Here are the results of the 2019 AGM, and the minutes: Muckleford Catchment Landcare AGM 2019 Minutes
Neville Cooper, President
David Griffiths, Vice President
Beth Mellick, Secretary
Eleanor Wright, Treasurer
Albert Wright, Richard Mann, Chris Mackenzie, Michael Billington, Ordinary Committee Members
Join us Thursday 12th December at 5.30pm for our end of year break up drinks, and official AGM. This is also the time we decide on our activities for 2020. We will be in the back garden at The Hub, in Templeton Street, Castlemaine (then building with the bikes attached to it).
Meet at 11am on Sunday 10th November 2019 at the Muckleford train station for a ride to Maldon, lunch at the Kangaroo, and return. Get your bikes out of the shed, and ready to go! Please RSVP to Beth or call 0431 219 980.
Get your bikes out of the shed, dust them off, and give them a service, because the Muckleford Landcare annual bike ride is soon upon us.
Join us on Sunday 10th November at 11am at the Muckleford train station for our ride to Maldon. We will have lunch at the Kangaroo Hotel, and then ride back to Muckleford station.
We had a great day on Saturday putting in plants along the Muckleford Creek. Thanks to our members for coming out and helping, and for the lunch provided by Michael and Dan. We put 432 plants in the ground with guards in about one and a half hours. Great going gang!
Although cloudy, it will be 18 degrees tomorrow and we’d love to see you at the community planting day on the Muckleford School Road, starting at 10am and staying for lunch. Then we can all go home and plant in our own gardens and properties with the free plants we take home with us.
This Saturday 12th October 2019 at 10am we have our community planting morning in Muckleford. Come and put in 20 plants and you get to take 20 plants home (or something like that!!!). At the very least we are getting together to plant, to chat, and to have some lunch, and to give away some plants.
Please let me know if you are coming for catering purposes and I’ll give you the address. Beth 0431219980 or mucklefordlandcare@gmail.com
(Many thanks to the North Central CMA for funding our last few planting projects, which funds for these plants come from.)
Muckleford Landcare will be at Mucklefest on Saturday and Sunday (5th/6th October 2019) from 10am to around 2pm. If you would like to talk to us about your property, grab some information, or just come and say hello and have a cup of tea, please do. We will be selling plants from Newstead Natives and some of the proceeds will go towards our projects.
Hi all, we have the walk down the Bassett Creek tomorrow morning, to check out our planting from last year. It’s a lovely walk past 300 year old Redgums that are nestled amongst a young Landcare forest, to emerge into our new Landcare planting. Meet at the end of Lyndham Road at 10am.
Dear Landcarers, here are our upcoming events for the rest of the year:
–Saturday 14th September 2019, 10am-11am. Meet at the end of Lyndham Road for a short walk up the Bassett Creek to see our plantings from last year. It’s been one year since our Bassett Creek Stage 2 project planting (funded by the NCCMA) and we will take some photos and review the work.
–Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October, 10am-3pm. Mucklefest (our local festival) at the Muckleford train station. We will have lots of information guides, as well as books for sale. We will also be selling plants from Newstead Natives and some of the proceeds of these plants are donated to Muckleford Landcare. So come down and support your local Landcare group and have a chat and a cup of tea.
–Saturday 12th October, 10am-12noon. Landcare planting day. We will be having a small planting day on a local landholder’s property and giving away free plants! If you put 20 plants in the ground, you can take 20 plants home (all native, and mostly shrubs and ground covers). Stay for a BBQ (vegetarian available) and a chat. Look forward to seeing you there. Plenty of plants will be available so don’t feel shy, come and get your freebies!
–Sunday 10th November, 11am. Muckleford Landcare annual bike ride! The best activity of our Landcare year is the bike ride to Maldon (lunch at the Kangaroo Hotel) and return to the Muckleford station. Get your bikes ready to go, all ages and abilities welcome, including other Landcare groups.
All questions to Beth, Secretary, Muckleford Landcare via email (click here) and new members are welcome to fill out a Membership Form here – MCLG-Membership-Form-2019.
