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Hello Muckleford Landcarers, Connecting Country is holding its annual Landcare Link-up this Saturday 29 February 2020, starting at 4pm until 7pm. You get to hear stories from other Landcare groups in the district about what they are doing. It’s at the Castlemaine Uniting Church Hall, please RSVP to Asha at Connecting Country.

Join us Thursday 12th December at 5.30pm for our end of year break up drinks, and official AGM. This is also the time we decide on our activities for 2020. We will be in the back garden at The Hub, in Templeton Street, Castlemaine (then building with the bikes attached to it).

Meet at 11am on Sunday 10th November 2019 at the Muckleford train station for a ride to Maldon, lunch at the Kangaroo, and return. Get your bikes out of the shed, and ready to go! Please RSVP to Beth or call 0431 219  980.

Get your  bikes out of the shed, dust them off, and give them a service, because the Muckleford Landcare annual bike ride is soon upon us. Join us on Sunday 10th November at 11am at the Muckleford train station for our ride to Maldon. We will have lunch at the Kangaroo Hotel, and then ride back…

This Saturday 12th October 2019 at 10am we have our community planting morning in Muckleford. Come and put in 20 plants and you get to take 20 plants home (or something like that!!!). At the very least we are getting together to plant, to chat, and to have some lunch, and to give away some…

Muckleford Landcare will be at Mucklefest on Saturday and Sunday (5th/6th October 2019) from 10am to around 2pm. If you would like to talk to us about your property, grab some information, or just come and say hello and have a cup of tea, please do. We will be selling plants from Newstead Natives and…

Dear Landcarers, here are our upcoming events for the rest of the year: –Saturday 14th September 2019, 10am-11am. Meet at the end of Lyndham Road for a short walk up the Bassett Creek to see our plantings from last year. It’s been one year since our Bassett Creek Stage 2 project planting (funded by the…

Connecting Country is having a Landcare Planning Event for all the Landcarers in the area to share ideas and inspiration, as well as play environment board games. Monday 16th September 2019, 4.20-8.30 pm at the Chewton Senior Citizens Centre, 201 Main Road, Chewton. You can book here at Try Booking  

Join Muckleford Landcare at 10am on Saturday 24th August to explore a property that demonstrates techniques to transition a landscape via planting and water management. You will see: -How dams can be functional water sources, habitats and aesthetic features that sit within the landscape. -How the efficacy of different planting techniques are dependent on the landscape.…

Do you have ideas about transitioning the Loddon Mallee region to a new energy future? Then come to the Loddon Mallee Renewable Energy workshop tomorrow. Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance is developing the Loddon Mallee Renewable Energy Roadmap. It will give the community a voice in how they would like the new energy transition to take…