Category: General

We had 22 people at our dam workshop. Many thanks to David Griffith, Landcare member, who came and spoke about dams in our landscapes and on our properties.

Join us at 69 Creaseys Road to remove the rest of the tree guards from our last planting. 10am start, and hopefully we’ll get them all removed in time to get home for lunch!

Please note that participants for the Dams to Wetlands Workshop this Sunday 23rd July, 9.30am, can meet at the end of Lyndham Road, Muckleford. We will be planting, and talking, and walking, so dress appropriately…

Join Muckleford Landcare when we visit two dams and discuss ways in which to improve their function for biodiversity, learning how to turn your property’s dam into a thriving wetland.

Sunday 23rd July, 9.30am to 12 noon. Meet at the Muckleford Community Centre on the Muckleford-Walmer Road. Queries to Beth on 0431 219 980 or bethmellick@gmail.com

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.

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.