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25 August Working Bee, new committee and local environment events

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25 August Working Bee

Our monthly Working Bees resume at 9am on Sunday 25 August 2024 with some important weed control along Five Mile Creek between Thomas Court and East Street. All are welcome to lend a hand, have a chat and and enjoy a tasty morning tea. Hope to see you there!

New committee and 2023-24 Annual Report

Woodend Landcare are pleased to welcome some new faces to our committee at our recent AGM.

The 2024-25 Committee is:

  • Peter Yates – President
  • David Gossip – Vice President & Sunday Working bee organiser
  • Nicole Middleton – Treasure, memberships & other governance
  • Sarah Frankland – Secretary & minute taker
  • Dave Bower – Thursday Crew organiser & Water Watch
  • Doug Dalgleish – General member
  • Anthea Ryall – General member
  • Mark Horner – General member
  • Heidi Fisher – General member
  • Jessica Parker – General member

Sadly we are letting Linda Vale have a well-earned break from secretarial duties after some 20 years. Linda not only did the minutes, but she has been a regular attendee at our working bees too. Linda will not be disappearing and we will no doubt be calling on her to help our new secretary when she can. Huge thanks to you Linda for your incredible contribution.

You can read more about our work over the past twelve months in our 2023-24 Annual Report here.

More great local environment events

25 August – Upper Campaspe Landcare Network – Presentation by Mr Max Campbell on Biodiversity, Holobionts and Symbiosis – more info and RSVP here.

5-11 September – Connecting Country – Feathery Festival – The Message of the Lyrebird Film Fundraiser, Guided Birdwalk, and Talk by Tanya Loos – more info and booking here.

7 September – Wombat Forestcare – AGM and guest speakers Aviya Naccarella (Deakin Uni) and Emily McIntyre (Melbourne Uni) on ecological interactions mammals, fungi, plants & soil – more info and booking here.

13 September – Biolinks Alliance – Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium – more info and booking here.

20 September – Newham Landcare – AGM and guest speaker Professor Tom Griffiths AO on ‘This continent of smoke’: fire in our lives and landscapes‘ – more info and RSVP here.

July News – AGM, Awards and a updated Calendar

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Black Gums, Butterflies and More at our Annual General Meeting: 11 August 2024.

The community is invited to attend Woodend Landcare’s Annual General Meeting at 10am on Sunday 11 August for a talk by the Threatened Species Conservancy on saving Woodend’s Black Gums, endangered butterflies and more.

Congrats to our Local Landcare Legends

Huge congratulations to our local Landcare legends were honored at the recent Landcare awards – our own Nicole Middleton, Newham Landcare’s Penny Roberts and Malmsbury Landcare’s John Walter were all commended for the Joan Kirner Landcare Award. Highly deserved accolades for all.

Woodend Landcare also congrats Marie Jones from Connecting Country in our neighboring Mount Alexander Shire who was named as the winner of the Joan Kirner Landcare Award.

Local Landcare Legends (L-R): Nicole Middleton, Jennifer Anderson, Hilary and Penny Roberts at the Landcare awards.

Updated working bee calendar

After our short winter break, you can be a local Landcare legend too by coming along to our Working Bee on Sunday 25 August. See the updated calendar below for all our important dates for the next twelve months.

Don’t forget that the Thursday Crew work in various locations around Woodend most Thursday mornings. Contact Dave directly (details below) for more info on how to get involved in the Thursday Crew.

Some other great local environment events to check out

Macedon Ranges Shire Environment Events (click here for info)

  • Planting the right plant – 29 July
  • National Tree Day planting at Hanging Rock – 31 July
  • Large Tree and Hollow Survey – 8 August
  • Wurundjeri Cultural Education – 3 September
  • Protecting Grasslands – 6 September
  • Fencing Workshops – 27 September

Biolinks Alliance Events (click here for info)

  • Large Old Trees Webinar – 25 July

Friends of the Box Ironbark Forests (click here for info)

  • Woodland Birds of Central Victoria – 12 August

Banksia Planting this Sunday

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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.

Pollinator Seedling Working Bee – 26 May

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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. 

Click here to read more about the Pollinator Project and to access the brilliant insect and planting guides that were developed as part of the project.

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.

April Bee Thanks and *save the date*

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Woodend Landcare was thrilled by the turn out to last Sunday’s Black Gum Slatey Creek Reserve Working Bee. Twenty-two (19 adults, 3 children) fabulous volunteers helped with a huge amount of woody weed and rubbish removal. We also planted about 35 plants as part of our Pollinator Corridors Project. A huge thanks to all that showed up to lend a hand – having new faces coming regularly to our working bees means a lot to our committee. Special thanks to our amazing catering team – Kate and Chris for the tasty morning tea.

*Save the Date*

Our next working bee is on Sunday 26 May at the Jo Clancy Bridge along Five Mile Creek. Hope to see you there!

FYI Here is our updated 2024 calendar: