Category: General

Put this date in your diaries – Sunday 7th March 2021, 10am. It’s Clean Up Australia Day and we have registered our first event for the year to clean up the Muckleford Bushland Reserve. https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/fundraisers/bethmellick/muckleford-bushland-reserve

Don’t forget our get together is this Sunday (13th December) from 3-5pm at the Muckleford train station. Beautiful food (from local boutique caterer) and drinks are all provided, but bring yourself a chair. Also bring yourself a wine glass if you want to partake in wine or bubbles (all supplied). We are making a small…

The North Central CMA is actively looking to supportlarge scale carbon projects across our catchment as werecognise the potential contribution of the carbon marketto support our Regional Catchment Strategy (RCS)objectives, such as climate change mitigation, retentionand protection of on farm biodiversity, biodiversity links,stewardship and increasing soil health.It is our intention to set up an interested…

We will be holding a very informal event for our AGM, planning for next year, and social get together with members.It is SUNDAY 13TH DECEMBER, 3-5pm at the Muckleford train station.In the shade of the old trees, down by the creek, we will supply food (Covid protocols means we can’t share food), but you are welcome to bring…

Connecting Country 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2.00 pm Saturday 26 September 2020, online.   Two excellent and engaging speakers: Jess Lawton (Connecting Country) on ‘Connecting Country’s ten years of ecological monitoring’ and Jacinta Humphrey (La Trobe University) on ‘The impact of urbanisation on birds’.   https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=647033&

The Muckleford Bushland Reserve is public land, entry via the Muckleford School Road. If you’d like a walk, please take a bag with you so you can pick up some rubbish at the same time! It’s a shame, but people are dumping rubbish there. There have also been some sneaky people taking home firewood… BUT…it’s…

Some of you may remember a workshop we held a couple of years ago as part of our Water in the Landscape series, on the property of Landcare members, Paul and Kylie. Muckleford Landcare Vice-President, David Griffith, spoke to us about getting moisture back into the soil, and he got into his tractor and did…

We hope everyone is getting a chance to poke around the bush and look for flowers, we have certainly been doing that when the sun is out. Keep sending me photos that you would like to share with other members, thanks, Beth. Autumn Greenhoods (thanks Eleanor and Albi for this photo) Inland Red-tip Greenhood (well…

Landcare member, Dion, (Muckleford South) is using the time at home to get some plants in the ground. Call Frances at Newstead Natives or Ken at Neangar Nursery to see how they are trading during lock down.

Neville, our Landcare President, found a nest of baby hares on his Muckleford property, the parents took off when he discovered the nest.