Category: General

Muckleford Forest – An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area!. News like this should spur us to greater efforts to both explore and protect this precious local fragment.

Last Thursday evening members and friends of Muckleford Landcare gathered amongst the garden beds and chooks in the garden of The Hub in Castlemaine to celebrate the achievements of 2014 and to begin planning for 2015. We have the beginnings of a to-do list for the year: • Attack Wheel Cactus that is making its…

A reminder that our end-of-year get-together is on this Thursday. We particularly welcome new-comers and recent members to join us. Muckleford (and Muckleford Landcare) is undergoing a generational and social change. What are the challenges and opportunities now emerging from this change? What do you expect from Landcare in the immediate future? We need your…

We would like to invite you all to our end of year gathering. It will take place on Thursday, November 27, 5.30 pm in the garden at the rear of The Hub in Castlemaine. We will provide finger food from The Good Table and you can buy your own drinks from the same venue. Paul…

It has been a busy and productive weekend for Muckleford Landcare and we have another small working activity planned for next Sunday. Please read on… Chinaman Creek On Saturday afternoon the property owners who participated in the first stage of the Chinaman Creek Community Landcare Plan gathered for afternoon tea at Brett Tyler and Liz…

The annual Mucklefest is on this Sunday, October 26 from 10am – 4pm at Muckleford Railway Station. There are lots of activities to entertain and interest everyone and it is a great place to meet people. Muckleford Landcare will be setting up an information stall at the event, so if you plan to attend, drop…

Afternoon tea on Chinaman Creek An afternoon tea to mark the first stage of the Chinaman Creek Community Landcare Plan. An opportunity to spend an hour or so on a successful creek-line re-vegetation site. This should be of particular interest to those who live in the Chinaman Creek valley. We need to start talking about…

Muckleford Catchment Landcare would like to invite you to an afternoon tea and creek walk on Saturday October 25 to mark the end of first stage of the Chinaman Creek Plan. Five landowners on the creek have contributed to blackberry control work and the establishment of a habitat corridor. This is a significant achievement and…

We were blessed with a glorious, sunny morning for our golfing day at Castlemaine Golf Club on September 28. We met at 10 am for a short talk from local Deb Worland about the bird life we could expect to see as we set out to play nine holes. For those of us who had…

MUCKLEFORD CATCHMENT LANDCARE INC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Castlemaine Golf Club September 28, 2014 – 1.30 pm MINUTES 1. President, Paul Hampton welcomed participants to the meeting. 2. Present: Paul Hampton, Barry Sutton, Beth Mellick, Brendan Sydes, Jane Staley Observer: Max Schlachter (Landcare Facilitator) Apologies: Sue Slaytor, Tony Cordy 3. The minutes of the previous AGM…