Category: Projects

Thank you to everyone who turned up yesterday to help out with the habitat corridor on the Driscoll property. We had a great crew of young people, new members, new landholders in the area joining us for the first time, some visitors from Maldon, and some Muckleford Landcare members whose faces we hadn’t seen for…

The contractors are out there today planting our habitat corridor. Join us tomorrow (Sunday 6th February) starting at 3pm to guard the plants. All the guards have been made so tomorrow we just have to get them onto the plants. All drinks and food will be supplied including a gourmet vegetarian feast for dinner. Please…

MUCKLEFORD LANDCARE HABITAT CORRIDOR PROJECT as funded by the Victorian State Government, Community Volunteer Action Grants 2021 The Landcare community day will be Sunday 6th February, starting at 3pm. A vegetarian BBQ will be provided for dinner, as I’m hoping we can work until dusk. We would love to see as many of our Landcare members…

Muckleford Catchment Landcare Group members, Eleanor and Albi, have taken the final set of photos as part of the Photopoint monitoring for the Bassett Creek planting. Have a look at how much the trees have grown by clicking on the files below. Here are the three years of photos:

It was a beautiful sunny Autumn day in which we found ourselves checking the nest boxes on the Walmer South Nature Conservation Reserve. Six of us got the job done in just under three hours. We have a total of 89 boxes but only 77 are for mammals, including bats. The other boxes are for…

Muckleford Catchment Landcare Group will carry out its annual nest box monitoring at the Walmer South Nature Conservation Reserve (Muckleford-Walmer Road) on SUNDAY 23RD MAY 2021, 10am start. Join us to monitor our 88 boxes, and wander around the reserve. The event will be cancelled in bad weather and no food or drink will be…

Well done Muckleford Landcare members and new friends who turned up on Clean Up Australia Day at the Muckleford Bushland Reserve on the Muckleford School Road. We ended up with a trailer load of barbed wire, and around 16 bags of rubbish and recycling. Let’s hope people stop dumping their rubbish on this site. Our…

Join us for Clean Up Australia Day on SUNDAY 7th MARCH, 10am to 1pm, at the Muckleford Bushland Reserve, Muckleford School Road, Muckleford. We will be holding an activity to clean up rubbish from the reserve and have some lunch together. Bring your own gloves but everything else will be provided, including lunch (at this…

The Muckleford Landcare committee is taking ‘shifts’ to clean up the Bassett Creek planting. People are going in twos to take off the guards from our last community planting, as funded by the NCCMA. Plants are doing really well and will hopefully take the form of a corridor with the previous plantings from 16 years…

Dear Members, we have carried out the annual monitoring of the Walmer Conservation Reserve. We did this in small groups – Beth, Nev, Theo and Eleanor in the morning; and Beth, Nev, Theo and Dave in the afternoon. We’re sorry we couldn’t extend the invitation to more members, but we didn’t want to break any…