Category: General

The Muckleford Catchment Landcare Group has an executive committee which meets 4 times a year. Here are the minutes from our recent May meeting – MCLG Minutes May 2018

The Loddon Prison crew have treated the weeds all the way from Golf Links Road up the creek into the new project area (map attached). Bassett Creek Map During the weed spraying, the prisoners also removed old tyres from the creek. Landholders then dragged them through their properties and left on the side of the road…

Below are the minutes from last night’s AGM. Thank you to everyone who came and congratulations to our Committee: President: Neville Cooper Vice President: David Griffiths Secretary: Beth Mellick Treasurer: Eleanor Wright Ordinary Members: Albert Wright, Chris Mackenzie, Paul Hampton, Emma Richardson, Richard Mann Muckleford Catchment Landcare AGM 2017 Minutes

It’s on tonight everyone – 5pm at The Hub garden. The garden is behind The Hub building which is on 233 Barker Street, but the entry to the garden is on Templeton Street.

Five Muckleford Landcare members took part in the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club annual bird count on the weekend. Eleanor, Albi, Theo, Neville and Beth braved the unusually cold morning to survey the Castlemaine golf course. We found 155 birds in total and 44 different species. The highlight occurred the next day when Deb Worland and…

Muckleford Landcare have an article in the latest edition of the CMA’s newsletter – North Central chat- December 2017.

The AGM has been postponed until Thursday 14th December 2018, 5pm in the Hub Garden, Templeton Street, Castlemaine. The Hub Garden sits behind The Hub on the corner of Barker and Templeton Streets. We will be electing members to the committee, and discussing projects for 2018.

The last Muckleford Landcare event for 2017 is the Christmas breakup drinks and AGM on 7th December, in the garden at The Hub, 233 Templeton Street, Castlemaine, starting at 4.30pm. At this meeting, we will elect the Committee which is made up of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and ordinary member/s. I believe the current committee…

Local Landcare member, Eleanor Wright, has been tackling the African Weed Orchid which is quickly moving into Muckleford. Eleanor reports that each plant can release 10,000 dust-like spores each season if not removed. She has dealt with her infestations by digging them out by hand.

Thanks to our members who came to the Weed Workshop run by Connecting Country last week. We played a couple of games and quizzes to familiarise ourselves with the local weeds.