Don’t forget to RSVP for the native grass and flora identification walk on Sunday 4th December, 10am – 12 noon, with ecologist Paul Foreman.
Our Christmas drinks will be held on Friday 9th December, 5pm at The Hub garden in Castlemaine (behind the Good Table restaurant in Templeton Street). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Join Muckleford Landcare on Sunday 4th December, 10am – 12 midday, for a native grass and plant identification walk with expert local ecologist, Paul Foreman. Paul will take us on a ramble through the bush, stopping to show people how to identify native and exotic grasses, as well as other flora species.
Meet on the corner of Dalton Road and the Muckleford-Castlemaine Road, which is just up past the bacon factory.
Please book your spot with Beth on 0431 219 980 or bethmellick@gmail.com
This is the last of our workshops that were run as par
t of our community education program, as funded by the North Central CMA.
Muckleford Forest Friends Group is hosting a conference called Understanding Fire in our Landscape: A Community Conversation on 12-13 November 2016, in Newstead.
The Community Conversation is about fire in the Newstead-Maldon landscape: the history of fire, local ecology, fire risk and community-based approaches to better landscape planning and management to protect what we value.
During the weekend there will be talks, displays, biodiversity walks, visits to the sites of past fires, and a chance to record your memories of local fires. Supported by community and external experts, the weekend will be a chance to learn about more and share ideas across our local communities.
Click here to book
Click here for the draft Program
Terrific day down at the Muckleford train station for Mucklefest this year. We talked to 5 or 6 potential new Landcare members, as well as handed out a lot of information and guides. We still have a few Native Newstead plants left over, so let me know if any members would like some: sticky everylastings, grey everlastings, clustered everlastings, rock corea, austral storks bill, poa, spear grass, lemon beauty heads, matted bush pea. Text Beth on 0431 219 980 and you can pick them up from me either in town or at home.
Thanks to the NCCMA and Connecting Country for funding for the plants.
Mucklefest – the festival of Muckleford – is on this Sunday 23rd October 2016, 10am – 1pm at the Muckleford Railway Station. Muckleford residents and Landcare members can come and pick up some free plants that we’re giving away as part of our community education program, funded by the NCCMA.
Connecting Country is holding a woodland bird workshop in Muckleford this Saturday. Tanya Loos is working with Geoff Park (Natural Newstead) to help people in this area:
-Learn more about local birds, and how to help them thrive
- Meet with other conservation groups and landholders in the area
- Brainstorm session: project ideas for future funding
After lunch there will be a bird and habitat walk with Tanya and Geoff in the Muckleford Important Bird Area – some binoculars provided.
Saturday October 8, 2016
9:30am-12:30pm followed by local bird and habitat walk 12:45 – 2:30pm
Muckleford Hall, Walmer-Muckleford Road
RSVP ( with any dietary requirements) by 3rd October to Tanya Loos on 03 5472 1594 or by email tanya@connectingcountry.org.au
Bassett Creek is flooding over Golf Links Road and through the golf course. But to my astonishment this morning, it is also being blocked by a large cut log. This is presumably coming from up the creek where a landholder has piled up scrap wood to a height of at least 10 metres. If it’s all going to start floating down the creek, we will have to action this. I have put in a call to the NCCMA about debris removal from a waterway.
Sunday 18th September, 10am at the Muckleford Community Centre. Join us on a short bus trip to have a peek at the public reserves tucked away in Muckleford. Then we will be nest box checking with Miles Geldard at the Walmer South Conservation Reserve. Orchids and other wildflowers are in bloom so this will be a lovely half day to enjoy our native flora in its prime. Lunch is provided. Please RSVP to bethmellick@gmail.com or text me on 0431 219 980.
Here are two dates for your diaries:
Muckleford Catchment Landcare “Public Reserves and Nest Box Checking Field trip” on 18th September, 10am at the community centre. We will do a short bus trip around the ‘secret’ public reserves in Muckleford, and end up at Walmer Conservation Reserve to check the nest boxes with expert, Miles Geldard. It will finish at midday with a BBQ lunch. Short and sharp and hopefully a bit of fun.
Connecting Country is holding a woodland birds workshop for the Muckleford area on 8th October, 9.30am at the community centre. We have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for future projects around habitat protection for woodland birds in our area, followed by a bird walk with Tanya Loos and Geoff Park in the state forest.
Please join us for our AGM on Thursday 18th August, at 6pm at the Muckleford Community Centre, Walmer Muckleford Road, Muckleford.
Guest speaker will be Ken Willard from Neangar Nursery in Eaglehawk. Ken will talk about the revegetation industry from a nursery owner’s perspective.
Please come and renew your membership, or take out a new membership – you just need to fill out a form.
Supper will be provided.
mucklefordlandcare.org 