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Join us tomorrow night at the Newstead Community Centre, 6pm-8.30pm, for the “Get to Know Your Local Weeds” Workshop.

Here are the two events coming up for Muckleford Landcare members: Mucklefest (Muckleford’s local festival) is on Sunday 22nd October, starting at 10am. We will have our tent there with information, guides, and plants to sell. Weed Workshop (get to know your local weeds) on Tuesday 24th October, 6pm. This is a Connecting Country workshop…

We had an interesting workshop a few weeks ago, on the property of Landcare member, John MacGregor. Thanks to John for letting us on his property and to David Griffith for conducting the workshop. John has been using a range of techniques to slow down water flowing across his land, in order to decrease erosion…

Great to see the bike ride go off well yesterday. We’ve decided to make it an annual event.

Sunday 8th October 11am Sawmill Road and Prison Farm Road If you don’t want to ride, you can meet us at the Kangaroo Hotel in Maldon where we will have lunch before the ride home. We hope to be there by 12.30. Kids are welcome.

Join the Landcare crew this Sunday – 8th October at 11am to ride the bike track from Muckleford to Maldon and back. We hope to have lunch at a pub in Maldon before riding back. A support vehicle will be available. We will meet on the corner of Sawmill Road and Prison Farm Road –…

Sunday 24th September 9.30am, 78 Cruits Lane, Muckleford, for a walk and talk on landscape restoration techniques. There will be free plants and free brochures available. See you there. Any queries, phone Beth on 0431 219 980.

Workshop on Sunday 24th September 2017 – Meet at 78 Cruits Lane, Muckleford at 9.30am. We will have a look at some landscape restoration techniques on this property and discuss methods that landholders can use on their own places. Come equipped with any questions you might have as an expert contractor will be available to…

Join the Friends of Muckleford Forest this Saturday 12 August 4.30-8.30pm to explore stories of fire in our landscape. The event includes visiting a spot in the nearby forest, for readings and to listen to the language of the forest. Back at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub, Tivey Street, Newstead, with hearty soup in hand,…

Please note the change of date for the landscape restoration workshop – it has been moved to 23rd September 2017. We will be going to a landholder’s property and looking at techniques that have been used to slow down water moving across the landscape, and the way it has changed the rate of erosion on…